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Stop Flash from tracking everything you do.
Brute force way to block all LSO cookies on a Linux system with the non-free Flash browser plugin. Works just fine for my needs. Enjoy.

Write comments to your history.
A null operation with the name 'comment', allowing comments to be written to HISTFILE. Prepending '#' to a command will *not* write the command to the history file, although it will be available for the current session, thus '#' is not useful for keeping track of comments past the current session.

Get full from half remembered commands
Show all commands having the part known by you. Eg: $apropos pdf | less

Download certificate chain from FTP

Increment the filename of png in a given directory by one

Quick access to the ascii table.

monitor network traffic and throughput in real time
see http://iptraf.seul.org/ for all kinds of documentation and screenshots

Extract tarball from internet without local saving
Use `tar xj` for bzip2 archives.

Find failures with journalctl
Sometimes things break. You can find the most recent errors using a combination of journalctl, along with the classic tools sort and uniq

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


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