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PulseAudio: set the volume via command line
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list block devices
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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"

Simple XML tag extract with sed
Limited, but useful construct to extract text embedded in XML tags. This will only work if bar is all on one line. If nobody posts an alternative for the multiline sed version, I'll figure it out later...

get all Amazon cloud (amazonws etc) ipv4 subnets

Lock your KDE4 remotely (via regular KDE lock)
Forgot to lock your computer? Want to lock it via SSH or mobile phone or use it for scheduled lock? TIP: Make a alias for this (e. g. as "lock"). I found some howtos for ugly X11 lock, but this will use regular KDE locking utility. Note that KDE 3 is using utility with another name (I guess with the same argument --forcelock) Tested on Kubuntu 8.10. Stay tuned for remote unlock.

extract audio from flv to mp3

list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Mac osx friendly version of this terminal typing command at 200ms per key

reclaim your window titlebars (in ubuntu lucid)


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