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Open a man page as a PDF in Gnome
Would be better if gnome-open would accept std in Should be doable in KDE - anyone?

Display top 5 processes consuming CPU

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

Find out current working directory of a process

Iterate through current directory + all subs for C++ header files and rank by # of comments
This shows you which files are most in need of commenting (one line of output per file)

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

gpg decrypt several files
Change directory (cd) to the directory where all your encrypted files are placed, and then run the command - then you are asked to insert your secret gpg password - ubuntu 8.04

Get all shellcode on binary file from objdump
Better than the others, and actually works unlike some of them.

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.

Reboot as a different OS in Grub
This will reboot as the Grub 2 option.


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