How to pip install NumPy in two seconds flat

Edit, July 2015:

A mere two weeks after I posted this, pip version 7 was released and changed things again. If you have the wheel library and pip version 7 or above, wheel building and caching is now switched on and run by default, you just need to pip install …

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EuroSciPy 2014

Some personal highlights, in five minutes or less.

I spent the past couple of days attending the scientific talks at EuroSciPy 2014. Everything seemed to run smoothly, and hit about the right balance of packing a lot in without being overwhelming, so kudos to the organisers. I've summarised my personal …

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Graphical ssh-agent prompting in Xubuntu

One of the fallbacks / features (depending on your preference) of using XFCE over the standard Ubuntu interface is that you don't get per-session ssh-agent handling (via a graphical interface) out-of-the-box, meaning you must manually fire up ssh-agent every time you login on your desktop. A minor annoyance, granted, but I …

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Ganglia setup explained

Or, everything you wanted to know about setting up Ganglia, but couldn't grok from the official documentation - part 2.

In this post I'll cover:

  • What purposes the different Ganglia utilities serve, and how they fit together.
  • How to set up a minimal configuration, from apt-get install through to configuring Apache …
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