Funny how GUI-heavy Microsoft forces the user to use a lot of CLI. Couldn't they have thrown those DLL's into a patch rather than forcing us to install each one?
Pandoc is a program for converting between various markup formats. Input formats include markdown, reStructuredText, HTML, and LaTeX; output formats include HTML, LaTeX, ConTeXt, S5, DocBook, groff man, reStructuredText, markdown, and RTF. Many extensions to standard markdown syntax are provided, including inline LaTeX math, tables, definition lists, superscripts and subscripts, smart quotes and dashes, and footnotes
Pandoc is in the MacPorts, Debian, Ubuntu, Slackware, Arch, NetBSD, and FreeBSD ports repositories. Note that the version of pandoc in these repositories may not be the most recent. There is also a Windows installer.
dd' was needed to interact with the block devices,
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You want to use dd so that you can specify things like bsize
tuning this to some multiple of 4k is going to be much faster than cat
dd has a number of useful extra features for more complex data copies
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If I remember correctly, dd is much more "low level" in is approach, skipping such fancy things as filesystems and all the bells and whistles :)
dd is problematic in the presence of disk errors, and can hang
or more importantly ignore non readable data
Fascinating discussion over at Stack Overflow.
Elucidates some of the subtle differences between dd and cat, and when and why you might want to use one over the other.
You don't need to drop to the command line in order to use Linux, but a knowledge of the command line can be very useful. The command line is a very flexible, very powerful tool for doing things with your computer. Working at the command line can also cut down on the time it takes to carry out a task.
Khtml2png is a helpful tool for capturing an image of a webpage with ease. It's nice to use because it will get the entire length of the site, no matter whether it is fully visible in the browser. And, it sure beats shell scripting Firefox to open on a different display and capturing an image with Imagemagick
Are you a power-user with 5 minutes to spare? Do you want a faster internet experience?
Try out namebench. It hunts down the fastest DNS servers available for your computer to use. namebench runs a fair and thorough benchmark using your web browser history, tcpdump output, or standardized datasets in order to provide an individualized recommendation. namebench is completely free and does not modify your system in any way. This project began as a 20% project at Google.