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Timer with sound alarm
I'd prefer this one, you have to install espeak to get this running

Display HTTP-header using curl

Upgrade all expired homebrew packages
You probably want to run `brew update` before you run this command

Get your commandlinefu points (upvotes - downvotes)
This will calculate the your commandlinefu votes (upvotes - downvotes). Hopefully this will boost my commandlinefu points.

one-line log format for svn
the output of svn log is annoying to grep, since it spreads the useful info over multiple lines. This compacts the output down to one line so eg you can grep for a comment and see the rev, date & committer straight away. Updated: MUCH shorter, easier to remember. Now it just replaces newlines with spaces, except on '---' lines.

send incoming audio to a Icecast server (giss.tv)
easy way to setup an "internet radio sation", pre-requisite, create an account at an icecast server, in this example, just created beforehand an account at giss.tv. Change the word password, with the respective real password you created at server. Make sure to have installed rec, oggnec, oggfwd and tee. I have a mixer connected at line in, so I can mix music and microphone. This also will produce a local recorded copy of the session, it will be called "streamdump.ogg"

Turn off your laptop screen on command
echo 'alias monitor_off="sleep 1; xset dpms force standby"' >> ~/.bash_aliases ; . ~/.bash_aliases # now monitor_off does what you think

randomize hostname and mac address, force dhcp renew. (for anonymous networking)
this string of commands will release your dhcp address, change your mac address, generate a new random hostname and then get a new dhcp lease.

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

Grep recursively for a pattern and open all files that match, in order, in Vim, landing on 1st match


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