I was trying to update a very old conda version 4.7.12 to the latest and ran the command “conda update conda” as root on the base anaconda environment on Centos 7.9 linux. This is what happened. Never run “pip install” and “conda install” on the same environment. As everyone knows by now, you should never run “pip install” and “conda install”…

Sometime Microsoft Office 365 is unable to set Autosave to ON as it gives an error - Office is unable to save this file automatically because it contains ActiveX controls. Please remove those ActiveX controls. The best way I found to resolve this issue so that Office 365 Word will be able to set Autosave to ON is as follows. First download the Word document to a local disk and then upload to Google Drive.

The Nifi pipeline for copying HDFS files to Azure Synapse ADLS2 folder will be as below. This was tested with Cloudera CDP 7.1.7 and Azure Synapse ADLS2. GetHDFSFileinfo will generate the list of both directory and files. Keep in mind that the GetHDFSFileInfo processor does not maintain any state, so…

Below flow is a fast way to copy a table data from AWS Redshift or any other RDBMS to Hive ORC ACID table using Apache NIFI.

Use sqlalchemy to query AWS Redshift database using python

Below steps are how to install Apache Webserver and configure it to protect web pages using Active Directory LDAP authentication. Step 1: Install Apache HTTPd Webserver on RHEL/Centos $ yum install httpd $ yum install mod_ldap or on Centos 8 or higher: $ dnf install httpd $ dnf install mod_ldap To verify that the…

How to fix the erratic freezing delays in mouse movement in Windows. I have been trying to fix the erratic and delayed movement of the mouse in my Dell Precision i7 32GB RAM high end laptop for a long time without success. The mouse would freeze, mouse cursor disappear, slow…

Move you cash savings to T-Bills. Currently the highest HYSA or CDs are paying about 5% APY. But short term 3/6month Treasury bills are paying 4.6 to 5% APY with…

The Bitcoin Crypto mania The way the crypto currency market is playing out is there are a few worldwide Master manipulators using Twitter and social media who are hyping up people’s emotions to invest all their hard earned money into crypto market promising unheard of extreme wealth. Once the market…