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Tag Archives: geek
Introducing Pupistry
I’ve recently been working to migrate my personal infrastructure from a very conventional and ageing 8 year old colocation server to a new cloud-based approach. As part of this migration I’m simplifying what I have down to the fewest possible services … Continue reading
Tagged code, freebsd, geek, linux, open source, pupistry, puppet, r10k
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Puppet 3 & 4 on FreeBSD
I’ve been playing with FreeBSD recently and wanted to run Puppet on it to provide my machines with configuration. Unfortunately I faced the following error when I first ran Puppet with a simple Puppet manifest that tries to install NTP via … Continue reading
Tagged freebsd, geek, open source, pkgng, puppet
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FreeBSD in the cloud
This weekend I was playing around with FreeBSD in order to add support to Pupistry. Although I generally use Linux exclusively, it’s fun to play around with other platforms now and then, bit like going on vacation. Plus building support … Continue reading
Tagged aws, cloud, digital ocean, freebsd, geek, open source, pupistry
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Puppet facts, json and max nesting
I use Puppet for both business and pleasure and my work often involves writing custom Puppet facts to expose various bits of information. Recently a fact I had written that worked on the development machines started throwing errors when run on our production … Continue reading
Tagged facts, geek, json, open source, puppet, ruby, work
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AEM/CQ 5.6.1 package file parameter missing
Having the joy and “pleasure” of patching a bunch of AEM/CQ 5.6.1 instances at work recently, I ran into a weird issue where the hotfixes would refuse to install on a particular development machine. Any attempt to install the packages … Continue reading
Tagged adobe, aem, cq, geek
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Ubiquiti Unifi UAP-AC in-home performance
Having completed the most important move-in task of wiring the house for ethernet and installing the Ubiquiti Unfi UAP-AC access point, I decided to run some benchmarks to see what sort of performance I could actually get. Manufacturers always quote … Continue reading
Installing Cloud Pipes
One of the essential upgrades for the house has been the installation of computer network data cabling throughout the house. Whilst some helpful individual went to the effort of installing phone jacks in almost every room, an analogue phone line … Continue reading
Tagged cat6, data cabling, diy, DIY, geek, home sweet home, patch panel, rj45
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Settling In
This blog has been a little quiet lately, mostly thanks to Lisa and I being busy adjusting to the joys of home ownership with our new house we moved into in mid-September! It’s been pretty flat-out and a number of … Continue reading
Tagged diy, DIY, garden, geek, home sweet home, outdoors, renovations
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First thoughts and tips on EL 7
Generally one RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux (aka EL) release isn’t radically different to another, however the introduction of EL 7 is a bit of a shake up, introducing systemd, which means new init system, new ways of reading logs plus dropping some … Continue reading
Tagged distributions, geek, iptables, lamp, linux, network manager, open source, packages, red hat, rhel, systemd
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MacOS TTY limit
I’m currently trialling the use of MacOS as a primary workstation on my work laptop, I’m probably bit of a power user and MacOS isn’t all that happy with some of the things I throw at it. Generally my activities … Continue reading
Tagged darwin, geek, macos
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