My solutions to computer problems - Linux, OS X, and the likes.
I have some applications (read Matlab) that consume memory when I work with my data and I have seen that I need a larger swap space than default from install. Default size in my laptop distro install is only 3 GB, but I want a size that is en-par with the physical memory. Having used Continue reading "Adding Swap Space for Linux Systems"
This is what I did to install PyBaMM on my Linux server and access it remotely over SSL. I work with PyBaMM in a virtual environment so I set it up as follows Now I have everything containerised and my Jupyter notebook is started in the PyBaMM container root, I also set it to be Continue reading "Installing PyBaMM and accessing it remotely"
This is my recipe for doing bulk renaming of files where there are directories containing interesting files with the identical name. Since I don t use sed regularly I stored my solution here for myself in the hope that it could be useful for someone else too. I have a bunch of directories DIR000, DIR001, Continue reading "Doing Bulk Copy and Rename with find sed"
There are several ways to join multiple PDF files to one single and I have store my most frequent command for my own cut and paste for the future. Hope someone else also find them useful. The setting is that I have the files called myFile1.pdf myFile2.pdf etc in a directory and I want an Continue reading "Combining multiple PDFs to a single dokument using the command line"
This post documents what I did to install the drivers for my new NVIDIA graphics hardware ASUS RTX 2080 Ti Dual 11GB that I have in my personal computation server that I have prepared for my new adventures into Deep Learning Land . I got a disk corruption due to accidentally pressing the reset button, when Continue reading "Installing NVIDIA drivers for ATX 2080 Ti Dual 11GB on Ubuntu"
There are many blogs available that give a lot of details and options for installing Nextcloud, but this post gives a quick and dirty description of my favorit settings and installation. Key features are: Nextcloud sits on a dedicated virtual host on the Apache 2 server, sharing the machine with my regular home server. It Continue reading "Installing NextCloud on Raspberry Pi 4."
Once again I document my information and settings. In the hope that it will help some one else. Swap Caps-Ctrl I developed my hacking skills with Emacs using a classical Unix/Sun keyboard where Ctrl was placed to the left of the a-key, and got used to that configuration. After a computer switch I noticed that Continue reading "My Standard Settings Applied to Different Platforms"
I ran out of HDD space on my 500 GB Mac Mini while backing up my iPhone and 256 GB iPad so I needed more space and did an upgrade. For the physical switch there were several excellent guides with photos, but there were very few instructions about how to grow the HFS+ partitions of Continue reading "Upgrading the HDD of a Mac Mini (mid 2011) from 500 GB to 2 TB"
The commands differs slightly between Linux and Mac and this is the procedure that I followed to get a Raspbian image transferred to an SD card using my Mac. Download the image from Raspberry Pi. Inserted the SD card in the SC slot and identified the disk with the mount command, to be at /dev/disk2s1. Unmounted the Continue reading "Writing raspbian image to SD card using Mac"
I want to have a low power device that can always be connected and accessible from anywhere on the internet, so I can work, version control and store my software projects while being home or traveling. The most convenient solution I have found for my needs is to use the router that I have as firewall Continue reading "Installing an SVN server on an ASUS Router"