Published: 2010-08-23
Updated: 2010-05-08
It’s easy to write and publish books in EPUB and PDF formats using AsciiDoc. This article was originally published on the AsciiDoc website.
Here are three examples: The first is a minimal example introducing the AsciiDoc format, the second The Brothers Karamazov is a rather long multi-part book and the third The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes includes a front cover image and customized page styling.
Published: 2010-06-25
Updated: 2010-06-28
I was faced with the problem of cloning one Ubuntu server box to another. My solution is purposefully minimalist, requiring only a bootable Linux CD-ROM (I used the Xubuntu 10.04 Desktop CD-ROM) and an external USB drive to transfer the HDD data.
Published: 2010-06-18
The Discard current snapshot and state command dishappeared as of VirtualBox version 3.1 leaving VirtualBox with no obvious way of deleting snapshot disk state (the misnamed Delete Snapshot command merges the snapshot into the parent). The good news is that you can delete snapshots using the branched snapshots feature introduced in version 3.1.
Published: 2010-06-19
Updated: 2010-06-20
Updated: 2013-12-08
Using the VirtualBox GUI to manually merge lots of snapshots is time consuming and fiddly so I wrote a Python script called vboxmerge.py to do this automatically. The script merges a snapshot branch into the base VDI with a single command (it also illustrates how easy it is to script VirtualBox using Python).
Published: 2010-03-23
Updated: 2010-03-30, 2010-05-01, 2011-06-10
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A simple Python command-line script I wrote to send SMS messages using Clickatell’s HTTP API. In addition it:
Currently the Mono project does not release Ubuntu binary packages so if you want the latest version of Mono you need to compile and install yourself. I use the Xubuntu, Here are the steps I took to install Mono 2.0 on Xubuntu 7.10:
blogpost 0.9.0 adds lots of new features to the previous 0.1.0 release. The most important feature in the blogpost 0.9.0 release is WordPress media file management:
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Since this blog was written many new features have been added to blogpost — see blogpost media processing |
I make lots of notes using AsciiDoc, the sort of stuff that’s to minor and/or not rigorous enough for formal publication, but possibly useful to others.
So I decided it was about time I started posting my notes to a blog. Creating and maintaining posts using the normal browser based interfaces was not an option — just to tedious for words. So I looked around for an HTML friendly blog host that could make a reasonable job of rendering AsciiDoc generated HTML.
Stuart's Notes 