viegelinsch

# creating a private git repository to use with SparkleShare
cd Documents/
# let's name it "trans"
git init --bare trans
git config --file trans/config receive.denyNonFastForwards true
bash /tmp/add_attributes.sh   
less trans/info/attributes
cd ..
chmod --recursive o-rwx Documents

viegelinsch

# Add list of files that Git should not compress
    EXTENSIONS="jpg jpeg png tiff gif flac mp3 ogg oga avi mov mpg mpeg mkv ogv ogx webm zip gz bz bz2 rpm deb tgz rar ace 7z pak iso dmg"
    for EXTENSION in $EXTENSIONS; do
sleep 0.05
      echo -ne " -> echo \"*.$EXTENSION -delta\" >> trans/info/attributes \r"
      echo "*.$EXTENSION -delta" >> "trans/info/attributes"
      sleep 0.05
      EXTENSION_UPPERCASE=`echo $EXTENSION | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'`
      echo -ne " -> echo \"*.$EXTENSION_UPPERCASE -delta\" >> trans/info/attributes \r"
      echo "*.$EXTENSION_UPPERCASE -delta" >> "trans/info/attributes"

viegelinsch

taken from: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/11448

cd `brew --prefix`
git remote add origin https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew.git
git fetch origin
sudo git reset --hard origin/master

viegelinsch

apt-get install duply python-paramiko
mkdir /etc/duply
duply backupname create

viegelinsch

*cool thing* from http://linux-tips.org/article/78/syntax-highlighting-in-less

    apt-get install source-highlight

add this on the bottom of .bashrc
    # he: some colour for less
    export LESSOPEN="| /usr/share/source-highlight/src-hilite-lesspipe.sh %s"
    export LESS=' -R '

et voilá ...

viegelinsch

problem: your server hangs on reboot

symptom: grub shows menu and waits for an input

> /etc/default/grub

contains the lines

    GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
    GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true

viegelinsch

# brew pin [packagename]
brew pin qemu

viegelinsch

## Installation of https://github.com/perception101/pisense

sudo su -

mkdir /opt/munin-plugins
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/perception101/pisense/master/pisense_ -O /opt/munin-plugins/pisense_

chmod 0755 /opt/munin-plugins/pisense_

ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/pisense_ /etc/munin/plugins/pisense_clock

viegelinsch

!#/bin/bash
su - munin --shell=/bin/bash
/usr/share/munin/munin-update
exit

viegelinsch

--- /etc/kbd/config	2015-02-21 16:24:59.653062112 +0100
+++ /etc/kbd/config.new	2015-02-21 16:24:28.554492138 +0100
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@
 # screen blanking timeout.  monitor remains on, but the screen is cleared to
 # range: 0-60 min (0==never)  kernels I've looked at default to 10 minutes.
 # (see linux/drivers/char/console.c)
-BLANK_TIME=30
+#BLANK_TIME=30
+BLANK_TIME=0