The URL can then be pasted with a middle click.

This is probably useful when trying to explain problems over instant messaging when you don't have some sort of shared desktop.

If your firewall or proxy at your location prevents connection to a particular host or port, you can use ssh to tunnel to your home server and do it there instead.

Uses ssh as tunnel tunnel for an other connection.

-f runs ssh in the background -N tell that there is no command to run -L deals with the forwarding aspect where the first number is the local port number, the second is parameter is the name of the server to forward to and the third parameter is the port number on that server. The last part of the command is the usual ssh form consisting of the user name and remote server name

Grab X11 input and create an MPEG at 25 fps with the resolution 800x600

more information: man sdiff

tested on cygwin and Fedora 9 .

good to remember for those jobs where you cannot set a site-specific connect option in your ~/.ssh/config file.

just change the date following the -r flag, and/or the user name in the user== conditional statement, and substitute yms_web with the name of your module

added alias in ~/.bashrc

alias lf='find ./* -ctime -1 | xargs ls -ltr --color'

The command above has been changed due to very good constructive criticism - thanks x 2! This command can be used after acquiring mac's, ip's and hostname's or any of the above from a freshly scanned LAN. User must be root, and remember to change your settings on your network managing software manually (Fedc10 NetworkManager Applet 0.7.1 is mine) instead of 'auto DHCP'. You can also substitute eth0 for wlan0 etc - be good and ENJOY!

Requires the "enscript" package.

frank@zappa:~# sudo apt-get install enscript

Or http://www.codento.com/people/mtr/genscript/

"use your head"

Do not run this command if you already have ntpd running!

This needs to run as root, for example with sudo:

This command will fetch accurate time from NTP servers and synchronize your system clock, then it will use the system clock to synchronize your hardware clock, and will calculate the time drift.

eth0 = the name of the interface

00:01:02:03:04:05 = the new mac adresse

the same thing for wireless card $ sudo iwconfig eth1 hw ether 00:01:02:03:04:05

Convert file from the UTF8 encoding used on Linux (has no "EF BB BF" byte order mark at the start) to the UTF-16 encoding used on Windows (has an "FF FE" byte order mark at the start).

Thanks to commenter: previous iconv command was the obsolete way to do it.

use to execute a block of code only if $var is numeric

After the command is done, open the html file in a browser

Finds all corrupted jpeg files in current directory and its subdirectories. Displays the error or warning found.

The jpeginfo is part of the jpeginfo package in debian.

Should you wish to only get corrupted filenames, use cut to extract them :

Lists revisions in a Subversion repository with a timestamp that doesn't follow the revision numbering order. If everything is OK, nothing is displayed.

See smbstatus Output within a 5 second interval (for monitoring smb access)

Works in Ubuntu, I hope it will work on all Linux machines. For Unixes, tail should be capable of handling more than one file with '-f' option.

This command line simply take log files which are text files, and not ending with a number, and it will continuously monitor those files.

Putting one alias in .profile will be more useful.

Print out list of all branches with last commit date to the branch, including relative time since commit and color coding.

tail with coloured output with the help of perl - need more colours? here is a colour table:

http://www.tuxify.de/?p=23

fancy command line ncdu clone