Jira installation notes

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These are my notes to get Jira installed and working with a Crowd backend for authentication and single sign on. I’ve already shown you the notes to get Crowd and Confluence installed. Check out the previous articles in the series. As always, these are notes for reference and they may not work perfectly for you, [...]

OS X Java update failed

Java for Mac OS X can't be installed

Recently the update for Java on my Macs failed to install. This is the first time I see an update from Apple not work on my machines. This happened both on my iMac and on my MacBook Pro. To fix this, I got the update directly from Apple and installed it manually, you can find [...]

Troubleshooting the kickstart file

My previous post about CentOS 5.3 ended up somewhat incomplete, and I wanted to finish up by showing how I did a little bit of troubleshooting to fix it. I now can install CentOS 5.3 64bit automagically just by selecting the entry from the PXEboot menu; Love it! There were two problems with the kickstart [...]

Atlassian

Altassian is cool, I like this company. I regularly work with a  lot of their products, namely: Jira, Confluence, Fisheye, Crowd & CrowdID. I’d love to try Bamboo, & Crucible but I haven’t had a need for it yet. I must admit that preparing a server for these applications may be daunting, especially if you [...]

Adding CentOS 5.3 to PXE Boot

Getting Started I needed to add a CentOS 5.3 64bit to our pxeboot environment. Here are the steps I had to take to get this done. Get the DVD iso Mount the dvd somewhere on the system & copy the files to the proper location Create the TFTP supporting files Bonus: Get kickstart working for [...]

Oracle VM manager

Oracle VM Manager Resources Screen

Virtualization is the next big thing in computing. I’ve been using VMware, Qemu, MS Virtual PC and a couple others for years, so it is obvious that virtualization isn’t new. I regularly work on OpenVZ environments where we run dozens of servers in one physical box, and in some cases we’ve been able to reduce [...]

How did he know to put the part about the pursuit of happiness in there?

Just over a year old and I'm considering replacing this with an iPhone

How did he know to put the part about the pursuit of happiness in there? Chris (Will Smith) in The Pursuit of Happyness asks himself the question. And it has struck a chord ever since. The word Happiness certainly seems out of place in such a formal document, yet he thought of it of dire [...]

Multi Touch support for Linux, like the iPhone

Multi-touch support like the iPhone has been developed for Linux. The ENAC group in France has reported a proof of concept project that shows promising advances towards the development of iPhone-like multi-touch support for Linux. There’s a video that shows a demo of the work, the video shows some of thew swipes, two finger motions, [...]

Confluence and Crowd Installation notes.

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Another round of Atlassian applications installations, this time only Jira and Confluence with a Crowd backend for single sign on. We’ll start with Crowd and Confluence, check out the series to find the Jira notes. Here are the notes I made as I went through this round of installation. It should be much simpler than [...]