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Open up a man page as PDF (#OSX)
Simply pass an argument to the script to convert the manual page to a PDF: $man2pdf drutil

Write comments to your history.
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Unencrypted voicechat
Sends the microphone input from PC1 to the speakers of PC2. Do the same in reverse to have an actual conversation ;) ... maybe with another port tough

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Figures out what has changed in the last 12 hours. Change the author to yourself, change the time since to whatever you want.

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List open sockets protocol/address/port/state/PID/program name

Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

execute a shell with netcat without -e
how to execute a shell on a server with a netcat binary which doesn't support -e option

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