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OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

Internet Scale Services Checklist

A checklist for designing and developing internet scale services, inspired by James Hamilton's 2007 paper "On Desgining and Deploying Internet-Scale Services."

http://mvdirona.com/jrh/talksandpapers/jamesrh_lisa.pdf

Basic tenets

Does the design expect failures to happen regularly and handle them gracefully?
Have we kept things as simple as possible?

Deploy your site with git

This gist assumes:

you have a local git repo
with an online remote repository (github / bitbucket etc)
and a cloud server (Rackspace cloud / Amazon EC2 etc)
- your (PHP) scripts are served from /var/www/html/
- your webpages are executed by apache
apache's home directory is /var/www/

PDF Liberation Hackathon - Federal Communications Commission Challenge

Note: this was originally an Federal Communications Commission challenge at the PDF Liberation Hackathon. The original information can be found here: https://github.com/pdfliberation/pdf-hackathon/blob/master/challenges/fcc-daily-releases.md

PDF Liberation Hackathon - Federal Communications Commission Challenge

"As part of regular business process, the Federal Communications Commission writes and releases many documents. These documents are public notices, rule-makings, proposed rules and many other prose based discussions of technical issues relating to spectrum, broadcasting, broadband, media and other communications issues. In general the legal industry has a need for these documents to not only contain the proper history, content and technical discussions, but also contain standard formatting that the legal industry has developed. This combination of content and formatting fundamentally requires the FCC to release PDF documen

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<system-security-plan xmlns="http://csrc.nist.gov/ns/oscal/1.0"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/usnistgov/OSCAL/master/xml/schema/oscal_ssp_schema.xsd"
	uuid="2fa78e07-74ef-4cd6-8124-bc0050c0c4df">
	<metadata>
	<title>FedRAMP System Security Plan (SSP)</title>
	<published>2020-07-01T00:00:00.00-04:00</published>
	<last-modified>2020-07-01T00:00:00.00-04:00</last-modified>
	<version>0.0</version>

	- name: Install Packages Needed To Compile PHP 7
	apt: pkg={{ item }} state=latest
	with_items:
	- git
	- autoconf
	- bison
	- libxml2-dev
	- libbz2-dev
	- libmcrypt-dev
	- libcurl4-openssl-dev

	{
	"AWSTemplateFormatVersion" : "2010-09-09",

	"Description" : "GateOne instance on Ubuntu 12.04 to support web based SSH access",

	"Parameters" : {

	"KeyName" : {
	"Description" : "Name of an existing EC2 KeyPair to enable SSH access to the instance",
	"Type" : "String",

	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
	#
	# Description: This file holds all my BASH configurations and aliases
	#
	# Sections:
	# 1. Environment Configuration
	# 2. Make Terminal Better (remapping defaults and adding functionality)
	# 3. File and Folder Management
	# 4. Searching
	# 5. Process Management

	---
	# ^^^ YAML documents must begin with the document separator "---"
	#
	#### Example docblock, I like to put a descriptive comment at the top of my
	#### playbooks.
	#
	# Overview: Playbook to bootstrap a new host for configuration management.
	# Applies to: production
	# Description:
	# Ensures that a host is configured for management with Ansible.

	Variables
	==========
	predefined variables :
	- inventory_hostname (fqdn) (normally the same as ansible.fqdn)
	- inventory_hostname_short

	To know the return codes returned by ansible modules, just use plain ansible -vvv to see them :
	ansible -i ~/ansible/arrfab.net/hosts/hosts.cfg -vvv -m copy -a 'src=files/sysinfo dest=/etc/sysinfo' tungstene.arrfab.net
	tungstene.arrfab.net \| success >> {
	"changed": true,