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sblask / national_geographic_photo_contest_2012_wallpaper_download.sh

Last active December 25, 2015 13:28

Download all available wallpapers from National Geographic's photo contest 2012

	#!/bin/bash

	root=http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com
	path=ngm/photo-contest/2012/entries/wallpaper
	type=(nature places people)

	for kind in "${type[@]}"
	do
	for week in {1..13}
	do

sblask / spark_read_avro_example

Last active December 26, 2015 21:09

How to read Avro files using Spark.

	import org.apache.avro.generic.GenericRecord
	import org.apache.avro.mapred.AvroKey
	import org.apache.avro.mapreduce.AvroKeyInputFormat
	import org.apache.hadoop.io.NullWritable
	import org.apache.spark.SparkContext

	private def readAvro(sparkContext: SparkContext, path: String) = {
	sparkContext.newAPIHadoopFile[
	AvroKey[GenericRecord],
	NullWritable,

sblask / .pylintrc

Created November 4, 2013 13:59

PyLint configuration file, initially generated with `pylint --generate-rcfile ` and then edited. See http://docs.pylint.org/features.html for disabled messages

	[MASTER]

	# Specify a configuration file.
	#rcfile=

	# Python code to execute, usually for sys.path manipulation such as
	# pygtk.require().
	#init-hook=

	# Profiled execution.

sblask / redshift.conf

Last active December 28, 2015 03:19

Redshift Settings

redshift -l 59.29:18.01 -t 5800:4500

sblask / logging_configuration.py

Last active August 31, 2019 14:52

Python logging configuration

	logging.basicConfig(
	level=logging.INFO,
	format='%(asctime)s - %(levelname)5s - %(name)s - %(message)s',
	filename=os.path.join(os.path.sep, 'path'),
	)

	def get_log_handler():
	log_format = '%(asctime)s - %(levelname)5s - %(name)s - %(message)s'
	log_filename = os.path.join(os.path.sep, 'path')
	log_formatter = logging.Formatter(log_format)

sblask / ls

Created November 19, 2013 13:46

ls with list, human readable sizes, hidden files and sorting

ls -lhac

sblask / national_geographic_wallpaper_archive_download.sh

Created November 26, 2013 01:01

Download national geographic wallpaper archive

	#!/bin/bash

	root=http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/wallpaper/img/

	year_number=07
	months_letters=(jan feb march april may june july aug sept oct nov dec)
	for month in {1..12}
	do
	month_letters=${months_letters[month - 1]}
	for index in {1..20}

sblask / national_geographic_wallpaper_download.sh

Last active December 29, 2015 09:39

Download all wallpapers from national geographic

	#!/bin/bash

	root=http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com
	months=(january february march april may june july august september october november december)

	download() {
	year=$1
	from=$2
	to=$3
	for month in $(seq $from $to)

sblask / .gtkrc-2.0

Created December 28, 2013 01:18

Remove pixel to the right of scroll bar to simplify scrolling using mouse pointer. (Xfce/Gtk)

	style "scrollbar"
	{
	GtkScrollbar::trough-border = 0
	}
	class "Gtk*Scrollbar" style "scrollbar"

sblask / ulimit

Created February 20, 2014 10:40

Create a new shell without root access, but raised limits. From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17483723/command-not-found-when-using-sudo-ulimit/17483998#17483998

sudo sh -c "ulimit -n 65535 && exec su $LOGNAME"

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