Debugging Elusive Puppet Errors
On working on some puppet manifests I hit this error message: $ sudo puppetd -t err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass warning: Not using cache...
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Ubuntu: Spotify Screensaver Toggle
New version: I’ve updated the script to use D-bus with spotify for Linux version 0.4.8 see Spotify Screensaver Toggle with D-bus for further information. In a previous post, Lock Screen and Pause...
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Inverting Screen Colours for Late-Night Hacking
I’ve recently found it really hurts my eyes when working late at night going from a terminal (which is black background and light text) to a browser window like google.com with a large expanse of...
View ArticleFake SMTP server with Python
The other day a colleague was testing some code which relied on sending mail to a local mailserver and it was failing when the mailserver couldn’t be found. Needing to install postfix seemed overkill...
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Spotify ScreenSaver Toggle with D-bus
UPDATE! – see This post for the latest version of the spotify screensaver toggle The latest version of the spotify client for linux (0.4.8) has added partial mpris support. This is great as it means...
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Android: Force Moving Apps to an SD Card
This isn’t anything new but I thought I would share my experiences of trying to free space on my HTC desire by forcing apps to be movable to the sd card using the android SDK on linux. WARNING: Ensure...
View ArticleUpdating Vim to Use Plugins From Branches
I decided the other evening that I should refresh my vim plugins to pick up any updates that have landed since the last time I updated them. The downside is that every time I want to do this, I have...
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Linux: Spotify Track Notifier with added D-Bus love
I’ve recently updated the spotify notifier example I’d previously posted as an example along with my spotify screensaver script. First, I made an update to have it listen to the PropertiesChanged...
View ArticleLinux: Spotify Screensaver D-Bus Script update
Following on from my previous post about a script to Pause and Play tracks on spotify based on the status of the screensaver as reported by D-Bus on a Linux Desktop, here’s an update: With the latest...
View ArticleFixing pbuilder dependency 404 errors
If you’re building packages with pbuilder sometimes you might hit something like the following errors which cause the build to fail because the dependencies can’t be found. Err...
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