Bas Grolleman’s Blog

Place where I put my written thoughts, though I usually just make video’s these days

Chat Guidelines

These are my personal guidelines when using chat, I’m putting them in writing to avoid confusion. Some things like ping and afk might look strange to those that missed the IRC age. It’s mostly for one on one chats but they work with group chat’s most...

Generate true unique server-id for mysql using puppet

I found a few solutions on the net, but people just attach the last 2 digits and I would like to avoid issues like this where 10.0.1.11 and 10.0.11.1 would both produce server-id 111. So to fix that, I seperate the IP and multiply the 3rd digit by a 1000. $serverid =...
Getting Portify to run on Ubuntu (13.04)

Getting Portify to run on Ubuntu (13.04)

So, wife want’s to transfer from Spotify to Google Music. Luck would have it that there is a tool to do that. Quick disclaimer, These are the steps I did to get it to work on my Ubuntu 13.04 install Portify isn’t fully stable, it stopped/hanged a couple of...
Autokey-GTK

Autokey-GTK

I love playing with autokey-gtk, as it saves me a lot of keystrokes and helps improve my workflow. It’s also the main reason I will not be switching to any other OS like ChromeOS I’ll try and post a few of my scripts once in  awhile, it uses python code so...
Building a Hackintosh!

Building a Hackintosh!

So, I hate Apple with a passion. They make great hardware, but you are limited in choice and if something breaks you can bet your sorry ass that your system is under repair for a couple of weeks.  I run Ubuntu, thank you very much. But, my wife Maaike Appels has to...