Category Archives: Geek Out

Geeky things. Expect things about blog configuration, firewall stuff, computer hardware, geek jokes, Linux, e-mail, and other stuff.

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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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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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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A working Gmail preview *and* secure e-mail

Posted on June 18, 2009 by stevet

The Gmail gadget does not support the “Always use https” preference.  Does this annoy you? I started getting that awhile back when on my iGoogle personalized home page and it looks like Google is not going to fix it.  Boo. … Continue reading →

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Installing Dell Open Manage (OMSA) on RedHat

Posted on June 10, 2009 by stevet

This is specifically for RHEL5, but it should work similarly on older RHEL and CentOS. First install the repo: wget -q -O – http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/OMSA_5.5/bootstrap.cgi | bash Then you may get an error from yum about “–disableplugin”. If so, clean the … Continue reading →

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Ruby on Rails – First Attempt

Posted on May 18, 2009 by stevet

I am going to give Ruby on Rails a whirl over the next couple of months, so I built a CentOS 5.3 virtual machine to try it out on. This post deals with the installation and getting a simple application … Continue reading →

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BalanceNG Experts?

Posted on March 10, 2009 by stevet

I know this is a long shot but are there any BalanceNG experts or reasonably adept users that can help me out? I have a reasonably simple setup but trying to get a VIP on one LAN to balance to … Continue reading →

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