Task: Configure a Windows 2008 R2 server to host 64-bit SharePoint web part calling Oracle database on another machine. aka, “Overcome the ‘ODP.NET: The provider is not compatible with the version of Oracle client’ error.” Host: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS Desktop Edition VirtualBox 3.2.12 r68302 Oracle 10g Express By default, the web interface for Oracle XE [...]
My first major foray into Gnu/Linux was with the Gentoo flavor. Some of my friends used Debian, but the whole idea of Gentoo just appealed more to me. Once I knew a lot more of what was going on under the hood, I was attracted to Ubuntu for its focus on the desktop, while still [...]
Here it is. Not that impressive and from reading the reviews, it might be a cheap plastic piece of crap. I thought that mine was. I couldn’t get it to work under Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 or OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. I don’t have any personal windows machines any more that aren’t virtual. Anyway, I [...]
After running Ubuntu Karmic Koala for about a month on the my Dell D420, I have decided to give OS X a try. I started here. Ended up here. 10.5 was a bust. 10.6 works great! The process I used was: 1. Get 10.6 disc or disc image. 2. Make an external hard drive version [...]
Just a quick post to let everyone out there that still owns this monitor that you can use it nicely under Gnu/Linux, you just have to set the sync and refresh rates in your xorg.conf. My Ubuntu install didn’t do it auto-magically, so I had to go look. Looks like someone was still using theirs [...]
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