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Setup Mac OS X Mountain Lion or Mavericks

Edit: I few months ago I got a new laptop and did the same thing on Mavericks.

I just replaced the hard drive of my mbp and decided to do a clean install of Mountain Lion (10.8.5) since I was still using Snow Leopard (10.6.8).

I kinda regret for not using Boxen to automate the

Description

When using Homebrew (http://brew.sh) and searching formulas or pull requests you may get the dreaded error message: Github API Rate limit exceeded

Let's fix that! (yeah!)


Short version

Create a new Personal Token in your Github Account Settings (Sidebar: Applications) and then copy the Token. In the Terminal, use export HOMEBREW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN=YOURAPITOKENWITHFUNKYNUMBERSHERE (change that to your API Token) or add that to your .bash_profile and then do source .bash_profile.

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# ^^^ YAML documents must begin with the document separator "---"
#
#### Example docblock, I like to put a descriptive comment at the top of my
#### playbooks.
#
# Overview: Playbook to bootstrap a new host for configuration management.
# Applies to: production
# Description:
# Ensures that a host is configured for management with Ansible.
@pavgup
pavgup / README.md
Last active August 29, 2015 14:22 — forked from agnoster/README.md

agnoster.zsh-theme

A ZSH theme optimized for people who use:

  • Solarized
  • Git
  • Unicode-compatible fonts and terminals (I use iTerm2 + Menlo)

For Mac users, I highly recommend iTerm 2 + Solarized Dark

@pavgup
pavgup / osx_install.sh
Last active August 29, 2015 14:22 — forked from t-io/osx_install.sh
#!/bin/sh
echo Install all AppStore Apps at first!
# no solution to automate AppStore installs
read -p "Press any key to continue... " -n1 -s
echo '\n'
echo Install and Set San Francisco as System Font
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/wellsriley/YosemiteSanFranciscoFont/master/install)"
echo Install Homebrew, Postgres, wget and cask
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"
@pavgup
pavgup / osx_install.sh
Last active August 29, 2015 14:22 — forked from t-io/osx_install.sh
#!/bin/sh
echo Install all AppStore Apps at first!
# no solution to automate AppStore installs
read -p "Press any key to continue... " -n1 -s
echo '\n'
echo Install and Set San Francisco as System Font
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/wellsriley/YosemiteSanFranciscoFont/master/install)"
echo Install Homebrew, Postgres, wget and cask
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"

Setup Mac OS X Mountain Lion or Mavericks

Edit: I few months ago I got a new laptop and did the same thing on Mavericks.

I just replaced the hard drive of my mbp and decided to do a clean install of Mountain Lion (10.8.5) since I was still using Snow Leopard (10.6.8).

I kinda regret for not using Boxen to automate the

@pavgup
pavgup / htoprc
Created July 6, 2015 00:49
Some reasonable htoprc settings inside OpenWRT while watching a WRT1900AC (v1)
# Beware! This file is rewritten by htop when settings are changed in the interface.
# The parser is also very primitive, and not human-friendly.
fields=0 48 17 18 21 38 39 40 61 60 59 2 46 47 49 1
sort_key=47
sort_direction=1
hide_threads=0
hide_kernel_threads=0
hide_userland_threads=0
shadow_other_users=1
show_thread_names=1
#!/bin/sh
# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
# on the web, most from here
# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
# Set the colours you can use
black='\033[0;30m'
white='\033[0;37m'
red='\033[0;31m'

Setup Mac OS X Mountain Lion or Mavericks

Edit: I few months ago I got a new laptop and did the same thing on Mavericks.

I just replaced the hard drive of my mbp and decided to do a clean install of Mountain Lion (10.8.5) since I was still using Snow Leopard (10.6.8).

I kinda regret for not using Boxen to automate the