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this assumes you have installed Python 3 via Anaconda distribution.

Make Python 2 kernel available to Jupyter Notebook

1. open a terminal and create a new python 2 environment: conda create -n py27 python=2.7
2. activate the environment: linux source activate py27 or windows activate py27
3. install the kernel in the env: conda install notebook ipykernel
4. install the kernel for outside the env: ipython kernel install --user
5. close the env: source deactivate

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How to add more to Git Bash on Windows

Git for Windows comes bundled with the "Git Bash" terminal which is incredibly handy for unix-like commands on a windows machine. It is missing a few standard linux utilities, but it is easy to add ones that have a windows binary available.

The basic idea is that C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\ is your / directory according to Git Bash (note: depending on how you installed it, the directory might be different. from the start menu, right click on the Git Bash icon and open file location. It might be something like C:\Users\name\AppData\Local\Programs\Git, the mingw64 in this directory is your root. Find it by using pwd -W). If you go to that directory, you will find the typical linux root folder structure (bin, etc, lib and so on).

If you are missing a utility, such as wget, track down a binary for windows and copy the files to the corresponding directories. Sometimes the windows binary have funny prefixes, so

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Things to do when you get a new lenovo computer

1. Uninstall everything from Lenovo! Its all sketchy bloatware and you don't need any of it at all. Win 10 has everything you need.
2. Navigate over to C:\Program Files (x86)\Lenovo and look in all the directories there and click the unistall.exe files! Cause guess what? Lenovo put some even sleezer things in there that you can't uninstall via normal means. Then delete all the directories.
3. Just to be sure--You dont need anything in this ^ directory! Customer Engagement Service (CCSDK) and others log your activities and send information to weird unsecure web locations! Yuck!
4. Go into control panel, device manager, and update drivers for wifi, audio, video, intel power management.
5. okay, it should be better now!

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Using Jekyll on Windows

Static Gen background links:

• StaticGen directory
• "Why Static Website Generators Are The Next Big Thing" Smashing magazine
• Jekyll documentation, intro

Install on Windows 7

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Connect to AirVandalGold wifi on Linux

There is no automatic set up utility or documentation for University of Idaho's AirVandalGold wifi network for Linux users.

I got it to work using these steps on Ubuntu:

1. Go to ITS Tools page, click on 'AirVandalGold Certificates for Linux' and 'Download Now' (or try this link). Note: you will have to log in with your UIdaho account.

2. Extract the certificate zip file to a permanent location in your home directory.

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Handy Raspberry Pi Commands

First time set up

default password for “pi” is “raspberry”

First time set up: sudo raspi-config

update everything:

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Pi Py Poetry: Pi Day Remix

Its 3:14 on 3/14 (2016)! Time for some Vandal Poem of the Day (VPOD) poetry remix using OpenRefine and Python.

First, I grabbed all of the poems from VPOD at http://poetry.lib.uidaho.edu/

Then I parsed it all using OpenRefine.

I Refined it down to a table with these columns: title, author, poem, words, length. Each row represents one line from a poem in the corpus.