Linux is a UNIX-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and opensource Software development and distribution. Linux is one of the leading operating system used in servers both in small scale and even large scale mission critical projects. More than 90% of the supercomputers existing in this century runs on one or […]
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Android on it’s fifth Birthday
Android is a Linux-based operating system designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers, developed by Google in conjunction with the Open Handset Alliance.Initially developed by Android Inc, whom Google financially backed and later purchased in 2005. Google releases the Android code as open source, under the Apache License.Android has a […]
Great upgrade, great deal – windows 8 upgrade offer (limited) This offer is valid from October 26, 2012 until January 31, 2013 and is limited to five upgrade licenses per customer. To install Windows 8 Pro, customers must be running Windows XP SP3,Windows Vista, or Windows 7. Pricing varies by region and each independent reseller, and it depends on a variety of specific factors including exchange […]
To extend the logical volume:Note: These steps only apply to EXT3 file systems. Caution: VMware recommends having a complete backup of the virtual machine prior making these changes. Power off the virtual machine. Edit the virtual machine settings and extend the virtual disk size. For more information, see Increasing the size of a virtual disk (1004047). […]
This error mainly occurs due to incorrect ORACLE_SID value set. Make sure you have set the ORACLE_HOME & ORACLE_SID value set properly.
What to do when we get errors like ORA-01034: ORACLE not available ORA-27101: shared memory realm does not exist. Solution: The ORA-01034 is simple error, it means that your database is down! Oracle oerr utility notes this about the ORA-01034 error: ORA-01034: ORACLE not available Cause: Oracle was not started up. Possible causes include the […]
RCU:6107 DB Init Param error
While Installing Repository Creation Utility (RCU) Installation the following error occurs: RCU:6107 DB Init Param Error This can be removed simply by the following: 1. Login on your database with system user. 2. Write > show parameters processes (which will show the current value of processes). 3. If its value is less than 500 then write […]
Make sure all the necessary environment variables are set, especially the following variables. ORACLE_SID ORACLE_HOME And follow the below steps to start, database, listener and enterprise manager(em) console For db startup: oracle@root.com$ sqlplus / as sysdba SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 – Production on Sun Nov 9 22:52:26 2008 Copyright (c) 1982, […]
Local Yum Setup for RHEL
The Yellowdog Updater, Modfied (YUM) is an Open-source command line package-management utility for RPM based Linux systems. YUM allows automatic updates, package and dependency management. This article helps you in YUM setup in RHEL enviroments 1. Create RPM directory root@technix#mkdir /RPMS 2. Copy all the rpm packages from disk to “/RPMS” directory 3. Install createrepo rpm […]
Samba basic configuration in RHEL
The key to configuring Samba is its lone configuration file: smb.conf. A basic samba configuration for the smb.conf file is given below. [global] workgroup = SIMPLE [SHARE] comment = Common Share path = /SHARE read only = no guest ok = yes Prior to adding the confifuration to the smb.conf file, take a backup of […]