When you double-click text in Firefox, what is selected depends on the punctuation characters that are inside or around the text. By default, punctuation characters like dashes are not part of the word. So, you might find that a word-like-this is not fully selected on double-click.
This selection behavior is controlled by the preference layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation. You can go to about:config and change it if you would prefer that punctuation characters be ignored.
I wanted to check out the Practical Deep Learning for Coders course by FastAI. However, I noticed that the course provided configuration instructions mainly for cloud GPU instance providers like Paperspace. I have a notebook and a desktop computer with powerful NVIDIA GPUs and wanted to try the course on my local machines. The course material is also provided in the form of Jupyter notebooks, while I intended to turn those into Python programs to run locally.
Here are the steps I followed to get my local computer setup for the FastAI course:
conda info from the shell. I wanted to try the course without resorting to Anaconda, but that seems unnecessarily complicated.$ git clone git@github.com:fastai/fastai.git
fastai and install all the required Python packages (including PyTorch) under that:$ conda env update
fastai environment:$ conda activate fastai
PYTHONPATH environment variable, so that you can import it from Python.
Open a Python interpreter and check if you can import PyTorch and it has CUDA and CuDNN support:
$ python >>> import torch >>> torch.cuda.is_available() True >>> torch.backends.cudnn.enabled True
$ from fastai.imports import *
You are now ready to execute any of the code shown in the course at a Python interpreter or inside Python scripts. Note that you will still need to download any additional datasets needed by the course. You will find these instructions in the Jupyter notebooks or course material.
I installed the latest stable release of ConEmu. I opened a Cygwin shell and used SSH to connect to a remote computer. I ran Byobu on the remote computer. I noticed that its status bar would shift upward, overwriting the entire screen after some time.
This problem is documented here. The solution suggested by the ConEmu creator is to use the ConEmu/msys terminal connector plugin. Using this connector is however a bit complicated. But, according to this post, it has been rolled into ConEmu starting with the 170705 release. I checked and found that the stable release I had installed was 161206. The stable release was years behind!
Seeing no recent stable version available, I opted to download a preview release from here. This release was dated later than 170705. byobu worked fine through SSH from Cygwin after that!
Cygwin not only provides most of the Linux programs and shells, it also comes with a builtin X server called Cygwin/X. This is great if you want to run Cygwin GUI applications locally or over SSH from a remote computer.
xorg-server and xinit packages. The first one is the X server and the second installs a lot of scripts and programs that enable you to start the server and use it.xeyes package. This is a small X application that we will use for testing X.xinit, XWin and other X server processes if they are running and close all your Cygwin windows. Open a new Cygwin window.DISPLAY environment variable:$ export DISPLAY=:0.0
startx, you get X server opening a X window with XTerm running inside it. From here on, you can open X apps by running them from that XTerm. You can try by running xeyes inside that XTerm. Once you kill this X window, your X server is closed.
startxwin: If you run startxwin, you get X server running, but no windows are displayed. You can now open another Cygwin window and can invoke individual X apps there and they will be displayed in individual windows. You can try by running xeyes from the Cygwin shell. This is called the multiwindow mode.
DISPLAY environment variable locally and run startxwin. Make sure local X apps can display a window to the Cygwin/X server.-X (untrusted forwarding) or -Y (trusted forwarding) or setting the corresponding X11 Forwarding option in your SSH config file.DISPLAY on the remote computer. It should be set to some value like shown below:$ echo $DISPLAY localhost:11.0
If DISPLAY is empty, then either you did not set DISPLAY locally, did not cleanly restarted a X server locally or there was a problem with SSH X11 Forwarding. Please diagnose.
xeyes program from the remote computer. It should display in a window on your local machine. Your Cygwin/X server is working! You can now run GUI/X apps from the remote computer and display them locally. Beware that they will be slow to display and refresh.Tried with: Cygwin 2.10.0 and Windows 10
Conda is a package and environment management system for Python. To install it on Ubuntu, I used these steps:
Anaconda3-5.1.0-Linux-x86_64.sh file.
Run the downloaded bash shell script through bash. For example, I did:
$ bash Anaconda3-5.1.0-Linux-x86_64.sh
The bash script asks you for a place to install Anaconda. Typically this is $HOME/anaconda3. But you can provide it any alternate location you wish. Conda will store the environments you create in an envs subdirectory inside this base directory.
The bash script asks if you want to add the bin subdirectory inside the base directory to your PATH environment variable. You can choose to do this on your own too. In either case, remember to make sure the Conda bin path is appended to PATH. If it is instead prepended to PATH, then Conda’s Python interpreter will be invoked as the default one at the shell. Typically, you do not want this behavior. You want Conda’s Python to be used only inside a Conda environment.
After the script is done, restart your shell, so that your PATH has the Anaconda bin subdirectory.
Run this command to check if everything is working:
$ conda info
config.fish to be able to use Conda’s environment activate and deactivate commands:source (conda info --root)/etc/fish/conf.d/conda.fish
I was able to create environments and use Conda after this.
Tried with: Ubuntu 16.04
w is a good command to get an instant status of a Unix computer. You can get the uptime, system load, list of users, when they logged on and what they are doing.
The command is the same as what you would use to find the version of the kernel on a Linux system:
$ uname -r
Another method is to check the version of the cygwin package:
$ cygcheck -c | grep cygwin
Tried with: Cygwin 2.10.0-1 and Windows 10
I installed a Python package using pip3. When I imported that newly installed package, it complained about IPython:
ImportError: No module named 'IPython.paths'
It turns out that only recent versions of the IPython package had IPython.paths. I had an older version of IPython installed using apt. The newly installed pip3 package was built around a more recent version of IPython. The problem went away once I removed the IPython packaged installed using apt and force installed its recent pip3 package:
$ sudo apt remove ipython $ sudo pip3 install --upgrade ipython
Tried with: Ubuntu 16.04
Clipdiary is a full featured clipboard manager for Windows.
It does what any clipboard manager should: storing the previous clipboard entries as a list. You can pick any older clipboard entry and paste it back.
It adds on many keyboard shortcuts, which I don’t actually require. So, I delete all of them.
I like that if I minimize or close its window, it sticks around in the system tray. That is good default behavior for a clipboard manager.
It is a paid software, that you can try for 30 days. But, it is free for personal use if you register for a Personal License within 30 days. To do that go to Help → Activate Free.
Tried with: Clipdiary 5.1 and Windows 10
To find out the exact version of Windows you are using open the winver program. You can type this command at the Start menu or at the command prompt too. It opens up a dialog showing the Windows version and build number.
Tried with: Windows 10 Enterprise
