Inverted!

Had you ever wanted to speed up downloading packages through traditional apt-get on Ubuntu? I know you would say “Yes!” as answer to this crap question. No issues, here is the miracle some guys done in past days, let’s introduce with this one. A simple bash shell script which you may name anything, suppose I name it apt-fast which uses already available axel download manager to retrieve packages from repositories of distro. Please do remember that this is not a package built for distro, this is just a programmed shell script for getting speed in transaction of downloading debian packages.  The speed of downloading packages in the form of pieces (similar as in p2p file sharing) is amazing; I’ve tested and using it up onwards. You’ll surely satisfy by using this one probably, or might not be—who cares further! ;)

Okay, let’s start—the steps for configuring apt-fast to be work out for you are given as below:

1. Download and install axel by,

2. Download [this] script named apt-fast.sh, later rename it as apt-fast,

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Today, I worked getting the interesting ‘fortune’ results to be automatically redirected into e-mails I send daily to my friends on the web.  Probably this is a difficult job when you just think about it for the first time i.e. starting from scratch! Okay, no more non-sense discussion; the steps for this are as follows:

1. Install fortune, alpine by:

2. Create a file, suppose signature and write the content below to it:

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Hey folks, this is a mine first post. Only single thing I want to say is that, I ♥ FOSS and the philosophy behind those such a great applications based on and using up it; I’ll do write on all these things when I get few time.

Well done then! (wishing oneself makes some kind of sense, I think so!) ;)