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from threading import Lock


def build_delegating_method(delegate_name, method_name):
    def delegating_method(self, *a, **kw):
        delegate = getattr(self, delegate_name)
        method = getattr(delegate, method_name)
        return method(*a, **kw)
    doc_format = "Calls self.{}.{}."
    delegating_method.__name__ = method_name

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# Print text to serial Epson printer. Escape codes are Epson ESC/POS.
#
#     pip install pyserial jeni # Developed on Python 3.4.

import struct

import serial
from jeni import annotate, partial
from jeni import Injector

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import datetime as dt
import time

import requests # pip install requests


def get_ok(url):
    "GET url and raise an exception if not 200 OK."
    r = requests.get(url)
    r.raise_for_status()

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# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :

VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
  config.vm.hostname = "scratch1"
  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64" # vagrantcloud, use vagrant 1.5+
  # config.vm.box_url = "http://domain.com/path/to/above.box"

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@echo off
title Waiting to Launch Ventrilo
rem Delayed launch ventrilo, since it does not as executable in Startup.
rem Sleep for 60s using a dummy ping.
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 60 > nul
start "Ventrilo" "C:\Program Files\Ventrilo\Ventrilo.exe" -cHOST:PORT:PASSWORD

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#! /bin/sh
# Save as /etc/init.d/fancontrol
# update-rc.d fancontrol defaults 90 10
#
# Based on /etc/init.d/skeleton
# Tested on a Supermicro 1U box running Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64.
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          fancontrol
# Required-Start:
# Required-Stop:

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Git Hosting

• GitHub.com provides great public repository hosting.
• vanilla git over ssh works for simple project structures.
• gitosis works well where you'd like to use ssh pubkeys without shell access.
• gitolite works well where you'd like gitosis to have finer access control.

How I setup our gitolite server

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#!/bin/bash
# usage: mirror-github <account_name> <project_name>

git clone --mirror git@github.com:${1}/${2}.git

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Sample prototyping schema for use with vanilla Apache Solr 1.4.1 download.

tar -xvzf ~/download/apache-solr-1.4.1.tgz
cd apache-solr-1.4.1/example/
vi solr/conf/schema.xml # edit into something like the schema here
java -jar start.jar # look for errors, otherwise have fun!

Start prototyping! To clean out the data index and start over, interrupt the Jetty server (Control-C) and:

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description "Sync Dropbox web-based file share on local system."
author "Ron DuPlain <ron.duplain@willowtreeapps.com>"

start on (net-device-up
          and local-filesystems
          and runlevel [2345])
stop on runlevel [!2345]
respawn

env LANG=en_US.UTF-8