Running Puppet from a Cron is usually better idea than running it in agent mode. However you may overload Puppet master with requests. This happens when you have 100s of agents trying to pull catalogs from master at same time. … Continue reading
I had some problems with my TV card under Ubuntu, basically Ubuntu 11.10 firmware is busted. user@computer:$ dmesg…[ 613.492413] cx24116_firmware_ondemand: Waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-cx24116.fw)…[ 613.565354] cx24116_firmware_ondemand: Waiting for firmware upload(2)…[ 613.565360] cx24116_firmware_ondemand: No firmware uploaded (timeout or file not … Continue reading
That’s the funniest err I’ve seen so far in XenServer. But here’s how to fix it. When you try to start vm you get this: user@computer:$ sudo xe vm-start name-label=vm1The server failed to handle your request, due to an internal … Continue reading
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 … 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 … Continue reading