probonopd

Think twice before abandoning Xorg. Wayland breaks everything!

Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to "just work" without the need for adjustments, then you may be better off avoiding Wayland.

Wayland solves no issues I have but breaks almost everything I need. Even the most basic, most simple things (like xkill) - in this case with no obvious replacement. And usually it stays broken, because the Wayland folks mostly seem to care about Automotive, Gnome, maybe KDE - and alienating everyone else (e.g., people using just an X11 window manager or something like GNUstep) in the process.

Wayland proponents make it seem like Wayland is "the successor" of Xorg, when in fact it is not. It is merely an incompatible alternative, and not even one that has (nor wants to have) feature parity (missing features). And unlike X11 (the X Window System), Wayland protocol designers actively avoid the concept of "windows" (making up incompr

rondy

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

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Effective Engineer - Notes

• By Edmond Lau
• Highly Recommended 👍
• http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

pksunkara

[user]
	name = Pavan Kumar Sunkara
	email = pavan.sss1991@gmail.com
	username = pksunkara
[init]
	defaultBranch = master
[core]
	editor = nvim
	whitespace = fix,-indent-with-non-tab,trailing-space,cr-at-eol
	pager = delta

bitonic

// Copyright (c) 2021 Francesco Mazzoli <f@mazzo.li>
//
// Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
// purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
// copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
//
// THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES
// WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
// MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR
// ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES

kamermans

#!/bin/bash

JAILS=`fail2ban-client status | grep "Jail list" | sed -E 's/^[^:]+:[ \t]+//' | sed 's/,//g'`
for JAIL in $JAILS
do
  fail2ban-client status $JAIL
done

lbrame

Arch Linux tweaks

This is a collection of the tweaks and modification I've made to my Arch Linux installation over the months. These may be applicable to other distros, but please check first before doing anything. I also included Arch Wiki references for all the procedures I mentioned. My recommendation is not to blindly follow this gist but to always check with the Arch Linux wiki first. Things move fast and by the time you're reading this my gist may be out of date. Lastly, the golden rule: never execute a command you don't understand.

Installing the KDE Plasma desktop

My current DE of choice is KDE's Plasma. I find it just about perfect.

There are various ways to install it on Arch. The most popular one is to install plasma and plasma-applications, but I don't like doing that because it comes with too many programs I'll never use. I, instead, install the base plasma group, remove the few extra packages that come with it, then I finish off by installing a few KDE apps that don't come with th

erikhansen

/*
* IMPORTANT: The queries below are written for Magento Enterprise. If you're going to run them on Magento Community, you need
* to replace all instances of ".row_id" with ".entity_id". See this for context: http://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/139740/magento-2-schema-changes-for-ee-catalog-staging
*
* When importing products in Magento 2, if you specify store view codes in the store_view_code column, product data will be set at 
* both the global scope as well as the specific store view scope. This is not ideal because now you have duplicate
* data at two different scopes that shouldn't actually be duplicated. The scripts below clean up this data by finding
* data set at specific store view scopes and if it's an exact match to the data set at the global store view, then it
* deletes the data set at the specific store view scope.
*

isaacs

echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc
mkdir ~/local
mkdir ~/node-latest-install
cd ~/node-latest-install
curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1
./configure --prefix=~/local
make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...
curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

chrisjlee

# forked from http://forge.mysql.com/tools/tool.php?id=137

[client]
#password     = [your_password]
port          = 3306
socket        = /tmp/mysqld.sock

# *** Application-specific options follow here ***

#

aamnah

#!/bin/sh

#######################################
# Bash script to install an AMP stack and PHPMyAdmin plus tweaks. For Debian based systems.
# Written by @AamnahAkram from http://aamnah.com

# In case of any errors (e.g. MySQL) just re-run the script. Nothing will be re-installed except for the packages with errors.
#######################################

#COLORS