To the cloud! I'm officially done hosting my own Wordpress blog. Not because it's particularly hard, but because it's quite boring. I would have done a straight export/import into a wordpress.com blog, but their options for hosting on a personal domain are pretty insane - if you want to …
So you have an Apple Airport (Express or Extreme), or a Time Capsule, and you want to monitor things like the signal levels of the connected clients? I thought so! That's why I wrote this post, because I'm thoughtful like that. While it's not necessary, I'd like to mention that …
I use irssi for IRC and an iPhone for pocket Internets; These two choices are both excellent, but they're not terribly compatible - typing in irssi on an iPhone via SSH is quite slow and annoying.
Obviously the thing to do is run an iPhone IRC client, but then I'm …
I sometimes find myself in a place where there are a number of Icecast streams going out at once and I'm interested in finding better ways of monitoring these. It seems like a nice option would be a window showing a visualisation of each stream. I quickly whipped up some …
I think that enough of the planets have aligned in the shape of a failboat that I have been able to successfully upload a source package of Lifesaver to its PPA for Maverick. I might be wrong though, we'll find out shortly when Launchpad processes the ridiculous output of several …
This release is mostly to bring a couple of important compatibility fixes with the newest pre-release of VTE, but we also have some updated translations, improved error handling and two new features for you. The features are a URL handler plugin for Maven by Julien Nicolaud and a DBus server …
I'm very slowly learning and exploring the fascinating world of Puppet for configuration management. As I go I'm going to try and blog about random things I discover. Partially for my own future reference, partially to help me crystalise my knowledge and partially to help you. The first post is …
R.I. Pienaar has a Puppet module on github called "concat". Its premise is very simple, it just concatenates fragments of text together into a particular file. I'm sure that a more seasoned Puppet veteran would have had this running in no time, but since it introduced some new concepts …
I am trying to do as much management on my new VM servers as possible with Puppet, but these are machines I still frequently log on to, and not everything is managed by Puppet, so it's entirely possible that in a fit of forgetfulness I will start editing a file …
I'm very pleased to announce the release of 1.0 of TangledStrings, a VIM plugin to help Puppet users avoid the confusion and frustration of editing a file that Puppet is managing and subsequently losing ones changes as it is replaced by Puppet's version.