Author Archives: Michael Dawson

In installing selenium and pymongo on the clients, I discovered some errors in some of the scripts in /usr/network/scripts/parts that install python packages: For python 2.7, site-packages has moved from /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages to /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages.  Note the /local/ in the path.  That’s … Continue reading →

Eni and I are resuscitating the NY Times scraping project and we want to get some new data.  So I’m using the good ol’ trustus account that Olivia, Emily and I used in Tyler’s course last spring. I’ve encountered this … Continue reading →

With some effort and frustration, I got VirtualBox running on four of our CentOS 6.3 client machines, jay, finch, lark, and robin.  It can now run headless VMs that (re)start when the host (re)boots, and can even run 64-bit guests, … Continue reading →