Commands by logik

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Convert AVI to WMV

I used this to cut down the file size of a 1gb .avi to about 200mb without sacrificing much quality.
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ffmpeg -i movie.avi -s 320x240 -b 1000k -vcodec wmv2 -ar 44100 -ab 56000 -ac 2 -y movie.wmv

logik · 2009-02-18 15:32:13 4
HDD Performance Read Test

Test your XFS filesystem and Raptor hard drives for write performance.
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dd if=10gb of=/dev/zero bs=1M count=10240

logik · 2009-02-18 15:30:29 10
HDD Performance Write Test

Test your XFS filesystem and Raptor hard drives for write performance.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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dd if=/dev/zero of=10gb bs=1M count=10240

logik · 2009-02-18 15:29:38 1246
A fun thing to do with ram is actually open it up and take a peek. This command will show you all the string (plain text) values in ram
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sudo dd if=/dev/mem | cat | strings

logik · 2009-02-09 18:29:33 35

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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"

Slugify: converts strings in any language into Slugs (friendly names to use in URLs and filenames)

Slug the part of an URL which identifies a page using human-readable keywords. Slugs are used to construct friendly URLs (often for permalinks) that are easy to type, descriptive, and easy to remember.

Log colorizer for OSX (ccze alternative)

Download colorizer by @raszi @ http://github.com/raszi/colorize

total text files in current dir

Execute a command at a given time

Benchmark SQL Query

Benchmark a SQL query against MySQL Server. The example runs the query 10 times, and you get the average runtime in the output. To ensure that the query does not get cached, use `RESET QUERY CACHE;` on top in the query file.

a fast way to repeat output a byte

I'm both a one-liner fan and a haskell learner

Leap year calculation

Rename files in batch

Erase to factory a pendrive, disk or memory card, and watch the progress

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