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I accidently installed some adware from Genieo, and I tried to remove all files but still the safari's address bar search is still defaulted to genieo.com. Google pointed me to this apple support page: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6021681, which is mainly for people who are not tech savvy.

Here is how I fixed it, and it's mainly for people who are comfortable with command line stuff. The culprit is that geneio installed a /etc/launchd.conf, and override some environment variable. Here is a link from thesafemac.com: http://www.thesafemac.com/arg-genieo/. 

Note that on that page, it's HIGHLY recommended to remove/change the launchd.conf file before changing other files, otherwise the computer may freeze or fail to start due to missing files.

A quick fix is to sudo open the /etc/launchd.conf (should be a oneline file), then remove the line referring to /usr/lib/libimckit.dylib or simplify remove this file. A restart should fix the safari search bar issue. You may also want to remove those files listed

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# http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/11
--- 
gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc
benchmark: false
verbose: true
update_sources: true
sources: 
- http://gems.rubyforge.org/
- http://rubygems.org/
backtrace: true

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# Just came across String#chars method, which returns an enumerable. 
# It's implementation is much simpler than String#split. 
# A simple benchmark shows that String#chars is much faster than String#split.

require 'benchmark/ips'

Benchmark.ips do |r|
  s = "The Snow Queen"

  r.report('chars') do

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user  www-data;
worker_processes  2;

error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;


events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}

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# show git branch name in the prommpt

function parse_git_branch {
  #git branch --no-color 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/(\1)/'
        git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD 2> /dev/null | sed -e 's/\(.*\)/(\1)/'
}

function proml {
  local        BLUE="\[\033[0;34m\]"
  local         RED="\[\033[0;31m\]"

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# how to generate self-signed ssl certs.
# http://dracoblue.net/dev/https-nginx-with-self-signed-ssl-certificate/188/

# A sample server configuration for nginx's emcee.conf
server {
  listen 443; # for Linux
  ssl on;
  ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/server.crt;
  ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/server.key;
  client_max_body_size 4G;