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16 Mar 2012
Using the ENC together with site.pp. What is this madness?Puppet has this real neat concept of an external node classifier (ENC) that lets you define your nodes in some way that’s not Puppet. If you have your nodes stored in anything from an LDAP database to even an Excel spreadsheet and you can write a script to connect to... Read more…
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22 Dec 2009
Python DB-API is terrible, or how to return dictionaries from a database queryDo you, like me, pull out your hair and get the almost irresistible urge to murder small cute things when forced to use Python’s DB-API? Despite being under development for many years it seems to be half-baked at best. One such idiocy would be the utter lack of dictionary support,... Read more…
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14 Dec 2006
The boy who cried trollThere once was a college student who was bored as he sat before his PC trying to concentrate on his Computer Science homework. To amuse himself, he started up his IRC client and joined the channel of his local Linux Users Group. --> pzpz (n=pzpz@sb0179068.vpn.wsu.edu) has joined #wsulug <pzpz> hey... Read more…