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@robinsmidsrod
robinsmidsrod / _INSTALL.md
Last active May 1, 2025 16:43
Bootstrapping full iPXE native menu with customizable default option with timeout (also includes working Ubuntu 12.04 preseed install)

Add the following chunk to your existing ISC dhcpd.conf file.

if exists user-class and ( option user-class = "iPXE" ) {
    filename "http://boot.smidsrod.lan/boot.ipxe";
}
else {
    filename "undionly.kpxe";
}

(or see https://gist.github.com/4008017 for a more elaborate setup

@erikh
erikh / hack.sh
Created March 31, 2012 07:02 — forked from DAddYE/hack.sh
OSX For Hackers
#!/usr/bin/env sh
##
# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
#
# install it:
# curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh | sh
#
@jorgenpt
jorgenpt / stream.sh
Created April 21, 2012 06:59
Commands to stream desktop to justin.tv on OS X
#!/bin/sh -xe
API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY_GOES_HERE"
FPS="10"
VLC_PATH="/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC"
# I don't know how this'll behave on multimon, so you might want to hard-code.
# INRES='1440x900'
INRES=$(osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to get bounds of window of desktop'|sed 's/, /x/g'|cut -f3- -dx)
OUTRES='1280x800'
# You can change this to record microphone or something else, from man soxformat (under coreaudio):
@jclulow
jclulow / 00_info.md
Created May 5, 2012 23:46
SmartOS rc.local

So, to get something like /etc/rc.local you can use the custom SMF import facility. (See the source for more information about how this actually works.)

/opt is mounted out of zones/opt by default. You can create a directory /opt/custom/smf and populate it with SMF manifests. Any manifests you put in there will be imported by SmartOS when it boots. Below is an example SMF manifest that simply starts /opt/custom/bin/postboot, a self-explanatory shell script that you can use like /etc/rc.local.

Note that it would likely be better to customise and respin your own images, as putting a bunch of platform state in the zones pool undoes some of the benefits of the ramdisk platform architecture that SmartOS has.

@ohaal
ohaal / find_relative_path.func.php
Created June 15, 2012 11:47
Find the relative path between two paths
/**
*
* Find the relative file system path between two file system paths
*
* @param string $frompath Path to start from
* @param string $topath Path we want to end up in
*
* @return string Path leading from $frompath to $topath
*/
function find_relative_path ( $frompath, $topath ) {
@unixpickle
unixpickle / pidof.sh
Created June 20, 2012 00:36
Get the process ID for a process name
#!/bin/bash
#
# Quickly get a PID for a given process name.
#
if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
echo 'Usage: pidof <command name>' >&2
exit 1
fi
lines=`ps aux -c | grep "$1" | sed -e 's/^[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\).*/\1/g'`
@Meettya
Meettya / gist:3368422
Created August 16, 2012 08:32
ffmpeg command to save still images from video
# 1) to save all frames from (-i INPUT_VIDEO) input video file,
# (-ss 00:10:00) started at 10 minute and (-t 10) stop after 10 seconds,
# (-same_quant) use same quantizer as source (-f image2) with image2 muxer and
# (img-%04d.jpg) img-0001.jpg pattern
#
# - you get bunch of files
ffmpeg -i INPUT_VIDEO -ss 00:10:00 -t 10 -same_quant -f image2 img-%04d.jpg
# 2) to save (-r 6) 6 frames in second
@ecin
ecin / goarena.go
Created August 31, 2012 17:34
Dtrace probes in your Golang code
package main
/*
Ping vs Pong: A Gladiatorial Match
Two goroutines enter, only one leaves...
*/
/*
#cgo LDFLAGS: -lprobes -L/usr/local/lib
#include "probes.h"
@robinsloan
robinsloan / langoliers.rb
Last active February 27, 2025 02:44
The Langoliers, a tweet deletion script
require "rubygems"
require "twitter"
require "json"
# things you must configure
TWITTER_USER = "your_username"
MAX_AGE_IN_DAYS = 1 # anything older than this is deleted
# get these from dev.twitter.com
CONSUMER_KEY = "your_consumer_key"
@smoser
smoser / gist:4756561
Last active November 8, 2023 15:20
boot a cloud image in kvm
## Install a necessary packages
$ sudo apt-get install kvm cloud-utils genisoimage
## URL to most recent cloud image of 12.04
$ img_url="http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/server/releases/12.04/release"
$ img_url="${img_url}/ubuntu-12.04-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img"
## download the image
$ wget $img_url -O disk.img.dist
## Create a file with some user-data in it