Author Archives: Mark

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 »

Perl WWW::Mechanize test fails – odd address for HTML::Daemon->new(LocalAddr =>)

This has me scratching my head. Read more »

Puppet 2.7.9 & Facter 1.6.4 released at OpenCSW

I’ve ramped Puppet and Facter to be the latest versions at OpenCSW. Read more »

OS X Lion Mail app corrupts attachments

I’ve had the Mail app on OS X Lion crash a few times on me lately. Read more »

Creating VMware ESXi virtuals using the Perl SDK

I’ve been tinkering with the Perl SDK for VMware this last week. Read more »

VMware Perl SDK error “Server version unavailable..”

Whilst working with the VMware Perl SDK this morning I came across this error: Read more »

The Puppet Cookbook is out

John Arundel‘s excellent Puppet Cookbook has finally been released. Read more »