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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.

runs a X session within your X session
http://www.debian-administration.org/article/Running_multiple_X11_sessions

Search for commands from the command line
Search at CommandLineFu.com from your terminal. Get the clfu-seach at http://www.colivre.coop.br/Aurium/CLFUSearch

Permanent mysql ssh tunnel to server

Show IP Address in prompt --> PS1 var
when working with many machines in a computer lab need to know the IP addr is very large, this is a simplistic solution to make things easier

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

Rename files in batch

Set the hardware date and time based on the system date

Find processes utilizing high memory in human readable format
Finding high memory usage report in human readable format.


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