Jason L. Froebe - Tech tips and How Tos for Fellow Techies

I was trying to install Oracle 11g client on to a WinXP box but Symantec Antivirus wouldn’t let me because it thought it was infected with over 800 viruses.  Same file was marked clean on another box.  So, I picked several of the viruses it said was infected with and looked for any evidence of [...]

Assuming that you installed Sybase OpenClient 15.5 from the 15.5 PC Client:
Install ActiveState Perl from http://www.activestate.com (free) and install DBI if it isn’t already installed.  It should be but you never know…

Start -> ActiveState Perl -> Perl Package Manager
install DBI
exit

Now, the easy part.  Install the DBD::Sybase 1.09.01 PPM:

download DBD::Sybase 1.09.01 PPM
extract zip file [...]

Assuming that you installed Sybase OpenClient 15.5 from the 15.5 PC Client:
Install ActiveState Perl from http://www.activestate.com (free) and install DBI if it isn’t already installed.  It should be but you never know…

Start -> ActiveState Perl -> Perl Package Manager
install DBI
exit

Now, the easy part.  Install the DBD::Sybase 1.09 PPM:

download DBD::Sybase 1.09 PPM
extract zip file to temporary [...]

I’ve been trying to get VMware ESXi 4 on my old MSI MS-7388 motherboard for a long time. No matter what I tried, neither the SATA controller on the motherboard or the add on SATA controller would be recognized.
Install VMware ESXi 4.0 on an unsupported motherboard (SATA controller must support AHCI):

make sure the SATA controller(s) [...]

I rebuilt an Ubuntu 9.10 server this past week, ripping off VMware and replacing it with VirtualBox 3.1.2. Setting up VirtualBox as a headless server was very easy with VBoxTool. However, I ran into a problem that I was unable to connect using remote desktop (rdesktop) as any user but the user that [...]