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Set KDE4's Power Devil daemon power policy profiles

clean up syntax and de-obfuscate perl script
the command show can be run in vim, here is the same thing on the command line $ cat script.pl | perl -MO=Deparse | perltidy

Speed up upgrades for a debian/ubuntu based system.
Please install aria2c before you try the above command. On ubuntu the command to install aria2c would be: $sudo aptitude install aria2

Backup all MySQL Databases to individual files

Download Youtube video with wget!
Nothing special required, just wget, sed & tr!

Query Wikipedia via console over DNS
Shorter version, works with multiple words.

function to compute what percentage of X is Y? Where percent/100 = X/Y => percent=100*X/Y
This function make it easy to compute X/Y as a percentage. The name "wpoxiy" is an acronym of "what percentage of X is Y"

find packages installed from e.g. sid which are newer than those available from e.g. testing when sid is no longer present as a source repo
This is useful if you add sid, install some packages, then remove sid and want to work out which packages you installed from sid that should be removed (e.g. before an upgrade to the new stable). Alternatively you can think of this as "find installed packages that can no longer be installed."

Show git log beautifully
Only show a short of important information inline ( include branch info ), and color this log tree.

Matrix Style
Another wall matrix :)


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