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Running redis using upstart on Ubuntu

I've been trying to understand how to setup systems from the ground up on Ubuntu. I just installed redis onto the box and here's how I did it and some things to look out for.

To install:

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#!/bin/bash
for d in /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/*/devices/*; do
  n=${d#*/iommu_groups/*}; n=${n%%/*}
  printf 'IOMMU Group %s ' "$n"
  lspci -nns "${d##*/}"
done

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ENV["RAILS_ENV"] = "test"
require File.expand_path('../../config/environment', __FILE__)
require 'rails/test_help'
require 'minitest/autorun'
require 'minitest/pride'
require 'capybara/rails'


class MiniTest::Spec
  include ActiveSupport::Testing::SetupAndTeardown

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#!/bin/bash

# Tool declarations, modify as needed.
AWK="/usr/bin/awk"
CAT="/bin/cat"
COMM="/usr/bin/comm"
CUT="/usr/bin/cut"
DATE=`/bin/date +%Y/%m/%d`
DD="/bin/dd"
GREP="/bin/grep"

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{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
  "Description": "Setting up your own private and secure VPN",
  "Mappings": {
    "AWSInstanceType2Arch": {
      "High.Speed.VPN-Paid": {
        "InstanceType": "t2.medium"
      },
      "Standard.VPN-Free": {
        "InstanceType": "t2.micro"

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Contract Killer

The popular open-source contract for web professionals by Stuff & Nonsense

• Originally published: 23rd December 2008
• Revised date: March 15th 2016
• Original post

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# List all the (known) operations on each AWS service API. This is
# incredibly useful for building well-restricted IAM access
# rules. With this list you can quickly see what "s3:Get*" matches, or
# just glance through and look for something that might be missing and
# breaking your app.

# I can't believe I had to write this myself. I'm pretty sure there
# are a lot of people out there with near-god-mode permission on IAM

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var https = require('https');
var util = require('util');

exports.handler = function(event, context) {
    console.log(JSON.stringify(event, null, 2));
    console.log('From SNS:', event.Records[0].Sns.Message);

    var postData = {
        "channel": "#aws-sns",
        "username": "AWS SNS via Lamda :: DevQa Cloud",

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Out of the box, Homebrew does a default installation on Sphinx:

$ brew install sphinx

However, if you're using MySQL, the thinking-sphinx gem won't work because it needs to use MySQL libraries.

If you managed to screw up the first time, uninstall sphinx first:

$ brew remove sphinx

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#!/bin/bash
cd <%= @options[:app_dir] %>
exec 2>&1
exec <%= node[:runit][:chpst_bin] %> -e /etc/sv/<%= @options[:service_name] %>/env -u <%= @options[:app_user]%>:unicorn <%= @options[:bundler_binary] %> exec unicorn -E <%= @options[:environment] %> -c <%= @options[:config] %>