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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 installation, [...]

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 [...]

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. Tweet This Post

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!). [...]

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 powered by performancing firefox Tweet [...]

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: Mar 16 [...]

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 [...]

After some serious struggle attempting to get Roller working under JBoss I had stumbled across this article that outlines the basic procedure required. I followed the steps as identified but still encountered various errors. Below are my findings and what I had to modify to get the installation to function. 1)The security policy that needs [...]