ddevault

WAYLAND_PROTOCOLS=/usr/share/wayland-protocols

# wayland-scanner is a tool which generates C headers and rigging for Wayland
# protocols, which are specified in XML. wlroots requires you to rig these up
# to your build system yourself and provide them in the include path.
xdg-shell-protocol.h:
	wayland-scanner server-header \
		$(WAYLAND_PROTOCOLS)/stable/xdg-shell/xdg-shell.xml $@

xdg-shell-protocol.c: xdg-shell-protocol.h

jessfraz

Freezer cgroup FTW

In a terminal start a server.

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

In another terminal set up the cgroups freezer.

Hengjie

How to passthrough SATA drives directly on VMWare EXSI 6.5 as RDMs

There aren't many tutorials about this, the only tutorials I've found were about passing through entire PCIe cards to VMs, or refered to old ESXI versions (below 6.5) that used a more comprehensive desktop client instead of the web app. In v6.5, the web app was introduced and the desktop client was deprecated. You used to be able to setup RDMs in the desktop client, but with the introduction of the web console, this is no longer the case. This tutorial shows you how to pass SATA HDDs to the virtual machine on VMWare ESXI 6.5. This tutorial is partially based on VMWare's own KB and the now deprecated Forza IT blog post.

A word about VMWare ESXI 6.7

There is now an option while editing your VM's settings to add a New raw disk when you click `Add ha

eparreno

How to delete Sidekiq jobs in a Rails app using ActiveJobs

Sidekiq jobs can be enqueued or scheduled. Enqueued means that they are gonna be picked up as soon as possible, scheduled jobs will be enqueued at some specific time.

job_id and jid

When using ActiveJobs, Rails will return a job_id after sending the job to ActiveJobs

job = UserMailer.send_invite(params).deliver_later

ajjames

/*
     File: UIImage+ImageEffects.h
 Abstract: This is a category of UIImage that adds methods to apply blur and tint effects to an image. This is the code you’ll want to look out to find out how to use vImage to efficiently calculate a blur.
  Version: 1.0
 
 Disclaimer: IMPORTANT:  This Apple software is supplied to you by Apple
 Inc. ("Apple") in consideration of your agreement to the following
 terms, and your use, installation, modification or redistribution of
 this Apple software constitutes acceptance of these terms.  If you do
 not agree with these terms, please do not use, install, modify or