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Uninstall bloatware on your android device without root.
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List symbols from a dynamic library (.so file)
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Create .pdf from .doc
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Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
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Rsync using SSH and outputing results to a text file
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get all Amazon cloud (amazonws etc) ipv6 subnets

Quick access to ASCII code of a key

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Examine processes generating traffic on your website
I often have to google this so I put it here for quick reference.

download all the presentations from UTOSC2010
miss a class at UTOSC2010? need a refresher? use this to curl down all the presentations from the UTOSC website. (http://2010.utosc.com) NOTE/WARNING this will dump them in the current directory and there are around 37 and some are big - tested on OSX10.6.1


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