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olivierlacan / migrate_postgresql_database.md
Last active March 24, 2022 20:30
How to migrate a Homebrew-installed PostgreSQL database to a new major version (9.3 to 9.4) on OS X. See upgraded version of this guide: http://olivierlacan.com/posts/migrating-homebrew-postgres-to-a-new-version/

This guide assumes that you recently run brew upgrade postgresql and discovered to your dismay that you accidentally bumped from one major version to another: say 9.3.x to 9.4.x. Yes, that is a major version bump in PG land.

First let's check something.

brew info postgresql

The top of what gets printed as a result is the most important:

@nherment
nherment / backup.sh
Created February 29, 2012 10:42
Backup and restore an Elastic search index (shamelessly copied from http://tech.superhappykittymeow.com/?p=296)
#!/bin/bash
# herein we backup our indexes! this script should run at like 6pm or something, after logstash
# rotates to a new ES index and theres no new data coming in to the old one. we grab metadatas,
# compress the data files, create a restore script, and push it all up to S3.
TODAY=`date +"%Y.%m.%d"`
INDEXNAME="logstash-$TODAY" # this had better match the index name in ES
INDEXDIR="/usr/local/elasticsearch/data/logstash/nodes/0/indices/"
BACKUPCMD="/usr/local/backupTools/s3cmd --config=/usr/local/backupTools/s3cfg put"
BACKUPDIR="/mnt/es-backups/"
YEARMONTH=`date +"%Y-%m"`
@herrbuerger
herrbuerger / README
Created September 8, 2012 07:09 — forked from amcclosky/README
Anonymous Rotating Proxies with Monit, Tor, Haproxy and Delegated. Idea by http://blog.databigbang.com/running-your-own-anonymous-rotating-proxies/
0 - Read http://blog.databigbang.com/running-your-own-anonymous-rotating-proxies/
1 - Install monit, haproxy, tor and delegated.
2 - Setup your environment in the setup.rb file
3 - Just run > ruby setup.rb
4 - ...........
5 - PROFIT! > http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/151040/the-underpants-business
@mrrooijen
mrrooijen / README.md
Last active February 11, 2023 19:44
Setting up XEN on a Hetzner Dedicated Server

Setting up XEN on a Hetzner Dedicated Server

Author: Michael van Rooijen (@mrrooijen)

DISCLAIMER: I am a programmer, not a sysadmin in my day-to-day life. I provide this guide simply as a self-reference, and as a way to contribute to the community of developers. The main motivation for writing this guide is because of the lack of properly written guides/tutorials. They were either out-dated, inaccurate, in a non-English language or simply too vague to understand (at least for me, as a programmer and not a sysadmin).

I hope this guide helps getting you up and running with your own collection of VPS's on your own Dedicated Server over at Hetzner.de.

Requirements:

@welch
welch / installing-opencv-2.4.5-macosx-10.8.4-anaconda-1.6.0
Created September 6, 2013 19:17
How to to build OpenCV 2.4.5 from the distribution tarball using cmake, on Mac OSX 10.8.4, linked to an anaconda installation.
It is a rite of passage to post one's successful build instructions for OpenCV on a Mac
after you've tried all the other conflicting instructions out there and still failed.
brew failed for me (was this because I could never get a happy brew doctor situation?
I'll never know). macports? nope. build-from-source recipes? I didn't find one that
worked for me.
Here's what did work to build OpenCV 2.4.5 from the distribution tarball using cmake,
on Mac OSX 10.8.4, linked to an anaconda installation rather than the system python.
It is a mashup of various bits of advice out there. If you're already comfortable with
build/install from source, all you need to read is the cmake invocation in step 3 and
IT'S SHOWTIME
HEY CHRISTMAS TREE isLessThan100
YOU SET US UP @NO PROBLEMO
HEY CHRISTMAS TREE n
YOU SET US UP 0
HEY CHRISTMAS TREE multiple
YOU SET US UP @NO PROBLEMO
STICK AROUND isLessThan100
@zhengjia
zhengjia / capybara cheat sheet
Created June 7, 2010 01:35
capybara cheat sheet
=Navigating=
visit('/projects')
visit(post_comments_path(post))
=Clicking links and buttons=
click_link('id-of-link')
click_link('Link Text')
click_button('Save')
click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button
click('Button Value')
@ndarville
ndarville / business-models.md
Last active January 13, 2024 17:27
Business models based on the compiled list at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647. I find the link very hard to browse, so I made a simple version in Markdown instead.

Business Models

Advertising

Models Examples
Display ads Yahoo!
Search ads Google
#!/bin/bash
# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
## Copyright (C) 2009 Przemyslaw Pawelczyk <przemoc@gmail.com>
##
## This script is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.
## https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
#
# Lockable script boilerplate
@tristanm
tristanm / README.md
Last active March 10, 2024 20:11
Migrating a Rails project from MySQL to PostgreSQL

Migrating a Rails project from MySQL to PostgreSQL

This brief guide is written from my own experience with migrating a large (~5GB) MySQL database to PostgreSQL for a Rails project.

No warranties, guarantees, support etc. Use at your own risk and, as always, ENSURE YOU MAKE BACKUPS FIRST!

I chose [pgloader][1] because it's extremely fast. YMMV.

  1. Replace mysql2 gem with pg in Gemfile.
  2. Update config/database.yml for PostgreSQL. I used [Rails' template][2] as a starting point.