Programming

Make Eclipse Less Ugly in Linux Mint 13 with MATE

  Eclipse Juno looks terrible in Linux Mint 13 with the MATE desktop environment. Here’s an example of part of the screen: Everything is big and bulky, the tool bar’s style doesn’t really match the theme’s style. Here are the steps I’ve taken so far to correct this: Create a file called gtkrc, I’ve created […]

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Python URLGrabber: Ignore System Proxy Settings

The Duke URLGrabber package for Python makes it incredibly easy to retrieve files from remote servers, and it abstracts urllib2 for you in a protocol-independent way, so you can focus on your application instead of spending time working with Python’s built-in urllib2. On Windows and Mac OSX, by default, urllib2 (and therefore URLGrabber) will use

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