marijn

List of countries

This list served quite some people but someone else did a better job since.

Go to https://github.com/umpirsky/country-list for a list in your language and format.

List of nationalities

I've also compiled a list of nationalities

rsvp

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#              bash 4.1.5(1)     Linux Ubuntu 10.04               Date : 2013-07-11
#
# _______________|  netspeed : check download speed via command line.
#
#           Usage:  netspeed [tokyo, london, usw, use, east, west, URL]
#                                            ^default U.S. west coast.
#                            [ -speed_KB/sec ]
#                              ^negation activates the Mbps converter.
#

prenagha

--
-- OCR all documents added to a folder
--
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
	try
		repeat with i from 1 to number of items in added_items
			set this_item to item i of added_items
			set appName to my getAppName()
			tell application appName
				activate

alotaiba

Google Speech To Text API

Base URL: https://www.google.com/speech-api/v1/recognize
It accepts POST requests with voice file encoded in FLAC format, and query parameters for control.

Query Parameters

client
The client's name you're connecting from. For spoofing purposes, let's use chromium

lang
Speech language, for example, ar-QA for Qatari Arabic, or en-US for U.S. English

jessearmand

# SSH Connection pooling for faster additional connections to a machine
ControlMaster auto
ControlPath /tmp/ssh_mux_%h_%p_%r

# This makes subsequent connections go faster
ControlPersist 2h

# Make it so ssh-ing from one server to another passes keys around automagically
Host *
ForwardAgent yes

peterc

# Simple 16 step drum machine experiment with Node and CoffeeScript
#   by Peter Cooper - @peterc
#
#   Inspired by Giles Bowkett's screencast at
#   http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2012/02/making-music-with-javascript-is-easy.html
#
#   Screencast demo of this code at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWKkEaKL6DQ
#
# Required:
#   node, npm and coffee-script installed

maddox

Install Samba 3 on OS X 10.7 Lion

Run the two commands below one at a time to get Samba 3 installed and to have it run on boot.

Install Samba with Homebrew

sh < <(curl https://raw.github.com/gist/1938575/df254d9a2ac83dddb04fcc7f9b634b65708aa477/

Set Samba up to launch on boot

Echos

require 'formula'

class Pdftk < Formula
  url 'http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/pdftk-1.44-src.zip'
  homepage 'http://www.pdflabs.com/'
  md5 '9eb50fffcd621a627d387750c60982b4'

  depends_on 'gcc' # with "--enable-java" option , required "Homebrew-alt" .
                   # via : https://github.com/adamv/homebrew-alt/
  def install

RichardBronosky

#!/usr/bin/env bash 

if [[ ! ( # any of the following are not true
        # 1st arg is an existing regular file
        -f "$1" &&
        # ...and it has a .ipa extension
        "${1##*.}" == "ipa" &&
        # 2nd arg is an existing regular file
        -f "$2" &&
        # ...and it has an .mobileprovision extension

rodw

#!/bin/bash 
# A simple script to backup an organization's GitHub repositories.

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# NOTES:
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# * Under the heading "CONFIG" below you'll find a number of configuration
#   parameters that must be personalized for your GitHub account and org.
#   Replace the `<CHANGE-ME>` strings with the value described in the comments
#   (or overwrite those values at run-time by providing environment variables).