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# Function that prints the branch name.
git_branch() {
	branch=`git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' | perl -pe 's/^\*\s+//g'`
	if [ "$branch" != '' ]; then
		echo -n " ($branch)"
	fi
}

# Integrate it into your $PS1 prompt.
# Would look like: [user@localhost myapp (master)]$

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/home/*/logs/*.log {
	daily
	missingok
	rotate 14
	size 50M
	compress
	delaycompress
	notifempty
	create 0640 www-data adm
	sharedscripts

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Motivational Speech Alarm Clock

This is the code I used to make an alarm clock out of a Raspberry Pi (model 1 B+, 512MB RAM) that plays motivational speeches at 6:30 in the morning to get my ass out of bed.

At first I was using a CLI YouTube client, but it would hang after a while due to not running on an interactive console (being launched by crond), and the audio support on Pi's have always been somewhat flaky.

I ended up using youtube-dl to pre-download a playlist and using omxplayer for its hardware-accelerated decoding support. Works pretty well, except omxplayer has no support for things like "playlists" or "shuffling" so I needed

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#!/usr/bin/env python

"""A dict-like object that supports JS object syntax.

AttrDict is a dict that can be called using either square brackets, like a
normal dict, or by using attributes--just like in JavaScript.

Accessing the value for an undefined key will return None (Python's equivalent
to undefined).

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This describes my setup for using DigitalOcean Volumes (disk images attached to my VPS) for off-site backups and keeping them encrypted-at-rest when I'm not actively writing or reading to the disk image.

Basically it consists of:

• A DigitalOcean virtual private server.
• An extra Volume attached to the VPS (100GB or so), this presents itself as a block storage device in Linux.
• LUKS encrypted partition on the Volume.

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Save this code as ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and restart your XFCE panel with xfce4-panel -r

This file will set your panel text color to white (overriding the color setting from your current GTK theme). Change the #FFFFFF to another color if you want another color.

The engine "murrine" part will remove the text style for Murrine based themes (for example, a drop-shadow effect used in the Ubuntu Ambiance theme and Greybird).

style "panel"
{
 fg[NORMAL] = "#FFFFFF"

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What order does Python execute decorators in? It seems like this changed sometime between when they were first introduced (2.4) and now (2.7).

Given the code:

@foo
@bar
@baz
def myfunc():
    pass