A couple of new articles have crept out recently. The first is me pretending to understand DNS. DNS Configuration for the SCAN used with Oracle RAC Database 11g Release 2 I used this configuration in place of the “/etc/hosts” in my VMware RAC installation and it worked great. The second is a brief romp through [...]
This produced a full on belly laugh.* http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/16/traffic_incident/ Especially the “…despite her attempts to evade…” bit. If you were wondering what “Bulgarian Airbags” are… http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/03/bulgarian_airbags/ Cheers Tim… * I have a big belly, so you can imagine how funny I found it.
Since I upgraded my desktop to CentOS 5.4 I’ve been getting loads of problems with VMware Server 2.x. I did a bit of Googling today and it turns out it’s a known problem. I followed the workaround listed at the following URL and it works fine now. https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=23365&start=0#forumpost91494 If you are struggling with VMware Server [...]
Having seen the fuss over Google Chrome for Linux I decided to jump on the bandwagon and download it. When I tried to install it I was met with this message: # rpm -i google-chrome-beta_current_x86_64.rpm warning: google-chrome-beta_current_x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 7fac5991 error: Failed dependencies: lsb >= 3.2 is needed by google-chrome-beta-4.0.249.30-33928.x86_64 [...]
I had a play around yesterday and installed Oracle 11gR2 on Fedora 12: Fedora 12 (F12) Installation Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) Installation On Fedora 12 (F12) I think this might be the last time I install Oracle on Fedora. Why? For two reasons: When I first started doing installs on Red Hat 7 [...]