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sandys / hdparm.conf
Created May 1, 2012 14:53
raid setup on providerservice
#get data about current RAID
#1 block = 1kb
cat /proc/mdstat
mdadm --detail --scan
#to get to the real fstab
mount /dev/md1 /tmp/1
vi /tmp/1/etc/fstab #find out the md # of the partition that u want to reformat
mdadm --detail /dev/md6 #more details about that partition, especially the /dev/sda6 + /dev/sdb6 info
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sandys / hn-stylesheet
Created April 21, 2012 08:26
stylesheet for HN
body { margin: 35px 0 0; } table { background: none; } /* header */ table td[bgcolor] { margin: 0 0 20px 0; padding: 5px; display: block; background-color: #eee; position: fixed; z-index: 100; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; } table td[bgcolor] b a { font-size: 12px; width: 99px; } table td[bgcolor] a { font-size: 12px; } .pagetop b { margin-right: 20px; } table tr[style]:nth-child(2) { height: 15px ; } tbody tr:nth-child(3) table { margin-left: 0; display: block; } tbody tbody tr:nth-child(3n) { height: 12px ; } tbody tr:nth-child(3n) table { width: 100%; } tbody { position: relative; } /* hide numbering */ tbody tbody td.title:first-child { font-size: 1px; visibility: hidden; } .title:nth-child(3) { position: relative; z-index: 1; padding: 0 0 2px 0; } .title a { font-size: 14px; } .title a:visited { color: #999; } .subtext { padding: 2px 0; color: #fff; position: relative; } .subtext * { z-index: 10; color: #444; } /* points */ .subtext span { font-weight: bold; position: absolute; le
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sandys / gist:2428218
Created April 20, 2012 12:36
debugging SOAP services
sudo tcpdump -A -i wlan0 |& tee /tmp/out
figure out the exact post command and use net/http to execute it
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sandys / search_api.rb
Created March 22, 2012 15:48
Ruby script to talk to google custom search api
require 'google/api_client'
client = Google::APIClient.new(:key => 'something')
client.authorization = nil
search = client.discovered_api('customsearch')
offset = 100
1.step(10,10) do |i|
#cx is gotten from the API registration page
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sandys / rails.md
Created March 18, 2011 07:33
random tidbits about rails

You need to create a getter and setter method to create a virtual attribute

 def full_name
  [first_name, last_name].join(' ')
 end

 def full_name=(name)
  split = name.split(' ', 2)
  self.first_name = split.first
  self.last_name = split.last

end

# history
HISTFILE=~/.zsh_history
HISTSIZE=10000
SAVEHIST=100000
setopt appendhistory autocd extendedglob
setopt EXTENDED_HISTORY # puts timestamps in the history
BLACK="%{"$'\033[01;30m'"%}"
GREEN="%{"$'\033[01;32m'"%}"