raviramanathan

#For the problems of conda being stuck at solving package specification for problems of "ResolvePackageNotFound"  especially when upgrading 
#for fast.ai part1v2 (fast.ai courses version 2018 with Pytorch) solution is simple. Upgrading conda. Run the following command:
conda upgrade conda
#this fixes the problems and conda successfully creates new environment with all requirements for fast.ai part1v2

raviramanathan

I repeatedly look for the code to specify paper size and attributes in matlab for figures. 
Here is how to do it : 


hFig = gcf; 

%# centimeters units
X = 42.0;                  %# A3 paper size
Y = 29.7;                  %# A3 paper size

raviramanathan

Controlling boxplots in Matlab

The tricky problems I found was 
1) in controlling the width of the lines for the outlines of the boxes in the boxplots and

       h=boxplot(DATA,Vect)
       for ih=1:numRowsOfDATA
          set(h(ih,:),'LineWidth',2); % Set the line width of the Box outlines here
       end

raviramanathan

To convert Virtualbox VMs to VMware VMs, the state of the art is still not a "simple export and import". 
Am surprised that it doesn't still work thst way. My VMWare player would quit without even errors. Linux, VMware & Tools ... Still long way to go.. Why can't something fail appropriately ? 

Some commands need to be typed in the command lines. Here is the procedure that worked for me:

From Virtualbox, Export the VM to a folder. It could be saved either in the .OVA or .OVF formats. 

In the command line, execute :

     ovftool -tt vmx --lax soureVMfileaname.ova .