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#!/bin/bash

#
# Download images from a Wikimedia Commons category
#
# Highest preview resolution and metadata in XML format will be saved in subfolders.
# Usage: execute this script on a Linux command line, providing the full URL to the category page.
#
# Shell tools required for this script: wget sed grep
#

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# POST a JSON file and redirect output to stdout
wget -q -O - --header="Content-Type:application/json" --post-file=foo.json http://127.0.0.1

# Download a complete website
wget -m -r -linf -k -p -q -E -e robots=off http://127.0.0.1

# But it may be sufficient
wget -mpk http://127.0.0.1

# Download all images of a website

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#PeriscopeProfileJson.sh
#Returns User Profile Json from Web Profile
#Version 1.0: Initial Release
#Version 1.1: Fixed quoting characters, optimize perl statements
#Version 1.2: Update parsing for changes in profile page

#replace myuser with the user you want to query

#line breaks added for readability 
USR=myuser; curl -sq https://www.periscope.tv/$USR \

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0. If you haven’t already: brew install ffmpeg gifsicle imagemagick.
1. Open QuickTime Player.
2. File > New Screen Recording.
3. Record.
4. Save as recording.mov.
5. mkdir frames
6. ffmpeg -i recording.mov -r 24 recording-%03d.png
7. convert recording-001.png palette.gif
8. convert -dither none -remap palette.gif recording-*.png recording-uncompressed.gif
9. gifsicle --optimize=3 --delay=4 < recording-uncompressed.gif > recording.gif

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 http {
    proxy_cache_path  /var/cache/nginx levels=1:2 keys_zone=one:8m max_size=3000m inactive=600m;
    proxy_temp_path /var/tmp;
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;
    sendfile        on;
    keepalive_timeout  65;

    gzip on;
    gzip_comp_level 6;

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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:

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curl -Lo- http://bit.ly/janus-bootstrap | bash

#errored out...had to install git first, derrr
sudo apt-get install git
curl -Lo- http://bit.ly/janus-bootstrap | bash

# error! had to install rake next
sudo apt-get install rake
curl -Lo- http://bit.ly/janus-bootstrap | bash

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gifify() {
  if [[ -n "$1" ]]; then
    if [[ $2 == '--good' ]]; then
      ffmpeg -i $1 -r 10 -vcodec png out-static-%05d.png
      time convert -verbose +dither -layers Optimize -resize 600x600\> out-static*.png  GIF:- | gifsicle --colors 128 --delay=5 --loop --optimize=3 --multifile - > $1.gif
      rm out-static*.png
    else
      ffmpeg -i $1 -s 600x400 -pix_fmt rgb24 -r 10 -f gif - | gifsicle --optimize=3 --delay=3 > $1.gif
    fi
  else

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Contract Killer 3

Revised date: 07/11/2012

Between us [company name] and you [customer name]

Summary:

We’ll always do our best to fulfil your needs and meet your expectations, but it’s important to have things written down so that we both know what’s what, who should do what and when, and what will happen if something goes wrong. In this contract you won’t find any complicated legal terms or long passages of unreadable text. We’ve no desire to trick you into signing something that you might later regret. What we do want is what’s best for both parties, now and in the future.

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