I got this the other day while doing a pip install: Cannot remove entries from nonexistent file c:\python36\lib\site-packages\easy-install.pth I searched around a bit and couldn’t find a solution. --i
My main monitor is a NEC PA322UHD and my secondary is a NEC EA275UHD. I set them both up on a new computer with a NVIDIA GeForce 745, the PA322 on DisplayPort and the EA275 on HDMI. The EA275UHD’s re
Building Python packages that support both Python 2 and 3 is time consuming and at some point you are going to ask the question “Can I just build this thing for Python 3?” Ideally, the answer to that
When you launch SpectraView II for the first time it will ask you for a serial number: “Enter the serial number you received with software” I could not find the number on the sensor box - so I contac
By default, when you run az login, it will output the subscriptions associated with your account. There’s no way to tell the Azure CLI to suppress output. If you don’t want it to print subscriptions,
If you try to run the Azure IoT Edge Runtime or the Azure IoT Edge Dev Tool on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), then you will run into the following errors: ERROR: Could not login to Container Regis
You may have noticed that ConfigurationManager is not available in Azure Functions v2 .NET Standard projects. It’s no longer supported. AF v2 now uses ASPNET Core Configuration. If you add the Syste
I just published my first official distributable Python package to PyPI, which makes it available to install via pip install. It’s called Azure IoT Edge Dev Tool (PyPI, GitHub, Video) and helps IoT E
When running Python unit tests with tox, you might see the following errors: C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\2.0.0\NuGet.targets(466,5): error : Value cannot be null. C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\2.0.0\NuG
A bunch of people have reported the following issue with the Azure IoT Python SDK: azure-iot-sdk-python/c/c-utility/adapters/httpapi_curl.c Func:HTTPAPI_ExecuteRequest Line:552 curl_easy_perform() fai
The Azure REST APIs require a Bearer Token Authorization header. The docs do a great job explaining every authentication requirement, but do not tell you how to quickly get started. This post will ho
When setting up Azure IoT Edge, you will most likely want to use an external config file. If you run iotedgectl setup with the --config-file option and don’t want to force passwords with the --auto-ce
You will likely want to run the Azure IoT Edge Runtime from your own Azure Container Registry (ACR). While this will be officially supported eventually, right now it is not, but there is a workaround.
My iPhone 6 Plus was so slow it was unusable. Each tap would take 2-3 seconds and everything was sluggish. I deleted all apps I wasn’t using and turned off Background App Refresh but nothing helped.
Outlook has been hanging on me for the last couple of days. Turns out it is related to the Skype Add-in. I disabled the add-in and it’s fine now…but I won’t be able to use Skype integration until that
The default Raspberry Pi keyboard layout is “gb”. You can change to US by doing the following: sudo nano /etc/default/keyboard Change XKBLAYOUT="gb" to XKBLAYOUT="us". sudo reboot
Azure IoT Edge Public Preview was just announced at Microsoft Connect. Here’s how to get it running on Raspberry Pi with Raspbian Stretch or Stretch Lite. Raspbian Jessie should work as well, but I h
By default Raspberry Pi does not allocate enough of your SD card for it to be usable. Out of the box, if you run sudo apt upgrade, you’ll get a message saying that you don’t have enough disk space.
The very first thing you are going to want to do when you get your Raspberry Pi is install an OS. You have a few options, including Raspbian, a Debian based OS. Here’s how to get it installed. Purch
On Windows, Docker runs in a VM called MobyLinuxVM, but you cannot login to that VM via Hyper-V Manager. We aren’t technically going to SSH into the VM, we’ll create a container that has full root acc