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Remove all non-ascii characters with perl

Sometimes when creating one-liners, when the source is not “clean”, you may end up with non-ascii characters which make the parsing harder.

To get[……]

ssconvert is a utility shipped with Gnumeric, and it’s a command line spreadsheet converter.

Let’s say that you have some data in a spreadsheet (eg[……]

Fed up with websites/tabs continuously reloading themselves and using resources unnecessarily?
Me too!

In firefox, you can disable this from the a[……]

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for docker in $(docker images|awk '{print $1,$2}'|sed 's/ /:/g'|grep -v REPOSITORY); do docker pull $docker; done

This command updates all your[……]

sudo pip install -U `pip list -o|cut -d ' ' -f1|tr '\n' ' '`

NB: One liners are potentially destructive. Don’t run anything unless you fully un[……]

I wanted to passthrough a dual tuner TV card (Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T-500) to an openVz container in order to use tvHeadEnd.

Here I show how to achi[……]

Remmina is a remote desktop client that support multiple network protocols (RDP, VNC, NX, XDMCP and SSH) in a nice and very user friendly GUI.

In i[……]

After having setup an email server (eg: using gmail as smtp server or sendmail as a SMART HOST or any other way you want..) you need to test it.[……]

array_unique removes duplicate values from an array. Unfortunately it doesn’t work with multi-dimensional arrays.

A quick workaround is to serializ[……]

If you have logwatch installed (or you read auth.log file) you can find lots of entries mentioning login attempts/attacks.
Something like:

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