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print indepth hardware info
wanna know something about your hardware? how about EVERYTHING?? then this should do ya well

Quick screenshot
Requires ImageMagick. Takes a screenshot 5 seconds after it's run and saves it as desktop_screenshot.jpg Particularly handy when made into a menu option or button.

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

How long has this disk been powered on

Number of CPU's in a system
/proc/cpuinfo contains information about the CPU. Search for "processor" in the /proc/cpuinfo file wc -l, counts the number of lines.

Create a new file

autorun program when logon Windows XP

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"

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

list files recursively by size


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