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

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.  [...]

This should work with any Dell Latitude laptop but YMMV.
wget -q -O – http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/bootstrap.cgi > dell_bootstrap.sh
sudo bash dell_bootstrap.sh
sudo aptitude install firmware-addon-dell firmware-tools
sudo aptitude install $(sudo bootstrap_firmware -a)
sudo update_firmware –yes
After upgrading the BIOS, you will need to perform a warm reboot (System -> Quit -> Restart). You don’t need to boot into Windows to upgrade [...]

Because Sybase has yet to address the GLIBC (LD_POINTER_GUARD) issue with any of their products on Linux, we are forced to find alternative ways of getting Sybase software to run on modern Linux distribution.  In this situation, we will be using the Ubuntu 8.04 Just Enough OS (Ubuntu JEOS) Linux distribution.
After installing Ubuntu 8.04 Server [...]