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CLI Visual Apache Web Log Analyzer
GoAccess is an open source real-time Apache web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems. It provides fast and valuable HTTP statistics for system administrators that require a visual server report on the fly. http://goaccess.prosoftcorp.com/

Set laptop display brightness
Run as root. Path may vary depending on laptop model and video card (this was tested on an Acer laptop with ATI HD3200 video). $ cat /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness to discover the possible values for your display.

Text to image with transparent background
Create transparent image to use as icon, watermark for other images, etc.

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

List apache2 virtualhosts
Lists virtualhosts currently enabled for apache2, showing the ServerName:port, conf file and DocumentRoot

start vim in diff mode
vim will open both files side by side and show colored diffs

Get Dollar-Euro exchage rate
You can get others rates changing the "EUR/US" part. look at the url: wap.kitco.com/exrate.wml to get more options.

duration of the DNS-query

Remove a line from a file using sed (useful for updating known SSH server keys when they change)
For example, to remove line 5 from foo, type: vi +5d +wq foo


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