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Sorry about this, but the Spam Monsters have been busy once more, flooding this site with spurious sign-ups and a torrent of spam comments. In response, I’ve had to stop any new sign-ups, and I’ve also...
View ArticleMoving on…
I‘ve not posted a lot lately, largely because I am in the middle of another change of web host. (Old-timers will be aware that I’ve had more hosts than a lot of people have hot dinners). All being...
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Linode, CentOS 6.x and Postfix, Dovecot
So I have been busy playing with my new Linode 1GB virtual private server: it’s fun! It’s also been educational: I’ve never set up my own email server before, and it hasn’t been easy! But finally,...
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Fire
We’ve been lucky the past few years: summers have generally been wet, gloomy …and fire-free. Not so this year, however. Fire has come uncomfortably close: The black area is where the fire has burnt:...
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All Change (again!)
It’s been almost a year since I switched my desktop to Windows 8 (and recently upgraded to 8.1). I don’t have any particular gripes with it: the Metro apps are mostly awful and I avoid them whenever I...
View ArticleHere’s a curious thing
My 2-node production RAC had been suffering from ‘checkpoint incomplete’ messages in the alert log for a while, so back at the end of October, I finally got off my bottom and bothered to take a look:...
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What were they thinking?
On the whole, Fedora is a nice operating system. But installing the damn thing is a pain in the butt and makes my eyes bleed. Here’s a typical example of the horrors that await: I mean, seriously? They...
View ArticleAsquith and the new Red Hat
Whilst I was busy planning my Paris perambulations, Red Hat went and released version 6.5 of their Enterprise Server distro. Oracle swiftly followed …and, even more remarkably, CentOS managed to be...
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Mint, 11g and KDE
For no particular reason, I decided I really didn’t like Gnome Shell as implemented by Fedora 19. As with previous Fedora installations, I thought I did for a while, but soon came to the realisation...
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2013 Wrap-Up
I started the New Year at a new employer, doing RAC and Data Guard configuration/setup and various bits of database development work. I end it with us preparing (finally!) for a disaster recovery test...
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