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Watch Aljazeera live
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rtmpdump -v -r rtmp://livestfslivefs.fplive.net/livestfslive-live/ -y "aljazeera_en_veryhigh" -a "aljazeeraflashlive-live" -o -| mplayer -

ricardoarguello · 2011-03-29 19:33:39 20
How much RAM is Apache using?

Display the amount of memory used by all the httpd processes. Great in case you are being Slashdoted!
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ps -o rss -C httpd | tail -n +2 | (sed 's/^/x+=/'; echo x) | bc

ricardoarguello · 2009-07-31 15:15:08 9
Get Futurama quotations from slashdot.org servers

slashdot.org webserver adds an X-Bender or X-Fry HTTP header to every response! Show Sample Output
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```
Bender: Emotions are dumb and should be hated.
```
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echo -e "HEAD / HTTP/1.1\nHost: slashdot.org\n\n" | nc slashdot.org 80 | egrep "Bender|Fry" | sed "s/X-//"

ricardoarguello · 2009-07-30 19:15:07 3
Have an ssh session open forever

Open a ssh session opened forever, great on laptops losing Internet connectivity when switching WIFI spots.
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autossh -M50000 -t server.example.com 'screen -raAd mysession'

ricardoarguello · 2009-07-30 18:58:37 10

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Colorized JSON pretty printing

Uses pygmentize and python to create indented and colorized JSON output

command shell generate random strong password

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updatedb for MAC OSX

MAC OSX doesn't come with an updatedb command by default, this will emulate the updatedb thats on a typical Linux OS. Simply add it to your ~/.bash_profile

Print stack trace of a core file without needing to enter gdb interactively

The pstack command prints a stack trace of running processes without needing to attach a debugger, but what about core files? The answer, of course, is to use this command. Usage: gdbbt program corefile

convert filenames in current directory to lowercase

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Selecting a random file/folder of a folder

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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

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