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In a previous post I said that UltraEdit moves through beta really quickly. Today I’m rocking UltraEdit v4.0 Release Candidate on Fedora 18…

Cheers

Tim…

Last year I wrote an article about the installation of Oracle Forms and Reports Services 11gR2 on Oracle Linux 5. I’ve now written the article for Oracle Forms and Reports Services 11gR2 on Oracle Linux 6. The latest patch of F&RS is certified for OL6, along with JDK6 and JDK7.

In addition to the installation articles, I’ve compiled a collection of random notes about post-installation configuration into a separate article. I keep adding to it every time I come across a new (for me) issue.

Hot on the heels of the recent UltraEdit v19 release for Windows, comes the UltraEdit v4 Beta II release for Linux/Mac.

I’ve just started using it and so far so good. They usually progress through the betas pretty quick. I didn’t have time to install the beta I before this one dropped.

Cheers

Tim…

I spent yesterday neatening up a few old articles. For the most part it is a bit of a dull process, but it has to be done every so often.

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 a little different. Most stuff is still done on physical boxes and what little virtualization is done, uses CentOS and KVM for freebie open source solutions.

There are a lot of architectural changes going on at the moment and I’ve been pushing *very hard* for a switch to the virtual infrastructure (VI) for all our middle tier servers and a few of our databases. It is looking very likely (but not guaranteed) that this will happen.

To use ASMlib or not to use ASMlib? That is the question. Or at least, that is a question that frequently crops up when I'm on consulting engagements with customers. I have personally changed my mind a couple of times on this exact question, and I'm currently sat with one leg on either side of [...]

I mentioned in my previous post on this subject that I had 5 more objectives yet to cover. The articles for those objectives have now been added to the website.

I was using UltraEdit 3.3 on Fedora 17 with no problems. After the upgrade to Fedora 18 it continued to work fine. Then I noticed there was a newer build of 3.3 on the IDM website, so I downloaded and installed it. Unfortunately, it didn’t work. I guess it was a later build for Fedora 17, not a new Fedora 18 build.

I dropped the guys at IDM an email and they did a new build straight away and it worked fine. This build is available from the website now.

It’s nice when people write cool apps and back them up with good service when you need help!

Cheers

Tim…

Recently I was asked to look at a virtual (linux) system which needed to be moved to a new datacenter. If you want to determine if you are on VM Ware, you can use either lspci or dmidecode. A little searching on the internet revealed it’s reasonably easy to determine the version of VMWare ESX using the BIOS Information:

case $( dmidecode | grep -A4 "BIOS Information" | grep Address | awk '{ print $2 }' ) in
"0xE8480" ) echo "ESX 2.5" ;;
"0xE7C70" ) echo "ESX 3.0" ;;
"0xE7910" ) echo "ESX 3.5" ;;
"0xE7910" ) echo "ESX 4"   ;;
"0xEA550" ) echo "ESX 4U1" ;;
"0xEA2E0" ) echo "ESX 4.1" ;;
"0xE72C0" ) echo "ESX 5"   ;;
"0xEA0C0" ) echo "ESX 5.1" ;;
* ) echo "Unknown version: "
dmidecode | grep -A4 "BIOS Information" 
;;
esac

Sources:

I’m a few days into Fedora 18 and I think I’ve come the the conclusion that the desktop that best suits *me* is MATE. The journey to this point has been a rather long and meandering one. Let’s cut it short and start at GNOME2.