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Gradle DeploymentDescriptor EAR Plugin

Use this Gradle plugin to directly access the DeploymentDescriptor class internal to the EAR plugin.

// custom Gradle task for creating EAR deployment descriptors (i.e. application.xml)
// author: cmcginty@akimeka.com
import org.gradle.api.*
import org.gradle.api.file.*
import org.gradle.api.tasks.*

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Enable Mythweb Direct Download Links on Ubuntu

"The requested URL /mythweb/mythweb.pl/pl/stream/2199/1399343400 was not found on this server."

Requesting just /mythweb/mythweb.pl would download the PERL script, indicating that CGI wasn't working. To get it working, I needed to make the following changes:

1. sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/cgi.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/cgi.load
2. In /etc/apache2/mods-available/mime.conf, add:

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl

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if [ -n "${DISPLAY+x}" ]; then
  xmodmap -e "keycode 62 = Up"
  xmodmap -e "keycode 111 = Shift_R"
  xmodmap -e "add shift = Shift_R"
  xset r 62
  xset -r 111
  xmodmap -e "keycode 66 = Control_L"
  xmodmap -e "clear Lock"
 xmodmap -e "add Control = Control_L"

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A General Guide to Upgrading Mint Linux

Last Updated for Mint 18

Pre-Install

1. Backup application list
   • Menu -> Backup Tool
   • Backup software selection
   • USER/Desktop, Select All, Apply
2. Create a new LVM partition for root

• lvdisplay

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import sys

import click

MIN_DIGITS = 2
MAX_DIGITS = 3


@click.command()
@click.argument('version')

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List all ZIP files and their uncompressed size in a dir

find "$(pwd)" -name *.zip | while read -r; do 
  echo -n "$REPLY\t"; 
  unzip -l $REPLY | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}'; 
done

List all 7z files and their uncompressed size in a dir

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Before installing a new hard drive, use the following steps to detect any IMF issues.

1. Install badblocks tool.

brew install e2fsprogs
brew ln --force e2fsprogs

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This is a working example of a Perforce submit-change trigger that can run checks on new files and new or modified lines of code.

Tested on Python2 in Linux and Windows. It does not require the P4Python API, which would probably be a little cleaner, but makes it less portable.

The install instructions are below in the Python file. Before using, the hard-coded P4 user value builds must be created on your server, or changed to a valid user. To prevent having to set the user password in the script, the builds user must be part of a group with the Timeout field set to unlimited to allow for the user to remain logged in on the server.

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KeePass2 Setup and Auto-Synchronization Guide

KeePass is a password management utility for Windows, Linux, and Mac.

The first section describes the steps needed to setup KeyPass2 in Linux and how to add FireFox and Chrome plugin integrations.

The (optional) second section documents a robust way to automatically synchronize the password DB across multiple devices.