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| #!/bin/sh | |
| print_usage() { | |
| echo "usage: compress_video <input_file>" | |
| echo "supported formats: mp4, webm, mkv, mov, avi, flv" | |
| } | |
| get_extension() { | |
| f="${1##*/}" | |
| case "$f" in |
Step 1
Download macOS Installer (InstallAssistant.pkg). Here is the link to Sonoma beta installer:
Out of the box, any M.2 NVMe SSDs connected to the Dell OptiPlex 3060 runs at PCIe Gen 2.0 speeds (Max 5 GT/s; 2 GB/s) so the speed tests look like this:
However, after this BIOS mod, the SSD can reach PCIe Gen 3.0 speeds (Max 8 GT/s; 3.9 GB/s) so the speed tests look like this:
| #---------------------------------------------------- | |
| # file: ~/.ncmpcpp/config | |
| # based on: t60r/dots | |
| # vim:nu:ai:si:et:ts=4:sw=4:fdm=indent:fdn=1:ft=conf: | |
| #---------------------------------------------------- | |
| playlist_disable_highlight_delay = "3" | |
| message_delay_time = "1" | |
| header_visibility = "no" | |
| statusbar_visibility = "yes" |
| <domain type='kvm' xmlns:qemu='http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0'> | |
| <!-- ... --> | |
| <qemu:commandline> | |
| <qemu:arg value='-acpitable'/> | |
| <qemu:arg value='file=/some/path/slic.bin'/> | |
| <qemu:arg value='-acpitable'/> | |
| <qemu:arg value='file=/some/path/msdm.bin'/> | |
| <qemu:arg value='-smbios'/> | |
| <qemu:arg value='file=/some/path/smbios_type_0.bin'/> | |
| <qemu:arg value='-smbios'/> |
| /* | |
| * @fileoverview Program to free the content in kindle books as plain HTML. | |
| * | |
| * This is largely based on reverse engineering kindle cloud app | |
| * (https://read.amazon.com) to read book data from webSQL. | |
| * | |
| * Access to kindle library is required to download this book. | |
| */ | |
| // The Kindle Compression Module copied from http://read.amazon.com application |
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| [alias] | |
| recent = "!git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate refs/heads/ --format='%(committerdate:short) %(refname:short)' | head -n 10" | |
| co = checkout | |
| cob = checkout -b | |
| coo = !git fetch && git checkout | |
| br = branch | |
| brd = branch -d | |
| brD = branch -D | |
| merged = branch --merged | |
| st = status |
Magic words:
psql -U postgresSome interesting flags (to see all, use -h or --help depending on your psql version):
-E: will describe the underlaying queries of the \ commands (cool for learning!)-l: psql will list all databases and then exit (useful if the user you connect with doesn't has a default database, like at AWS RDS)