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keep an eye on system load changes
helps you keep watch on the load of a system, without having to stare constantly at the terminal. The -d argument to watch highlights the difference from the last run, making it easier to note how the load is fluctuating. The sed command just strips off the information about how long the box has been up, and how many users are logged in.

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"

turn off auto hard disc boot scanning for ext3

show how many regex you use in your vim today
i want to count how many regex code i have used in vim in a long time so i make a directory in svn host and post record to this directory of course i dont want to post manually so i worte a script to do that and this is the core thing to do

Stop Flash from tracking everything you do.
Brute force way to block all LSO cookies on a Linux system with the non-free Flash browser plugin. Works just fine for my needs. Enjoy.

Monitor bandwidth by pid
Nethogs is a useful tool for monitor bandwidth consumption by pid. Tested on Debian an CentOs

Replace spaces in filenames with underscores

Find the package that installed a command

Display condensed log in a tree-like format.
Display condensed log in a tree-like format.

Check wireless link quality with dialog box
The variable WIRELESSINTERFACE indicates your wireless interface


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