renestalder

Facebook: Unfollow people and pages

See comments section for more up-to-date versions of the script. The original script is from 2014 and will not work as is.

1. Open news feed preferences on your Facebook menu (browser)
2. Click people or pages
3. Scroll down (or click see more) until your full list is loaded
4. Run the script in your browser console

Facebook will block this feature for you while you use it, depending on how much entities you try to unfollow. It automatically unblocks in a couple of hours and you will be able to continue.

tonymtz

launchctl unload /Library/LaunchAgents/org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist
sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist
sudo rm -rf /opt/X11* /Library/Launch*/org.macosforge.xquartz.* /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app /etc/*paths.d/*XQuartz
sudo pkgutil --forget org.macosforge.xquartz.pkg

# Log out and log in

pjobson

Removal of McAfee from OSX

Note: This was written in 2015, it may be out of date now.

There are a lot of commands here which I use sudo if you don't know what you're doing with sudo, especially where I rm you can severely screw up your system.

There are many reasons which you would want to remove a piece of software such as McAfee, such as not wanting it to hammer your CPU during work hours which seems like primetime for a virus scan.

I intend this to be a living document, I have included suggestions from peoples' replies.

DanHerbert

OBSOLETE

This entire guide is based on an old version of Homebrew/Node and no longer applies. It was only ever intended to fix a specific error message which has since been fixed. I've kept it here for historical purposes, but it should no longer be used. Homebrew maintainers have fixed things and the options mentioned don't exist and won't work.

I still believe it is better to manually install npm separately since having a generic package manager maintain another package manager is a bad idea, but the instructions below don't explain how to do that.

Fixing npm On Mac OS X for Homebrew Users

Installing node through Homebrew can cause problems with npm for globally installed packages. To fix it quickly, use the solution below. An explanation is also included at the end of this document.

omeinusch

#!/bin/bash
PASS=`pwgen -s 40 1`

mysql -uroot <<MYSQL_SCRIPT
CREATE DATABASE $1;
CREATE USER '$1'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '$PASS';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON $1.* TO '$1'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
MYSQL_SCRIPT

gak

function _common_section
    printf $c1
    printf $argv[1]
    printf $c0
    printf ":"
    printf $c2
    printf $argv[2]
    printf $argv[3]
    printf $c0
    printf ", "

headius

system ~/projects/jruby $ macruby -rbenchmark -e "class A; def initialize; @a = 1; end; attr_accessor :a; end; 5.times { puts Benchmark.measure { a = A.new; i=0; while i<100_000_000; a.a; i+=1; end } }"
  5.690000   0.000000   5.690000 (  5.686256)
  5.660000   0.000000   5.660000 (  5.657916)
  5.670000   0.000000   5.670000 (  5.664147)
  5.690000   0.010000   5.700000 (  5.691450)
  5.690000   0.000000   5.690000 (  5.699265)

system ~/projects/jruby $ macruby -rbenchmark -e "class A; def initialize; @a = 1; end; def a; @a; end; end; 5.times { puts Benchmark.measure { a = A.new; i=0; while i<100_000_000; a.a; i+=1; end } }"
  5.680000   0.010000   5.690000 (  5.685863)
  5.690000   0.000000   5.690000 (  5.693407)

Moligaloo

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<!-- default ordered fallback list - fallback entity has to be PostScript name -->
	<key>default</key>
	<array>
		<string>LucidaGrande</string> <!-- MAKE sure this matches the kCTFontSystemFontType in CTFontDescriptorCreateForUIType() & TDescriptorSourceImp::CreateDefaultDescriptor()! -->
		<string>AppleSymbolsFB</string>
		<string>GeezaPro</string>

earthgecko

#!/bin/bash
# bash generate random alphanumeric string
#

# bash generate random 32 character alphanumeric string (upper and lowercase) and 
NEW_UUID=$(cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 32 | head -n 1)

# bash generate random 32 character alphanumeric string (lowercase only)
cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-z0-9' | fold -w 32 | head -n 1

spion

Warning

This benchmark has been misleading for a while. It was originally made to demonstrate how JIT compilers can do all sorts of crazy stuff to your code - especially LuaJIT - and was meant to be a starting point of discussion about what exactly LuaJIT does and how.

As a result, its not indicative of what its performance may be on more realistic data. Differences can be expected because

1. the text will not consist of hard-coded constants