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import math
from matplotlib import rcParams


def configure(document_fontsize=14.4, available_width=307.28987):
    """
    Configures Matplotlib so saved figures can be used in LaTeX documents.

    Uses the sans-serif TeX Gyre Heros font (Helvetica), also for math.

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SSH agent forwarding and screen

When connecting to a remote server via SSH it is often convenient to use SSH agent forwarding so that you don't need a separate keypair on that server for connecting to further servers.

This is enabled by adding the

ForwardAgent yes

option to any of your Host entries in ~/.ssh/config (or alternatively with the -A option). Don't set this option in a wildcard Host * section since any user on the remote server that can bypass file permissions can now als use keys loaded in your SSH agent. So only use this with hosts you trust.

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Notes on my Raspberry Pi server config

This describes how I installed and configured my Raspberry Pi model B (512MB).

The Pi is mainly used as SSH jump host, IRC client, Git server, backup fileserver, etc. It doesn't need stellar performance, it just has to be cheap, low in power usage, and secure.

Raspbian on encrypted root

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Viewing IPython notebooks in GitLab

GitLab is open source software to collaborate on code (a GitHub clone to run on your own server). Clicking a blob (a file in a repository) in GitLab shows a nice rendering if GitLab supports the file type (e.g., images, Markdown documents), or its content as plain text otherwise. The patch described here adds support to GitLab for rendering IPython notebooks (.ipynb files).

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IPython Notebook on an SGE cluster

This guide documents how we set up an easy workflow for using the IPython Notebook on our compute cluster managed with Sun Grid Engine (SGE).

Summary: We provide a script to the cluster users that runs qrsh to schedule an ipython notebook job using SSL and password protection.

Installing IPython

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