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Kali Linux Bootable USB with Persistence and Wireless on OSX

Download the appropriate Kali Linux .iso

• Download site: https://www.kali.org/downloads/

I used a 64 bit .iso image, downloaded via HTTP. I downloaded the amd64 weekly version, as the pool linux headers (needed below for installation of wireless drivers) were ahead of the stable release kernel.

Download the SHA256SUMS and SHA256SUMS.gpg files from the same location.

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Turning emacs into a Python IDE

## Create a new config/initialisation file

Create a user-level initialisation file init.el:

touch .emacs.d/init.el

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# boy-girl.py
#
# Python code to illustrate the Tuesday Boy paradox ("I have two children. 
# One is a boy born on a Tuesday. What is the probability I have two boys") 
# for a blog post.
# 
# This time, unlike paradox.py, we're not assuming that there is preselection
# for telling you that one of the children is a boy, or a boy born on a Tuesday.
# This radically alters the solution of the problem.
#

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# paradox.py
#
# Python code to illustrate the Tuesday Boy paradox ("I have two children. 
# One is a boy born on a Tuesday. What is the probability I have two boys") 
# for a blog post.
# 
# We're simulating two sampling modes to illustrate how the approach to 
# sampling, and posing the initial question, is important. This has general
# implications for what we can reasonably infer from experiments where we
# did not design the experiment to answer a specific question.

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JupyterHub on AWS

EC2 Setup

• Log in to AWS
• Go to a sensible region
• Start a new instance with Ubuntu Trusty (14.04) - compute-optimised instances have a high vCPU:memory ratio, and the lowest-cost CPU time. c4.2xlarge is a decent choice.
• Set security group (firewall) to have ports 22, 80, and 443 open (SSH, HTTP, HTTPS)
• If you want a static IP address (for long-running instances) then select Elastic IP for this VM
• If you want to use HTTPS, you'll probably need a paid certificate, or to use Amazon's Route 53 to get a non-Amazon domain (to avoid region blocking).

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Creating a Jekyll blog on GitHub Pages with Minimal-Mistakes

Setup

First, create a new Jekyll site and corresponding GitHub Pages repository, then test it locally at http://localhost:4000:

$ gem install jekyll bundler
$ jekyll new <REPO>/
Running bundle install in /Users/<USER>/Development/GitHub/<REPO>... 

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require(graphics)

# Let's use some example data from the R libraries: USArrests
# Have a quick look at the data
head(USArrests)
summary(USArrests)
# You should see that the measured variables are on
# different scales: Assault varies from 45 to 337, but
# all other variables only from 1 to 90. 
# If we use raw values, it's possible that the absolutely, 

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import seaborn

from itertools import combinations

def is_multiegg(breakfast):
    if sum([1 in breakfast, 2 in breakfast, 3 in breakfast]) > 1:
        return True
    return False
    
# See Twitter:

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Restarting/upgrading MediaWiki after OSX High Sierra update

After the Sierra to High Sierra update my local Mediawiki pages stopped working.

• http://localhost/lpmacwiki/index.php/Main_Page
• http://localhost/w/index.php/Main_Page

The httpd.conf file changes after the High Sierra update

Looking in /etc/apache2 I could see that the httpd.conf file had changed:

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1) We’re going to do this in a virtual environment, so we don’t pollute the main `Python` installation:

- Change to a suitable clean directory that you can work in
- **YOU NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PATH TO THIS DIRECTORY CONTAINS NO SPACES!** If the path contains spaces, `sip` will fail
- Create a new `Python` virtual environment:

```bash
virtualenv venv-test-ete3 -p python3
```