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Show your account and windows policy settings with Results of Policy msc.
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Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Find the package that installed a command

Generate the CPU utilization report
Generated the CPU utilization stats with 5 lines /every 2 seconds. Needs sysstat package to be installed prior to use sar.

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"

move you up one directory quickly
In bash, this turns on auto cd. If a command is just a directory name, it cd's into that directory.

a simple bash one-liner to create php file and call php function

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

about how using internal separate field and store file content on variable

Manually Pause/Unpause Firefox Process with POSIX-Signals
Continue with: $killall -CONT -m firefox Suspends all Firefox Threads. Results in Zero CPU load. Useful when having 100+ Tabs open and you temporarily need the power elsewhere. Be careful - might produce RACE CONDITIONS or LOCKUPS in other processes or FF itself. matching is case sensitive.


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