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Synchronize date and time with a server over ssh
Set Remote Server Date using Local Server Time (push)

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"

Top 30 History
Top 30 History Command line with histogram display

Set an alarm to wake up [2]
Set an alarm to starts in specific time.

Patator: A Hydra brute force alternative

Comparison between the execution output of the last and penultimate command
Useful for checking if there are differences between last and penultimate command.

Download from Rapidshare Premium using wget - Part 2
The download content part. NOTE: the '-c' seems to not work very well and the download stuck at 99% sometimes. Just finish wget with no problem. Also, the download may restart after complete. You can also cancel. I don't know if it is a wget or Rapidshare glitch since I don't have problems with Megaupload, for example. UPDATE: as pointed by roebek the restart glitch can be solved by the "-t 1" option. Thanks a lot.

Remote screenshot
Admittedly, I'd never have thought of this without the earlier examples, but here's one that you can execute from your workstation to just display the image from another, without separately doing a file transfer, etc. By the way, I hear a loud beep coming from the other room, so I guess it's not too stealthy :-D

Find usb device
I often use it to find recently added ou removed device, or using find in /dev, or anything similar. Just run the command, plug the device, and wait to see him and only him

Copy a file structure without files
Taken from: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum40/1310.htm

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