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There are many reasons that you want to know your public IP address and getting that is easy by visiting some of the sites that allow you to view that information, but what if you wanted to do it from the command line? What if you wanted to script that? To upload the result to a web page? Or to email it?

There is a quick and easy way of doing it from the command line.

In Linux or any other UNIX based system, open terminal window or ssh to your server and type the following at the command prompt.

wget -qO - http://www.whatismyip.org

In Windows, if you haven’t done already, download and wget from this location, extract it to your c:\Windows or C:\Windows\system32 folder and then open a command line box and type the same command in the above in the command box.

On Linux/UNIX systems, curl http://www.whatismyip.org has the same result for the wget command above.

While it is not new that Youtube videos can be downloaded to a local drive, now you can convert the format to a Windows or Mac friendly formats even before downloading the videos to your local drive.

This has been done using expensive software in the past, but now it is done online, and for free.

To do this, you can visit http://www.vixy.net/ provide the link to the Youtube video that you want to download, choose the format that you want to download that video in, which currently supports AVI for Windows (Divx+MP3), MOV Windows and Mac (MPEG4+MP3), MP4 for iPod (MPEG4+AAC), 3GP for mobile devices (MPEG4+AAC), or MP3 (Audio only), which means that you can even rip sounds, sound effects, and songs from the posted youtube videos.

Please note that on Windows, in order to play the AVI files you must have a DIVX or XVID codec installed.

I recommend installing XVID codec package for Windows from this location.