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mnem / nah_vpn_add_user.sh
Created January 17, 2012 13:32
Simple script to add VPN users to your chap-secrets file. For details on setting up a VPN on EC2, see http://noiseandheat.com/blog/2012/01/vpn-with-amazon-ec2-or-saving-your-iphone-from-promiscuity/
#!/bin/bash
#######################################
# Simple script to add VPN users to your chap-secrets file. For details
# on setting up a VPN on EC2, see:
#
# http://noiseandheat.com/blog/2012/01/vpn-with-amazon-ec2-or-saving-your-phone-from-promiscuity/
#
#
# (c) Copyright 2011 David Wagner.
#
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mnem / pwgen_a.sh
Created January 5, 2012 20:07
Quick 'n' dirty password generation commands for *nix/mac
# Will generate passwords up to 76 characters long.
#
# Change the 20 at the end to change the length.
dd if=/dev/urandom count=1 2> /dev/null | base64 | sed -ne 2p | cut -c-20
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mnem / ebook_select_ipad_versions.rb
Created December 26, 2011 15:43
Script to look in each subfolder containing ebook files and select the 'best' candidates for chucking on an iPad
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "fileutils"
output_folder_name = "_ipad_selection"
output = File.expand_path File.join(Dir.pwd, output_folder_name)
selected = []
# Gather folders to look at
folders = Dir.glob(%w{*/*.epub */*.pdf}).map {|file| File.dirname file}
folders.delete_if { | item | item.match(/^#{output_folder_name}/)}
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mnem / alias_pbcopy_pbpaste.sh
Created December 7, 2011 16:35
pbcopy and pbpaste for linux
# Emulate pbcopy and pbpaste for copying to and from the pasteboard/clipboard
#
# via: http://whereswalden.com/2009/10/23/pbcopy-and-pbpaste-for-linux/
alias pbcopy='xsel --clipboard --input'
alias pbpaste='xsel --clipboard --output'
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mnem / git_fetch_pull_all_subfolders.sh
Created December 6, 2011 14:35
Simple bash script for fetching and pulling all repos in the executed folder to the latest of the branch they are on
#!/bin/bash
################
# Uncomment if you want the script to always use the scripts
# directory as the folder to look through
#REPOSITORIES="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
REPOSITORIES=`pwd`
IFS=$'\n'
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mnem / Recipe - Scottish Tablet.md
Created November 4, 2011 17:44
My Mum's family recipe for tablet. It's awesome. Imagine a neutron star made from sugar. It'd be a bit like this.

Scottish Tablet

  • 397g tin of sweetened condensed milk. Don't confuse this with evaporated milk.
  • 200ml milk
  • 1kg sugar
  • A piece of butter around the size of a walnut

Method

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tankchintan / gist:1335220
Last active November 30, 2019 00:17
Procedure for installing and setting Sun JDK Java on Default Amazon Linux AMI
# First verify the version of Java being used is not SunJSK.
java -version
# Get the latest Sun Java SDK from Oracle http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk-7u1-download-513651.html
wget http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u1-b08/jdk-7u1-linux-i586.rpm
# Rename the file downloaded, just to be nice
mv jdk-7u1-linux-i586.rpm\?e\=1320265424\&h\=916f87354faed15fe652d9f76d64c844 jdk-7u1-linux-i586.rpm
# Install Java
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mnem / gist:1285665
Created October 13, 2011 22:00
Python: Hacking in a new builtin
def mnemlog(message):
import datetime
mnemlog = open("/Users/mnem/mnemlog","a+",0)
mnemlog.write(str(datetime.datetime.now()) + " " + message + "\n")
mnemlog.close()
mod = __import__("__builtin__");
mod.mnemlog = mnemlog
mnemlog("It has been done")
@slembcke
slembcke / rope.m
Created January 23, 2011 17:55
/////// RopeNode.h
#import "cocos2d.h"
#import "ObjectiveChipmunk.h"
struct RopeNodeParticle;
@interface RopeNode : CCNode {
ChipmunkBody *_body1, *_body2;
cpVect _offset1, _offset2;
@kirk
kirk / gist:737470
Created December 11, 2010 17:05 — forked from botchagalupe/gist:675444

Setup a Three Server HAPROXY/APACHE2 Setup

Demo Part One (Launch an Apache Server)

Start the demo by launching three EC2 instances then tell the audience that this will take about 3 minutes. Also explain that we not only starting the instances we are also bootstrapping it with the Chef client (Easy Peasy)...

./setupDemo.sh

Sample Script