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Multiplication table
The multiplication table for math study

Show memory usage of all docker / lxc containers

Takes and displays screenshot of Android phone over adb.
Dependencies on phone: adb access, screencap command, base64 command. Dependencies on computer: adb, sed, base64, display (from imagemagick, but can substitute other image viewer which reads from stdin). This should work around adb stupidies (i.e. that it replaces \n with \r\n) with base64.

list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Know which modules are loaded on an Apache server
This let you know which modules has loaded the Apache server, very useful to know if the mod_rewrite is ready to use.

Number of commits per day in a git repository

Get your public ip using dyndns

Re-read partition table on specified device without rebooting system (here /dev/sda).

Show webcam output
Show the webcam output with mplayer.


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