estorgio

Update 28 July 2019: An updated version of this guide for Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS is now available. Feel free to check it out.

Update 23 May 2020: This guide is ALREADY OUTDATED and might no longer work with new versions of Ubuntu and VirtualBox. Please consider switching to the updated guide instead. I will no longer respond to the replies to this gist. Thank you.

Mounting VirtualBox shared folders on Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS

This guide will walk you through steps on how to setup a VirtualBox shared folder inside your Ubuntu Server guest. Tested on Ubuntu Server 16.04.3 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

xdamman

#!/bin/bash

# Bash script to install latest version of ffmpeg and its dependencies on Ubuntu 12.04 or 14.04
# Inspired from https://gist.github.com/faleev/3435377

# Remove any existing packages:
sudo apt-get -y remove ffmpeg x264 libav-tools libvpx-dev libx264-dev

# Get the dependencies (Ubuntu Server or headless users):
sudo apt-get update

andreyvit

tmux cheat sheet

(C-x means ctrl+x, M-x means alt+x)

Prefix key

The default prefix is C-b. If you (or your muscle memory) prefer C-a, you need to add this to ~/.tmux.conf:

remap prefix to Control + a

mattupstate

#!/usr/bin/env python

import os, web, sys

sys.path.append(os.path.dirname(__file__))

urls = (
    r'/', 'Home',
)

mdeous

import lxml.html

html = lxml.html.parse("http://pypi.python.org/pypi") # can take an url, a filename or an object with a .read() method
packages = html.xpath('//tr/td/a/text()') # get the text inside all "<tr><td><a ...>text</a></td></tr>"
print packages

Out[7]: 
[u'celery\xa02.2.3',
 u'django-celery\xa02.2.3',
 u'kombu\xa01.0.3',

katylava

Update 2022: git checkout -p <other-branch> is basically a shortcut for all this.

FYI This was written in 2010, though I guess people still find it useful at least as of 2021. I haven't had to do it ever again, so if it goes out of date I probably won't know.

Example: You have a branch refactor that is quite different from master. You can't merge all of the commits, or even every hunk in any single commit or master will break, but you have made a lot of improvements there that you would like to bring over to master.

Note: This will not preserve the original change authors. Only use if necessary, or if you don't mind losing that information, or if you are only merging your own work.