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1. copy your image (Ctrl+A and Ctrl+C)
2. make a new document-sized pure-black layer behind it
3. group the black layer and yor image together
4. add mask to the group
5. enter mask edit mode (alt+click on the mask icon/thumbnail)
6. paste your image in the mask (b/w) and then invert it.
7. save it as a 24-bit transparent PNG

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> Thank you for reaching out to Autonomous! I am sorry to hear that you are having some trouble with your SmartDesk
> but I will be glad to assist. It sounds like your system needs a "hard reset" can I please have you follow these
> steps thoroughly.

Reset Steps:
1. Unplug the desk for 20 seconds. Plug it back in. Wait a full 20 seconds.
2. Press the up and down buttons until the desk lowers all the way and beeps or 20 seconds pass.
3. Release both buttons.
4. Press the down buttons until the desk beeps one more time or 20 seconds pass.

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Server side printing with Google Cloud Print API from a PHP application

It took me quite some time to figure out how to print properly from a web application. I will explain here how I did it, so you don't have to spend the same time.

Authorization

Google Cloud Print API uses OAuth 2.0 for authorization.

As explained [here][1] on the Google Developer page, the best way to use OAuth with the Google API is with a Google service account. Create a service account as explained on the Google Developer page.

To use OAuth a library is required. Google has published the [Google API PHP client library][2]. If you want to use the examples from the Developer pages, you need to use version 1 of the library. In this article I use version 2 of the library.

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'open-uri'
require 'pathname'
require 'json'

def strip_hash(f)
  ext = f.extname

  if ext.include?("?")

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Install Supervisor with sudo apt-get install supervisor in Unix or brew install supervisor in Mac OSX. Ensure it's started with sudo service supervisor restart in Unix or brew services start supervisor in Mac OSX.

In Unix in /etc/supervisord/conf.d/ create a .conf file. In this example, laravel_queue.conf (contents below). Give it execute permissions: chmod +x laravel_queue.conf.

In Mac OSX first run supervisord -c /usr/local/etc/supervisord.ini and in /usr/local/etc/supervisor.d/ create a .conf file. In this example, laravel_queue.conf (contents below). Give it execute permissions: chmod +x laravel_queue.conf.

This file points at /usr/local/bin/run_queue.sh, so create that file there. Give this execute permissions, too: chmod +x run_queue.sh.

Now update Supervisor with: sudo supervisorctl reread in Unix and with: brew services restart supervisor in MAc OSX . And start using those changes with: sudo supervisorctl update.

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Backblaze's bztransmit process loads a file called bzfileids.dat into RAM. This file is a list of all files Backblaze has previously uploaded, including a unique identifier for each file. On most systems, this files is under 100MB in size (paraphrased from Backblaze support rep Zack).

Mine had grown to 6GB. This means that anytime bztransmit runs, it will load this 6GB file into RAM while it is backing up. In doing so it was purging massive ammounts of memory causing behavior like Chrome (usign 10GB of memory on it's own) to hang/beachball for 30 seconds and then refresh all it's windows.

There is no way to alter this behavior once it's begun, aside from starting over with some files excluded. The index needs to be rebuilt from scratch without the excessibe file count, that also means you can't restart and "inherit" a previous backup.

In my case the biggest culprits were .git and node_modules, so I excluded those, started a new backup (transfered licnese) and spent a week hunting for fast internet I could

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Exclude node_modules from Backblaze backups on Mac

1. Edit the file at /Library/Backblaze.bzpkg/bzdata/bzexcluderules_editable.xml.
2. Add this rule inside the bzexclusions tag:

<!-- Exclude node_modules. -->
<excludefname_rule plat="mac" osVers="*"  ruleIsOptional="t" skipFirstCharThenStartsWith="users/" contains_1="/node_modules/" contains_2="*" doesNotContain="*" endsWith="*" hasFileExtension="*" />

Notes

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set remindersOpen to application "Reminders" is running
set monthAgo to (current date) - (30 * days)

tell application "Reminders"
	set myLists to name of every list
	repeat with thisList in myLists
		tell list thisList
			delete (every reminder whose completion date is less than monthAgo)
		end tell
	end repeat

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#!/bin/bash
set -x #echo on
remote_url=$(git config --get remote.origin.url)
for branch in $(git branch --all | grep '^\s*remotes' | egrep --invert-match '(:?HEAD|master)$'); do
		branch_name=$(echo $branch| cut -d'/' -f 3)
    git clone -b $branch_name $remote_url $branch_name
done

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Steps to setup mailtrap.io with your sendmail in ubuntu

Install sendmail and mailutils in ubuntu 'apt-get install sendmail mailutils'

In the terminal go into root prompt with sudo -s

Go to the /etc/mail folder