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manuelmorales / rotate_pdf.sh

Created April 20, 2012 17:31

How to rotate each page of a PDF 90 degrees

pdf90 --angle 180 --suffix 'turned' --batch my_file.pdf

manuelmorales / ghostxps.sh

Created April 17, 2012 11:01

Installing GhostPDL (with GhostXPS) on Ubuntu Oneiric

	sudo apt-get install libxext-dev libxt-dev
	wget http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/ghostpdl-9.05.tar.bz2
	tar xjf ./ghostpdl-9.05.tar.gz
	cd ghostpdl-9.05/
	./configure
	echo '#define HAVE_SYS_TIME_H' >> xps/obj/gconfig_.h
	make xps

	./xps/obj/gxps -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -r150 -o /tmp/a.pdf ~/POWERPOINT.xps

manuelmorales / convert_and_rotate.sh

Created March 10, 2012 15:58

Rotate video and convert to MPG

ffmpeg -vf "transpose=1" -sameq -target ntsc-vcd -i input.m4v out.mpg

manuelmorales / curl_cookies.sh

Last active October 1, 2015 12:48

Make a post with curl using cookies

	export SERVER=dev.workshare.com
	export USER=manuel@skydox.com
	read PASS

	# Logging in
	curl -X POST https://$SERVER/api/v1.2/user_sessions.json -F "user_session[email]=$USER" -F "user_session[password]=$PASS" -b tmp/dev.jar -c tmp/dev.jar

	# Validating user with ID 99999
	curl -X PUT https://$SERVER/users/99999.json -b tmp/dev.jar -c tmp/dev.jar -F 'record[is_unknown_user]=false'

manuelmorales / clickpad_setup_ubuntu.sh

Created February 19, 2012 00:26

HP dv3 ClickPad setup for Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot

	# Install the patch
	sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sergio91pt/synaptics+clickpads
	sudo apt-get update
	sudo apt-get install synaptics-touchpad

	# Tweak the default settings
	sudo vi /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/51-synaptics-quirks.conf

	# Add to the end
	Section "InputClass"

manuelmorales / test_solr_with_curl.sh

Last active September 30, 2015 12:28

Solr Sunspot cheat sheet (with curl)

	curl http://localhost:8983/solr?q=ppt
	http://0.0.0.0:8983/solr/admin/ping
	Sunspot.remove(User){ with :account_id, 6465 }

manuelmorales / git_forget.sh

Created February 5, 2012 18:29

Remove commits from Git history

	export BRANCH=edge
	export FIRST="hash_of_the_commit_from_which_to_start_forgetting"
	export SECOND="hash_of_the_commit_from_which_to_keep_commits"

	git checkout $BRANCH
	git checkout $SECOND
	git reset --soft $FIRST
	git commit -C $SECOND
	git rebase --onto HEAD $SECOND $BRANCH

manuelmorales / memcached.sh

Created January 31, 2012 09:58

How to start memcached

sudo /usr/bin/memcached -vv -p 11211  -m 64 -c 1024 -u memcached -P /var/run/memcached/memcached-11211.pid

manuelmorales / tmux_basics.sh

Created January 29, 2012 15:11

From GNU screen to tmux

manuelmorales / replace_across_files.vim

Created January 24, 2012 14:30

Replace text across files with vim

	" Replace all <% whatever do %> with <%= whatever do %>
	:args app/views//
	:argdo %s/<% $.$ do $.$ %>/<%= \1 do \2 %>/ge \| update

	" Replace all <% whatever do %> with <%= whatever do %>
	:args app/views//
	:argdo %s/<% \(.\) do \(.\) %>/<%= \1 do \2 %>/ge \| update

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