Hello! In this blog post, we will take a look at some basic C using Arduino. The code is available at https://github.com/jod75/basicarduino. The purpose of this post is not to show you how to use Arduino, but to help you get started with C. Clounce is working on some exiting Arduino projects, which he will share … Continue reading Introduction to C with Arduino
ACM SIG Proceedings-Like paper
ACM have recently published new LaTeX templates (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). We applied some tweaks to their sample to remove ACM specific text and changed the paper size to A4. This is useful to students who want to use ACM SIG Proceedings format for their university assignments. The sample paper is available at https://github.com/jod75/acm-like-text-paper. Changes we did: Paper … Continue reading ACM SIG Proceedings-Like paper
Quick Steps to Enable Powershell Remoting
System Administrators coming from the Linux world are accustomed to using SSH and bash scripts to manage remote machines. The same concept can be used for managing Windows machines through PowerShell by enabling the remoting feature. A number of articles are around explaining each command and how remoting in PowerShell works. Therefore, this article only … Continue reading Quick Steps to Enable Powershell Remoting
Facebook circles – A Gentle Introduction to Apache Spark GraphFrames
Introduction This PySpark notebook introduces Spark GraphFrames. The dataset SNAP: https://snap.stanford.edu/data/egonets-Facebook.html Dataset description: Nodes 4039 Edges 88234 Abstract from Stanford’s website: This dataset consists of ‘circles’ (or ‘friends lists’) from Facebook. Facebook data was collected from survey participants using a Facebook app. The dataset includes node features (profiles), circles, and ego networks. Facebook data has … Continue reading Facebook circles – A Gentle Introduction to Apache Spark GraphFrames
Adding new images to Amazon Web Services (AWS)
In this article we discuss how to upload and use Microsoft Windows client operating systems in Amazon Web Services. Unfortunately, there are no pre-canned images with Microsoft Windows client operating systems in AWS. However, this does not mean that one cannot use them in Amazon’s EC2. Although it is trickier than just attaching an ISO image … Continue reading Adding new images to Amazon Web Services (AWS)