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Load balanced puppet dashboard

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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XBMC + MediaPortal TV Server

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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