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

Ever want to just install the minimal amount of Oracle client software for client applications on Linux? Well, Oracle has provided Oracle Instant Client to do this but they have neglected to make it intuitive to install. I’ve written a couple scripts that make it easy on Linux. I’ve tested this on [...]

I’ve been tasked with becoming an Oracle DBA, so I need to be able to create an VMware Server image containing 32 bit Ubuntu 8.04.1 Server JEOS and Oracle 10g. Much of the work was taken from Augusto Bott’s Installing Oracle 11g on Ubuntu Linux 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) and Peter Cooper’s How to Install [...]

I’m sorry folks, I got wrapped up in the ways of the physical world and then was sick the past few days.
Recently I tried installing vmware tools in a Ubuntu 8.04.1 JEOS Server virtual machine with no success.  After a bit of googling, I came across the Peter Cooper’s blog that outlined the procedure rather [...]

MyDatabases Volume 1 Issue 1 (July 2008)

MyDatabases Volume 1 Issue 1
Geek Spotlight:  Michael Peppler
Sybase ASE on Ubuntu 8.04
Multicore Processors
VMware Virtualization
Logical Process Manager

A few months ago, I tried getting Radmin 3.2 Viewer to work with Wine but wasn’t able.  Radmin 2 Viewer worked wonderfully but wasn’t compatible with the Radmin 3.2 Server software that we use at work.
With Wine 1.0.0, I was able to download the viewer and install it.  No special configuration… just a straight install.  [...]