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change dinosaur poop into gold
if firefox is running the database is locked, so you need to copy the places.sqlite file temporarily somewhere to be able to query it...

find all writable (by user) files in a directory tree (use 4 for readable, 1 for executable)

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Mount a disk image (dmg) file in Mac OSX
To unmount, replace "attach" with "eject"

Backup of a partition
Clone a partion with tar.

To get the CPU temperature continuously on the desktop
There is no need for variables. I also added sleep to reduce cpu usage, however I didn't test it.

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Terminate a frozen SSH-session
A key sequence for terminating a frozen session. Full sequence on a swedish keyboard: [ENTER] [ALTGR] tilde [SPACE] dot

Advanced python tracing
Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

Stores the certificate expiration date on the variable A
Stores the certificate expiration date on the variable A


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