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Get your external IP address if your machine has a DNS entry
Easy way to see your real external IP

Copy recursivelly files of specific filetypes
Copying only wmv and mpg files recursively from to

Remove all cached images for icons related to your profile
Run inside Command Prompt (cmd.exe) as admin. Note that you must close explorer.exe first, and even so some files will not be deleted, will say "Access is denied." To definitely delete them enter with another admin user or from other operating system and access the drive.

find out how much space are occuipied by files smaller than 1024K (sic) - improved
The original didn't use -print0 which fails on weird file names eg with spaces. The original parsed the output of 'ls -l' which is always a bad idea.

I finally found out how to use notify-send with at or cron
You can write a script that does this : $remind []

backup system over ssh, exlucde common dirs

Send pop-up notifications on Gnome
The title is optional. Options: -t: expire time in milliseconds. -u: urgency (low, normal, critical). -i: icon path. On Debian-based systems you may need to install the 'libnotify-bin' package. Useful to advise when a wget download or a simulation ends. Example: $ wget URL ; notify-send "Done"

Cleanup Python bytecode files
This command will erase all bytecode versions of Python modules under the current directory.

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

Kill all Zombie processes if they accept it!
Tested on FreeBSD 8.1 and CSH. The scripts works correctly but the Zombies do not die! I hope it will run and function as expected in Linux and others.


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