Reification

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Month: February, 2011

Scrobble to Last.fm with Pianobar

Pianobar is an excellent command-line Pandora client. It has support for calling external commands when songs play, pause, skip, et cetera via the event_command directive. With this, we can add a little scrobbling script and get our listening tracks sent to Last.fm. First, cd to ~/.config/pianobar (or mkdir if it doesn’t exist) and paste https://gist.github.com/833064 […]

Puppet bootstrap

When starting a brand-new puppet environment, this is the procedure I usually follow to get a client/server bootstrap. First get puppet installed on two boxes, one will be a master and one (or both) will be clients. (Note: You need some kind of name-resolution infrastructure, either via DNS or /etc/hosts. Puppet clients by default try […]