GitHub direct download links

Posted: 2022-10-31 | Author: | Filed under: misc, network | Tags: , , , , | Leave a comment

As a maintainer at SlackBuilds.org, I would like to have a handy place to store some “problematic” sources and some other files. Once upon a time, I used SourceForge, but I wanted to have it at Slackalaxy’s GitHub repo. Uploading tarballs is fine, however what should be the download link to put in, for example, a *.info file?
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Github download links

Posted: 2017-05-01 | Author: | Filed under: academic, slackbuilds | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

As a maintainer at SBo, a thing that frequently makes me want to pull my hair off is providing a proper download link for sources hosted at Github. I really should not list all the issues that I have had, because I will get angry. So, straight to the point. Read the rest of this entry »

Firefox downloads dialog

Posted: 2013-07-07 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, network | Tags: , | Leave a comment

I don’t like the new style downloads dialog in Firefox. Some googling pointed me to a solution. So, I opened the browser, typed about:config in the address bar and promised to be careful. After that I found the following line and set its value to true. Read the rest of this entry »