Over the last few weeks we've been kicking the tires on the AppFirst monitoring service, and I thought it might be helpful to others to document my thoughts here. I didn't see many such posts when we set out on the task and …
I'd like to announce the availability of hiera-subnet, a new backend i've put together for looking up hiera facts from puppet by using the subnet location of the machine.
This means that, for instance you may have a fact as one thing for all machines (similar to common.yaml), something …
If xml xslt isn't possible, here's a little snippet of code that takes one argument, an xml file as provided by New Zealand's Kiwibank, and converts it into a semi-colon delimited output. Useful for spreadsheets such as libreoffice calc
Short script (in python) to shift mouse pointer to middle of screen, useful to save time on low acceleration pointing devices. Works for multi-head setups.
#!/usr/bin/env python
# Small script to jump pointer to middle of given screen number
# Run with [scriptname] [screen number]
import os, sys
modelines = os …
Chord Finder 1.0 is available for general download. I've tried to come up with an rpm format that installs in some sort of a standardised way without breaking too many taboos about file placement. There's a few minor bugs but i'm going to leave it a while for feedback …