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###
A meta-compilation of:
https://raw.github.com/gist/1453705/d253733a56632a8d2c29321a75c18b627fa4dda8/reserved_usernames.rb
http://blog.postbit.com/reserved-username-list.html
http://www.quora.com/How-do-sites-prevent-vanity-URLs-from-colliding-with-future-features
(Took out some company-specific terms at the top of the first one (e.g. imulus, stacks), added one term so far - 'edits'.)

NOTE: Does not include profanities. You may or may not want to add a list of those.
(See https://www.google.com/search?q=profanity+list, but don't try to apply regexp's here because Scunthorpe - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem)

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[
    "about",
    "ac",
    "access",
    "account",
    "accounts",
    "activate",
    "ad",
    "add",
    "address",

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cd ~
sudo curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/composer /usr/bin/composer

then you can run 
$ sudo composer install

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#!/bin/sh

# Based on gist.github.com/gboudreau/install-ffmpeg-amazon-linux.sh
# and https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Centos
# updated with mirror source post rpmforge https://github.com/repoforge/rpms/issues/375
if [ "`/usr/bin/whoami`" != "root" ]; then
    echo "You need to execute this script as root."
    exit 1
fi

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## Customized for Laravel 4

# setting worker_processes to CPU core count
worker_processes      1;
daemon off;

events {
  worker_connections  1024;
}