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Grab Packt With Groovy

Automatically claim Packt's free e-books with a Groovy program.
IntroductionPackt Publishing has launched a new programme called "free learning offer"; each day they put an e-book for free on their website to download: one only needs to login to Packt's website and click on the "claim your free book" link.

Following Grab Packt with Racket, here is the Groovy version, to automatically add the e-book to your Packt account for later downloads.
The CodeThe code is in pub…
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Grab Packt With Racket

Automatically claim Packt's free e-books with a Racket program.
IntroductionPackt Publishing has launched a new programme called "free learning offer"; each day they put an e-book for free on their website to download: one needs to login to Packt's website and click on the "claim your free book" link.
A nice fellow, wrote some Javascript code (nodejs) to be able to automatically claim a book, for example by calling the code from a cron job. He named the code "gr…
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aria2: An Ultra Fast Download Manager On Linux

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Introducing one of the fastest download managers in the universe: aria2.
Introduction aria2 is a brutally fast and very feature rich download manager available for Linux platform. It can handle almost any kind of download you can ever imagine (FTP, HTTP, BitTorrent, SFTP, ...).
You can install it by simply running sudo apt-get install aria2 at the command line or by using Ubuntu Software Center (if you're on Ubuntu).
How To UseFirst add the following line at the bottom of your .bashrc (or .ba…
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