OTN downloads using wget

Already posted on how to download patches from Oracle support.
This is a variation on that theme for those of us who have been in this business longer than 3 minutes and are looking for more efficient ways to do things.
OTN (Oracle Technology Network) has a pretty, if not always easy to navigate, browser interface for [...]

February 9th, 2010 by Phil Lembo 
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Watershed moment

Red Hat announced the filing of its amicus brief in Bilski v. Kappos today.
While the court rules of professional responsibility in the several states where I’m still a retired member of the bar in good standing don’t absolutely prohibit me from writing about the case, I’m going to defer to others who know a lot [...]

October 1st, 2009 by Phil Lembo 
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create an EBS user with sysadmin privs

Rob and I are researching how to do bulk user creates and responsibility assignments in Oracle E-Business Suite and he stumbled on this PL/SQL script from Anil Passi. Full article is here.
A related article by the same author is FND_USER Script for Techies. Exposes the same methods with a little more explaination.
Here is code:

——–Beging of [...]

April 23rd, 2009 by Phil Lembo 
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Grabbing a server SSL certificate

We’re in the midst of learning the ins-and-outs of using SSL with Java applications right now, and so this bit of ancient open source wisdom came in handy.
If you need to retrieve an SSL certificate from a server and have a Linux or modern Unix machine available with openssl on it, you can use the [...]

March 23rd, 2009 by Phil Lembo 
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The sinkhole that is SharePoint

If corporate Information Technology is a swamp, Microsoft SharePoint, the big software vendor’s wannabe-wiki, is a sinkhole. Not only will it gobble up all your valuable knowledge assets in its cumbersome, impossible to customize, proprietary document-centric framework, but it will siphon off what’s left of your collaboration solutions budget in the process.
Oh, if only you’d [...]

February 16th, 2009 by Phil Lembo 
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Postfix on Red Hat systems

Here’s the official Red Hat Postfix HOWTO.

February 10th, 2009 by Phil Lembo 
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Eldapo speaks

Eldapo speaks

My colleague, Rob Kimball, sent this to me. Not sure how/where he got it, but it pretty much sums up my attitude.

January 16th, 2009 by Phil Lembo 
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