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use xxd to create the wake on lan magicpacket and write to pcap file
just set macdst to the mac address of the system you wish to wake up, the macsrc is optional but helps use tcpreplay to broadcast or wireshark to view

Rename files in batch

Manipulate the metadata when the photo was taken, this will shift with +15hours + 30min

Reduce PDF size

Counts number of lines
Counts number of lines of code in *.h and *.cc files

Startup a VPN connection through command line

Synthesize text as speech
The Festival Speech Synthesis System converts text into sound. Or: links -dump http://youfavoritewebsite.com | festival --tts

List top 100 djs from https://djmag.com/top100djs

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Convert an existing Git repo to a bare repo
If you want to turn a Git repo into the origin that folks can push to, you should make it a bare repository. See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2199897/git-convert-normal-to-bare-repository

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