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#Given a variable, x, that stores
#the value of any decimal number,
#write Python code that prints out
#the nearest whole number to x.

#You can assume x is not negative.

# x = 3.14159 -> 3 (not 3.0)
# x = 27.63 -> 28 (not 28.0)

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Date: 2012-01-20 03:38 Title: Up, up, backup! Tags: backup, ftp, archive Category: linux Slug: backups

As I was saying at the end of the last post, locking myself out of the server really made me want to have implemented my backup mechanism sooner, especially considering that at this point in the life of QWERTY (my VPS) there isn't that much to back up.

In short, my backup needs are simple:

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Date: 2012-01-22 01:37 Title: Playing with Python Tags: python, video, coding Category: rand Slug: playing-with-python

I was a bit bored so I decided to make a short screencast in which I solved exercise 26 of Learn Python The Hard Way.

It all started because of a thread on the Good Old Games forum where MrWilli was asking about a good way to start learning programming, so this is goes out to him and all the nice people over at GOG.com.

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This is a really simple bash script which creates a .tar.gz archive of the folders I specify. I could further improve the script by making it do incremental backups instead of creating a new archive each day, but considering that this is a fast and dirty version of it, and that I don't have that much stuff to back up, it'll do for now.

:::bash
#!/bin/sh
date
echo "############### Backing up files on the system... ###############"

backupfilename=server_file_backup_`date '+%Y-%m-%d'`

echo "----- Now tar, then zip up all files to be saved -----"

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This is a question that recently got published as a NY State Exam for the eight-grade. You can find the full article here but I'm publishing the story itself, plus the questions here for easier reading (that article is a bit of a mess).

---

In the olden times, animals could speak English, just like you and me. There was a lovely enchanted forest that flourished with a bunch of these magical animals.

One day, a hare was relaxing by a tree. All of a sudden, he noticed a pineapple sitting near him.

The hare, being magical and all, told the pineapple, "Um, hi."

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FOR /D /r %%F in ("*") DO (
    pushd %CD%
    cd %%F
        FOR %%X in (*.rar *.zip) DO (
            "C:\Program Files\7-zip\7z.exe" x %%X
        )
    popd
)

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Set-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\General -Name SuppressUppercaseConversion -Type DWord -Value 1

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ExitNodes 0000000000Marauder,anonion,colinwillsdorkyahoo,gigatux,gerkin,devasdfasdf,Persepolis,ephemer2,000000000000haven,Alice
StrictNodes 1
CircuitBuildTimeout 5
NumEntryGuards 6
KeepalivePeriod 60
NewCircuitPeriod 15

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git reset 56e05fced #resets index to former commit; replace '56e05fced' with your commit code
git reset --soft HEAD@{1} #moves pointer back to previous HEAD
git commit -m "Revert to 56e05fced"
git reset --hard #updates working copy to reflect the new commit

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#!/bin/sh
pelican -s /path/to/pelicanconf.py /path/to/content -o /path/to/$username.github.com -t /path/to/yourtheme
cd /path/to/$username.github.com
git add .
git commit -am "update blog"
git push origin master