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Installing Docker for running learning resources (eg Udacity MOOC) 1. Head to the Docker installation webpage and install Docker https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/linux/ubuntulinux/ 2. If you have a large second HDD, you might want to make sure all the docker images you use are stored on the large disk to preserve your precious SSD space. For this, I found that creating a symbolic link to a new location on the second hard-drive disk worked best for me.   a. Make sure that the large hard drive disk is mounted automatically when booting the disk https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab   b. Setup a symbolic link to a directory inside your large hard drive disk. Setting   DOCKER_OPTS  did not work for me, but the symbolic link method worked: https://forums.docker.com/t/how-do-i-change-the-docker-image-installation-directory/1169 Installing Python Anaconda 1. Follow the instructions here https://www.continuum.io/downloads 2. Download this pyt...

Installing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on an Alienware Aurora R5 with NVIDIA GPU support (Dual boot Windows) I have compiled these instructions from my succesful installation on Nov 25. Would you be happy to live without Windows? If not use Dual Boot. This procedure is inspired from this DELL support page : http://www.dell.com/support/article/uk/en/ukbsdt1/SLN301754/en You can refer to the link above for additional steps and to see useful screenshots. However, please, make sure to take care about the GPU-related  steps below. Re-installing Windows 10 with BIOS Secure Boot to OFF First, check that have only one disk installed in your machine. I have found that having one disk only makes it easier to re-install Windows. Secondly, an important step is to create two USB Recovery disks. Use two USB memory sticks bigger than 16 GB supporting the USB 3.0 standard (file copy will be much faster). Use the first one to create a recovery disk for Windows 10, as a backup if the instal...

I started to have fun with scala and I wanted to be able to package and launch a Scala executable. It is an eclipse project and it is already using Maven for dependency resolution. I found the following solutions (to confirm) 1. Use SBT as a build tool. SBT seems to support the Maven pom.xml files for dependency resolution. 2. Use Gary Boone's solution by wrapping the Scala project entry point into a Java static main function 3. Use mvn assembly : single plugin as described on stackoverflow

This Python 2 class logs in and connect to a secured website. The class inherit from thread so that it is possible to run multiple instance of the class. class CRReader(threading.Thread): data = None headers = None def __init__(self, crNo, semaphore): threading.Thread.__init__(self, name=crNo) self.loggedin = False self.crNo = crNo self.semaphore = semaphore self.opener = None self.status = None def login(self): if self.loggedin is False: #print 'Login ' + self.crNo url = "https://example.com/login.php" opts = { 'username': 'John', 'password': 'pass1', } CRReader.headers = { 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12', 'Accept': 'text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5', 'Accept-Language':...

#To setup bigger resolutions with Ubuntu in a Virtual Machine #Section "Device" #Identifier "VESA Framebuffer" #Driver "vesa" #VideoRam 4096 # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate #EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Configured Video Device" #Driver "vboxvideo" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "My Monitor" HorizSync 31.5 - 150.0 VertRefresh 75-85 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen 1" Device "VESA Framebuffer" Monitor "My Monitor" # If your card can handle it, a higher default color depth (like 24 or 32) # is highly recommended. # DefaultDepth 8 # DefaultDepth 16 DefaultDepth 24 # DefaultDepth 32 # "1024x768" is also a conservative usable default resolution. If you # have a better monitor, feel free to try resolutions such as # "1152x864", "1280x1024", "1600x1200", and "1800x1400" (or whatever ...

I wanted to send an email I typed in my iphone from a cybercafe without wifi access. I just setup a adhoc wifi network and sshfs the whole file system. For ssh setup, see my previous blog post. I discovered that email are clearly stored in : /private/var/mobile/Library/Mail And emails are stored as .emlx files. To read those files use a mail client just like thunderbird or use a simple text editor. You can use a base64 decoder to decode encrypted message part when necessary.