Post-upgrade first World problems are here. A friend who recently upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus LTS told me that Cisco AnyConnect VPN doesn’t work anymore. So I wanted to give it a try. In Ubuntu 14.04 what you’d normally do is installing the three packages network-manager-openconnect, network-manager-openconnect-gnome and openconnect (or may be two of them – can’t recall). However, ...
Truecrypt died two years back. Despite their warning I continued to use it for encrypting some of my data, because I believe Truecrypt was rather killed by a hidden hand – not actually because of any unfixable vulnerabilities. So, straight to the topic; a new Ubuntu LTS is here and everyone is upgrading. I wanted to install it from the ...
I screwed it up again. I logged into one of my e-mail accounts from a shared computer owned by someone else. This is something I never do (unless there’s a top urgency) because I fear keyloggers. So now, time has come to change the passwords. Next factor of two factor authentication will keep me protected, but still need to fix ...
I’m not an ambassador for Adaptavist, but just blogging this piece just in case if anyone finds interesting. In some JIRA workflow configurations you might let certain statuses to allow any status transition inbound. This effectively allows a “transition loop”, making it possible to transition to itself. In UI/UX perspective, this wastes screen space for an additional transition button. For ...
Recently I encountered a little accident and thought I should keep this little note written somewhere. We, Sri Lankan are usually reluctant to go for medical advice when damage appears to be small. “Ah.. it’s nothing. It’ll heal.”, is it? We get most of our medical expenses covered by the government, and for these little things we are less likely ...
Here’s a little post for JIRA Administrators. One of the major culprits, if JIRA runs slow, is the number of custom fields. What makes your JIRA to have so many custom fields? Because JIRA is customizable and so easy doing that, whenever a colleague of yours calls and say we want a new custom field, you go ahead and you ...
As per the documentation provided in the following page, once you query ALL_TAB_COLUMNS, database views and view columns are also included. There’s nowhere specified whether the table is actually a table or a view. http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14237/statviews_2094.htm However, with the following SQL it’s easy to exclude views and retrieve table columns only. select table_name, column_name, data_type, data_length, ...
A rare mongoose hit my bike’s front wheel few minutes ago while I was riding, just near the entrance of the general cemetery. The shock felt like a severe hit, but luckily that guy survived. I turned back to see any injuries, but the engine’s scream made him run away, even though injured. This shocked me, because, nowadays we don’t ...
Wunderlist killed its app for Ubuntu long time back. And then it was bought by Microsoft, so I hardly think there will be a Linux app ever again. For a long time I didn’t use Wunderlist, but I thought of giving it a try once again. I figured out that pinning Wunderlist tab on Firefox works to some extent. Today ...
So, that happened and I had to spend a considerable amount of time choosing new passwords. I really didn’t write about how I manage my passwords. I thought about writing this tip because it’s a game of battle between convenience and confidentiality. People choose weak passwords because they are easy to remember. But easy to guess at the same time. ...
Recently I saw a funny YouTube ad. Actually two of them. That made both of them look funny. Two consecutive ads from two multilevel marketing persons from the same scheme! Two people competing each other telling me the same yada yada. Each person was trying their best to convince the viewer to visit own website. Funny thing is, I saw ...
Wunderlist again. Currently this is the only Microsoft thing that I use – apart of Windows servers involved in my DevOps job. Wunderlist hasn’t been treating nice for Ubuntu recently. So I thought about working on something that works for Ubuntu. Then here I got an idea of a very small app that will embed your day action items into ...
[Experimental] If you are a JIRA system administrator, have you ever come across the requirement of partially exporting JIRA into XML – probably for importing individual projects into another JIRA instance? If yes, this might work for you. However, my work is incomplete and experimental. This worked with a small JIRA instance (100 issues), and failed with a huge JIRA ...
One of the coolest JIRA add-ons you could find in the market is LucidChart. LucidChart is an easy-to-use diagramming software. However, once you start using it in your JIRA, it stores diagrams in it’s own way. Have you ever come across a requirement to find all issues in your JIRA instance that contains LucidChart diagrams? Well, I’m on JIRA 6.x ...
A rare mongoose hit my bike’s front wheel few minutes ago while I was riding, just near the entrance of the general cemetery. The shock felt like a severe hit, but luckily that guy survived. I turned back to see any injuries, but the engine’s scream made him run away, even though injured. This shocked me, because, nowadays we don’t ...
My 3-year old laptop’s DVD drive no longer works correctly, so I had to find an alternative method to install the fresh out of the oven Maverick Meerkat. So it’s USB. First I tried unetbootin but it seemed not installing the bootloader properly. Since I’m not familiar with GRUB2 it would’ve been extra workaround for me. Fortunately there was a ...
September was of course not a good time for me. After finishing my internship I was expecting to write some damn good blog articles, but fate was against me this time. Early in the last month our home router seemed to be malfunctioning. We handed it over to claim the warranties, and till then no ...
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