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iamatypeofwalrus / ssh_give_terminal_tabs_useful_names.md
Last active May 6, 2016 15:22
Customize SSH tab name in Mac OS X terminal auto-magically.

What

Automtically configure tab name in Terminal.app when ssh-ing to a server. You can use any shell commands you want to get the desired output.

Why

I work on external servers 8 hours a day M-F and more likely than not I have multiple ssh sessions at the same time to the same sever under different users. It became a bit of a pain to have to rename the tabs everytime I logged on to a server. I just wanted that to happen auto-magically.

I searched the interwebs and came across this CNet article which had about 99% of what I was looking for. However, it never really mentioned how to modify the script to insert your own formatting. It didn't even mention adding it to your $PATH! So after a few minutes of messing with it I got something quite reasonable. I thought I'd share the results.

How

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iamatypeofwalrus / roll_ipython_in_aws.md
Last active February 21, 2025 18:39
Create an iPython HTML Notebook on Amazon's AWS Free Tier from scratch.

What

Roll your own iPython Notebook server with Amazon Web Services (EC2) using their Free Tier.

What are we using? What do you need?

  • An active AWS account. First time sign-ups are eligible for the free tier for a year
  • One Micro Tier EC2 Instance
  • With AWS we will use the stock Ubuntu Server AMI and customize it.
  • Anaconda for Python.
  • Coffee/Beer/Time