Overriding Facter facts from Puppet modules

by Jeff Strunk on Apr 25 2013

At this time, the 'virtual' fact in Facter returns 'physical' if the system is running in LXC. There is a custom fact on github to detect LXC, but the output is not very convenient for use with Hiera. This is how I overrode the 'virtual' fact to work with LXC.

Some Hypercorrections: "Gonna to", "Gotta to", "Wanna to", and "Hafta to"

by Jeff Strunk on Apr 16 2013

Today Jessi was reading an article about a judge allegedly murdering prosecutors in North Texas. She turned to me and asked what does "gotta to" mean?

An HP Velotechnik Streetmachine GTE with no chaintubes.

by Jeff Strunk on Jan 17 2013

As far as I can tell, no one else has done this.

There were no photos of my bike on this blog!

by Jeff Strunk on Jan 17 2013

I have no idea how it slipped my mind! I have this blog that is supposed to be about bicycles, but I never put a picture of my bicycle on it.

LDAP Authentication with Simple Binds on OS X Lion 10.7.2

by Jeff Strunk on Oct 14 2011

Last week Apple released OS X 10.7.2. They fixed the bug that allowed one to use any password to login when LDAP authentication is enabled. Now one can't use any password to login. Fortunately, I found a workaround for this bug.