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find out how many days since given date
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Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance
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swap the java version being used
You have openjdk and sun java installed. Many of your java plugins will not work properly. Something called IcedTea (the java web plugin) keeps crashing. Run this and select sun java to use sun java.

get the top 10 longest filenames

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randomize hostname and mac address, force dhcp renew. (for anonymous networking)
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Convert number of bytes to human readable filesize
Converts a number of bytes provided as input, to a human readable number.

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