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September 2, 2023

How to specify the CUDA device for your Python Torch-based code

By Peshmerge Morad
In Machine Learning, Python
September 2, 2023
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02September

On a multi-GPU machine used by multiple people for running Python code, like university clusters (in my case, the cluster offered by my university, University of Twente ), it’s important to specify which GPU to use when you want to run your code. By default, torch-based Machine Learning and Deep Learning libraries/packages/frameworks and even Tensorflow will use GPU=0 the first GPU...

August 31, 2023

How to restore files from a disk storage with bad sectors using GNU ddrescue on Ubuntu Linux

By Peshmerge Morad
In General, Linux
August 31, 2023
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31August

Background   Losing access to our precious data due to hardware failures is a nightmare for all of us. Bad sectors on a hard disk drive (HDD) or any other similar failures can block normal data copy/transfer operations and render some of your files inaccessible. Fortunately, there are advanced tools and techniques available that can help rescue this data. One such tool isGNU ddrescue, that...

April 10, 2023

How to set up a local WordPress development server with phpMyAdmin using Docker

By Peshmerge Morad
In Web, WordPress
April 10, 2023
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10April

In a previous post  I described how to set up a local WordPress dev server with an Adminer web app to control the Mysql database. I have been using that setup for quite some time now. Despite being very lightweight, I feel Adminer is very limited. In addition, I didn’t really get used to it. Therefore, I decided to switch back to phpMyAdmin. I have been using it for over 10 years, and...

April 8, 2023

How to order posts in Avada Post cards element by a custom field

By Peshmerge Morad
In Web, WordPress
April 8, 2023
3 Min read
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08April

Context In a previous post, I wrote about customizing the Avada Post Cards element to fetch posts from the database based on a custom field value. It’s good to mention it once more that this feature was added to Avada later on, and it’s now shipped by default in all new versions of Avada starting from June 2022 I made something similar this time because I needed it, and it was not...

September 27, 2022

How to set up a local WordPress development server using Docker

By Peshmerge Morad
In Web, WordPress
September 27, 2022
2 Min read
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27September

The following docker-compose.yml file setups a local WordPress docker instance alongside a MySql server and an Adminer web app which can be used as an alternative to PhpMyAdmin. version: '3.9' services: wp_mysql: image: mysql:latest container_name: wp_mysql command: mysqld --character-set-server=utf8mb4 --collation-server=utf8mb4_unicode_ci --default-authentication-plugin=mysql_native_password...

June 23, 2022

How to create your own reverse geocoding API using OpenStreetMap Docker, Osimium and Nominatim

By Peshmerge Morad
In BigData, General, Linux
June 23, 2022
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23June

During my master’s at the University of Twente and for the course Managing Big Data, I worked with three other students on a very interesting project in the field of big data. We measured global internet speed and latency changes between 2019 and 2022 (Covid period). The dataset we used for the project was “The Internet Speed Dataset” by Ookla. The dataset consists of internet...

May 30, 2022

How to let Avada Post Cards element fetch posts from the database based on a value of a custom field in the posts

By Peshmerge Morad
In Web, WordPress
May 30, 2022
6 Min read
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30May

Context In the last couple of months, I have been working on the website of Stichting Civic. Stichting Civic is a Dutch foundation committed to improving the Dutch civic integration policy for refugees and other newcomers. The foundation aims at 1) collecting and stimulating socio-scientific and legal research into the outcomes of the current policy and 2) providing proposals for better...

May 23, 2022

A fully automated Filezilla installer bash-script on Ubuntu Linux 20.04

By Peshmerge Morad
In General, Linux
May 23, 2022
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23May

Almost five years ago, I wrote this blog post Making an installer/updater for Filezilla on Ubuntu Linux Today in this blog post, I present a fully automated bash script based on my earlier script. This script automatically pulls the latest version of FileZilla tarball from Filezilla project website and installs it on your Ubuntu machine 🙂 Personally, I use this script on my laptop whenever a new...

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