josephg

# Thanks to commenters for providing the base of this much nicer implementation!
# Save and run with $ python 0dedict.py
# You may need to hunt down the dictionary files yourself and change the awful path string below.
# This works for me on MacOS 10.14 Mohave

from struct import unpack
from zlib import decompress
import re
filename = '/System/Library/Assets/com_apple_MobileAsset_DictionaryServices_dictionaryOSX/9f5862030e8f00af171924ebbc23ebfd6e91af78.asset/AssetData/Oxford Dictionary of English.dictionary/Contents/Resources/Body.data'
f = open(filename, 'rb')

adaugherity

#!/usr/bin/ruby
# Create display override file to force Mac OS X to use RGB mode for Display
# see http://embdev.net/topic/284710

require 'base64'

data=`ioreg -l -d0 -w 0 -r -c AppleDisplay`

edids=data.scan(/IODisplayEDID.*?<([a-z0-9]+)>/i).flatten
vendorids=data.scan(/DisplayVendorID.*?([0-9]+)/i).flatten

mgedmin

How to get a free StartSSL.com SSL certificate

I'm writing this up from memory, so errors may appear.

This has been updated to use SHA256 certificates.

Start

1. Go to http://www.startssl.com/
2. Click on 'Control Panel'

jbenet

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

adamwiggins

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

Do it with style

jedi4ever

- Tune /etc/ssh/sshd_config

UseDNS no  # Disable DNS lookups
GSSAPIAuthentication no # Disable negotation of slow GSSAPI

don't forget to restart it, use a script provider to set it , or create it with veewee or snapshot it

- Tune Vagrantfile

    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnshostresolver1", "on"]

elazarl

package cp

import (
	"io"
	"os"
)

func cp(dst, src string) error {
	s, err := os.Open(src)
	if err != nil {

drakkhen

I see this error when I try to suspend an Ubuntu 10 guest in Fusion:

The request to Suspend this virtual machine failed because the corresponding VMware Tools script did not run successfully.

If you have configured a custom suspend script in this virtual machine, make sure that it contains no errors. Attempting the operation again will ignore the script failure. You can also submit a support request to report this issue.

As the dialog states, the second time you try to suspend the VM it ignores the non-zero return code of the script and it seems to work. But it's annoying.

The problem appears to not be VMware actually, but Ubuntu (or Ubuntu's service script). I tried to figure out where exactly Ubuntu's initctl configuration/scripts is broken to no avail but found a work-around that I'm happy with.

proger

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
sys.path.insert(0, '/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/LLDB.framework/Resources/Python')

import lldb

dbg = lldb.SBDebugger.Create()
dbg.SetAsync(False)

7hunderbird

ruby-1.9.3-p484 cumulative performance patch for rbenv

This installs a patched ruby 1.9.3-p484 with the railsexpress patchsets: https://github.com/skaes/rvm-patchsets

Requirements

• rbenv
• ruby-build

You will also need a C Compiler. If you're on Linux, you probably already have one or know how to install one. On OS X, you should install XCode, and brew install autoconf using homebrew.