Using iPXE with a URL to kickstart Linux

Although kickstarting Linux is pretty simple, it can be frustrating if you’re trying to build different versions. Read more »

Toying with Vagrant, Puppet and CentOS 6

Principally my technical life revolves around automating stuff.   Read more »

A quick static webserver, in Perl

Joel Berger blog post on perl.org. Neat.

Perl LWP “error:14094410:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert handshake failure”

Lots and lots of solutions for this one out there in Google land, but it turned out to be much simpler… Read more »

Simplifying Augeas under Puppet

Using Augeas under Puppet is handy for writing adhoc config files, but its syntax can be a bit of a fight.  Read more »

The simplicity of Perl Mojolicious for web get extractions

I’ve been using Mojolicious quite a bit this year, and I love it.

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Perl 5.1x simple set up on RHEL5 derivative

Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS and Scientific Linux 5.x come with Perl 5.8.*. Read more »

Puppet 2.7.11 packages for Solaris

Released to the unstable catalog at OpenCSW.

OS X Lion crashes: Mail, Calendar, System Preferences

That was a rather annoying problem. Read more »

A model for writing Puppet Modules

There are too many Puppet Modules out there that suck, says Tim Sharpe. Read more »