Etherpad is a hosted web service that allows really real-time document collaboration for groups of users. It’s like Google Docs, or perhaps Google Docs is like Etherpad on steroids ? Anyway, if you’re looking for a secure real-time document sharing tool (unfortunately Etherpad is only able to server text documents with very basic formatting) here’s how to deploy it on Debian (Squeeze). Continue reading
Puppet dashboard is a useful tool in terms of reporting and actually seeing what’s going on with your puppets. The things get a bit tricky when you have hundreds of nodes reporting every 5 minutes or so and running dashboard on a single host.
I assume you are using dashboard already and you looking into scaling it, although I’ll describe how to install it from scratch. This post will help you set up 2+ dashboard nodes with one node running MySQL db and shared spool/ directory.
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Yes Apple, all those animations in Lion are awesome but do they have to take so long ? If You prefer the Mission Control (btw, Expose was way better) to ‘animate’ faster:
Enable faster animation
Disable faster animation
-float 0.3 controls animation speed, put -int 1 here and it’ll be painfully slow.
I’m working on adding TV support and making my XBMC installation a true Media Centre (including PVR support). The thing about XBMC is that sadly it doesn’t support Live TV features by default but there are ways to get live tv support. Here’s my journey to get UK FTA channels working with XBMC using:
- Windows 7 64bit
- Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-HD-S2 DVB-S2 TV Card
- Sky dish
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Since I’ve changed my job and joined Rackspace Cloud team I didn’t post anything as I’m still learning new things. Here’s a solution for problems with connecting to xen console. Continue reading