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@michiel
michiel / cors-nginx.conf
Created July 5, 2011 10:41
Wide-open CORS config for nginx
#
# Wide-open CORS config for nginx
#
location / {
if ($request_method = 'OPTIONS') {
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
#
@rbenaley
rbenaley / ssh_config
Created July 28, 2011 16:03
GitHub ssh access via HTTP Proxy
host github.com
user git
hostname ssh.github.com
port 443
proxycommand socat - PROXY:<hostname>:%h:%p,proxyport=<port>
@chitchcock
chitchcock / 20111011_SteveYeggeGooglePlatformRant.md
Created October 12, 2011 15:53
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

@daurnimator
daurnimator / README.md
Last active October 15, 2019 17:07
Resizing OSX virtualbox guest partition

Expand virtual hard drive

VBoxManage modifyhd OSX\ Dev.vdi --resize 40960

Resize GPT

Solves "MediaKit reports partition (map) too small" error from Disk Utility

  • Mount virtual image via nbd sudo qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 OSX\ Dev.vdi
  • Use sudo gdisk /dev/ndb0 to destroy and recreate a partition table.
@amolkhanorkar
amolkhanorkar / PG::Error: ERROR: new encoding (UTF8) is incompatible
Last active November 29, 2023 17:57
Postgres PG::Error: ERROR: new encoding (UTF8) is incompatible
======= Prolbem =================================================================================================================
I have installed : ruby-2.0.0,postgres-9.2 , now in rails app when I execute:
rake db:create , command I get:
PG::InvalidParameterValue: ERROR: new encoding (UTF8) is incompatible with the encoding of the template database (SQL_ASCII)
HINT: Use the same encoding as in the template database, or use template0 as template.
: CREATE DATABASE "my_db_name" ENCODING = 'unicode'.......
bin/rake:16:in `load'
@soarez
soarez / ca.md
Last active July 24, 2024 12:02
How to setup your own CA with OpenSSL

How to setup your own CA with OpenSSL

For educational reasons I've decided to create my own CA. Here is what I learned.

First things first

Lets get some context first.

@halilim
halilim / Nginx and Phusion Passenger on Ubuntu 12.04.md
Created April 3, 2014 08:12
Install Nginx and Phusion Passenger on Ubuntu 12.04

Nginx

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nginx

@staltz
staltz / introrx.md
Last active July 25, 2024 16:52
The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing
@SimonSimCity
SimonSimCity / brew-update-notifier.sh
Last active November 5, 2023 09:30 — forked from stephennancekivell/brew-update-notifier.sh
Extended the script, written by @streeter to exclude the pinned formulae in the list of formulas to update.
#!/bin/bash
#
# Notify of Homebrew updates via Notification Center on Mac OS X
#
# Author: Chris Streeter http://www.chrisstreeter.com
# Requires: terminal-notifier. Install with:
# brew install terminal-notifier
TERM_APP='/Applications/Terminal.app'
BREW_EXEC='/usr/local/bin/brew'
@steve-jansen
steve-jansen / README.md
Last active June 30, 2024 17:19
Stop and start Symantec Endpoint Protection on OS X

This script enables you stop and start Symantec Endpoint Protection on OS X

Installation

sudo curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/steve-jansen/61a189b6ab961a517f68/raw/sep -o /usr/local/bin/sep
sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/sep
sudo chown root:staff /usr/local/bin/sep