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Setting up qemu VM using nix flakes

Did you know that it is rather easy to setup a VM to test your NixOs configuration?

Create simple flake:

# flake.nix
{
  inputs.nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable";
@kissgyorgy
kissgyorgy / listen.py
Created September 4, 2020 16:37
How to use PostgreSQL's LISTEN/NOTIFY as a simple message queue with psycopg2 and asyncio
import asyncio
import psycopg2
# dbname should be the same for the notifying process
conn = psycopg2.connect(host="localhost", dbname="example", user="example", password="example")
conn.set_isolation_level(psycopg2.extensions.ISOLATION_LEVEL_AUTOCOMMIT)
cursor = conn.cursor()
cursor.execute(f"LISTEN match_updates;")
@danbst
danbst / iphone.nix
Created September 8, 2018 20:05
iPhone pairing for NixOS
# First add this module to your /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
# ...
# imports = [ /path/to/iphone.nix ];
# iphone.enable = true;
# iphone.user = "yourusername";
# ...
# Then rebuild system. Attach iPhone via cable, open terminal and run command `iphone`
# It will fail, but there will occure a dialog on your iPhone to "trust this computer"
# Press OK there and run `iphone` again. If it succeeds it will open a freshly mounted folder

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.


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@drkarl
drkarl / gist:739a864b3275e901d317
Last active October 17, 2023 10:43
Ask HN: Best Linux server backup system?

Linux Backup Solutions

I've been looking for the best Linux backup system, and also reading lots of HN comments.

Instead of putting pros and cons of every backup system I'll just list some deal-breakers which would disqualify them.

Also I would like that you, the HN community, would add more deal breakers for these or other backup systems if you know some more and at the same time, if you have data to disprove some of the deal-breakers listed here (benchmarks, info about something being true for older releases but is fixed on newer releases), please share it so that I can edit this list accordingly.

  • It has a lot of management overhead and that's a problem if you don't have time for a full time backup administrator.
@trusktr
trusktr / DefaultKeyBinding.dict
Last active July 17, 2024 05:21
My DefaultKeyBinding.dict for Mac OS X
/* ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.Dict
This file remaps the key bindings of a single user on Mac OS X 10.5 to more
closely match default behavior on Windows systems. This makes the Command key
behave like Windows Control key. To use Control instead of Command, either swap
Control and Command in Apple->System Preferences->Keyboard->Modifier Keys...
or replace @ with ^ in this file.
Here is a rough cheatsheet for syntax.
Key Modifiers
@agendor
agendor / hapijs-rest-api-tutorial.md
Last active August 31, 2021 08:31
A practical introduction to building a RESTful API with the hapi.js server framework for Node.js
@nlindley
nlindley / archivepage.rb
Last active December 30, 2015 04:18 — forked from ilkka/archivepage.rb
module Jekyll
class ArchivePage < Page
include Convertible
attr_accessor :site, :pager, :name, :ext, :basename, :dir, :data, :content, :output
# Initialize new ArchivePage
# +site+ is the Site
# +month+ is the month
# +posts+ is the list of posts for the month
@jakimowicz
jakimowicz / redmine gitlab sync
Created November 15, 2012 16:22
simple (and dirty) sync between redmine issues and gitlab issues
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'faraday'
require 'json'
require 'gitlab'
module Redmine
Host = nil
APIKey = nil
@fernandoaleman
fernandoaleman / Linux Static IP
Created March 23, 2012 16:20
How To Configure Static IP On CentOS 6
## Configure eth0
#
# vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE="eth0"
NM_CONTROLLED="yes"
ONBOOT=yes
HWADDR=A4:BA:DB:37:F1:04
TYPE=Ethernet
BOOTPROTO=static