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@rskelley9
rskelley9 / how_to.md
Last active October 31, 2023 10:28
Workaround: Connect your Chromecast to a Hotel Wireless Network

About

I recently relocated for new employment. I've been staying in an extended stay hotel for about 3 weeks now. The hotel I'm staying in gives its guests free Wifi access. However, it requires users to accept terms and conditions on a splash page via browser interface before they can use the network. This makes it difficult to use my Chromecast with the network, as it doesn't have a means of accessing that splash page. While I could call the IT help line, I decided to explore a work-around.

Like many networks, my hotel's network attempts to improve security by using MAC address filtering. Luckily, Mac OS X (10.4 - 10.10) makes it very easy to spoof your network card's MAC address.

Here's how to add a devices like Chromecast, AppleTV, Roku to a wireless network that requires a browser to authenticate and accept terms and conditions.

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@lmarburger
lmarburger / local_jump_error.rb
Created February 10, 2014 21:20
Return value from LocalJumpError
begin
Proc.new { return 42 }.call
rescue LocalJumpError => e
puts "LocalJumpError: exit_value=#{e.exit_value}"
end
#=> "LocalJumpError: exit_value=42"
@coffeemug
coffeemug / gist:6168031
Last active October 15, 2024 01:08
The fun of implementing date support
After spending the better part of the month implementing date support
in RethinkDB, Mike Lucy sent the team the following e-mail. It would
have been funny, if it didn't cause thousands of programmers so much
pain. Read it, laugh, and weep!
-----
So, it turns out that we're only going to support dates between the
year 1400 and the year 10000 (inclusive), because that's what boost
supports.
@jamiehodge
jamiehodge / sequel_dot.rb
Created May 6, 2013 07:31
sequel DB diagrams
#! /usr/bin/env ruby
# Usage:
# ruby sequel_dot.rb [SEQUEL-DATABASE-URI] > output.dot
# Or pipe directly to Graphviz:
# ruby sequel_dot.rb [SEQUEL-DATABASE-URI] | dot -Tgif > output.gif
#
# Note adapted from Jeremy Evans' and Rohit Namjoshi's son's code at
# http://sequel.heroku.com/2010/05/29/fun-with-graphviz-and-associations/
#
@svenfuchs
svenfuchs / gist:5364262
Last active December 16, 2015 02:39
Travis CI Office

The Travis CI office

How to get to the Travis CI office: http://goo.gl/maps/vmidH

The address is Prinzessinnenstrasse 20, on the left driveway:

@mattetti
mattetti / tracepoint_middlware.rb
Created March 6, 2013 06:34
test middleware for Ruby 2.0 logging the method dispatches going on when a request is being handled.
class TracePoint
class Middleware
def initialize(app)
@app = app
end
def call(env)
stats = {}
trace = TracePoint.new(:call) do |tp|
@mattsoldo
mattsoldo / pg_index_cache_hit_rate.sql
Last active March 15, 2022 18:26
Postgres Index Hit Rate and Cache Hit Rate
-- Index hit rate
WITH idx_hit_rate as (
SELECT
relname as table_name,
n_live_tup,
round(100.0 * idx_scan / (seq_scan + idx_scan),2) as idx_hit_rate
FROM pg_stat_user_tables
ORDER BY n_live_tup DESC
),
require 'travis/support'
Travis::Amqp.connect
def as(user, &block)
Travis::Github.authenticated(User.find_by_login(user), &block)
end
def test_pr(owner, repo_name, id)
repo = Repository.find_by_owner_name_and_name(owner, repo_name)
user = repo.users.first
nuke
.erlang.cookie
@paulmillr
paulmillr / active.md
Last active December 4, 2024 06:30
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