elbart

These are instructions for booting from an Ubuntu liveCD and installing NixOS on a machine. I needed to do this because the NixOS liveCD doesn't work on my machine (NixOS/nixpkgs#5829), so I'm just using the Ubuntu installation media as something to boot into.

Much of this is from discussion at NixOS/nixpkgs#14680.

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Get the Ubuntu ISO: http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04.1/ubuntu-16.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso

Write it to a USB drive with unetbootin

elbart

Description

This simple script will take a picture of a whiteboard and use parts of the ImageMagick library with sane defaults to clean it up tremendously.

The script is here:

#!/bin/bash
convert "$1" -morphology Convolve DoG:15,100,0 -negate -normalize -blur 0x1 -channel RBG -level 60%,91%,0.1 "$2"

Results

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# Start the old vagrant
$ vagrant init centos-6.3
$ vagrant up

# You should see a message like:
#  [default] The guest additions on this VM do not match the install version of
#  VirtualBox! This may cause things such as forwarded ports, shared
#  folders, and more to not work properly. If any of those things fail on
#  this machine, please update the guest additions and repackage the
#  box.

elbart

#!/bin/bash
#
# Startup script for the Supervisor server
#
# Tested with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5
#
# chkconfig: 2345 85 15
# description: Supervisor is a client/server system that allows its users to \
#              monitor and control a number of processes on UNIX-like \
#              operating systems.

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This allows you to use the following video streaming services outside of the US from your Mac without having to use a proxy or VPN, so no big bandwidth issues:

• Netflix
• Hulu / HuluPlus
• CBS
• ABC
• MTV
• theWB
• CW TV
• Crackle

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#!/usr/bin/env sh

##
# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
#   https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
#
# install it:
#   curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh | sh
#

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var connect = require('connect')
  , proxy   = require('http-proxy')

function redirect(loc) {
  return connect.createServer(function(req, res){
    res.writeHead(301, { "Location": loc });
    res.end();
  });
}