2-Day Outage
You may have noticed Cognitive Metropolis was offline for 2 Days. Yeah, that was my fault... It was that time of the year and NetworkSolutions wanted to gouge me again…
How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files
Do you use YouTube for the music? If you want to save your favorite YouTube videos as audio files, certain websites and software can strip out the music tracks and…
X-Windows, LILO, and Slackware Upgrade
Upgrading Slackware Recently I made the innocent mistake of updating Slackware (to include Kernel updates) without making any allowances for LILO and the X-Window startup process. That is the third…
The risk of undermanaged open source software
Relying on open source doesn’t mean you are opening your organization up to vulnerabilities, as long as you review the code for any security concerns. Unlike proprietary software, open source…
Slackware 15 RC2 Install and Review
Slackware 15 RC2 was released not long after we posted a quick review and installation how-to for RC1. In our experience with the installation process nothing has changed since RC1…
Log4J shows we must all learn to understand our software
This week has led to yet another major vulnerability being discovered in major corporate software stacks, leading to a massive effort to discover, patch, and update. I remember the first…
Slackware 15 Install and Initial Impressions
Slackware has released Version 15 Release Candidate 1 and as there are some unused laptops sitting around the house (now that the kids have gone back to school) it was…
HTML Data Cleaning in Python for NLP
The most important step of any data-driven project is obtaining quality data. Without these preprocessing steps, the results of a project can easily be biased or completely misunderstood. Here, we…
Step-by-step guide to face recognition in real-time using OpenCv library
OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) is an open-source computer vision and machine learning software library. OpenCV was built to provide a common infrastructure for computer vision applications and to…
Working with PDFs in Python: Reading and Splitting Pages
Today, the Portable Document Format (PDF) belongs to the most commonly used data formats. In 1990, the structure of a PDF document was defined by Adobe. The idea behind the…