danguita

Set up your shiny OS X for development

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This gist was moved to its own repo to allow contributions: https://github.com/danguita/osx-for-developers. Feel free to pull request!

terlar

ArchLinux on MacBook Retina 13"

Info

Resources

• cgdisk Walktrough
• ArchLinux Installation Guide
• ArchLinux MacBook Retina
• Puppet for MacBook Retina

heptal

Displaying images in the terminal with tput and echo

Requires ImageMagick, easily available from your favorite package manager. Tested on Linux and OSX

convert image.png -resize 40 txt:-|sed -E 's/://;s/\( ? ?//;s/, ? ?/,/g;s/\)//;s/([0-9]+,[0-9]+,[0-9]+),[0-9]+/\1/g;s/255/254/g;/mage/d'|awk '{print $1,$2}'|sed -E 's/^0,[0-9]+ /print "echo;tput setaf "\;/;s/^[0-9]+,[0-9]+ /print "tput setaf ";/;s/(.+),(.+),(.+)/\1\/42.5*36+\2\/42.5*6+\3\/42.5+16/'|bc|sed 's/$/;echo -n "  ";/'|tr '\n' ' '|sed 's/^/tput rev;/;s/; /;/g;s/$/tput sgr0;echo/'|bash

fracasula

<?php

/**
 * Please be aware. This gist requires at least PHP 5.4 to run correctly.
 * Otherwise consider downgrading the $opts array code to the classic "array" syntax.
 */
function getMp3StreamTitle($streamingUrl, $interval, $offset = 0, $headers = true)
{
	$needle = 'StreamTitle=';
	$ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.110 Safari/537.36';

mikesmullin

# monkey-patch Chef Git Provider
# to raise the default ShellOut timeout setting
# because this repo can take over 10min
# to clone from github.com
class ::Chef::Provider::Git
  def clone # based on opscode/chef commit b86c5b06
    converge_by("clone from #{@new_resource.repository} into #{@new_resource.destination}") do
      remote = @new_resource.remote

      args = []

davidgomes

How to change Pantheon Terminal's color scheme

Many of us spend many hours of our days using their terminal. Plus, we all have different tastes when it comes to color schemes. That's why the ability to change the color scheme of a terminal is one of its more important featuresl. Throughout this tutorial, I'll teach you how you can change the looks of your terminal, step by step.

This tutorial is aimed at elementary OS users, but it also works for any Ubuntu user. Start by installing dconf-tools:

sudo apt-get install dconf-tools

Secondly, you need to decide which theme you're going to apply. You can find dozens of terminal color schemes online, you can even design your own using this web application. Design the color scheme, hit "Get Scheme" and choose "Terminator". You'll get a raw text file with a background color, a foreground color and a palette. Those strings define your color scheme. In this tutorial, I'll post an

dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

joshenders

# This file is sourced by /etc/init.d/sabnzbdplus
#
# When SABnzbd+ is started using the init script, the
# --daemon option is always used, and the program is
# started under the account of $USER, as set below.
#
# Each setting is marked either "required" or "optional";
# leaving any required setting unconfigured will cause
# the service to not start.

benizi

#!/bin/sh
# Print four lines showing blocks of colors: 0-7 | 0-7bold | 8-15 | 8-15bold
perl -CADS -lwe '
my $block = shift || (chr(0x2588) x 3);
for (["", 0], ["1;", 0], ["", 8], ["1;", 8]) {
  my ($bold, $offset) = @$_;
  my @range = map $offset + $_, 0..7;
  printf "%s %-6s ", $bold ? "bold" : "norm", "$range[0]-$range[-1]";
  print map("\e[${bold}38;5;${_}m$block", @range), "\e[0m"
}

JeffreyWay

./configure  \
--prefix=/usr  \
--mandir=/usr/share/man  \
--infodir=/usr/share/info  \
--sysconfdir=/private/etc  \
--with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs  \
--enable-cli  \
--with-config-file-path=/etc  \
--with-libxml-dir=/usr  \
--with-openssl=/usr  \