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Advanced python tracing
Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

Stream YouTube URL directly to mplayer
The original doesn't work for me - but this does. I'm guessing that Youtube updated the video page so the original doesn't work.

validate the syntax of a perl-compatible regular expression
Place the regular expression you want to validate between the forward slashes in the eval block.

Disable sleep mode via cli and systemd (Centos, Debian Ubuntu?)
This causes computer to never power off or go into sleep mode. Disables sleep mode linux.

Lists installed kernels

Detect illegal access to kernel space, potentially useful for Meltdown detection
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Terminal - Prints out, what the users name, notifyed in the gecos field, is

Find the annual salary of any White House staffer.
Query the Socrata Open Data API being used by the White House to find any employee's salary using curl, grep and awk. Change the value of the search parameter (example uses Axelrod) to the name of any White House staffer to see their annual salary.

Twitpic upload and Tweet

Rename files in batch

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