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This allows you to use the following video streaming services outside of the US from your Mac without having to use a proxy or VPN, so no big bandwidth issues:

• Netflix
• Hulu / HuluPlus
• CBS
• ABC
• MTV
• theWB
• CW TV
• Crackle

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When you get a card from the customs office (because a package you've been sent has no invoice on the outside), you just e-mail them the nr. that is on the card, tell them what is inside the packet, and ask them for "Postverzollung". This usually means they just give the packet back to DHL and it's delivered to you. No need to pick it up from their location and waste time with that.

http://twitter.com/#!/felixge/status/198382135915200512

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# Here a few bash one-liners that helped me analyze / fight a weak DOS attack against debuggable.com. Mostly for future reference.
# The attacker was opening lots of tcp connections without sending data, I believe it's called a SYN flood, see: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4987#section-3.2

# Step 0: Check what is going on at port 80
$ netstat -tan | grep ':80 ' | awk '{print $6}' | sort | uniq -c

# Step 1: Increase the number of available fds
$ ulimit -n 32000

# Step 2: Restart your webserver, for me:

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Felix Geisendörfer's (@felixge) faves, and what he said about them in his tweets of 07 April 2011:

iTerm2

I really wonder how I was able to use Terminal app all this time. iTerm2 is so much better, it hurts. (#)

SizeUp

If you find yourself arranging windows with your mouse on osx,

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def element_visible?(element_id)

  # does the element exist?
  exists = page.has_css?(element_id)

  # is the element itself hidden with the .ui-helper-hidden class?
  self_hidden = page.has_css?("#{element_id}.ui-helper-hidden")

  # is the parent of the element hidden, thus hiding the element?
  parent_hidden = page.has_css?(".ui-helper-hidden > #{element_id}")

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Given /^I visit subdomain "(.+)"$/ do |sub|
  #host! "#{sub}.example.com"  #for webrat
  Capybara.default_host = "#{sub}.example.com" #for Rack::Test
  Capybara.app_host = "http://#{sub}.example.com:9887" if Capybara.current_driver == :culerity

  ################################################################################
  # As far as I know, you have to put all the {sub}.example.com entries that you're
  # using in your /etc/hosts file for the Culerity tests.  This didn't seem to be 
  # required for Rack::Test
  ################################################################################

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def patiently(&block)
  cycles = 0
  begin
    yield
  rescue  => e
    cycles += 1
    sleep 0.1
    if cycles < 10
      retry 
    else