Checklist for Resetting a Messed Up Terminal

This is just quick headnotes from Chapter 42 of great book Unix Power Tools which I've tested on FreeBSD:

Cleaning:

# clear or [Ctrl-l]

General trick:
(this trick helps you fix majority of the most common problems like backspace doesn't work, ^M, stairs from new lines, etc...)

# [CTRL-j] reset [CTRL-j]

P.S. # man stty
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Deinterlasing @ mencoder

The available deinterlacers are:
-vf lavcdeint
-vf kerndeint
-vf filmdint
-vf pp=lb
-vf pp=li
-vf pp=ci
-vf pp=md
-vf pp=fd

Cool Tool from ports

# portsnap fetch update
# cd /usr/ports/misc/figlet && make install clean
# figlet Cool Tool

____            _   _____           _
 / ___|___   ___ | | |_   _|__   ___ | |
| |   / _ \ / _ \| |   | |/ _ \ / _ \| |
| |__| (_) | (_) | |   | | (_) | (_) | |
 \____\___/ \___/|_|   |_|\___/ \___/|_|

# echo Creating cool banner for your host
# mv /etc/motd /etc/motd.`date "+%Y%m%d"` && figlet -c `hostname -s` > /etc/motd

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Remove All messages From the Exim Mail Queue

Queue list:
exim -bp

To remove a message:
exim -Mrm {message-id}

To remove all messages:
exim -bp | exiqgrep -i | xargs exim -Mrm


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