Get the price of Bitcoin from command line

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This is the easiest way to get the price of Bitcoin from the command line or terminal.

Pre-requisuites : jq
Install : apt-get install jq

Get the price of Bitcoin from command line

curl -s https://api.binance.com/api/v1/ticker/24hr | jq -cr '.[] | select(.symbol == "'"BTCUSDT"'") | .lastPrice'

The 2 things wrong with the iPad Pro

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Here are some of the reasons the iPad Pro has failed to live up to expectations.

1. No 1080p or 4k video support on YouTube. Due to licensing issues Safari, nor any other browser can display even a 1080p video on YouTube. For a device that costs as much as this, this is unacceptable.

2. Uninstalling pre-installed apps. This may be a complaint towards the operating system more so than the device, but once again Apple suprises us all. Apps uninstall themselves! Magically. With no warning, Apple started uninstalling apps to make room for new content and never have to warn the user of disk space. Sounds like a great idea until you are offline somwhere and go to use an app you believed was on your device when in fact it was removed!

unmount sshfs

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The easy way to unmount sshfs goes as follows

sudo umount -l directory

Use -l “lazy” which is required for unmounting sshfs

-l, --lazy              detach the filesystem now, clean up things later

speed up rsync fast

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Speed up rsync over lan or wan with this simple addition to your command.

-e "ssh -T -c aes128-ctr -o Compression=no -x"

Her we use the new command in a safe (dry run) example

rsync -avn --progress -e "ssh -T -c aes128-ctr -o Compression=no -x" source/ user@x.x.x.x:/destination

Install zogminer Zcash Miner on Ubuntu 16.04

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apt-get install libdb++-dev
apt-get install libboost1.58-all-dev libboost-all-dev
apt-get install build-essential pkg-config libc6-dev m4 g++-multilib autoconf libtool ncurses-dev unzip git python zlib1g-dev wget bsdmainutils automake opencl-headers Mesa-common-dev
git clone https://github.com/nginnever/zogminer.git
cd zogminer/
./zcutil/fetch-params.sh
./zcutil/build.sh -j$(nproc)
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Run GPU test miner

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./src/zcash-miner -G

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Run Python with Forever

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It is easy to use Python with forever.js:

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forever start -c python python_script.py

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To use it with virtualenv is a little bit more complicated, I did it using a bash script (call it python_virtualenv):

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#!/bin/bash
# Script to run a Python file using the local virtualenv
source bin/activate
bin/python $@

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Now use that script with forever:

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forever start -c ./python_virtualenv python_script.py

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php7.0 debian jessie docker install

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RUN apt-get update -y
RUN apt-get install -y libgmp-dev re2c libmhash-dev libmcrypt-dev file
RUN ln -s /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/gmp.h /usr/local/include/
RUN docker-php-ext-configure gmp
RUN docker-php-ext-install gmp
RUN docker-php-ext-configure mcrypt
RUN docker-php-ext-install mcrypt

RUN echo extension=gmp.so > $PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/gmp.ini
RUN echo extension=mcrypt.so > $PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/mcrypt.ini
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