The best software has a vision. The best software takes sides. Make Opinionated Software There’s been a lot of discussion around David Heinemeier Hanssons principle of “opinionated software”. Some people say that “to David, a piece of opinionated software is written in such a way that makes it easy to do things one way and […]
Under Windows 2k and XP exists no keyboard shortcut in cmd.exe to copy and past text. You need not only use your mouse but hit the proximity icon in the top left and choose edit|mark, edit|copy and so on. cmd has a special mode named QuickEdit which can be enabled via the following command REG.EXE […]
As a last post in the series (1, 2, 3, 4): Installing the latest and greatest incarnation of the Oracle Database named “Oracle 11g” on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 running as a paravirtualized machine on Oracle VM Server. Honestly, i was afraid of installing Oracle the first time under a linux environment but i must […]
Installing the latest incarnation of Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 as a paravirtualized machine in Oracle VM Server is a bit tricky. The OEL5 is delivered as 5 iso files, cd images they are. The Oracle VM Manager is only able to install the patched paravirtualized guest system from one installation medium. Damn it, they praise […]
As promised, i’d like to share some experience with installing the new “Oracle VM Server”. The product isn’t as new as Oracle wants you to believe, it’s based on Xen 3.1.1 “with many, many performance enhancements done by our engineers”. We’ll see. After unpacking our shiny new Dell (The rabat action was entitled “My First […]