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yum remove epel-release
rm -rf /var/cache/yum/x86_64/6/epel
yum install epel-release
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.
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.
Here’s how to fix that nagging InsecurePlatformWarning warning in Python.
I’ve been struggling to install a portable/relocatable virtualenv with PySide 1.2.2 for Python 2.7. On Windows, this works out of the box but it’s more difficult on Linux and OS X, although I came up with a patch for OS X. This guide will not go into detail on portability/relocatability and will merely touch upon how to get started with PySide in a virtualenv. It looks like PySide 1.2.3 will have substantial changes which will allow for easier portability/relocatability and I will make a post on that as soon as it is generally available.
It took some trial and error to successfully install and license Maya 2016 in Ubuntu 14.04, and here’s how I did it.
There is a two-week delay before gsutil gets updated with the latest and greatest. If you want to try the new stuff out, pip install the SDK!
sudo yum install gcc openssl-devel python-devel python-setuptools libffi-devel
sudo yum install python-pip
sudo pip install -U gsutil
Then execute gsutil like this:
To access beta (or even alpha) features of gcloud, execute gcloud like this:
I recently wanted to show the progress of a file copy made from a python script (or actually, from a python script running inside of Maya and Nuke). First I looked to piggyback on the OS native ways of copying a file, but oddly enough it turned out there was no way of showing a progress bar when doing this.
In Linux, you can kill all processes by name (or by username etc) using something like this:
Guest blogging for Google!
As a small design and visualization studio, we focus on creating beautiful 3D imagery – be it high-resolution product images or TV commercials. To successfully do this, we need to ensure we have access to enough rendering power, and at times, we find ourselves in a situation where our in-house render farm’s capacity isn’t cutting it. That’s where Google Compute Engine comes in.
Read more over at the Google Cloud Platform blog.