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- install virtual box
- download minimal iso from http://yum.singlehop.com/CentOS/6.4/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.4-x86_64-minimal.iso
- create vm, use redhat 64
- in settings, storage, point the controller IDE to the iso
- run it
- once it reboots, you need networking
- run dhclient eth0
- yum install system-config-network-tui
- run system-config-network-tui
- manually edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

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Twitter DM + OTR: A quick and dirty tutorial

With the recent removal of the 140-character limit in Direct Messages by Twitter, DM's have now become a much more useful platform for communicating between individuals and groups. Sadly, DM's are still sent in plaintext between users and Twitter has no plans currently on encrypting these messages, at least as of August 2015. Since these are stored in plaintext at rest, an adversary can see the content of the message you are sending, which the two parties might not wish to happen. Fortunately as a few applications with basic Twitter support which also have excellent support for OTR, all hope isn't lo

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package main

import (
	"net/http"
	"database/sql"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"os"
)

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package templates

import(
    "html/template"
    "io"
    "os"
    "strings"
    "path/filepath"
)

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OS X Preferences

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most of these require logout/restart to take effect

# Enable character repeat on keydown
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

# Set a shorter Delay until key repeat

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#
# Original version by Grant Parnell is offline (http://digitaldj.net/2011/07/21/trim-enabler-for-lion/)
#
# Looks for "Apple" string in HD kext, changes it to a wildcard match for anything
#
# Alternative to http://www.groths.org/trim-enabler-3-0-released/
# Method behind this madness described: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1409151&page=4
# See discussion in comments here: https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39654/lion-tweaks
# And here: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1410459
# And here: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1480302

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sudo cp /System/Library/Extensions/IOAHCIFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOAHCIBlockStorage.kext/Contents/MacOS/IOAHCIBlockStorage /System/Library/Extensions/IOAHCIFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOAHCIBlockStorage.kext/Contents/MacOS/IOAHCIBlockStorage.original

# for Mountain Lion 10.8.3 - 10.8.4
sudo perl -pi -e 's|(\x52\x6F\x74\x61\x74\x69\x6F\x6E\x61\x6C\x00{1,20})[^\x00]{9}(\x00{1,20}\x54)|$1\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00$2|sg' /System/Library/Extensions/IOAHCIFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOAHCIBlockStorage.kext/Contents/MacOS/IOAHCIBlockStorage

# for Mountain Lion 10.8.1-10.8.2 and Lion 10.7.5
#sudo perl -pi -e 's|(\x52\x6F\x74\x61\x74\x69\x6F\x6E\x61\x6C\x00{1,20})[^\x00]{9}(\x00{1,20}\x4D)|$1\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00$2|sg' /System/Library/Extensions/IOAHCIFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOAHCIBlockStorage.kext/Contents/MacOS/IOAHCIBlockStorage

# for Mountain Lion 10.8.0 and Lion 10.7.4 BELOW
#sudo perl -pi -e 's|(\x52\x6F\x74\x61\x74\x69\x6F\x6E\x61\x6C\x00{1,20})[^\x00]{9}(\x00{1,20}\x51)|

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#!/bin/bash
# This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.
# 
# This script is designed to be run daily by cron. Please run it with randomness in its timing to
# avoid load spikes at Let's Encrypt. One example, running between midnight at 2 AM, would be:
#
# 0 0 * * * sleep $[(RANDOM % 115)+5]m ; /usr/sbin/letsencrypt-renew.sh
#
# If you aren't using Nginx, adjust the startServer and stopServer methods to suit. Also, you could
# use the webroot method.

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type WriteDB struct {
  Conn *sql.DB
  Err  error
}

func (db *WriteDB) Do( 
  update,
  title,
  updated_at,
  updated_by,

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# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048