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-- last update 06/09/06 -- josiah timothy toone 06/09/06 contact info 06/08/05 photo album 12/07/04 google adsense 11/15/04 the toone times 8/28/04 work site transition 8/8/04 website recovery 6/9/04 baby shower pics 5/28/04 family photo album 5/14/04 added Word blog 3/06/04 added guestbook 3/03/04 more ultrasound pics 2/24/04 ultrasound pics 2/16/04 ultrasound video 2/6/04 vancouver photos 1/21/04 baby's heartbeat 1/21/04 realplayer wed video 1/7/04 the heartbeat visit 12/26/03 updated research site 12/24/03 added marathon pics 12/22/03 family website created 11/12/03 updated wedding site 9/3/03 updated resources page 6/12/03 research site created 5/23/03 wedding site created 5/12/03

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Dear children, let us not love each other with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. John 3:18

Program	Command Syntax	Functionality
apt-get	wget http://ftp-master.debian.org/ziyi_key_2006.asc -O - \| sudo apt-key add -	update debian with 2006 security keys
exim	for mid in `sudo mailq \| grep K \| cut -c 11-26` ; do sudo exim -Mvb $mid ; done	displays the message bodies for all frozen messages in exim mailq
find, sort	find . -size +1000k -printf "%8k \t %50f \t %h\n" \| sort	find all files w/ size > 1MB and sort by size
find	find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;	set permissions to rw-r--r-- recursively for all files in "."
find	find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;	set permissions to rwxr-xr-x recursively for all directories in "."
vi	y}	yank to end of paragraph
vi	gq}	reformat to end of paragraph
vi	gqip	reformat the current paragraph
vi	ctrl-j	jump to next marker/flag
ssh	ssh -C -R 2048:localhost:22 user@host	ssh into host with compression enabled and a reverse tunnel setup on the host's port 2048
ssh	ssh -p 2048 localhost	ssh through the reverse tunnel setup by the previous command

This is not necessarily Linux related, but creating PDF files on windows does not have to be expensive. Here is the link to a page describing how to do it: http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~henrik/GSWriter/GSWriter.html