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@Nurdok
Nurdok / python_conversion.md
Last active June 18, 2025 08:46
Python Conversion

Python Number Conversion Chart

From To Expression
@alexjs
alexjs / cors-nginx.conf
Created November 28, 2012 22:42 — forked from michiel/cors-nginx.conf
Slightly tighter CORS config for nginx
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# Slightly tighter CORS config for nginx
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# A modification of https://gist.github.com/1064640/ to include a white-list of URLs
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# Despite the W3C guidance suggesting that a list of origins can be passed as part of
# Access-Control-Allow-Origin headers, several browsers (well, at least Firefox)
# don't seem to play nicely with this.
#
@mtigas
mtigas / README.md
Last active September 24, 2024 14:51
this is the nginx config for https://mike.tig.as/, with config to avoid the BEAST exploit (by using TLS 1.2+ ciphers or RC4) and enable SSL perfect forward secrecy (by preferring ECDHE ciphers)

[mike.tig.as][mta] server configuration

This gist contains the nginx and tor configurations for the [mike.tig.as][mta] servers, mainly to show:

  • Use of the chris-lea/nginx-devel PPA to allow use of SPDY.
  • ssl_ciphers selection to mitigate BEAST attack, enable [perfect forward secrecy][pfs] if possible and select the strongest possible ciphers within those bounds. (Exception is made for several ciphers at the end of list, for compatibility reasons.)
@ndarville
ndarville / business-models.md
Last active June 13, 2025 01:26
Business models based on the compiled list at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647. I find the link very hard to browse, so I made a simple version in Markdown instead.

Business Models

Advertising

Models Examples
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var faye = require('faye'),
nopt = require('nopt'),
jstest = require('./jstest'),
port = 7337,
params = nopt({format: String})
var server = new faye.NodeAdapter({mount: '/'}),
client = new faye.Client('http://localhost:' + port + '/'),
queue = [],
@4ndrej
4ndrej / SSLPoke.java
Last active May 29, 2025 15:33
Test of java SSL / keystore / cert setup. Check the comment #1 for howto.
import javax.net.ssl.SSLParameters;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLSocket;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory;
import java.io.*;
/** Establish a SSL connection to a host and port, writes a byte and
* prints the response. See
* http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Connecting+to+SSL+services
*/
public class SSLPoke {
@zach-klippenstein
zach-klippenstein / ChangePassword.java
Last active June 23, 2024 19:01
The keystore password on Java keystore files is utterly pointless. You can reset it without knowing it, as shown by this code. Note that private keys are still secure, as far as I know. The JKS implementation is copyright Casey Marshall ([email protected]), and the original source is available at http://metastatic.org/source/JKS.java. I've in…
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.security.*;
public class ChangePassword
{
private final static JKS j = new JKS();
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
@cobyism
cobyism / gh-pages-deploy.md
Last active July 1, 2025 06:35
Deploy to `gh-pages` from a `dist` folder on the master branch. Useful for use with [yeoman](http://yeoman.io).

Deploying a subfolder to GitHub Pages

Sometimes you want to have a subdirectory on the master branch be the root directory of a repository’s gh-pages branch. This is useful for things like sites developed with Yeoman, or if you have a Jekyll site contained in the master branch alongside the rest of your code.

For the sake of this example, let’s pretend the subfolder containing your site is named dist.

Step 1

Remove the dist directory from the project’s .gitignore file (it’s ignored by default by Yeoman).

@jaredhirsch
jaredhirsch / gist:4971859
Created February 17, 2013 15:19
all about ETags

ETags: a pretty sweet feature of HTTP 1.1

HTTP caching review

HTTP provides two ways for servers to control client-side caching of page components:

  • freshness may be based on a date or a token whose meaning is app-specific
  • whether or not the client needs to confirm the cached version is up-to-date with the server

This breaks down as follows:

  • Cache locally and don't check before using.
@vmadman
vmadman / logstash-supervisord
Created April 27, 2013 06:48
An example SupervisorD configuration for all three logstash components. Some of it might look obvious, but it took a ton of tweaking to figure it out. (but I might just be dumb)
[program:lss]
process_name=Shipper
command=java -jar /usr/local/logstash/bin/logstash-1.1.9-monolithic.jar agent --config /usr/local/logstash/conf/shipper.conf --log /usr/local/logstash/log/shipper.log
user=logstash
startretries=3
redirect_stderr=true
std_out_logfile=NONE
startsecs=3
environment=HOME="/usr/local/logstash/"