My old post on mounting VHDs in Linux is rather outdated. I don’t think it even works anymore. So revisiting this on a newer Ubuntu version now. These instructions are for Ubuntu 14.04, so for other OS installs. You’ll also need your compiler installed, so you may need to run sudo apt-get install build-essential to get them before proceeding.
Monthly Archives: September 2014
A Script A Day – Corner Cut – Day 05/05
I decided to do something with ImageMagick for my 5th day’s script. My original idea for day 5 proved to be too much for one night. A script to cut triangular corners into images. Pretty simple, but this may come in handy one day while designing something.
A Script A Day – ConvCurrency – Day 04/05
Day 4 out of 5 of my “A Script A Day” challenge. Day 4: ConvCurrency, a simple currency converter using WebServiceX.net’s currency conversion web API.
A Script A Day – WhatIs – Day 03/05
Day 3’s script: `whatis`: A wikipedia summary lookup. It’s operation is pretty straightforward, you give it a search to do and it’ll perform the lookup for you. If you hit a redirect it should follow it, at least as of time of writing this. (Edit whatis_extract.xsl in the resources directory if it breaks.) Continue reading
A Script A Day – Day 02/05
Continuing along, day 2’s task was to get stock quotes. Usually a pretty simple task once you find a data source to use. I settled on using YQL to query Yahoo Finance. This one has a few requirements (wget, hexdump, xsltproc) as bash is a bit limited.
A Script A Day – Day 01/05
I had an idea for a programming self-challenge. From Monday, Sept 1st to Friday, Sept 5th: I’ll write a new script each day. The goal should be simple enough to solve in one day, but not so boring I’d feel dumb writing about making it. I’ll likely be sticking to business logic type goals, as I don’t actually enjoy algorithmic challenges as much. Now if a practical goal requires a decent algorithm, then so be it.
