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# Before running this script, install requests, beautifulsoup4

import requests as req
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

url = "http://www.melskitchencafe.com/vanilla-buttermilk-cupcakes-and-fantastic-easy-buttercream-frosting/"
html = req.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(html.text)

print "This is a recipe for: "

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# http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/how-to-serve-multiple-domains-using-virtual-hosts
# Uncomment this line from /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
NameVirtualHost *:80

# Create multiple files for each vhost or put them all in one
# They just need to be named with *.conf to be picked up
<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName example.org
  ServerAlias *.example.org
  ServerAdmin webmaster@example.org

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Must run as sudo and assumes the following:
# 1. your drive has been formatted with the name of "Untitled"
# 2. you've downloaded Yosemite from Apple store
/Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia \
  --volume /Volumes/Untitled \
  --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app 
  --nointeraction

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# Get credentials for the box
$credentials = (Get-Credential)

# If above doesn't work do
$password = ConvertTo-SecureString "password" -AsPlainText -Force
$credentials = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ("username", $password)

Enter-PSSession -ComputerName <computername> -Credential $credentials

# Remove an item

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How to install

pip install youtube-dl

To download best quality

List the formats available:

youtube-dl -F <youtube url>

Download a specific format based on a number above

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# You can add the options command to ~/.Rprofile
# By setting the pkgType to mac.binary, it'll use the packages
# in http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/contrib/3.x
options(pkgType="mac.binary", repos="http://cran.company.com")
install.packages(c("acepack", "Rcpp"))

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Eclipse Marketplace through Proxy

Note this bug if you keep getting disconnected.

You may need to increase the read timed out as explained here.

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Setup Git

3 locations for settings files

• System settings in /etc/gitconfig
• User settings in ~/.gitconfig
• Project settings in project/.git/config

Determine what you already have set with

git config --global --list

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Windows

On Windows, you normally checkout with crlf line endings. When publishing to npm, you don't want this as it will break on *nix. Here's how to prevent:

git clone -c core.autocrlf=false https://github.com/org/npm-module.git
cd npm-module
# test it
npm pack
npm publish

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RPM Setup

To compile RPMs do the following:

yum install rpmdevtools
useradd makerpm
rpmdev-setuptree