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Chili

Ingredients

  • 4 lbs. well-trimmed round steak
  • 6 large garlic cloves
  • 4 lbs. coarsely ground hamburger meat
  • 2 yellow onions, coarsely chopped
  • 7 Tbsp. chili powder
  • 3 Tbsp. ground cumin
  • 6 tsp. salt
@phinze
phinze / main.tf.js
Last active June 14, 2021 23:20
Terraform Example: ebs_block_device that remains after instance termination
resource "aws_instance" "web" {
ami = "ami-7f89a64f"
instance_type = "t1.micro"
ebs_block_device {
device_name = "/dev/sdg"
volume_size = 5
volume_type = "gp2"
delete_on_termination = false
}
}
@tam7t
tam7t / gist:86eb4793e8ecf3f55037
Last active April 14, 2022 10:57
Securing Ruby's OpenSSL

Are your Ruby HTTPS API calls secure?

Let's check:

2.0.0-p481 :001 > OpenSSL::SSL::SSLContext::DEFAULT_PARAMS
 => {:ssl_version=>"SSLv23", :verify_mode=>1, :ciphers=>"ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT:!SSLv2:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW", :options=>-2147482625}
2.0.0-p481 :002 > rating = JSON.parse(RestClient::Resource.new("https://www.howsmyssl.com/a/check" ).get)['rating']
 => "Bad"
@akorn
akorn / rsync_parallel.sh
Last active July 18, 2024 16:03 — forked from rcoup/rsync_parallel.sh
This script can transfer large directory structures with parallel rsync workers. Example command line: `rsync_parallel . -- -aHSAX --exclude '*13' . /tmp/2/.`
#!/bin/zsh
#
# Copyright (c) 2014, 2020 by Dr. András Korn. Implements the basic idea of a similar script by Robert Coup (2013).
# License: GPLv3
function usage() {
echo 'Usage:
rsync_parallel [--parallel=N] <args to find(1) to generate list of stuff to transfer> -- <args to rsync>
@iroller
iroller / chef_conf_2014_public_notes.md
Last active August 29, 2015 13:59
ChefConf2014 notes
@dysinger
dysinger / easy-ubuntu-openvpn.sh
Created August 28, 2013 18:22
Create a VPN on EC2 in 30 seconds
#!/bin/sh
# linux firewall/forwarding
modprobe iptable_nat
echo 1 | tee /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 10.10.10.1/2 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
# install openvpn
apt-get update && apt-get install -y openvpn
cd /etc/openvpn/
INSTANCE=$(curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/public-hostname)
openvpn --genkey --secret ${INSTANCE}.key
@sstephenson
sstephenson / Simple Encryption.md
Created April 11, 2013 23:48
Simple file/stream encryption using OpenSSL

Simple file/stream encryption using OpenSSL

Create and store a 512-byte random encryption key named secret:

$ mkkey secret

Encrypt the contents of file with the secret key and write it to file.enc:

$ encrypt secret < file > file.enc
@ndarville
ndarville / examples.mdown
Last active December 9, 2019 11:32
“We’ve Been Hacked” Boilerplate Announcement

How Companies Communicated Being Hacked

It’s probably a pretty bad idea to have your site go down, when people are supposed to read the blog post explaining the hack.

Notice how another site reporting the hack received more attention than Twitter’s own announcement. Why was that?

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Wraps curl with a custom-drawn progress bar. Use it just like curl:
#
# $ curl-progress -O http://example.com/file.tar.gz
# $ curl-progress http://example.com/file.tar.gz > file.tar.gz
#
# All arguments to the program are passed directly to curl. Define your
# custom progress bar in the `print_progress` function.
#
@jtimberman
jtimberman / rename-node.rb
Created March 2, 2012 07:47 — forked from mpasternacki/rename-node.rb
A knife exec script to change Chef node's name.
#!./bin/knife exec
# A knife exec script to change chef node's name, preserving all the attributes.
#
# Usage: knife exec rename-node.rb old-name new-name
#
# Script retrieves the Node object, changes its 'name' attribute,
# creates new Node object with updated name and rest of attributes
# untouched. Then it deletes old Node and Client objects from
# database, and logs into the server to update it: