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Unlock more space form your hard drive
This command changes the reserved space for privileged process on '/dev/sda' to 1 per cent.

Export log to html file
Logtool is a nice tool that can export log file to various format, but its strength lies in the capacity of colorize logs. This command take a log as input and colorize it, then export it to an html file for a more confortable view. Logtool is part of logtool package.Tested on Debian.

open manpage and search for a string
This will open the manpage for "foobar", and display all instances of "searched_string". You can traverse through them by pressing "n"

Check reverse DNS
The +short option should make dig less chatty.

Create commands to download all of your Picasaweb albums
Create commands to download all of your Picasaweb albums Install Googlecl (http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/) and authenticate first.

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

ssh autocomplete
Add to your bash profile to minimize carpal tunnel syndrome. Doesn't work with user@hostname but appending "-l user" works fine if needed. Works for ping as well.. complete -W "$(echo `cat ~/.ssh/known_hosts | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | sed -e s/,.*//g | uniq | grep -v "\["`;)" ping

Decode a MIME message
will decode a mime message. usefull when you receive some email and file attachment that cant be read.

Basic sed usage with xargs to refactor a node.js depdendency

Block known dirty hosts from reaching your machine
Blacklisted is a compiled list of all known dirty hosts (botnets, spammers, bruteforcers, etc.) which is updated on an hourly basis. This command will get the list and create the rules for you, if you want them automatically blocked, append |sh to the end of the command line. It's a more practical solution to block all and allow in specifics however, there are many who don't or can't do this which is where this script will come in handy. For those using ipfw, a quick fix would be {print "add deny ip from "$1" to any}. Posted in the sample output are the top two entries. Be advised the blacklisted file itself filters out RFC1918 addresses (10.x.x.x, 172.16-31.x.x, 192.168.x.x) however, it is advisable you check/parse the list before you implement the rules


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