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Archive for April, 2007

The Incidental Expert

Apr 12

Posted by Sonny Gill in Humour | No Comments

Hung had officially become the incidental expert — despite knowing next to nothing about Edward’s code, he knew more than anyone else there.

(WTF – The Incidental Expert)

Installing Oracle 10.2 on Suse Linux 10.2

Apr 1

Posted by Sonny Gill in Databases | 2 Comments

When installing Oracle 10.2.0.1 client on Suse Linux 10.2, the installation fails with message -

Checking operating system version: must be redhat-3, SuSE-9, redhat-4, UnitedLinux-1.0, asianux-1 or asianux-2 Failed <<<<

To complete the install, run installer as ./runInstaller -ignoreSysPrereqs
(installation-oracle-on-suse-linux-enterprise-10)

To run Tora, add the following to your profile file

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib

And create a tnsnames.ora file in your ORACLE_HOME.
This file lists your Oracle services in the following format -

XE_192.168.1.1=

    (DESCRIPTION =

       (ADDRESS_LIST = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 192.168.1.1)(PORT = 1521)))

       (CONNECT_DATA = (SID = xe) (SERVER = DEDICATED))

    )

(Re: Error connecting to an Oracle DB)

If Tora is still not connecting to oracle, try exporting TNS_ADMIN environment variable, pointing to the location of tnsnames.ora file -

export TNS_ADMIN=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/client/

Future of email – Gmail Paper

Apr 1

Posted by Sonny Gill in Fun | No Comments

Man, these guys are good!

Gmail Paper

They had me for a few minutes (Really, nothing seems impossible when it comes to Google) … until better sense prevailed and I did a blog search to see what it is all about.

And then there is free in-home wireless broadband service at GoogleTiSP :)