infrequently self-promoting on the web since '95
I haven't posted in ages and given I'm doing so much interesting stuff with SpatialBuzz these days, I felt I needed to post something, however short but sweet.
I spin up a lot of dev instances with Vagrant and VirtualBox on OS X these days and needed them to be …
Posted Sat 12 Jul '14 in Dev (Vagrant, OS X, VirtualBox)
I had an issue with automounted DVDs on openSUSE 11.4 not appearing in Gnome desktop.
It seems that udisks honours UDF-mounted directory permissions even if they aren't readable. 1
The issue is fixed in udisks 1.0.3 2 however openSUSE 11.4 stopped updating udisks at 1.0 …
I'm sharing this as it caught me out for a few days and the solution wasn't obvious. I run Plex to serve media around the home to my TV and few LAN and Wi-Fi clients. The server runs on a Mac Mini and I keep up with updates. The client …
Fabric is a great Python module for deploying and running software on remote SSH-enabled machines without the need for an array of terminal windows or mad shell-scripting skills.
Cuisine is a Python module adding high-level administrative functions to Fabric (similar to Chef for Ruby).
I'd been using Fabric for a …
Posted Mon 15 Oct '12 in Dev (Python, Fabric, Cuisine, Zypper)
From the Markdown website:-
Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).
I've taken to using it wherever I can, including content generation for this site, with these …
