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@marktheunissen
marktheunissen / pedantically_commented_playbook.yml
Last active April 19, 2025 17:31 — forked from phred/pedantically_commented_playbook.yml
Insanely complete Ansible playbook, showing off all the options
This playbook has been removed as it is now very outdated.
@jterrace
jterrace / xvfb
Created June 11, 2012 18:46
xvfb init script for Ubuntu
XVFB=/usr/bin/Xvfb
XVFBARGS=":1 -screen 0 1024x768x24 -ac +extension GLX +render -noreset"
PIDFILE=/var/run/xvfb.pid
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting virtual X frame buffer: Xvfb"
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --make-pidfile --background --exec $XVFB -- $XVFBARGS
echo "."
;;
stop)
@endolith
endolith / LICENSE.txt
Last active November 18, 2024 15:46
Arduino hardware true random number generator
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2012 endolith
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
@endolith
endolith / results.md
Last active November 23, 2024 14:34
Randomness testing of Arduino TrueRandom

I ran

cat /dev/urandom >> devurandom.bin

which produced 31 MB of data in a few seconds. To get numbers from the Arduino, I ran:

stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 cs8 115200 ignbrk -brkint -icrnl -imaxbel -opost -onlcr -isig -icanon -iexten -echo -echoe -echok -echoctl -echoke noflsh -ixon -crtscts
cat /dev/ttyUSB0 >> TrueRandom.bin

which took several days to produce 93 MB of data (rate of about 3.2 kbit/s)

@remi
remi / .gitconfig
Created March 20, 2012 19:20
Find the most used verbs in your Git commit messages
[alias]
verbs = !git log --pretty=format:'%s' | cut -d \" \" -f 1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
@ericmoritz
ericmoritz / bbeat.clj
Created March 2, 2012 16:09 — forked from damionjunk/gist:1500336
Binaural Beats with Overtone and Clojure
(ns overtone-clj-toys.binaural
(:use [overtone.live]))
;;
;; Binaural Beat Synthesis:
;; Generates binaural beats given the provided carrier and desired
;; frequency. Brown noise is used to soften the background and
;; block out outside noise.
;; freq effect
@jacobbubu
jacobbubu / ioslocaleidentifiers.csv
Created February 15, 2012 14:41
iOS Locale Identifiers
We can make this file beautiful and searchable if this error is corrected: No commas found in this CSV file in line 0.
mr Marathi
bs Bosnian
ee_TG Ewe (Togo)
ms Malay
kam_KE Kamba (Kenya)
mt Maltese
ha Hausa
es_HN Spanish (Honduras)
ml_IN Malayalam (India)
ro_MD Romanian (Moldova)
@FGRibreau
FGRibreau / times.js
Created February 5, 2012 22:45
Ruby .times & .upto & .downto methods in JavaScript
// Ruby = 5.times { |i| puts i }
// JS = (1).times(function(i){console.log(i);})
Number.prototype.times = function(cb) {
var i = -1;
while (++i < this) {
cb(i);
}
return +this;
@mislav
mislav / readme.md
Created January 25, 2012 14:42
CLI tool that checks the build status of current branch on Travis CI

Check build status of a project on the command line

Install (copy & paste):

curl -sL raw.github.com/gist/1676577/travis.rb > ~/bin/travis \
  && chmod +x ~/bin/travis

gem install hub | tail -2
ruby -e 'require "json"' 2&gt;/dev/null || gem install json
@attilagyorffy
attilagyorffy / css_colour_validator.rb
Created October 29, 2011 12:27
CSS colour validation in Rails 3
# Put this file under Rails.root /lib
class CssColourValidator < ActiveModel::EachValidator
def validate_each(record, attribute, value)
return false unless value
record.errors[attribute] << (options[:message] || 'is not a valid CSS colour') unless ::HexadecimalColourValidator.matches?(value) or ::WebSafeColourValidator.matches?(value)
end
end