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@yookoala
yookoala / 90-mac-superdrive.rules
Last active October 21, 2025 03:39
udev rules to use Apple SuperDrive on Linux
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# Apple SuperDrive initialization rule
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# See: https://gist.github.com/yookoala/818c1ff057e3d965980b7fd3bf8f77a6
ACTION=="add", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1500", ATTRS{idVendor}=="05ac", DRIVERS=="usb", RUN+="/usr/bin/sg_raw --cmdset=1 %r/sr%n EA 00 00 00 00 00 01"
@AnnoyingTechnology
AnnoyingTechnology / Apple's SuperDrive tweak for use with Linux.md
Last active September 26, 2025 09:57
Make Apple's USB SuperDrive work on Linux

I was ready to throw it away, I opened it up and didn't find anything wrong with it. After a quick Google Search, turns out Apple fucked up their users (again) and locked this drive to only one laptop : the MacBook Air.

Bellow is the tweak (found online) to make it usable on Linux

# Debian/linux only - Linux SCSI generic driver
sudo apt install sg3-utils -y
@chronon
chronon / ext.txt
Created February 18, 2017 15:38
List of docker-php-ext-install extension names
Possible values for ext-name:
bcmath
bz2
calendar
ctype
curl
dba
dom
enchant
@rgl
rgl / wait_for_http_200.sh
Last active February 18, 2025 11:37
Wait for an HTTP endpoint to return 200 OK with Bash and curl
bash -c 'while [[ "$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w ''%{http_code}'' localhost:9000)" != "200" ]]; do sleep 5; done'
# also check https://gist.github.com/rgl/c2ba64b7e2a5a04d1eb65983995dce76
@ldodds
ldodds / README.md
Last active July 5, 2024 20:11
How to make your own Xanadu demo

Twitter informed that a demo of Xanadu had launched, so I went to have a look. The demo only works in Firefox and it seems to be a cut down version of demos that I've seen Ted Nelson give in the past. But still: running code in the wild.

I met Ted Nelson once when we both spoke at an STM Innovations conference in 2006. I suspect he wouldn't have agreed with my much of my talk which looked at the web as a hypertext system and compared it with earlier approaches. My point of view was that we could bring those features back into the web by creating new services and by exploiting Javascript and web browsers to upgrade our experience of using the web. Evolution doesn't need to happen in a coordinated centralised way.

(When I say I met Ted Nelson, I meant that I shyly sat next to him at lunch while he expounded on various topics and fiddled with the tape recorder he was using to record all his conversations. So maybe, "met" isn't the right word (he won't

remember_me = forms.BooleanField(required=False, widget=forms.CheckboxInput())
if not self.cleaned_data.get('remember_me'):
self.request.session.set_expiry(0)
@willurd
willurd / web-servers.md
Last active October 26, 2025 20:00
Big list of http static server one-liners

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
@pitch-gist
pitch-gist / gist:2999707
Created June 26, 2012 22:21
HTML: Simple Maintenance Page
<!doctype html>
<title>Site Maintenance</title>
<style>
body { text-align: center; padding: 150px; }
h1 { font-size: 50px; }
body { font: 20px Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333; }
article { display: block; text-align: left; width: 650px; margin: 0 auto; }
a { color: #dc8100; text-decoration: none; }
a:hover { color: #333; text-decoration: none; }
</style>
@zhengjia
zhengjia / capybara cheat sheet
Created June 7, 2010 01:35
capybara cheat sheet
=Navigating=
visit('/projects')
visit(post_comments_path(post))
=Clicking links and buttons=
click_link('id-of-link')
click_link('Link Text')
click_button('Save')
click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button
click('Button Value')