Include

The include() statement includes and evaluates the specified file.

Include Once

The include_once() statement includes and evaluates the specified file during the execution of the script. This is a behavior similar to the include() statement, with the only difference being that if the code from a file has already been included, it will not be included again. As the name suggests, it will be included just once.

Require

require() and include() are identical in every way except how they handle failure. They both produce a Warning, but require() results in a Fatal Error. In other words, don’t hesitate to use require() if you want a missing file to halt processing of the page.

Require Once

The require_once() statement includes and evaluates the specified file during the execution of the script. This is a behavior similar to the require() statement, with the only difference being that if the code from a file has already been included, it will not be included again.

Eric Meyer’s “Reset CSS” 2.0

Minified

html,body,div,span,applet,object,iframe,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,p,blockquote,pre,a,abbr,acronym,address,big,cite,code,del,dfn,em,img,ins,kbd,q,s,samp,small,strike,strong,sub,sup,tt,var,b,u,i,center,dl,dt,dd,ol,ul,li,fieldset,form,label,legend,table,caption,tbody,tfoot,thead,tr,th,td,article,aside,canvas,details,embed,figure,figcaption,footer,header,hgroup,menu,nav,output,ruby,section,summary,time,mark,audio,video{border:0;font-size:100%;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0;padding:0}article,aside,details,figcaption,figure,footer,header,hgroup,menu,nav,section{display:block}body{line-height:1}ol,ul{list-style:none}blockquote,q{quotes:none}blockquote:before,blockquote:after,q:before,q:after{content:none}table{border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0}

Full

/* v2.0 | 20110126
  http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/ 
  License: none (public domain)
*/
html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code,
del, dfn, em, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var,
b, u, i, center,
dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
fieldset, form, label, legend,
table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td,
article, aside, canvas, details, embed, 
figure, figcaption, footer, header, hgroup, 
menu, nav, output, ruby, section, summary,
time, mark, audio, video {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	border: 0;
	font-size: 100%;
	font: inherit;
	vertical-align: baseline;
}
/* HTML5 display-role reset for older browsers */
article, aside, details, figcaption, figure, 
footer, header, hgroup, menu, nav, section {
	display: block;
}
body {
	line-height: 1;
}
ol, ul {
	list-style: none;
}
blockquote, q {
	quotes: none;
}
blockquote:before, blockquote:after,
q:before, q:after {
	content: '';
	content: none;
}
table {
	border-collapse: collapse;
	border-spacing: 0;
}

HTML 5 Doctor

Minified

html,body,div,span,object,iframe,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,p,blockquote,pre,abbr,address,cite,code,del,dfn,em,img,ins,kbd,q,samp,small,strong,sub,sup,var,b,i,dl,dt,dd,ol,ul,li,fieldset,form,label,legend,table,caption,tbody,tfoot,thead,tr,th,td,article,aside,canvas,details,figcaption,figure,footer,header,hgroup,menu,nav,section,summary,time,mark,audio,video{margin:0;padding:0;border:0;outline:0;font-size:100%;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent}body{line-height:1}article,aside,details,figcaption,figure,footer,header,hgroup,menu,nav,section{display:block}nav ul{list-style:none}blockquote,q{quotes:none}blockquote:before,blockquote:after,q:before,q:after{content:none}a{margin:0;padding:0;font-size:100%;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent}ins{background-color:#ff9;color:#000;text-decoration:none}mark{background-color:#ff9;color:#000;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}del{text-decoration:line-through}abbr[title],dfn[title]{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}table{border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0}hr{display:block;height:1px;border:0;border-top:1px solid #ccc;margin:1em 0;padding:0}input,select{vertical-align:middle}

Full

/* html5doctor.com Reset Stylesheet v1.6.1
Last Updated: 2010-09-17
Author: Richard Clark - http://richclarkdesign.com
*/
html, body, div, span, object, iframe,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
abbr, address, cite, code,
del, dfn, em, img, ins, kbd, q, samp,
small, strong, sub, sup, var,
b, i,
dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
fieldset, form, label, legend,
table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td,
article, aside, canvas, details, figcaption, figure,
footer, header, hgroup, menu, nav, section, summary,
time, mark, audio, video {
    margin:0;
    padding:0;
    border:0;
    outline:0;
    font-size:100%;
    vertical-align:baseline;
    background:transparent;
}
body {
    line-height:1;
}
article,aside,details,figcaption,figure,
footer,header,hgroup,menu,nav,section {
    display:block;
}
nav ul {
    list-style:none;
}
blockquote, q {
    quotes:none;
}
blockquote:before, blockquote:after,
q:before, q:after {
    content:'';
    content:none;
}
a {
    margin:0;
    padding:0;
    font-size:100%;
    vertical-align:baseline;
    background:transparent;
}
/* change colours to suit your needs */
ins {
    background-color:#ff9;
    color:#000;
    text-decoration:none;
}
/* change colours to suit your needs */
mark {
    background-color:#ff9;
    color:#000;
    font-style:italic;
    font-weight:bold;
}
del {
    text-decoration: line-through;
}
abbr[title], dfn[title] {
    border-bottom:1px dotted;
    cursor:help;
}
table {
    border-collapse:collapse;
    border-spacing:0;
}
/* change border colour to suit your needs */
hr {
    display:block;
    height:1px;
    border:0;
    border-top:1px solid #cccccc;
    margin:1em 0;
    padding:0;
}
input, select {
    vertical-align:middle;
}

Link

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://html5resetcss.googlecode.com/files/html5reset-1.6.1.css" />

Yahoo! CSS Reset (YUI 3)

Minified

html{color:#000;background:#FFF}body,div,dl,dt,dd,ul,ol,li,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,pre,code,form,fieldset,legend,input,textarea,p,blockquote,th,td{margin:0;padding:0}table{border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0}fieldset,img{border:0}address,caption,cite,code,dfn,em,strong,th,var{font-style:normal;font-weight:normal}ol,ul{list-style:none}caption,th{text-align:left}h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6{font-size:100%;font-weight:normal}q:before,q:after{content:''}abbr,acronym{border:0;font-variant:normal}sup{vertical-align:text-top}sub{vertical-align:text-bottom}input,textarea,select{font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit}input,textarea,select{*font-size:100%}legend{color:#000}#yui3-css-stamp.cssreset{display:none}

Full

/* YUI 3.5.0 (build 5089)
Copyright 2012 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.
Licensed under the BSD License.
http://yuilibrary.com/license/
*/
/*
	TODO will need to remove settings on HTML since we can't namespace it.
	TODO with the prefix, should I group by selector or property for weight savings?
*/
html{
	color:#000;
	background:#FFF;
}
/*
	TODO remove settings on BODY since we can't namespace it.
*/
/*
	TODO test putting a class on HEAD.
		- Fails on FF. 
*/
body,
div,
dl,
dt,
dd,
ul,
ol,
li,
h1,
h2,
h3,
h4,
h5,
h6,
pre,
code,
form,
fieldset,
legend,
input,
textarea,
p,
blockquote,
th,
td {
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
}
table {
	border-collapse:collapse;
	border-spacing:0;
}
fieldset,
img {
	border:0;
}
/*
	TODO think about hanlding inheritence differently, maybe letting IE6 fail a bit...
*/
address,
caption,
cite,
code,
dfn,
em,
strong,
th,
var {
	font-style:normal;
	font-weight:normal;
}

ol,
ul {
	list-style:none;
}

caption,
th {
	text-align:left;
}
h1,
h2,
h3,
h4,
h5,
h6 {
	font-size:100%;
	font-weight:normal;
}
q:before,
q:after {
	content:'';
}
abbr,
acronym {
	border:0;
	font-variant:normal;
}
/* to preserve line-height and selector appearance */
sup {
	vertical-align:text-top;
}
sub {
	vertical-align:text-bottom;
}
input,
textarea,
select {
	font-family:inherit;
	font-size:inherit;
	font-weight:inherit;
}
/*to enable resizing for IE*/
input,
textarea,
select {
	*font-size:100%;
}
/*because legend doesn't inherit in IE */
legend {
	color:#000;
}
/* YUI CSS Detection Stamp */
#yui3-css-stamp.cssreset { display: none; }

Link

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://yui.yahooapis.com/3.5.0/build/cssreset/cssreset-min.css" />

iOs allows you to get all all the keys to dictionaries which can be iterated over:

NSArray *keyArray =  [dict allKeys];
int count = [keyArray count];
for (int i=0; i < count; i++) {
  NSDictionary *tmp = [dict objectForKey:[ keyArray objectAtIndex:i]];
}

Alternatively, iOS supports enumerators (similar to JAVA):

NSEnumerator *enumerator = [dict keyEnumerator];
id key;
while ((key = [enumerator nextObject])) {
  NSDictionary *tmp = [dict objectForKey:key];
}

Dictionaries can also be directly iterated in single for-loop lines:

for( NSString *aKey in [dict allKeys] )
{
}

Or somewhat faster:

for( NSString *aKey in dict )
{
}

Or better yet, if your target OS supports blocks:

[dict enumerateKeysAndObjectsUsingBlock: ^(id key, id obj, BOOL *stop) {
}];

WebDav requires files to be owned by the web server user. This means there could be ownership issues if both FTP and WebDAV are used simultaneously. As WebDav files are owned by the web server user, they may not execute without changing the user names.

Install

Assuming Apache is already installed, enable the modules for WebDAV:

#a2enmod dav_fs
#a2enmod dav

Web Directory

Normally, Apache on linux puts web directories under /var/www/. Create a directory in this location and change the user to www-data, the apache user.

mkdir -p /var/www/webdav
chown www-data /var/www/webdav

WebDAV Password

The WebDAV directory should be password protected.

htpasswd -c /var/www/webdav/passwd.dav username
chown root:www-data /var/www/webdav/passwd.dav
chmod 640 /var/www/webdav/passwd.dav

Virual Host

Under /etc/apache2/sites-available/webdav create a new virtual host.

vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/webdav

NameVirtualHost *
<VirtualHost *>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

        DocumentRoot /var/www/webdav/
        <Directory /var/www/webdav/>
                Options Indexes MultiViews
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

        Alias /webdav /var/www/webdav

        <Location /webdav>
           DAV On
           AuthType Basic
           AuthName "webdav"
           AuthUserFile /var/www/webdav/passwd.dav
           Require valid-user
       </Location>
</VirtualHost>

Restart Apache

#/etc/init.d/apache2 reload

38.107.179.217

PHP Example

preg_replace('/^(http¦ftp¦news)s?:\/+/i', '', $url_to_check)

Find http Link

-(NSString *)findHttp:(NSString *)string {
	// Setup regular expression
	NSError *error = NULL;	
	NSRegularExpression *regex = [NSRegularExpression regularExpressionWithPattern:@"https?://([-\\w\\.]+)+(:\\d+)?(/([\\w/_\\.]*(\\?\\S+)?)?)?" options:NSRegularExpressionCaseInsensitive error:&error];

	// Perform Regex
	NSRange range = [regex rangeOfFirstMatchInString:string options:0 range:NSMakeRange(0, [string length])];

	// Return Link
	if (NSEqualRanges(range, NSMakeRange(NSNotFound, 0)))
		return NULL
	else
		return [string substringWithRange:range];
}

Remove All Links

NSRegularExpression *regex = [NSRegularExpression regularExpressionWithPattern:@"(ftp|http|https):\\/\\/(\\w+:{0,1}\\w*@)?(\\S+)(:[0-9]+)?(\\/|\\/([\\w#\!:.?+=&%@\!\\-\\/]))?" options:0 error:nil];
        newText = [regex stringByReplacingMatchesInString:text options:0 range:NSMakeRange(0, text.length) withTemplate:@""];

Substitution

-(NSString *)stringReplace:(NSString *)string pattern:(NSString *)pattern template:(NSString *)template {

	NSError *error = NULL;
	NSRegularExpression *regex = [NSRegularExpression regularExpressionWithPattern:pattern options:NSRegularExpressionCaseInsensitive error:&error];

	return [regex stringByReplacingMatchesInString:string options:0 range:NSMakeRange(0, [string length]) withTemplate:template];	
}

Resources

O’Reilly Media put out a book by Jeffrey Friedl, Mastering Regular Expressions: Powerful Techniques for Perl and Other Tools, which is still relevant today.

Alternative Library: RegexKitLite

$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']

There is another function get_broswer() which holds a whole slew of additional, useful information. However it is not available by default. A special configuration file is needed, browscap.ini which should be set in the php.ini file. There are ways around this if php.ini is not accessible/editable on a shared system.

[browscap]
browscap = /path/to/php_browscap.ini

In PHP’s manual it reads:

In order for this to work, your browscap configuration setting in php.ini must point to the correct location of the browscap.ini file on your system.

The process for getting this function to work is worth the minimal effort. A few usage examples:

$browser = get_browser(null, true);

// Get Everything
$browser = get_browser();
foreach ($browser as $name => $value) {
$output = $output . "<strong>$name</strong> $value
\n";
}

// Individual
$browser['platform']
$browser['browser']
$browser['majorver']
$browser['cssversion']
$browser['issyndicationreader']
$browser['ismobiledevice']

Add this to a project:

"""
Created on 2011-02-10

@author: Bohdan Mushkevych
@author: Brian Curtin
http://code.activestate.com/lists/python-ideas/8982/
"""
from datetime import datetime

import threading

class RepeatTimer(threading.Thread):
    def __init__(self, interval, callable, args=[], kwargs={}):
        threading.Thread.__init__(self)
        # interval_current shows number of milliseconds in currently triggered <tick>
        self.interval_current = interval
        # interval_new shows number of milliseconds for next <tick>
        self.interval_new = interval
        self.callable = callable
        self.args = args
        self.kwargs = kwargs
        self.event = threading.Event()
        self.event.set()
        self.activation_dt = None
        self.__timer = None

    def run(self):
        while self.event.is_set():
            self.activation_dt = datetime.utcnow()
            self.__timer = threading.Timer(self.interval_new,
                                          self.callable,
                                          self.args,
                                          self.kwargs)
            self.interval_current = self.interval_new
            self.__timer.start()
            self.__timer.join()

    def cancel(self):
        self.event.clear()
        if self.__timer is not None:
            self.__timer.cancel()

    def trigger(self):
        self.callable(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
        if self.__timer is not None:
            self.__timer.cancel()

    def change_interval(self, value):
        self.interval_new = value

This makes Usage fairly straight forward:

import RepeatTimer
timerName = RepeatTimer( time_in_sec, function )
timerName.start()

Register a Message

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(methodName:) name:@"NotificationName" object:nil];

Post a Message

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:@"NotifiationName" object:self];

postNotificationName: simply the name of the notification
object: any object may be passed with the notification, normally this is the sender

Cleanup of the registration should be done in the dealloc method.

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self];

- (void) initializeDatabase {
	NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManger];
	NSURL *toURL = [self documentDatabaseURL];
	
	if ([fileManager fileExistsAtPath:[toURL path]]) {
		// ALready Copied
		NSLog(@"Already copied.")
	} else {
		// Copy from Bundle
		NSURL *fromURL = [self bundleDatabaseURL];
		NSError *error;
		if ([fileManager copyItemAtURL:formURL toURL:toURL error:&error]) {
			NSLog(@"Copied database.")
		} else {
			NSLog(@"Failed to copy '%@' to '%@', fromURL, toURL, [error localizedDescription]);
		}
	}
}

bash, c, cc, c++, c#, c shell, CycL, cv, htm, html, java, javascript, matlab, mxml, perl, pl, pm, python, ruby, shell, xhtml, xml, xslt

Usage

Add the css and javascript to the document, preferably in the footer to help load times:

<link href="prettify.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="prettify.js"></script>

Run the javascript in the HTML. Google suggest doing this with onload in the bodytag:

<body onload="prettyPrint()">

Include a prettyprint class either as a prepending pre tag or within the code tag itself:

class="prettyprint"

The traditional ways of compiling python scripts for distribution usually involve the likes of py2exe or py2app. I’ve found that these projects have not be updated in a considerable amount of time–therefore newer packages that tend to break during or during runtime. There is a handy tool called GUI2exe now a google code project which can help to make py2exe’s setup.py file or even compile for OSX. This tool has been absolutely invaluable for providing a quick and easy decode process for py2exe’s compiler configuration files and significantly improves the entire python executable compiling process.

Apple, always thinking differently for things like changing boolean logic to Yes and No, created the #import compiler directive. #import is supposed to be a smarter way to reference header files in order to prevent redundant or recursive header files.

However, there are already precautions in C for redundancy. Normally in basic C guard directives are added to header files such as:

#ifndef _hfile_h_
#define _hfile_h_

Stuff

#endif

I came across this piece of software looking for a good solution to distribute compiled python files as many windows systems simply do not have python and users don’t want to install it. For full installs, I would recommend Active Python or Enthought. Both of which have free distributions if you look hard enough.

Python and Inno Setup

Interface

#import <foundation/Foundation.h>
 
@interface MyManager : NSObject {
    NSString *someProperty;
}
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSString *someProperty;
+ (id)sharedManager;
@end

Implementation

#import "MyManager.h"
static MyManager *sharedMyManager = nil;

@implementation MyManager 
@synthesize someProperty;
 
#pragma mark Singleton Methods
+ (id)sharedManager {
    @synchronized(self) {
        if (sharedMyManager == nil)
            sharedMyManager = [[self alloc] init];
    }
    return sharedMyManager;
}
- (id)init {
    if (self = [super init]) {
        someProperty = [[NSString alloc] initWithString:@"Default Property Value"];
    }
    return self;
}
- (void)dealloc {
    // Should never be called, but just here for clarity really.
}
@end

1. Under Preferences->Advanced, check the box for ‘Show Develop menu in menu bar’
2. In the new Develop Menubar, select User Agent->Other

If you want to simulate browsing with an iPad which uses the same WebKit rendering engine, you can customize the user agent string to be something like:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.04 Mobile/7B320c Safari/531.21.10

This will deliver the same viewing experience as the iPad, prompting things like mobile versions for websites.

For more information, see Apple’s Tech Note here.

Switch Thrower for the World,
Fuze Tester, Maker of Routes,
Player wit the Railroads and the System’s Advance Chopper;
Grungy, hairy, sprawling,
Machine of the Point-Function Line-o-lite:
They tell me you are wicked and I believe them; for I have seen your painted lights bulbs under the lucite luring the sytem coolies…
Under the tower, dust all over teh place, hacking with bifurcated springs…
Hacking even as an ignorant freshman acts who has never lost occupancy and has dropped out
Hacking the M-Boards, for under its locks are teh switches, and under its control the advance around the layout,
Hacking!

As it turns out there exists a linux program called sendEmail that fits the bill nicely. It’s written in perl and can talk to mail servers over secure ports without any additional mail configuration.

sudo apt-get install sendEmail libio-socket-ssl-perl libnet-ssleay-perl perl

The bash script constantly logs and checks the IP address and emails any changes. It’s especially helpful on networks with dynamic IP addresses.

#!/bin/bash
# Alert IP Address changes over email.

MAIL_TO=recipient@gmail.com
MAIL_SERVER=smtp.gmail.com:587
MAIL_FROM=sender@gmail.com
USERNAME=username
PASSWORD=password
SUBJECT="IP Address Change Notification"

LOG=/path/to/log/ip_address
OLD_IP=( $( cat $LOG ) )

# Get IP Address
NEW_IP=( $(curl -s http://www.ipchicken.com/ | awk '/[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*/ {print $1}' | uniq) )

# Check for Change
if [ "$NEW_IP" != "$OLD_IP" ]
then

    # log current ip
    echo $NEW_IP > $LOG

    # Send Email
    sendEmail -v -f $MAIL_FROM -s $MAIL_SERVER -xu $USERNAME -xp $PASSWORD -t $MAIL_TO -o tls=yes -u $SUBJECT -m $NEW_IP
fi

exit 0

A couple of days ago I received an email on one of my junk mail accounts. Usually this type of unsolicited request receives little notice–however this particular email had some interesting information. It knew what website I had visited and what I had clicked on. The only way for this to take place would be if Google’s Chrome shared web information through its doubleclick cookies, passing email information to a website that in turn sent an automated promotion. This type of behavior is despicable. Email is personal information–and not something I am adept at handing out even though the address was a junk account.

Recently Gmail has been offering me to tie my phone number to my email account. The premise is that if I ever lose my password, I would need a way to log back in. Right? A phone number tied to an email address and name is a very useful correlation of information. How much is this information worth. A name, a phone number, an email, search history…apparently billions and its all at the expense of users. Don’t even get me started about Google Checkout and the desire to tie credit cards to your google account.

There are a couple of tools to mitigate Google Chrome (and other browsers behavior) by simply installing some Browser Extensions:
Ad Block Plus – Remove unwanted advertising within the browser including Google’s textual listing, YouTube in-video advertising, and banner ads

IBA Opt-Out – Opt out of double-click unscrupulous privacy breeches. By default you have opted-in to have Google sell your online identity and behavior.

There are a number of web-based applications to allow file viewing and directory traversing over normal web pages. None of which are as clean and simple to employ, let alone as secure as letting Apache itself do all the work. With a simple flick of a .htaccess parameter, ‘+Indexes’, an unsuspecting directory becomes accessible albeit an eye sore.

There is a great way to make better listing using apache with mod_autoindex and CSS. The best piece of code I’ve found is called Indices. It takes Apache’s default listing and displays them in their minimalist, clean beauty.

More details about mod_autoindex can be found from Apache’s documentation.

wget -O dropbox.tar.gz "http://www.dropbox.com/download/?plat=lnx.x86"

2) Extract

tar -xvzf dropbox.tar.gz

3) Install

env - LANG="$LANG" ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd

4) Login and Visit the website given by install.

5) Add startup script to /etc/init.d/dropbox (changing DROPBOX_USERS)

#!/bin/sh
# dropbox service
DROPBOX_USERS="user1 user2"

DAEMON=.dropbox-dist/dropbox

start() {
    echo "Starting dropbox..."
    for dbuser in $DROPBOX_USERS; do
        HOMEDIR=`getent passwd $dbuser | cut -d: -f6`
        if [ -x $HOMEDIR/$DAEMON ]; then
            HOME="$HOMEDIR" start-stop-daemon -b -o -c $dbuser -S -u $dbuser -x $HOMEDIR/$DAEMON
        fi
    done
}

stop() {
    echo "Stopping dropbox..."
    for dbuser in $DROPBOX_USERS; do
        HOMEDIR=`getent passwd $dbuser | cut -d: -f6`
        if [ -x $HOMEDIR/$DAEMON ]; then
            start-stop-daemon -o -c $dbuser -K -u $dbuser -x $HOMEDIR/$DAEMON
        fi
    done
}

status() {
    for dbuser in $DROPBOX_USERS; do
        dbpid=`pgrep -u $dbuser dropbox`
        if [ -z $dbpid ] ; then
            echo "dropboxd for USER $dbuser: not running."
        else
            echo "dropboxd for USER $dbuser: running (pid $dbpid)"
        fi
    done
}

case "$1" in

    start)
        start
        ;;

    stop)
        stop
        ;;

    restart|reload|force-reload)
        stop
        start
        ;;

    status)
        status
        ;;

    *)
        echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/dropbox {start|stop|reload|force-reload|restart|status}"
        exit 1

esac

exit 0

6) Add script to Startup:

sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/dropbox
sudo update-rc.d dropbox defaults

I’ve finally found a way here.

After installing Good Reader, saving PDF files is as simple as using a bookmark. On the iPad make a bookmark with the following link:
javascript:pdf_url=location.href;location.href=’ghttp://pdfmyurl.com?url=’+escape(pdf_url)

or
javascript:pdf_url=location.href;location.href=’ghttp://api.joliprint.com/api/rest/url/print/s/joliprint.com?url=’+escape(pdf_url)+’&disposition=attachment’

Additional Links
Singletons, AppDelegates and top-level data
iPhone Dev Sessions: Using Singletons

i.e. = id est ‘that is’ or ‘in other words’

e.g. = exempli gratia ”for example’

Open Command
Open specific application or web pages from the command line.
open -a
open http://google.com

Say Command
Use the text-to-speech features of a Mac to speak out loud.
say type things here

pbcopy and pbpaste
Copy and Paste texted is available in the terminal as ‘pbcopy’ and ‘pbpase’. By piping these words into files or out from scripts gives quick access to anything pasted into the clip board.

ALT Codes for Greek Letters
Alt Code Symbol Description
Alt 224 α Alpha
Alt 225 ß Beta
Alt 226 Γ Gamma
Alt 235 δ Delta
Alt 238 ε Epsilon
Alt 233 Θ Theta
Alt 227 π Pi
Alt 230 µ Mu
Alt 228 Σ Uppercase Sigma
Alt 229 σ Lowercase sigma
Alt 231 τ Tau
Alt 232 Φ Uppercase Phi
Alt 237 φ Lowercase Phi
Alt 234 Ω Omega

Installing on Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6) is a breeze:
sudo port install mimms

Installing on Leopard (OSX 10.5) required a slight hack. After attempting:
sudo port install mimms

You’ll notice a not so friendly error message. Digging deeper into the log files reveals an undefined parameter ‘error: AI_NUMERICSERV not defined’. To properly install and compile, you need to edit source code; the mms.c file is located in the MacPorts install directory under macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_multimedia_libmss/work/libmms-0.6.2/src/mms.c

Adding the following code did the trick:
#ifndef AI_NUMERICSERV
#define AI_NUMERICSERV 0
#endif


Trying again should work:
sudo port install mimms

In windows 7:
1. Browse to the Sharepoint location
2. In SharePoint click the ‘Action’ button, and select ‘Open in Windows Explorer’. If this action is not available, grab the url without default.aspx
3. Right-click Computer, and click ‘Add a network location’

BASH Script

#!/bin/bash

for file in `ls -1` ; do
	/Applications/HandBrakeCLI -i $file -o $file.m4v --preset="iPhone & iPod Touch"
done

Enumerating Filenames

#!/bin/bash
total=1
for file in `ls -1` ; do
if [ $total -lt 10 ] ; then
	/Applications/HandBrakeCLI -i $file -o ${1}0${total}.mp4 --preset="iPhone & iPod Touch"

else
	/Applications/HandBrakeCLI -i $file -o ${1}${total}.mp4 --preset="iPhone & iPod Touch"
fi
total=$(($total + 1))

done

Example

/dir/with/files$/usr/bin/handbrake-dir2iPhone.sh filename

Instead of using the built-in converter try this:
1. Download the linux related pre-compiled binary of pdftotext included in the xpdf bundle from: www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html
2. Unzip/untar the package and save only the pdftotext file (it has no extension, that’s ok)
3. Rename “pdftotext” to “pdftotext.script”
4. Upload via FTP this file to the “converter” directory of Sphider-plus
5. Identify the physical path of your web site (your hoster should provide this information anywhere)
6. Create an empty text file and into this write two lines:
#!/bin/sh
/PATH/TO/YOUR/WEB/DOWN/TO/converter/pdftotext.script $1 -
7. Adapt the full path above to your needs and use simple slashes (not double backslashes)
Second line begins with a slash and ends WITH the minus sign!
(Thanks to the user posted this hint sometimes ago)
8. Save this file as “pdftotext” (without the quotes)
9. Upload it to the converter dir
10. Set permissions of both pdftotext and pdftotext.script to 755 or 777 (whatever needed to run correctly)
11. Set permissions of the converter dir to 777! Otherwise indexing fails because of pdftotext is unable to write a temp file needed!
12. Last: change the pdftotext path in conf.php to:
$pdftotext_path = ‘/PATH/TO/YOUR/WEB/DOWN/TO/converter/pdftotext’;

Install
#sudo apt-get install convmv

Recursive Usage
$convmv -r --notest -f latin1 -t utf-8 /dir

Stop OSX Spotlight Indexing
Put an empty file called ‘.metadata_never_index’ in the root directory of the removable drive.

touch .metadata_never_index

Prevent OSX .Trashes directory
Put an empty file called ‘.Trashes’ in the root directory of the removable drive.

touch .Trashes

Prevent OSX Event-logging
Make a directory called .fseventsd and inside that folder put a single file named no_log

mkdir .fseventsd
cd .fseventsd
touch no_log

Prevent Windows Recycling Bin Files

touch \$recycling.bin
touch Recycled

Prevent Windows Recovery Files

touch System\ Volume\ Information

BASH script to remove pesky hidden files generated by OSX and Windows

#!/bin/bash
#Routinely Cleans unnecessary files by OSX and Winows systems
#Place in /etc/cron.weekly

LOCATION=/mnt/dir/
REMOVELIST=( "thumbs.db" "desktop.ini" ".DS_Store" ".desktop" )

echo "Removing Unnecessary Files..."
if [ -d $LOCATION ]; then
    for removefile in ${REMOVELIST[@]}; do
        find $LOCATION -name ${removefile} -exec rm {} \;
    done
fi

sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g

If the drives are on external USBs, add them to the /etc/fstab to get them to load on boot:

/dev/hdd1 /media/disk1 ntfs defaults 0 0

and with a label:

LABEL=NAME /media/disk1 ntfs defaults 0 0

The solution: Format with HP USB Disk Storage Tool.

Reference from here.

OSX doesn't natively support NTFS, but this can be overcome by installing two free applications:

macFuse & NTFS-3G for Mac

1) Delete your Google Chrome application from the applications folder;
2) Delete the folder HD/Library/Google
3) Go to HD/Library/Caches and delete any reference of google there;
4) Go to ~/Library/Cache and delete any reference to google;
5) Delete the folder ~/Library/Google
6) Go to ~/Library/Application/Support and delete the Google folder