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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# encoding: UTF-8

# Simple password generation in Ruby.
#
# Generate reasonably secure random passwords of any chosen length,
# designed to be somewhat easy for humans to read and remember.
# Each password has a capitalized letter and a digit.
#
# Example:

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/**
 * Truncate a Java string so that its UTF-8 representation will not 
 * exceed the specified number of bytes.
 *
 * For discussion of why you might want to do this, see
 * http://lpar.ath0.com/2011/06/07/unicode-alchemy-with-db2/
 */
public static String utf8truncate(String input, int length) {
  StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer(length);
  int resultlen = 0;

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Function WeekNumber(t As NotesDateTime) As String
  ' Wrapper to work out week numbers of NotesDateTime objects in the 
  ' current time zone
  Dim lst As Variant
  lst = t.LSLocalTime
  WeekNumber = LSWeekNumber(lst)
End Function

Function LSWeekNumber(t As Variant) As String
  ' Returns the week number of a NotesDateTime object

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/**
 * A correct example of performing a SQL query using JDBC.
 *
 * See http://lpar.ath0.com/2008/09/05/java-jdbc-and-memory-leaks/ for
 * discussion; correct examples of Java JDBC code are surprisingly rare. 
 */
public static void doSomething() {
  try {
    Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection(JDBC_URL);
    try {

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# encoding: UTF-8
'di '
'ig00 '

# VSFTPD auto-MD5 program
#
# Run man -l <this file> for documentation

require 'rb-inotify'

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# Runs a specified shell command in a separate thread.
# If it exceeds the given timeout in seconds, kills it.
# Returns any output produced by the command (stdout or stderr) as a String.
# Uses Kernel.select to wait up to the tick length (in seconds) between 
# checks on the command's status
#
# If you've got a cleaner way of doing this, I'd be interested to see it.
# If you think you can do it with Ruby's Timeout module, think again.
def run_with_timeout(command, timeout, tick)
  output = ''

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# encoding: UTF-8
'di '
'ig00 '
# This is both a Ruby script and a man page; you can symlink it into your      
# man directory as /usr/local/man/man8/jay.1 or run man -l on this file.

# The package which contains the kernel image itself
KERNEL_PACKAGE = 'linux-image'

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# encoding: UTF-8

# Script to take IBM Lotus Domino console input on stdin, and send it to 
# syslog.
#
# Allows you to do all your logging via syslog, rather than having to
# keep weeks of data in log.nsf.
#
# In rsyslog, filter like this:

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import java.text.DecimalFormat;

/**
 * The Stopwatch class provides a simple way to record the real-world time taken by an operation,
 * averaged over multiple runs, and report the result easily in logs.
 * 
 * An example use case would be timing JDBC calls to a relational database.
 * 
 * This code does not measure CPU time or pay any attention to whether a thread or process is
 * active or not. For that, you need to use a profiler.

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# encoding: UTF-8
'di '
'ig00 '
# This is both a Ruby script and a man page; you can symlink it into your
# man directory as commandname.1 or run man -l on this file.

# This is a generic skeleton for a Ruby command-line utility, showing how to
# make the same file work as both a Ruby script and a man page, for ease of
# distribution. This cool hack brought to you by mathew <meta@pobox.com>.