I just noticed VirtualBox 4.2.8 has been born. The downloads and changelog are in the usual places. Happy upgrading. Cheers Tim…
Followers of the blog will know I dig virtualization. I first ran Oracle in virtualized environments over a decade ago. In my current company there is a strong virtualization presence in the Windows space. Pretty much all Windows servers, including those running MS SQL Server, are actually VMs running on a VMware farm. The UNIX/Linux side is [...]
The recent ruling on the Oracle vs. HP case throws a lifeline to those customers already committed to Oracle on Itanium, like my current company, but what does this really mean as far as new customers are concerned? Now this is just my opinion and you are free to disagree, but as far as I’m [...]
I was recently part of a 3-part podcast about the ACE program. You can listen to all 3 parts here: An inside look at the Oracle ACE program Thanks to Bob Rhubart for the invite and to the other members of the panel (Vikki Lira, Alex Gorbachev and Debra Lilley). Cheers Tim…
After several abortive attempts I finally got hold of Fedora 18 last night. Those mirrors are getting a real battering at the moment. The first job was to do a basic installation. Fedora 18 (F18) Installation I’d seen a few things written about the new installer, not all of which were positive. IMHO the installation [...]
As promised in a recent post, I’ve updated the Oracle 11gR2 RAC on Oracle Linux 5 article. It now uses VirtualBox 4.2.6, rather than 3.2.8 as it was before, and Oracle Linux 5.8. I’ve purposely left it as an 11.2.0.1 installation as you can get this from OTN without needing access to My Oracle Support [...]
I spent today updating my Oracle 11gR2 RAC installation on OL6 article. The original article used an older version of VirtualBox , which meant some of the screen shots looked a little dated. It’s now updated to VirtualBox 4.2.6, so it should be a little less confusing for anyone who is new to VirtualBox. I’ll probably [...]
This morning I read this post about Oracle Cloud from Tuula Fai. What really annoys me about this post is I was at Oracle OpenWorld (about 3 years ago) when Larry was on stage telling us that Cloud was a meaningless fad. Fast forward to OOW 2012 and it would be easy to believe that [...]
This is a bit of a vanity post, so excuse me blowing my own trumpet. I just took a look at the speaker evaluation feedback from UKOUG 2012 and it was pretty good. Only 4 of the people left “wordy” feedback: Could have done with more time. Just the sort of presentation I came to conference [...]
I just saw Fat Bloke‘s post about VirtualBox 4.2.6. You can get the downloads and the changelog from the usual places. Happy upgrading! Cheers Tim…