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System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
- Who is going to use it?
- How are they going to use it?

GNOME's tracker is a CPU and privacy hog. There's a pretty good case as to why it's neither useful nor necessary here: http://lduros.net/posts/tracker-sucks-thanks-tracker/

After discovering it chowing 2 cores, I decided to go about disabling it.

Directories

	= Arch Linux step-by-step installation =
	= http://blog.fabio.mancinelli.me/2012/12/28/Arch_Linux_on_BTRFS.html =


	== Boot the installation CD ==

	== Create partition ==

	cfdisk /dev/sda
	* Create a partition with code 8300 (Linux)

	# OSX for Pentesting (Mavericks/Yosemite)
	#
	# A fork of OSX for Hackers (Original Source: https://gist.github.com/brandonb927/3195465)

	#!/bin/sh

	# Ask for the administrator password upfront

	echo "Have you read through the script prior to running this? (y or n)"
	read bcareful

	#! /bin/bash
	set -e
	trap 'previous_command=$this_command; this_command=$BASH_COMMAND' DEBUG
	trap 'echo FAILED COMMAND: $previous_command' EXIT

	#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	# This script will download packages for, configure, build and install a GCC cross-compiler.
	# Customize the variables (INSTALL_PATH, TARGET, etc.) to your liking before running.
	# If you get an error and need to resume the script from some point in the middle,
	# just delete/comment the preceding lines before running it again.

	# set prefix to control-f
	set -g prefix C-f

	#unbind system defined prefix
	unbind C-b

	# helps in faster key repetition
	set -sg escape-time 0

	# start session number from 1 rather than 0

	# Ask for the administrator password upfront
	sudo -v

	# Keep-alive: update existing `sudo` time stamp until `.osx` has finished
	while true; do sudo -n true; sleep 60; kill -0 "$$" \|\| exit; done 2>/dev/null &

	###############################################################################
	# General UI/UX #
	###############################################################################

	<?xml version="1.0"?>
	<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
	<fontconfig>

	<!--
	Documented at
	http://linux.die.net/man/5/fonts-conf

	To check font mapping run the command at terminal
	$ fc-match 'helvetica Neue'

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