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Stop All Wine Apps and Processes
kills all wine running apps and processes. Make a hotkey for it when running wine games in fullscreen and it locks. This is a great way to escape from it.

Plaintext credentials sniffing with tcpdump and grep
Simple TCPDUMP grepping for common unsafe protocols (HTTP, POP3, SMTP, FTP)

Capture screen and mic input using FFmpeg and ALSA
Yet another x11grab using ffmpeg. I also added mic input to the capturing video stream using alsa. Yet I need to find out how to capture audio which is currently playing.

Substitute audio track of video file using mencoder
Creates a new video file with video stream copied from input file and a different audio stream

Console clock
Shows a simple clock in the console -t param removes the watch header Ctrl-c to exit

Find files with the same names in several directories.
cat file1 file2 file3|sort|uniq -d finds the same lines in several files, especially in files with lists of files.

ascii digital clock
# ### ### # # ### ### # # # ## # # ### # # # # ### ## # # # # # # ### # # # # ### # # # # # ### ##### # # ##### # # # ### # # ### # # # # # ### # # ### # # ##### ### ### # ##### ### ##### #

Batch Convert SVG to PNG (in parallel)
Convert some SVG files into PNG using ImageMagick's convert command. Run the conversions in parallel to save time. This is safer than robinro's forkbomb approach :-) xargs runs four processes at a time -P4

Revert an SVN file to previous revision
Kudos to xakon.

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