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My modified fork of agnoster.zsh-theme

A ZSH theme optimized for people who use:

• Solarized
• Git
• Unicode-compatible fonts and terminals (I use iTerm2 + Menlo)

Compatibility

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Linux Backup Solutions

I've been looking for the best Linux backup system, and also reading lots of HN comments.

Instead of putting pros and cons of every backup system I'll just list some deal-breakers which would disqualify them.

Also I would like that you, the HN community, would add more deal breakers for these or other backup systems if you know some more and at the same time, if you have data to disprove some of the deal-breakers listed here (benchmarks, info about something being true for older releases but is fixed on newer releases), please share it so that I can edit this list accordingly.

Bacula (from the Why section on Burp)

• Too complex to configure
• Stores catalog separate from backups, need to backup catalog

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Studying for a Tech Interview Sucks, so Here's a Cheat Sheet to Help

This list is meant to be a both a quick guide and reference for further research into these topics. It's basically a summary of that comp sci course you never took or forgot about, so there's no way it can cover everything in depth. It also will be available as a gist on Github for everyone to edit and add to.

Data Structure Basics

###Array ####Definition:

• Stores data elements based on an sequential, most commonly 0 based, index.
• Based on tuples from set theory.

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// Just before switching jobs:
// Add one of these.
// Preferably into the same commit where you do a large merge.
//
// This started as a tweet with a joke of "C++ pro-tip: #define private public",
// and then it quickly escalated into more and more evil suggestions.
// I've tried to capture interesting suggestions here.
//
// Contributors: @r2d2rigo, @joeldevahl, @msinilo, @_Humus_,
// @YuriyODonnell, @rygorous, @cmuratori, @mike_acton, @grumpygiant,

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# student.rb
class Student
def age
    unless read_attribute(:birthdate) == nil
      dob = read_attribute(:birthdate)
      now = Time.now.utc.to_date
      now.year - dob.year - ((now.month > dob.month || (now.month == dob.month && now.day >= dob.day)) ? 0 : 1)
    else
      0
    end

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My OS X “VPN only” Setup For #30C3

You should never let passwords or private data be transmitted over an untrusted network (your neighbor’s, the one at Starbucks or the company) anyway, but on a hacker congress like the #30C3, this rule is almost vital.

Hackers get bored easily, and when they’re bored, they’re starting to look for things to play with. And a network with several thousand connected users is certainly an interesting thing to play with. Some of them might start intercepting the data on the network or do other nasty things with the packets that they can get.

If these packets are encrypted, messing with them is much harder (but not impossible! – see the end of this article). So you want your packets to be always encrypted. And the best way to do that is by using a VPN.

Target audience

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/*
 * Demonstrates that an RSA signature does not uniquely identify a public key.
 * Given a signature, s, and a message m, it's possible to construct a new RSA key
 * pair such that s is a valid signature for m under the new key pair.
 *
 * Requires Go version >= 1.5.  Go <= 1.4 doesn't work due to a bug in the bignum
 * package: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9826
 *
 * Written in 2015 by Andrew Ayer <agwa@andrewayer.name>
 *

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#!/bin/bash
mkdir /tmp/curl-ca-bundle
cd /tmp/curl-ca-bundle
wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.22.0.tar.bz2
tar xzf curl-7.22.0.tar.bz2
cd curl-7.22.0/lib/
./mk-ca-bundle.pl
if [ ! -d /usr/share/curl/ ]; then
	sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/curl/
else

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Configuring nginx for SSL SNI vhosts

Gotchas

• Note that SHA2 hash algorithm may be not supported on older systems (Windows XP, Windows 2003, among others).
• Be aware that mandatory https on SNI vhosts eliminate [Internet Explorer on Windows XP, among others] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication#Web_browsers.5B6.5D).

Remarks

• My version of konklones SSL config does not have SPDY support(my nginx+openssl does not support it)
• You need a default ssl server (example.org-default.conf).
• Some SSL-options have to be unique across your instance, so it's easier to have them in a common file(ssl.conf).

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# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048