Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Changing the DAS Console Product Logo
Oracle has given lip service to those who feel the urge to re-brand everything by providing the ability to upload a “realm logo” for the 10g AS DAS Console. Doc for this is here. Unfortunately the result doesn’t look quite right, at least to me. First of all, the default behavior is not to display the custom logo until the user is actually logged in. Even when they are, they’ll still see the Oracle product logo unless you uncheck “Product Logo”. A possible solution after the bump.
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Thursday, August 5, 2010
Who said using Java isn’t any fun?
So, last week Eclipse broke because Oracle pushed a new update for Java that changed the company name field from “Sun Microsystems” to “Oracle”. The comments attached to a Slashdot story about the problem were merciless. Being predominently a Linux geek publication, the expected animus to Java in general was right out front. Here’s a sampling:
Lemme guess, you’re sweating bullets wondering if you’re going to spend all night pissing on fires while the C guys laugh at you and drink beer?
When to fix the time in an Oracle AS infrastructure
If time ever gets out of sync on an Oracle AS infrastructure cluster, that’s a severe enough situation that you should feel comfortable just going ahead and making the fix one server at a time.
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Making mail list archives searchable
In a previous post I mentioned the alternatives for maintaining mail list archives under GNU Mailman. Making those archives searchable was not discussed.
Most solutions for search presuppose an open list hosted on the Internet that can be accessed by search engines like Google. This is obviously not going to work for an internal corporate list that needs to be kept confidential.
One solution for internal lists might be to integrate mailman with another open source product, called Swish-e.
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Monday, July 5, 2010
D-Link DNS-321
Just got my very own D-Link DNS-321 a couple of days ago. Spent the holiday weekend hacking it.