Tag Archives: python

Upgrade vLLM (don’t!)

Posted on August 24, 2026 by Ahmed Tawfik

The best way to upgrade vLLM is actually NOT to upgrade it, but to wipe it’s venv and install from scratch, in my opinion and based on my experimentation, just run: deactivate rm -rf .venv uv venv –python 3.12 –seed … Continue reading →

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Simple Python Script to Communicate with ChatGPT API

Posted on December 23, 2024 by Ahmed Tawfik

I wrote a simple python script that allows you to communicate with the ChatGPT API, the workflow is as straight-forward as this: Prerequisites: Limitations: Here is the code in its simplest form: https://github.com/ahmedatawfik/usefulscripts/blob/main/chatgptcomm.py That’s it, Enjoy! Sources:

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How to enable Python to craft packets and listen to ports less than 1024 without sudo

Posted on April 15, 2024 by Ahmed Tawfik

To be able to craft packets with Scapy, you have to either use sudo or allow setcap for your python environment. I don’t prefer to use sudo when working with my Anaconda environments, so I did the following: sudo setcap … Continue reading →

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Create a filesystem report with Python

Posted on May 14, 2020 by Ahmed Tawfik

In many cases, data accumulates over time, and a lot of this data is not being accessed at all, sometimes for years. Accordingly, it would be great if you could create a report that shows which data, the last access … Continue reading →

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azure-cli installation on Ubuntu Bionic (18.04)

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Ahmed Tawfik

No deb packages have been released yet for Ubuntu 18.04, so you have to use the script MS provided here. However, you will face the following error immediately:  fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory To resolve this, simply … Continue reading →

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