by Jason L Froebe on June 30, 2008, 2 comments
I thought it would be possible to add a virtual device file to a running virtual machine and have it show up in the virtual machine without restarting the virtual machine. I was wrong. The current VMware Server 1.0.6 is incapable of doing this. What you can do is to set up the device file [...]
by Jason L Froebe on April 8, 2008, one comment
This year’s Flourish Conference was held at the University of Illinois in downtown Chicago (UIC). The Flourish web site describes Flourish as: The goal of the Flourish Conference is to promote the use and adoption of Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) by demonstrating the practical applications of FLOSS in the business and academic world. [...]
by Jason L Froebe on January 17, 2008, 2 comments
My mom’s new Dell Vostro 1500 laptop worked quite well until we hooked it up to her Dell All In One 962 Photo printer. When we installed the printer driver software, we received a MFC C++ 6.0 “runtime error” on the dlbxmon.exe program. Reinstalling the software made no difference. What did was a full uninstall [...]
by Jason L Froebe on November 13, 2007, 4 comments
There still seems to be a steep learning curve when it comes to Sybase’s PowerBuilder. In this specific case, PB11 is no easier. What *I* personally would like to see is: step by step online tutorials to create a multitude of projects – from simple ‘hello world’ applications to database connected applications to .NET to [...]
by Jason L Froebe on April 4, 2007, no comments
In Chris Brown‘s Virtualization and ASE blog post, he brings up the question of whether Sybase’s ASE can be used in a virtual environment (VMWare, Xen, etc) but doesn’t answer it. I’ve been using various databases in virtual environments for several years, here is what I found out: Running ASE, ASIQ, or SQL Anywhere under [...]