Issues with Zotero and working them out!

A log of Zotero issues, I have encountered. Date: 2025/03/18 Issue: Zotero freezes, items don’t load and the application doesn’t respond. Reason: Possibly due to adding too many feeds and the syncing issue. Date: 2025/03/18 Issue: Zootmoov didn’t sync recent files. Solution: Select affected files, right click$ \rightarrow$ Move them to directory with Zootmoov

 March 18, 2025  •   1 min  •   54 words  •   Suyog Garg

Accessing Remote Computing Clusters using Open-SSH

General guidelines You basically have three entities you want to interlink and provide bidirectional access. Personal computer Remote computer Github or Gitlab a/c server A copy of all my ssh keys is stored in ~/Dropbox/ssh-access-keys/ Generate SSH Key Pair SSH public and private keys can be generated by: ssh-keygen -t ed25519 In the prompt for putting in the password, leave it blank and just press “Enter”, if ya don’t want to have a password-protected file....

 March 18, 2025  •   4 min  •   678 words  •   Suyog Garg

Access VS Code via the Terminal

To access and open VS Code directly from your terminal, do the following: Open your Bash or zsh profile. open ~/.zshrc Add path to the VS Code application to your PATHS variable. # Add Visual Studio Code (code) export PATH="$PATH:/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin" Reload your updated terminal profile. source ~/.zshrc You can now open VS code by running code xxx from anywhere in your computer. References: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/mac

 March 17, 2025  •   1 min  •   66 words  •   Suyog Garg

Customize Linux Terminal!

A good way to prettify and enhance the outlook of a linux bash terminal is to use synth-shell. Do: git clone --recursive https://github.com/andresgongora/synth-shell.git cd synth-shell sudo chmod +x setup.sh ./setup.sh Additionally, neofetch can be installed on top synth-shell to further enhance the way in which the system summary is presented on the log-on screen. However, this requires root access to use apt, yum or dnp package manager. Since for remote clusters the root access is usually not available, this is optional....

 March 14, 2025  •   3 min  •   458 words  •   Suyog Garg

How to use LIGO Data Grid CIT as KAGRA-only Member

As a member of only the KAGRA collaboration and LIGO, in the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA or IGWN Consortium, the process of obtaining access to LIGO Data Grid (LDG) clusters is not straight-forward. First of all, follow steps from Eric’s page here if ya have a LIGO account. KAGRA members need to request LDG authentication access using the form available at this link: https://registry.igwn.org/registry/co_petitions/start/coef:25 Once you have filled the LDG access form, you should be able to see an option to add your computer’s SSH public key....

 March 14, 2025  •   2 min  •   240 words  •   Suyog Garg