Since 2008 or 2009 I work on Apple hardware and OS: back then I grew tired of Linux desktop (which is going to be MASSIVE NEXT YEAR, at least since 2001), and switched to something that Just Works. Six years later, it less and less Just Works, started turning into spyware and nagware, and doesn't need much less maintenance than Linux desktop — at least for my work, which is system administration and software development, probably it is better for the mythical End User person. Work needed to get software I need running is not less obscure than work I'd need to do on Linux or othe Unix-like system. I am finding myself turning away from GUI programs that I used to appreciate, and most of the time I use OSX to just run a terminal, Firefox, and Emacs. GUI that used to be nice and unintrusive, got annoying. Either I came full circle in the last 15 years of my computer usage, or the OSX experience degraded in last 5 years. Again, this is from a sysadmin/developer ki
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require 'rubygems' | |
require 'chef/encrypted_data_bag_item' | |
secret = Chef::EncryptedDataBagItem.load_secret('chef_secret') | |
data = {"id" => "name_of_secret_goes_here", "key" => 'secret_goes_here'} | |
encrypted_data = Chef::EncryptedDataBagItem.encrypt_data_bag_item(data, secret) | |
FileUtils.mkpath('data_bags/passwords') | |
File.open('data_bags/passwords/name_of_secret_goes_here.json', 'w') do |f| | |
f.print encrypted_data.to_json |
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user www-data; | |
worker_processes 1; | |
daemon off; | |
events { | |
worker_connections 1024; | |
} | |
http { | |
upstream docker-registry { |
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class PriorityQueue | |
attr_reader :elements | |
def initialize | |
@elements = [nil] | |
end | |
def <<(element) | |
@elements << element | |
bubble_up(@elements.size - 1) |
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require 'aws-sdk' | |
require 'json' | |
module SQSW | |
class SQueue | |
MissingQueue = Class.new(StandardError) | |
def initialize(url = nil) | |
raise(MissingQueue, "Missing queue_url") if url.nil? | |
@q = find_queue(url) |
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# swith to sudo | |
sudo -i | |
# create swap | |
touch /2GiB.swap | |
chattr +C /2GiB.swap | |
fallocate -l 2048m /2GiB.swap | |
chmod 600 /2GiB.swap | |
mkswap /2GiB.swap |
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--- | |
- name: Add Percona apt signing key | |
sudo: yes | |
apt_key: keyserver=keys.gnupg.net id=1C4CBDCDCD2EFD2A state=present | |
- name: Add Percona repository | |
sudo: yes | |
apt_repository: repo='deb http://repo.percona.com/apt trusty main' state=present | |
- name: Add Percona source repository |
This is a guide on how to email securely.
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SELECT bl.pid AS blocked_pid, | |
a.usename AS blocked_user, | |
ka.query AS blocking_statement, | |
now() - ka.query_start AS blocking_duration, | |
kl.pid AS blocking_pid, | |
ka.usename AS blocking_user, | |
a.query AS blocked_statement, | |
now() - a.query_start AS blocked_duration | |
FROM pg_catalog.pg_locks bl | |
JOIN pg_catalog.pg_stat_activity a ON a.pid = bl.pid |
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// Traverses an arbitrary struct and translates all stings it encounters | |
// | |
// I haven't seen an example for reflection traversing an arbitrary struct, so | |
// I want to share this with you. If you encounter any bugs or want to see | |
// another example please comment. | |
// | |
// The MIT License (MIT) | |
// | |
// Copyright (c) 2014 Heye Vöcking | |
// |