April 29, 2020

Tiling Images With Imagemagick

While writing this post about installing KVM and virt-manager, I wanted to show multiple steps of a process by capturing the window for each screen. Getting the images was quite simple, but including them one by one in a blog post seemed a bit tedious, even though there were only 5 images. Especially given that including images in markdown seems… impossible ! I knew about imagemagick before, but had never really used it, or went to see into the documentation. Read more

April 11, 2020

Download Torrents From the CLI

I wanted to download the ArchLinux ISO image from here. It is advised to download it using torrent. We’ll be using aria2 for this. I am running Arch, so to install aria2 pacman -S aria2 To start the download, just run: aria2c <torrent or magnet link> That’s it. Once the download is complete, the file(s) will be in your current directory. There are other options to manage torrents from the command line, such as: Read more

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