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Record a screencast and convert it to an mpeg
Grab X11 input and create an MPEG at 25 fps with the resolution 800x600

Set laptop display brightness
Run as root. Path may vary depending on laptop model and video card (this was tested on an Acer laptop with ATI HD3200 video). $ cat /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness to discover the possible values for your display.

Create a single-use TCP proxy with copy to stdout
USAGE: gate listening_port host port Creates listening socket and connects to remote device at host:port. It uses pipes for connection between two sockets. Traffic which goes through pipes is wrote to stdout. I use it for debug network scripts.

get all pdf and zips from a website using wget
If the site uses https, use: $ wget --reject html,htm --accept pdf,zip -rl1 --no-check-certificate https-url

how to find the active X (X11/xorg) username and DISPLAY variable
Requires consolekit (works in e.g. Ubuntu). Here x11-display is DISPLAY

script broadcast-pppoe-discover

convert filenames in current directory to lowercase
The simplest way I know.

delete unversioned files in a checkout from svn

Monitor a file's size
use "watch" instead of while-loops in these simple cases

Show a zoomable world map
show a zoomable world map


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