Puppet is a very nice tool to do a lot of cool stuff, but sometimes it spews out error messages that seems a bit odd to the non Ruby hacker. Ie. if your puppetmaster is down you'll get the following with puppet-0.25.4-r1:err: Could not retrieve c… more »

I'm serving my Mythweb from Lighttpd, and while hacking it a bit I discovered that Lighttpd doesn't log Perl errors to the standard lighttpd error log. It appears that versions after 1.4.19 doesn't allow CGIs to write to the error file.I worked aroun… more »

One of our MythTV frontends is a small Dell netbook with SDD and therefor not much disk space. Therefor I decided to hack MythTV to stream videos from the Mythweb Video interface.First off I had to enable MP4 streaming since I'm often transcoding to… more »

Somehow the Directory structure in the Mythweb videos section is empty using mythweb-0.22_p22763. Perhaps something is b0rked in my setup, so I had to hack it up a bit since the filename in videometadata doesn't overlap with my VideoStartupDir settin… more »

Before I implemented comment captchas on this blog I was flodded with comment spam. Captchas helped a lot! Like removing 95+% of all comment spam, however some still gets through. Deleting a spam comment now and then have irritated me greatly, but until… more »