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@mlanett
mlanett / rails http status codes
Last active October 22, 2025 18:39
HTTP status code symbols for Rails
HTTP status code symbols for Rails
Thanks to Cody Fauser for this list of HTTP responce codes and their Ruby on Rails symbol mappings.
Status Code Symbol
1xx Informational
100 :continue
101 :switching_protocols
102 :processing
@tsabat
tsabat / zsh.md
Last active October 10, 2025 00:44
Getting oh-my-zsh to work in Ubuntu
@XVilka
XVilka / TrueColour.md
Last active October 9, 2025 17:55
True Colour (16 million colours) support in various terminal applications and terminals

THIS GIST WAS MOVED TO TERMSTANDARD/COLORS REPOSITORY.

PLEASE ASK YOUR QUESTIONS OR ADD ANY SUGGESTIONS AS A REPOSITORY ISSUES OR PULL REQUESTS INSTEAD!

@zhengjia
zhengjia / capybara cheat sheet
Created June 7, 2010 01:35
capybara cheat sheet
=Navigating=
visit('/projects')
visit(post_comments_path(post))
=Clicking links and buttons=
click_link('id-of-link')
click_link('Link Text')
click_button('Save')
click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button
click('Button Value')
@heyalexej
heyalexej / gsm-setup.md
Last active August 20, 2025 21:09
SIM Card Management Through GSM Modem On Linux

SIM Card Management Over GSM Modem

A small guide on how to send and receive USSD codes on Linux

I am using the built in GSM (UMTS) modem of my Thinkpad X1 extensively because I am often in places with flaky internet connections. I connect through the standard Network Manager on Ubuntu and everything works fine. There was one major annoyance though. Every time I wanted to top up the SIM balance or book a new package, I needed a phone to send and receive USSD codes. So I took some time to figure out how to do it from the shell. I wrote this down as a help for others and a reminder for myself. Without further ado...

First intsall gammu and picocom.

~  sudo apt-get install -y gammu picocom
@chris-jamieson
chris-jamieson / setup.md
Created April 19, 2016 15:43
Set up Franz for Ubuntu
  • Download Franz for your distribution from MeetFranz.com
  • change into the same directory as the downloaded file, then sudo tar -xf Franz-linux-x64-0.9.10.tgz -C /opt/franz
  • (optional) wget "https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/360/1*v86tTomtFZIdqzMNpvwIZw.png" -O franz-icon.png then sudo cp franz-icon.png /opt/franz
  • (optional) sudo touch /usr/share/applications/franz.desktop then sudo vim /usr/share/applications/franz.desktop

paste the following lines into the file, then save the file:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Franz
Comment=
@coderofsalvation
coderofsalvation / snippy.sh
Last active June 5, 2025 11:23
modified version of snippy which features easier installation, follows symlinks, bashdown templates and automatic detection of cli vs window
#!/bin/bash
# video demo at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90xoathBYfk
# written by "mhwombat": https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=71938&p=2
# Based on "snippy" by "sessy"
# (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=71938)
#
# You will also need "dmenu", "xsel" and "xdotool". Get them from your linux
# distro in the usual way.
#
@P7h
P7h / jdk_download.sh
Last active May 5, 2025 10:36
Script to download JDK / JRE / Java binaries from Oracle website from terminal / shell / command line / command prompt
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### Shell script to download Oracle JDK / JRE / Java binaries from Oracle website using terminal / command / shell prompt using wget.
### You can download all the binaries one-shot by just giving the BASE_URL.
### Script might be useful if you need Oracle JDK on Amazon EC2 env.
### Script is updated for every JDK release.
### Features:-
# 1. Resumes a broken / interrupted [previous] download, if any.
# 2. Renames the file to a proper name with including platform info.
@pudquick
pudquick / parse_pbzx2.py
Created April 8, 2015 05:27
A pbzx stream decoder for the format found within Yosemite package payloads.
# v2 pbzx stream handler
# My personal writeup on the differences here: https://gist.github.com/pudquick/29fcfe09c326a9b96cf5
#
# Pure python reimplementation of .cpio.xz content extraction from pbzx file payload originally here:
# http://www.tonymacx86.com/general-help/135458-pbzx-stream-parser.html
#
# Cleaned up C version (as the basis for my code) here, thanks to Pepijn Bruienne / @bruienne
# https://gist.github.com/bruienne/029494bbcfb358098b41
import struct, sys
@mutability
mutability / OVERLAYFS
Last active January 9, 2025 12:26
readonly root via overlayfs
- install the two shellscripts into the appropriate places under /etc/initramfs-tools
- run update-initramfs
- put "overlay=yes" on the kernel command line
- reboot
With the overlay in place, the real root is mounted readonly on /ro.
Only the root fs is changed, other filesystems are mounted normally.
Remove "overlay=yes" (or change it to something other than yes) and reboot to go back to readwrite.
(This probably means that you want the commandline config to live somewhere other than on the root fs, e.g. under /boot)