Author: johayek
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“Oracle Linux Server” as VirtualBox guest OS: a few administrational experiences
There is a VM appliance, that I run …, and that appliance uses Oracle Linux Server as its OS. I want the appliance’s hostname to be oracle000 – it’s going to be my Oracle Databaser server anyway. Q: The appliance’s network connection to outside – how to activate it? Initially the appliance’s network connection seems…
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streaming the YouTube “channel” of a favourite musician to a TV through Google Chromecast – wow!
youtube.com superb entertainment – maybe for hours right now I am watching #CéuNoBis, and I really enjoy it
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your FRITZ!Box shows a device with a senseless name and just its MAC address – you may want to perform a MAC address lookup
http://macaddresslookup.org http://www.heise.de/netze/tools/mac/ http://coffer.com/mac_find/ the lookup will tell you the producer of the device, you will guess the device, that is / was attached to your LAN, you will name the device properly.
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my VMs with separate IP addresses at home – they really make me glad and optimistic
The host is a fat Mac mini running VirtualBox. A VM with an IP address outside the VM host’s realm behaves like an own “machine” – that’s the very special charm of it. the openSUSE000 VM: will run “hibiscus – HBCI-banking for jameica” the oracle000 VM runs a modern Oracle Database – supplied entirely by…
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Downing of Malaysian passenger jet is another blow for Putin
http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/.premium-1.605863
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“Oracle Solaris 11” VM images to run in e.g. VirtualBox
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/downloads/virtual-machines-1355605.html You need to update VBox Guest Additions – that does not include removing the old version of this package, so we have to do this ourselves: root # pkgrm SUNWvboxguest root # pkgadd -d /media/VBOXADDITIONS/VBoxSolarisAdditions.pkg all
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SELinux AKA Security-Enhanced Linux
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security-Enhanced_Linux https://learning.oreilly.com/topics/selinux/ https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/selinux-system-administration/9781800201477/ https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/selinux-cookbook/9781783989669/ https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/using_selinux/ The first time I now came seriously across it was with Oracle Linux Server. I wasted like hours logging into that OS unsuccessfully supposedly making use of $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys, misinterpreting the error messages.
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my new Apple mini “ALTERNATE EDITION” – 2,6 GHz Intel Core i7 – 16 GB RAM – “Fusion Drive”: 256 GB SSD + 1TB HDD
https://www.alternate.de/Apple/Mac-mini-2-6-GHz-ALTERNATE-EDITION/html/product/1091329? This is my new office Mac. It is an incredible fun to work with it. It is wired to my LAN. I followed the procedure I described for setting up the MacBook Air (chromium, Firefox, Fink, my utilities, …) a Samsung MFP (SCX-4623) is attached to it, so it needs the “Samsung Scan and Fax Manager”…
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openSUSE-13.1 : upgrading again …
My major goal these day is “updating my CV” – but because of how my CV is built (in a very special XML dialect with a very special authoring and publishing software), I usually want to run it in a rather up-to-date OS environment – in order to be able to replace outdated and non-working…
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Q: who fouled Neymar during the 2014 soccer world cup? A: Juan Camilo Zúñiga, Colombia’s #18
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neymar http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/players/player=314197 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Camilo_Zúñiga http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/players/player=229443