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andrewlkho / gist:23b5b5bcf853b3473421
Last active June 23, 2018 00:24
How to install debian to a USB drive for use on a MacBook Air

This guide shows how to install debian so that it can be booted and run from a USB drive on a MacBook Air. I use this to store a copy of my PGP master keypair. Networking is deliberately not configured and all operations requiring the master keypair (such as signing other people's keys) are done only on this system. See the debian wiki for information on how to separate your key. Note that this is slightly different to using a live CD. It is not possible to tailor the base configuration of a live CD to one's own requirements, and they frequently automatically connect to the nearest local network. Nevertheless, if you wish to use a live CD instead, I recommend Tails. Arturo Filastò has written a similar guide for Tails.

The method I use requires [VirtualBox][4], which should also contain a working debian installation itself. An alternative method would be to use [debootstrap][5] b

@raidzero
raidzero / rdump.py
Created March 5, 2014 23:31
Print all strings from android resources.arsc file
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
DEBUG = False
HEADER_ONLY = False
if len(sys.argv) >= 2:
FILENAME = sys.argv[1]
if len(sys.argv) >= 3:
@lelandbatey
lelandbatey / whiteboardCleaner.md
Last active May 20, 2025 13:11
Whiteboard Picture Cleaner - Shell one-liner/script to clean up and beautify photos of whiteboards!

Description

This simple script will take a picture of a whiteboard and use parts of the ImageMagick library with sane defaults to clean it up tremendously.

The script is here:

#!/bin/bash
convert "$1" -morphology Convolve DoG:15,100,0 -negate -normalize -blur 0x1 -channel RBG -level 60%,91%,0.1 "$2"

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@radiosilence
radiosilence / beautiful.sql
Last active August 14, 2016 11:16
Django Raw Annotations. I wanted to add some complex aggregates, but .extra(select=) adds your raw SQL to GROUP BY, which doesn't work for aggregates. So, I trick the annotate() function by creating my own class that pretends to be an aggregate, but really just dumps SQL. Do not use for user inputted data.
SELECT "businesses_business"."id", "businesses_business"."user_id", "businesses_business"."slug", "businesses_business"."name", "businesses_business"."business_type_id", "businesses_business"."street", "businesses_business"."additional", "businesses_business"."town", "businesses_business"."county", "businesses_business"."postcode_id", "businesses_business"."phone_number", "businesses_business"."fax_number", "businesses_business"."email", "businesses_business"."website", "businesses_business"."strapline", "businesses_business"."description", "businesses_business"."active", "businesses_business"."deleted", "businesses_business"."activation_code", "businesses_business"."created_on", "businesses_business"."account_confirmed", "businesses_business"."preview", "businesses_business"."paid", "businesses_business"."last_updated", "businesses_business"."copy_id", "businesses_business"."logo", "businesses_business"."security_reference", "businesses_business"."video", "businesses_business"."embed_url", "businesses_busine
@plentz
plentz / nginx.conf
Last active October 22, 2025 16:10
Best nginx configuration for improved security(and performance)
# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048
@stepchowfun
stepchowfun / merger.py
Last active July 14, 2024 15:14
My three-way merge algorithm, originally designed for 6.033 DP2.
#!/usr/bin/python -O
################################################################################
################################################################################
#
# State-Based Text Merging Algorithm
# For 6.033 Design Project 2
# TA: Katherine Fang
# 9 May 2012
#
@rodw
rodw / backup-github.sh
Last active September 18, 2025 08:55
A simple script to backup an organization's GitHub repositories, wikis and issues.
#!/bin/bash
# A simple script to backup an organization's GitHub repositories.
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# NOTES:
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# * User @jimklimov (and probably some others called out in the long comment
# thread below) have modified this script to make it more robust and keep
# up with various changes in the GitHub API and response format at:
# https://github.com/jimklimov/github-scripts