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Best SSH options for X11 forwarding
grabbed from: http://blog.samat.org/2006/05/08/best-ssh-options-for-x11-forwarding

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Rescan partitions on a SCSI device
Used this after cloning a disk with dd to make the newly written partitions show up in /dev/

Add calendar to desktop wallpaper
Add calendar to desktop wallpaper , mess with the coordinates to place where you like

Extract content between the first " and the last " double quotes
Thanks to this user: https://stackoverflow.com/a/35636373/2394635

Recursively move folders/files and preserve their permissions and ownership perfectly

GRUB2: set Super Mario as startup tune

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS
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rapidshare download script in 200 characters

Remove audio stream from a media file
This syntax also works for ffmpeg as avconv is a fork of ffmpeg.

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