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lukeholder / das_download.rb
Last active October 12, 2022 01:32 — forked from itsgoingd/das_download.rb
Script to download all Destroy All Software screencasts w/ login (works as of Apr 2021)
#! /usr/bin/env ruby
# usage:
# $ das_download.rb email password
# based on various gists from this thread https://gist.github.com/maca/1798070
require "mechanize"
require "nokogiri"
require "fileutils"
class DasDownloader
@estorgio
estorgio / Mounting VirtualBox shared folders on Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS.md
Last active September 27, 2025 02:50
Mounting VirtualBox shared folders on Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS

Update 28 July 2019: An updated version of this guide for Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS is now available. Feel free to check it out.

Update 23 May 2020: This guide is ALREADY OUTDATED and might no longer work with new versions of Ubuntu and VirtualBox. Please consider switching to the updated guide instead. I will no longer respond to the replies to this gist. Thank you.

Mounting VirtualBox shared folders on Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS

This guide will walk you through steps on how to setup a VirtualBox shared folder inside your Ubuntu Server guest. Tested on Ubuntu Server 16.04.3 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

@CMCDragonkai
CMCDragonkai / http_streaming.md
Last active September 23, 2025 21:29
HTTP Streaming (or Chunked vs Store & Forward)

HTTP Streaming (or Chunked vs Store & Forward)

The standard way of understanding the HTTP protocol is via the request reply pattern. Each HTTP transaction consists of a finitely bounded HTTP request and a finitely bounded HTTP response.

However it's also possible for both parts of an HTTP 1.1 transaction to stream their possibly infinitely bounded data. The advantages is that the sender can send data that is beyond the sender's memory limit, and the receiver can act on