Installing cvxopt linked to Intel MKL via pip
To install cvxopt linked to Intel MKL using pip, set environment variables in the installation commands as follows: sudo CVXOPT_BLAS_LIB_DIR=/opt/intel/mkl/l...
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These logs are random snippets of information that have been useful to me in the past. Hopefully they help you too!
Making sudo pip use a different HOME
Test whether or not sudo is using the environment you expect by creating a small test script with echo $HOME for instance, and then running it as sudo bash t...
Terminating an unresponsive ssh session
To terminate an unresponsive ssh session, press <Return>~., as explained, with more such commands, here
Installing scikit-learn via pip, without sudo and with a static ATLAS
Installing scikit-learn via pip on a machine with no sudo privileges, and a static ATLAS lib can be a nightmare if you do not know what you are doing: the id...
PEP8-style indentation in vim
How do you automatically get vim to do PEP8-style indentation for python code? Look up this blog post which references this vim script. It has also been adde...
Linux filesystem hierarchy info
To learn about the linux filesystem hierarchy, i.e., root directory structure, look here.
Setting AFS permissions recursively
In order to recursively set AFS ACL permissions for a directory, you need to manually use find -exec as follows: find <dir> -type d -exec fs sa {} <...
Git notes
You can find a good reference for git notes here. Also, of course, git help notes. Notes can be used, for instance, to add extra information to a commit with...
Tag pages in jekyll
In order to generate tag pages in jekyll, look at this.
Maintaining MATLAB figure dimensions
To save a figure with specific dimensions, look at this page.
Exporting multi-page pdfs with GIMP
Gimp imports multi-page pdfs as one layer-per-page. But it does not re-export multi-layer figures as a multi-page pdf, with one page-per-layer. It just expor...
Linear regression in numpy and scipy
Note that there are multiple numpy/scipy functions that do regression, fitting, etc. Of these, scipy.stats.linregress fits a line and forces an intercept. Yo...
Nautilus: stop showing hidden files when opened from terminal
Nautilus shows hidden files by default when opened from command line. To fix this, go to dconf-editor, and under org->gtk->settings->file-chooser, u...
Remapping PrtSc to Menu
Remapping PrtSc to Menu requires that you define your own xkb modification. I have added the modified versions of the relevant configuration files to the mis...
Making xkb modifications permanent
How do you make the settings described in the previous log message permanent? The first thing you need to do is to install dconf-editor. Open it up and go to...