Posted by Jan Polnicky on Aug 19, 2009
Today I tested OracleVM (OVM) templates on their own distribution of Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) 5 with seeded VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.2 for X. All went fine, but the VNC connection to virtual machine was not painless as I expected.
[root@oram ~]# rpm -qa "vnc|xen"
kernel-xen-2.6.18-128.el5
xen-3.0.3-80.el5
kmod-gfs-xen-0.1.31-3.el5
kmod-cmirror-xen-0.1.21-10.el5
vnc-4.1.2-14.el5
kmod-gnbd-xen-0.1.5-2.0.1.el5
vnc-server-4.1.2-14.el5
On a brand new OEL5 system with virtualization support, I have created a new virtual machine with a fresh OEL4 (plain OS), and set appropriate memory for the virtual domain using the Xen management user interface commands. I also checked if the VNC port was allocated with the command virsh dumpxml:
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Posted by Jan Polnicky on Apr 2, 2009
I have enjoyed reading Sheeri’s nice MySQL “Pop Quiz” series, and, knowing that practise greatly increases the retention time of information in our minds, I thought I would start a series of quizzes of my own, only to do with Oracle.
Here’s a an easy one to begin with. How do you drop a job with job_name in lower case using DBMS_SCHEDULER on Oracle 10g?
SQL> SELECT owner,'.'||job_name||'.' job_name
FROM all_scheduler_jobs;
OWNER JOB_NAME
------- ----------
DEV .job1.
1 rows selected.
Note: The syntax '.'||job_name||'.' is used only to confirm that there are no spaces in the job name.
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Posted by Jan Polnicky on Jul 23, 2008
I found myself, as a fresh member of The Pythian Group, losing precious moments just to change a few standard administrative settings on my new laptop with Microsoft Windows Vista. Having found the answers, I’m sharing them with you so that you can save some time, or spend it more pleasurably out in the summer.
User Account Control (UAC)
Too many prompts and confirmations for admin tasks? Set “Elevate without prompting” for “User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode” under Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Local Security Policy -> Security Settings -> Local Policies -> Security Options. Ref: UAC on Wikipedia.
Windows Vista Features
By default, telnet is not installed with Windows Vista. To (re-)enable it, select the Telnet Client check box in Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Programs and Features -> “Turn Windows features on or off”. Then, Windows Features dialog -> Telnet Client. Now you may use telnet from the command prompt as you are used to in XP. Ref: FAQ on windowshelp.microsoft.com
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