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sudo wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/jenkins.repo http://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/redhat/jenkins.repo
sudo rpm --import http://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/redhat/jenkins-ci.org.key
sudo yum -y install jenkins

sudo yum -y install java-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64

# Login as the jenkins user and specify shell explicity,
# since the default shell is /bin/false for most
# jenkins installations.
sudo su jenkins -s /bin/bash

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"\e[1~": beginning-of-line
"\e[4~": end-of-line
“\e[5~”: history-search-backward
“\e[6~”: history-search-forward
"\e[3~": delete-char
"\e[2~": quoted-insert
"\e[5C": forward-word
"\e[5D": backward-word
"\e\e[C": forward-word
"\e\e[D": backward-word

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#!/bin/sh

# This program has two feature.
#
# 1. Create a disk image on RAM.
# 2. Mount that disk image.
#
# Usage:
#   $0 <dir> <size>
#

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I used to think that

ssh -X me@some.box

"just bloody worked". However this might not work - ssh must play ball on both sides of the link. On the remote (ssh server, X client) sshd must sit behind some port, tell Xlib to send X11 requests to it and then forward them back to you the X server (where the ssh client is). If the remote box is locked down to prevent this, you will get:

X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0

as part of an otherwise working login. As it happens, I am the admin of the remote box in question, so I followed the ArchWiki and went to /etc/ssh/sshd_config and uncommented

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#!/bin/bash

# Install parallel on CentOS 6.
# Assumes you are root. Prefix w/ sudo if not.

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
#wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:tange/CentOS_CentOS-5/home:tange.repo
wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/tange/CentOS_CentOS-6/home:tange.repo
yum install parallel

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import java.util.Properties
import scala.util.control.Breaks._
import kafka.server.KafkaServer
import kafka.server.KafkaConfig
import kafka.producer.ProducerConfig
import kafka.producer.Producer
import kafka.message.Message
import kafka.producer.KeyedMessage
import kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer
import kafka.api.FetchRequest

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#!/bin/bash

# Install parallel on CentOS 6.
# Assumes you are root. Prefix w/ sudo if not.

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/tange/CentOS_CentOS-6/home:tange.repo
yum install parallel

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OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

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Interdisciplinary Open Source Community Conferences

Criteria

• Must be an event that someone involved in open source would be interested in attending
• Must be a community oriented event (no corporate owned for-profit events here please)
• Can't be about a specific language/framework.

Leave suggestions in the comments below

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Generating Flame Graphs for Apache Spark

Flame graphs are a nifty debugging tool to determine where CPU time is being spent. Using the Java Flight recorder, you can do this for Java processes without adding significant runtime overhead.

When are flame graphs useful?

Shivaram Venkataraman and I have found these flame recordings to be useful for diagnosing coarse-grained performance problems. We started using them at the suggestion of Josh Rosen, who quickly made one for the Spark scheduler when we were talking to him about why the scheduler caps out at a throughput of a few thousand tasks per second. Josh generated a graph similar to the one below, which illustrates that a significant amount of time is spent in serialization (if you click in the top right hand corner and search for "serialize", you can see that 78.6% of the sampled CPU time was spent in serialization). We used this insight to spee