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Mirror rubygems.org
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Random quote from Borat -- no html parsing
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Extract audio from a video
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sync svn working copy and remote repository (auto adding new files)
Lists the local files that are not present in the remote repository (lines beginning with ?) and add them.

Getting information about model no. of computer
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Run a long job and notify me when it's finished
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