Adding Time Tracking / Time Estimates to a Kanban project

Time tracking is, rather unhelpfully, not added as standard in Kanban Projects, which is not ideal when it comes to measuring velocity.

Here's how to get it...

Go to your project and select "Project Settings" from the sidebar. Then, click your way to your screen and configure it (e.g. (from Sidebar in Project Settings) Screens -> [pencil icon next to the screen scheme] -> click on desired screen -> Select "Time Tracking" )

Vagrant file sync in Windows

Sometimes, vagrant boxes are provided without the VirtualBox Guest Additions preinstalled (I'm looking at you Centos).

If you need them for shared folders, just install the vagrant-vbguest plugin and add the following line to your Vagrantfile:

config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", type: "virtualbox"

Installing latest version of git on Centos

The Centos repo for git is waaay out of date. Here's how to download an up to date version.

sudo yum -y install epel-release
sudo yum -y groupinstall development
sudo yum -y install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel perl-devel zlib-devel asciidoc xmlto docbook2X wget
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/db2x_docbook2texi /usr/bin/docbook2x-texi

obtain the URL of the version of git that you want to use from https://github.com/git/git/releases
wget <url of git release> -O git.tar.gz
tar -xvf git.tar.gz
cd git*
make all doc prefix=/usr && sudo make install install-doc installhtml install-man prefix=/usr

then run git --version to check if you are now on the one you want.

Fixing a PC Keyboard on a Mac (Home and End keys)

Ensure your Mac has ben set up with a <countryname> PC keyboard profile in preferences.

Then edit (or create) the file ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict

{
  "\UF729"  = moveToBeginningOfParagraph:; // home
  "\UF72B"  = moveToEndOfParagraph:; // end
  "$\UF729" = moveToBeginningOfParagraphAndModifySelection:; // shift-home
  "$\UF72B" = moveToEndOfParagraphAndModifySelection:; // shift-end
  "^\UF729" = moveToBeginningOfDocument:; // ctrl-home
  "^\UF72B" = moveToEndOfDocument:; // ctrl-end
  "^$\UF729" = moveToBeginningOfDocumentAndModifySelection:; // ctrl-shift-home
  "^$\UF72B" = moveToEndOfDocumentAndModifySelection:; // ctrl-shift-end
}

Reboot, and your home and end keys should be working perfectly!

Ubuntu 18.4 - Right click doesn't work on the touchpad

A very quick fix, for a very silly default behaviour...

By default, Ubuntu has been set up to respond to two finger taps  as a secondary / right click. Ah there's nothing like trying to alienate Windows users eh?

To fix this behaviour, you need to install the Gnome Tweaks tool.

You can do this in the terminal with:

$ sudo apt install gnome-tweak-tool

Or just hit the Windows key and type 'tweak' and select Gnome Tweak

Once installed, run the app, go to Keyboard and Mouse and chnage the Mouse Click Options to Area.

Boom! Right click is behaving like it should :)

Automatically remove old kernels versions

Centos

sudo yum install yum-utils -y
sudo package-cleanup --oldkernels --count=2

Ubuntu

Free up space if you don't have any on your /boot partition

Find out which kernel you are running uname -r

Delete files that are not related to that kernel (e.g. rm *-79-*)

Now you have space you can run apt-get autoremove --purge

if you have any errors coming up add -f to force the command to complete 

finally, stop it happening again by editing /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades and changing:

//Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Dependencies "false";

to 

Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Dependencies "true";

Get graylog running on port 80 instead of 9000

If you are building a single service server (and if you are doing anything with log files the chances are that you are... then you might want to get Graylog working on a convenient port, like 80 rather than the default 9000.

By default ports below 1024 are privileged and normal applications are not allowed to run on them.

If you search the internet there are loads of conversations about how to do it the right way... well that is too complicated for me, so here's a quick and dirty way to get it set up.

Just run the service using the root user rather than the graylog user - yeah I know, all kinds of a bad idea if this is externally facing, but if it's internal then I think it'll be alright.

In Ubuntu:

sudo vim /etc/graylog/server/server.conf

Change the port number for rest_listen_uri and web_listen_uri to 80

sudo vim  /usr/lib/systemd/system/graylog-server.service

Change
User=graylog to User=root
Group=graylog to Group=root

Exit and run
systemctl deamon-reload
to apply the changes you just made