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Optical illusion: circles in motion

Here is an optical illusion I generated with Inkscape . I created this file some years ago and found it recently while cleaning my archives. Using a contrast trick it appears that circles are in motions . Click on the image below to get a full-size preview: Unfortunately I lost the original …
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OpenSSH commands

Here is the syntax that makes scp support spaces ( source  ): 1$ scp foo.com:"/home/fubar/some\ folder/file.txt" ./ Copy a bunch of files to a remote server (or how to use find with scp ): 1$ find /var/log/ -iname "*.log" -type f | xargs -i scp '{}' kevin@myserver:/media …
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Web commands

Scraping Download a web page an all its requisites: 1$ wget -r -p -nc -nH --level=1 https://pypi.python.org/simple/python-ldap/ Check the local SOCKS proxy started by a Tor Browser is working: 1$ curl --preproxy 127.0.0.1:9150 "https://check.torproject.org" Reuse local Tor …
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System & Shell commands

Processes Run a process detached to the current terminal and monitor its output: 1$ nohup my_command & 2$ tail -F ./nohup.out Same as above but with multiple commands, the last cloning a disk to another: 1$ nohup zsh -c "my_command && cat /dev/da1 > /dev/da0" & 2$ tail -F ./nohup.out …
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MySQL commands

List all users in the current MySQL server: SELECT User, Host FROM mysql.user; Remove a user from the server: DROP USER ''@''; Remove all binary logs: RESET MASTER; Delete all binary logs but keep a week worth of logs: 1$ mysql --verbose --execute="PURGE BINARY LOGS BEFORE '`date …
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