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Remove security limitations from PDF documents using ghostscript (for Windows)
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dump a single table of a database to file

diff directories, quick cut and paste to view the changes
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Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Poke a Webserver to see what it's powered by.
the good: Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.4 with Suhosin-Patch the bad: Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 and the ugly: Server: Apache/2.2.10 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.10 OpenSSL/0.9.8i PHP/5.2.6

Display top 5 processes consuming CPU

Like top but for files
Like top, but for files

Install pip with Proxy
Installs pip packages defining a proxy

list files recursively by size

colorize your svn diff
Will colorize your svn diff.


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