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After weeks of frustration with my RHEL terminal windows closing themselves after a small interval of inactivity, (go for lunch and my terminals were closed)… I finally found out the solution to prevent this ‘default’ behaviour that comes in RHEL.
The /etc/profile was the culprit.  Simply remove the following lines or update them to a much [...]

In Vmware server 1.04, you can use the following process to rename the vmdk files:
1. Copy folder, rename vmx file
2. Edit machine, change hostname
3. Rename vdmk
4. Edit settings and add disk you just renamed as existing disk (remove old one)
5. Start vm and check it works (don’t forget to use newsid)
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Below are the installation note’s I captured in installing Oracle10.2.0.1 on a Fedora 8 workstation. For some reason installations ofOracle on Fedora linux in past never went as smooth as hoped.. I washowever relatively happy with how things turned out on F8 and its niceto see some of the old problems, like hanging during [...]

Create a script that you’ll be able to setup as a cron entry to run daily. For a FC7 mirror I used the following:

#!/bin/bash
ARCH=i386 # Set to the architecture of your systems

# Mirror found at: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/7/
# Be sure to include trailing slash.
RELEASES_DIR=/clientdata/yum/fedora/releases/7/Fedora/$ARCH/
RELEASES_URL=rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/7/Fedora/$ARCH/
CORE_DIR=/clientdata/yum/fedora/releases/7/Live/$ARCH/os/
CORE_URL=rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/7/Live/i386/os/
UPDATES_URL=rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/updates/7/$ARCH/
UPDATES_DIR=/clientdata/yum/fedora/updates/7/$ARCH/

mkdir -p $RELEASES_DIR
cd $RELEASES_DIR || exit
rsync –recursive –delete -v $RELEASES_URL .

mkdir [...]

This is something I use quite often though always forget the host.. so thought to blog it here… To remotely sync your linux system time use the following command:
rdate -s time-a.nist.gov
Seems easy enough.. but I still manage to forget it!.. The old servers like clock.redhat.com don’t seem to work anymore.
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Fedora’s latest release is proving really nice.  Alot of work has gone into porting some of the cool XGL widgets into the native desktop using xorg extensions.  For example the famous ‘cube’ desktop switch… as simple as using the sytem preferences menu to enable desktop effects (at least assuming your video drivers are all supported!).
I [...]

Stumbled across a good page with some information on obtaining vmware license keys.  Essentially all that is really required is that you register.. but suprisingly this wasn’t very easy to get to from the website.click here to receive your free serial number(s). ( non-expiring license key) free vm license keys

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The NSIS source files are shipped with every official NSIS distribution as well with the development snapshots. The binary files distributed with the NSIS releases are compiled with the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler. The source has also been tested to be compatible with the Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2002/2003 compiler. The NSIS distribution includes [...]

I‘m rnning a linux server (fc3) that I have samba mounted to a windows 2000 client. In order to have linux successfully print all documents sent from the windows client a RAW queue may be necessary.
The following errors were visible in the /var/log/messages file when attempting to print a MS Word document:

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Unfortunately there is a very pitiful amount of good documentation about how to properly configure Apache and Jboss. The apache site now declares that jk2 is no longer being developed, however try as I might I was not able to get jk to work with my configuration. After reverting back to jk2 I eventually got [...]