Troubleshooting SOLVED: Building Blotter on Mac OSX It can be quite frustrating while installing packages on R don't work! I faced an issue while building blotter for Mac. Was getting an error on the following lines: Warning messages: Setting LC_
bash Shortcuts for your bash shell Here is a thread with some read ways to reduce typing on your bash shell. I'll add these right away :-) alias s="git status" alias d="git diff"
Plex Adding a mount folder to Plex in Ubuntu Lets make this quick! I was having trouble accessing a mount folder in Plex. The following worked for me on my Ubuntu Distro. mkdir -p /home/ghost/peloton sudo mount -B /media/ghost/
Spinning Streaming from Macbook to Amazon Fire Stick Good fun this weekend! I've been trying to stream my Pelton classes to my Fire Stick that is attached to the TV. I have a ton of Peloton classes on my hard-drive and
Meteor Customized Deployment of Meteor App This is a pain! ... So, hopefully these notes will help! Mup configuration: Keypoints to take note (follow EXACTLY): Server config host: '127.0.0.1', username: 'ghost', pem: '~/.ssh/id_rsa' Bind
MongoDB Useful stuff on Mongo DB on Ubuntu 16.04 Ran into few very irritating issues related to MongoDB. Here are some notes for future reference: Path for mongodb systemctl service: /lib/systemd/system/mongod.service .. open it up .. its self explanatory Path
Meteor Useful stuff on Meteor on Ubuntu 16.04 Notes to solve terrible issues on meteor: Buffer not defined issue Add below code in <app_path>/client/lib/init.js // this is an expensive polyfill for clientside Buffer usage // but
Random Bike Ride + Rain + iPhone7 + Audiobook + Spotify = Nirvana I've been pretty busy over the past few months with a variety of issues. Coupled with pretty hot weather ... I haven't biked for a while. Yesterday afternoon, the mercury dropped and there was
Hacks Amazon Fire TV Stick with Beats Wireless Headphones Discovered this last night and am pretty kicked about it. I never thought this would be possible. I wanted to watch Tron in the living room without disturbing family in the house. I
Data Mining Data analysis from PDFs using Camelot Camelot was making a lots of news on Hacker News and the github repo was on of most starred too! Pretty exicting particular given that the guys behind it are from India (home
Hacks Keep your mouse moving on Windows Ever wanted to solve the million dollar problem to keep the mouse moving in a Windows system. (more on this later) Here is a solution that simply works! I just modified this gist
Hacks Reset PRAM and SMC on Macbook Pro Life can get weird and somethings seem to work by the "Shut-it OFF" and "Shut-it ON" way :-) Here is the way to do it for PRAM and SMC.
Hacks Solved : Displayport of Macbook 2011 (Early) not working OK! I hate ridiculous solutions, but this actually seems to work! My displayport of Macbook Pro 2011 edition stopped working ... suddenly! I tried a lot of restarts, plug-ins and plug-outs .... and the usual
Hacks Sublime Text and Package Control with Proxy This post describes how to use Sublime Text with a Proxy First, download package control manually as explained here Click the Preferences > Browse Packages… menu Browse up a folder and then into
iPhone Accessing Iphone 7s photos on Ubuntu 16.04 I have tons of photos on my iPhone 7s and was looking to download them onto my MacBook Pro. I swapped the harddisk in my Macbook Pro (2011 edition!) with an SSD and
git Problems & Solutions using Git for Windows I've been using Git for Windows for a while. It works very well but I occassionally keep running into recurring problems (typically when I move systems, upgrade computers, etc.). In this post, I
Interactive Brokers Amicable Interactive Brokers Data Analysis using Python and R using reticulate In this post, I will demonstrate through an example the immense joy of working with both R and Python using reticulate!First a little on the background, the discussion and arguments on R
Ghost Running a upstart service as different user I just upgraded Ghost that powers this blog to v2.1. I have an upstart script that starts off this instance.With the latest upgrade, it is a requirement that the service start
Terminal Run Bash commands in Fish I love the fish shell and its been my default terminal for ages! Running bash scripts in fish seems feasible to certain extent using edc/bass: Make Bash utilities usable in Fish shell!
Hacks Redirect IP Address to localhost I had some of my code (terrible as usual) pointing to an IP Address. I had downloaded my code to a local machine and wanted to use the same code to function of
Tools SVG Based Illustrations from UnDraw Felt this is kinda cool ... given my rekindled love for SVGs! Credit: https://undraw.co/illustrations
FFMPEG Creating an audiobook from a list of mp3 files I recently got my hands on an audiobook with a collection of mp3 files. I like to listen on an iPhone and creating a playlist wasn't working the way I intended. So, I
Trading Empirical analysis of put-call parity I was wondering this morning on the viability of making money from arbitrage using put-call parity. Put Call Parity as explained well here defines the relationship between calls, puts and the underlying futures
Hacks Solved! Display setting of Dell ST2420L monitor going black after few seconds! This is weird. I dug up my closet and pulled out my old Dell ST2420L and plugged it in. It was turning off after a few seconds! Sucks! After an hour of changing
Fitness Cool diet chart! Came across this cool diet chart today! Awesome! :) Credit: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2275871102475512&set=pcb.1852975161428454&type=3&theater
