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Stream audio over ssh
This one doesn't need to convert to wav.

Submit data to a HTML form with POST method and save the response
Assume that you have a form , in the source look for something similar to : input name="rid" type="TEXT" input name="submit" value="SUBMIT" type="SUBMIT" align="center" Then exec the command to get the response into html More info : www.h3manth.com

Checks the syntax of all PHP files in and below the current working directory
Uses the PHP binary to check the syntax of all .php files in or below the current working directory. Really handy for doing that last minute check before you commit code to the repository.

Place the argument of the most recent command on the shell
This works if your terminal is in Vi mode

Get information about memory modules
To take information about the characteristics of the installed memory modules.

Reads a CD/DVD and creates an dvdisaster iso image with the advanced RS02 method.

Serve current directory tree at http://$HOSTNAME:8000/

show the real times iso of epochs for a given column
When you have one of those (log)files that only has epoch for time (since no one will ever look at them as a date) this is a way to get the human readable date/time and do further inspection. Mostly perl-fu :-/

processes per user counter
use Linux ;)

Display which distro is installed
Works on nearly all linux distros


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