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Show a notify popup in Gnome that expires in specified time and does not leave an icon in notifications tray
Tested in Gnome 3.4

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Kills a process that is locking a file.
Useful when you're trying to unmount a volume and other sticky situations where a rogue process is annoying the hell out of you.

Follow a new friend on twitter
replace username, password, and nameofnewfriend with proper values. Remember to escape things like ! or & in your password

Show your current network interface in use

turn off auto hard disc boot scanning for ext3

Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server
Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

Tail postfix current maillog and grep for "criteria"
Tail curren postfix maillog.

List all groups and the user names that were in each group
"cut" the user names from /etc/passwd and then running a loop over them.


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