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Speed up launch of firefox
Compress information DBs of firefox to speed up the launch of browser.

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Forward port 8888 to remote machine for SOCKS Proxy
Simply change your web browser's proxy settings to point to a SOCKS proxy at port 8888 and you're good to go.

Show what PID is listening on port 80 on Linux

Find files that were modified by a given command
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LDAP search to query an ActiveDirectory server
These are the parameters to ldapsearch (from ldap-utils in Ubuntu), for searching for the record for Joe Blogg's user. sAMAccountName is the LDAP field that ActiveDirectory uses to store the user name. 'DOMAIN\Joe.Bloggs' where "DOMAIN" is the the active directory domain. Othewise you could use "CN=Joe.Bloggs,DC=example,DC=com" instead of "DOMAIN\Joe.Bloggs"

tail: watch a filelog
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Retry the previous command until it exits successfully
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Find writable files
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