Dump this in your terminal:

sudo apt-get install checkinstall
mkdir -p ~/src
cd ~/src
wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-24.5.tar.gz
tar xf emacs-24.5.tar.gz
cd emacs-24.5
./configure
make
sudo checkinstall

tl;dr: Use this post-commit hook.

A great source for all sorts of packages such as Node.js, Zshell, BitTorrent Sync, Redis, and Firefox Sync Server just to name a few. Check out the full list of packages or just add the source to your package manager :)

Log into your system with an administrator account and open the ¹Control Panel applet. From there, click on ²Terminal & SNMP, ³Enabled SSH service, and ⁴Apply.

As a best practice, it’s great great to have your data in more than one location. I use my Synology Diskation as a local network file server at my home. The reality is something can happen and I lose all my important data in that little box. From a BBQ, a birthday party, or maybe the house just burns down and now all my data is gone. Unfortunately my network rack at home will never be as secure as a network rack in a data center. So, backup your data because that’s much easier to do rather than trying to restore from no backup. Makes logical sense right? Derp.

Quick little init.d template:

I received an alert from my Synology RAID regarding a few bad sectors on a hard drive. Even though the RAID is still operational, it’s best practice to replace the hard drive before any data gets corrupted due to the bad sectors.

A little Gearman cookbook I put together for Chef. Supports installing multiple versions by source. Also has a recipe for the PHP extension.

Grab it from GitHub!

kthxbye.

Install vagrant-omnibus:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-omnibus

Configure your Vagrantfile before provisioning to the latest version of Chef:

config.omnibus.chef_version = :latest

You can also upgrade to a specific version like so:

config.omnibus.chef_version = "11.12.8"

Dump You can dump the database locally using the following mongodump: mongodump --host DATABASE_HOST --port PORT -d YOUR_DATABASE_NAME -u YOUR_DB_USERNAME -p YOUR_DB_PASSWORD This will create a dump folder containing a subfolder named after your database. The default port for MongoDB is 27017. Import You can import the same dump to a local MongoDB instance using something like the following mongorestore after changing into the dump directory: mongorestore --host DATABASE_HOST --port PORT -d DATABASE_NAME_TO_IMPORT_TO --drop DATABASE_NAME_TO_IMPORT_FROM Note: This will drop the collections in the DATABASE_NAME_TO_IMPORT_TO database before restoring the same collections from your database dump.