[dba-Tech] Changing coloring scheme for Midnight Commander - the most pupular file manager on unix like systems

 Hi Jim --

> with the current rate, of only $5.00, it is hard to resist...
> and it is a good opportunity to get up to speed in Cloud technology and deployment. 
Yes.

> If you find some good tutorials please let me know.
This one seems to be good for starters:

"Puppet Tutorial for Linux: Powering up with Puppet"
http://bitfieldconsulting.com/puppet-tutorial

Here is a "Learning Puppet" VM:
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/  (Unfortunately there is no Hyper-V VM version - hopefully they make one real soon as they announced cooperation with MS Windows Azure).

BTW, I have read somewhere that with Puppet manifest files you describe *what* target system configuration you wanted to get built by running Puppet not *how* this target system configuration should be built. And you can get at *any* target system configuration starting from *any* source system configuration. Correct? - it sounds quite a bit sci-fi/AI for me. Well, all that "magic" could probably happen within one operation system only.

Now, if Hans could tutor us how to write a Puppet manifest file to get  Ubuntu Xfce setting-up for a clean Ubuntu 12.x DigitalOcean droplet? :)

Here is intial info on " How To Install Puppet on a DigitalOcean VPS":
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-puppet-on-a-digitalocean-vps

https://github.com/jalli/puppet-module-xfce/blob/master/manifests/init.pp


Thank you.

-- Shamil


Sat, 5 Apr 2014 21:45:21 -0600 (MDT) from Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca>:
>Hi Shamil:
>
>Glad to hear everything worked out well. I think I will run up a site or two myself...with the current rate, of only $5.00, it is hard to resist...and it is a good opportunity to get up to speed in Cloud technology and deployment. 
>
>I have never played with Puppet but do have some experience building scripts for rolling out Microsoft networks. 
>
>With Microsoft's involvement with Puppet, it sounds like it could become a universal solution for all enterprise site...something well worth learning. If you find some good tutorials please let me know.
>
>Jim
>
>PS Hans has a fair bit of experience using Puppet. 
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Salakhetdinov Shamil" < mcp2004 at mail.ru >
>To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" < dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com >
>Sent: Saturday, 5 April, 2014 3:07:07 AM
>Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Changing coloring scheme for Midnight Commander - the most pupular file manager on unix like systems
>
> Hi Jim --
>
>Thank you, it worked - I have got Xfce Desktop GUI shell up&running on DigitalCloud Ubuntu 12.x droplet.
>And I have got connected to that desktop via MS Windows 8 RDP.
>I will post video clips later this evening.
>
>Now, I will have to learn some Puppet (  http://puppetlabs.com/ ) "tricks" to get that setup automated - looking for a tutor... :)
>
>BTW, "New Integrations with Microsoft Azure and Visual Studio":   http://puppetlabs.com/blog/new-integrations-windows-azure-and-visual-studio
>
>-- Shamil
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