Blog Posts
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Moving between VirtualBox Hosts
Nov 29, 2010Published: 2010-11-28
A description of the issues I encountered moving my VBox environment from one host to another.
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Vala TreeView List Example
Sep 14, 2010This small GTK+ example application demonstrates how to populate a GtkTreeView list and respond to list item mouse clicks. It is written in Vala (a functionally identical Genie version is also listed). The user interface was constructed using Glade.
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Publishing eBooks with AsciiDoc
Aug 23, 2010It’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.
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Minimalist Machine Clone
Jun 25, 2010I 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.
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Deleting VirtualBox Snapshots
Jun 19, 2010The 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.