akesterson

VitalSource web book page scraper

This pair of userscripts (to be used with any usescript manager such as ViolentMonkey) allow scraping books from the VitalSource Bookshelf web reader.

This allows creating a PDF for offline reading with free-software readers such as Calibre.

The "inner" script hooks into the book page nested iframe; it detects when a new page image is loaded and it automatically starts a browser download.

The "outer" script hooks into the main reader page and adds a "Scrape" button which automatically goes to the next page when the inner script has successfully downloaded a page.

akesterson

#!/bin/bash

function start_sshagent()
{
	ssh-agent > ~/.sshagent
	. ~/.sshagent
}

function check_sshagent() {
	ps -p $SSH_AGENT_PID > /dev/null

akesterson

This isn't 100%, but it will get you most of the way there (assumes bash 4+):

(\
    echo 'url,type,username,password,hostname,extra,name,grouping' ; \
    cat KEEPER_BACKUP_FILE | sed -e s/'     '/'|'/g -e s/','//g | (\
        while read LINE; do \
            IFS='|' read -r -a fields <<< "$LINE"; \
            type="server"; \
            if [[ "${fields[4]}" == "" ]]; then \
                type=''; \

akesterson

##### First we build from scratch ...
#######################################

akesterson@akesterson-pc:~/source/upstream/git/akesterson/piquant$ make clean all
rm -f boot.bin asm/*o src/*o
bcc -ansi -3 -c -o src/kernel.o src/kernel.c
ld86 -T0x1000 -M -o kernel.bin src/kernel.o
              kernel          _printString  0  0000101b  R
              kernel                 _main  0  00001049  R
              kernel            _printChar  0  00001000  R

akesterson

Using flask-sqlalchemy 2.0 with sqlalchemy 0.9.6, and cx_Oracle 5.1.3.

The sqlalchemy engine works 100% for the other bind I'm using (a MySQL database). But I'm only using ORM on the Oracle bind.

When declaring a ORM class like this (names are redacted):

class ORMObject(db.Model):                                                                                    
    __bind_key__ = 'bind_name'                                                                                       
    __table_args__ = {'schema': 'SPACE'}
    __tablename__ = 'TABLE_NAME'                                                                         

akesterson

>>> def wat():                       
...     raise Exception("ARGH")      
...     yield 0                      
...     yield 1                      
...     yield 2                      
...                                  

>>> wat()                            
<generator object wat at 0x2e62500>  

akesterson

if [ ... ]; then
  do some shit
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  if [ ... ]; then
    do more shit
    ...

akesterson

TL;DR - It was proving to be more buildsystem than I needed,
and I had found that there were other buildsystems that met my needs
that I felt were lighter and more nimble. It's still a fine product
that I continue to recommend to this day, I just no longer see it as
"The One True Way".

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1: Bamboo was consuming a significant amount of system resources, 

akesterson

# Add this code to your /etc/mock/site-defaults.cfg file, and then
# all of your mock builds will take place in ${HOME}/.mockbuild/CONFIG.

# This will allow many users to build the same package config (-r)
# at any given time; so john, tom, dick and harry can build epel-5-noarch
# at the same time, and john can build epel-5-noarch, epel-6-x86_64,
# and fedora-13-x86_64 at the same time, because they all have their own
# build basedir.

# Note that this is very linux specific, YMMV on other platforms.

akesterson

Vagrant::Config.run do |config|
  config.vm.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--name", "macosx.aklabs.net", "--memory", 2048]
  config.vm.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--nic2", 'bridged']
  config.vm.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--bridgeadapter2", 'eth0']

  config.vm.provision :shell, :inline => 'sudo networksetup -detectnewhardware'
  config.vm.provision :shell, :inline => 'sudo networksetup -setdhcp "Ethernet 2"'
  config.vm.provision :shell, :inline => 'sudo pmset sleep 0'
  config.vm.provision :shell, :inline => 'sudo pmset displaysleep 0'