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Changing User Names in Confluence

Posted on August 2, 2010 by stevet

At the office we use Atlassian Confluence as our internal Wiki system. I do like it, but it has some idiosyncrasies. Similar to JIRA there is no internal way to change user names. Not too long ago, I wrote a … Continue reading →

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Samsung Captivate

Posted on July 23, 2010 by stevet

So, I lied in my last post. My newest toy is a Samsung Captivate smart phone. It is powered by Android. I do like it, but all it does take some getting used to the touch screen. My biggest annoyance … Continue reading →

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I think this will be my next toy…

Posted on July 14, 2010 by stevet

I am thinking about getting a Henry Repeating Arms H001T lever action rifle. Here is the beauty. Bud’s wants $320 (plus fees) for it. Not a bad price. Yeah, it is a 22LR. Yeah, it is just a plinker. But … Continue reading →

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Renaming JIRA Users

Posted on July 2, 2010 by stevet

So you use JIRA do you? Nice, so do I. Ever have someone get married? divorced? a typo in their user name? Every try and change it? Yeah, not so easy. Atlassian has not set a release where there will … Continue reading →

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Wednesday Funny

Posted on May 26, 2010 by stevet

An old Italian lived alone in New Jersey . He wanted to plant his annual tomato garden, but it was very difficult work, as the ground was hard. His only son, Vincent, who used to help him, was in prison. … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu eSATA Configuration

Posted on May 24, 2010 by stevet

We use a couple of external hard drive enclosures for offline backups at work. The best connectivity is via eSATA (USB being a bit flakier and much slower). It works great on my Ubuntu 10.04 install on my Dell laptop, … Continue reading →

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MySQL Flush Privileges Error

Posted on May 6, 2010 by stevet

I spent a little time recently creating a new blog to act as a business landing page. To make it simple, I am going to use WordPress. Actually installing WordPress is very simple; just unzip it in the right place … Continue reading →

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Free WiFi at Select Airports

Posted on November 10, 2009 by stevet

I just found out that there will be free wifi at about 40 airports this holiday season. (via LifeHacker). It is offered by Google. Check out the details here: http://www.freeholidaywifi.com/ I am traveling for Thanksgiving but I probably will not … Continue reading →

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An Apology

Posted on August 20, 2009 by stevet

I recently received an email about a rant I made several years ago after the shootings at Virginia Tech. You can read it here. The individual who wrote the email was connected to the wedding party that I made a … Continue reading →

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My Galileoscope Arrived

Posted on July 16, 2009 by stevet

Awhile back I posted about a program to bring telescopes to schools. Specifically the Galileoscope. Well this was on my stoop today: I unpacked it on my dining table and this is what I ended up with: I tried to … Continue reading →

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