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require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'
require 'cgi'
require 'ostruct'

# YQL - Yahoo! Query Language 
# http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/

class YQL
  BASE_URL = 'http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?format=xml&q='

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#!/bin/bash

# domainavailable
#   Fast, domain name checker to use from the shell
#   Use globs for real fun:
#     domainavailable blah{1..3}.{com,net,org,co.uk}
# Inspired by foca / giles:
#   http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2009/02/simple-bash-domain-availability.html

trap 'exit 1' INT TERM EXIT

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#!/bin/bash

REMOTE_HOST='whatever'
USERNAME='whatever'

git push origin master && ssh ${REMOTE_HOST} "cd /home/${USERNAME}/www/rails;git pull origin master;chown -R ${USERNAME}:${USERNAME} *"

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#!/usr/bin/ruby

# Fetch Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox and turn it into a basic RSS feed

%w{rubygems hpricot open-uri rss/maker}.each { |l| require l }

puts "Content-type: text/xml\n\n"

feed = RSS::Maker.make("2.0") do |rss|
  rss.channel.title = "Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox"

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# Test a Wordpress blog for compliance with /feed, /feed/ and
# similar requests from normal Feed clients and FeedBurner

# == HELPERS
  require 'net/http'

  # Fetch a URL without processing redirects and return status code and body
  def get_url(url, agent)
    iurl = URI.parse(url)
    req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(iurl.path, { "User-Agent" => agent })

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# Monitor HTTP requests being made from your machine with a one-liner..
# Replace "en1" below with your network interface's name (usually en0 or en1)
sudo tcpdump -i en1 -n -s 0 -w - | grep -a -o -E "Host\: .*|GET \/.*"

# OR.. to be able to use as "httpdump" from anywhere, drop this into ~/.bash_profile:
# (again replace "en1" with correct network interface name)
alias httpdump="sudo tcpdump -i en1 -n -s 0 -w - | grep -a -o -E "Host\: .*|GET \/.*""

# All the above tested only on OS X.

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# urlmonitor - print out the URLs requested system wide on the main network interface

# Accept a network interface name as an optional argument
  iface = ARGV.first

# No interface specified? Try to guess which one is king..
  unless iface
    `ifconfig -l`.split.each do |iface|
      next if iface =~ /^lo/
      break if `ifconfig #{iface}` =~ /inet (0|1|2)/

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# Basic Ruby event driven "chat" server
# Heavily based on example code at http://rev.rubyforge.org/rdoc/
# Works on Ruby 1.9.1 - not tested on 1.8.

  require 'rev'

# Configuration
  HOST = 'localhost'
  PORT = 1234

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# runas - Run another program under the privileges of a specified user and group.
# This is necessary because sudo demands a password, as we need it to be hands off.
# A poor man's suexec basically.

require 'etc'

user, group, cmd = ARGV

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# Get the 50/20 week means of markets
# Sloppy ass coding that was a quick hack one night many moons ago..
# Easily changed to do 50/20 days instead, not posting that one :)

require 'fastercsv'
require 'open-uri'

class Array; def sum; inject( nil ) { |sum,x| sum ? sum+x : x }; end; def mean; sum.to_f / size; end; end

fifty_weeks_ago = Time.now - 30240000