Backslash in Atom
On Windows 10, Swedish keyboard. When I hit AltGr (right Alt button) and + (which is supposed to give me \), I get nothing in Atom.
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Installing Visual Studio for Python 2.7
Install using Microsoft installer
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44266
Using Chocolatey
Install using Chocolatey:
{% highlight bash %} choco install vcpython27
Chocolatey on Windows 10
I've recently started taking a look at Chocolatey – "apt-get for Windows" – and here are a couple of how-to's...
Install CentOS 7 remotely using Kickstart and GRUB
This guide assumes the target host is already running CentOS (a derivate of Red Hat Enterprise Linux) or at least running the GRUB boot loader and that you have root access to this host.
Python simple web server
The absolutely fastest way to get a simple web server up and running using Python 3, for development purposes.
Or if you are on Python 2.x:
Then just access http://your-ip:8000 to access the web server contents. Hit ctrl+c to exit.
Compiling PyQt5 for Python 2.7 on OS X
Guide updated for Qt5 5.6 and PyQt5 5.6.
This quick guide details compiling sip and PyQt5 on OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) using Homebrew for Qt5 installtion.
CentOS 6 yum errors (and fixes)
Issues
Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: epel. Please verify its path and try again
or
Error: xz compression not available
Fix
yum remove epel-release
rm -rf /var/cache/yum/x86_64/6/epel
yum install epel-release
Identifying Chrome extensions on Chrome OS eating up too much disk space
I just recently realized I had only 300 MB of free disk space on my Chromebook, when I should have about 8 GB of free disk space. After some investigation, I found that one of my extensions where not deleting its previous versions when it got updated. Here’s how you can detect and fix such an issue.
Flickr dumpr
Downloads all of your flickr albums (original photo/video files). Requires Python 2.7 with the flickrapi module.
Check out the code over at its Github repository.
Fixing Python's insecure platform warning
Here’s how to fix that nagging InsecurePlatformWarning warning in Python.