tadeck

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
This simple script fetches your IP as seen by web pages, and displays it.

Execute this script locally like that:
$ curl -s https://raw.github.com/gist/3389407/myip.py | python
"""
import urllib2

ashwin

import random

# Random float in [0.0, 1.0)
a = random.random()

# Random float in [0, 100]
b = random.uniform( 0, 100 )

keeguon

[ 
  {name: 'Afghanistan', code: 'AF'}, 
  {name: 'Åland Islands', code: 'AX'}, 
  {name: 'Albania', code: 'AL'}, 
  {name: 'Algeria', code: 'DZ'}, 
  {name: 'American Samoa', code: 'AS'}, 
  {name: 'AndorrA', code: 'AD'}, 
  {name: 'Angola', code: 'AO'}, 
  {name: 'Anguilla', code: 'AI'}, 
  {name: 'Antarctica', code: 'AQ'}, 

oodavid

Restore MySQL from Amazon S3

This is a hands-on way to pull down a set of MySQL dumps from Amazon S3 and restore your database with it

Sister Document - Backup MySQL to Amazon S3 - read that first

1 - Set your MySQL password and S3 bucket, make a temp dir, get a list of snapshots

# Set our variables

export mysqlpass="ROOTPASSWORD"

oodavid

Backup MySQL to Amazon S3

This is a simple way to backup your MySQL tables to Amazon S3 for a nightly backup - this is all to be done on your server :-)

Sister Document - Restore MySQL from Amazon S3 - read that next

1 - Install s3cmd

this is for Centos 5.6, see http://s3tools.org/repositories for other systems like ubuntu etc

richleland

DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.s3boto.S3BotoStorage'
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'path.to.storage.S3StaticStorage'
THUMBNAIL_DEFAULT_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.s3boto.S3BotoStorage'
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = 'YOUR KEY'
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = 'YOUR KEY'
AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME = 'media.YOURSITE.com'
AWS_STATIC_BUCKET_NAME = 'static.YOURSITE.com'
AWS_S3_CUSTOM_DOMAIN = AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME
AWS_STATIC_CUSTOM_DOMAIN = AWS_STATIC_BUCKET_NAME
STATIC_URL = 'http://%s/' % AWS_STATIC_BUCKET_NAME