Managing multiple Presentation Services on the same Unix box

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson

As I had mentioned, I wanted to write up a bit on how to go about setting up multiple Oracle BI presentation services, each configured to access a different repository file (RPD) running on the BI Server. The thing is that you can easily set up the BI server so that it manages more […]

Installing OBIEE 10.1.3.2.1 on Ubuntu Part II

Saturday, May 5th, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson

Ok, so I tried running the OBIEE installer again, this time choosing only BI Server option. When I read through the install.log I noticed that it was complaining about that the UnixChk.sh didn’t exist. The reason for that was simple, I had renamed it when I was writing the previous post. I renamed the file […]

Installing OBIEE 10.1.3.2.1 on Ubuntu 7.04 … not so fast

Friday, May 4th, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson

Well, this was a productive 2 hour stint. I just managed to hack my way past the OBIEE installer to get ahead to the actual installation. After downloading the cpio (I chose the RedHat file, since I knew that I could at least install the Oracle Linux because I have the disks laying around somewhere. […]

Ubuntu 7.04

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson

The new Ubuntu 7.04 (feisty fawn) is out. I used the built-in upgrade facilities to get the new release. After 2-3 failed attempts to get the full upgrade started, I finally got the pleasure of watching the download progress bar telling me that I had some 3 hours to wait. After downloading all the new […]

Ubuntu and Beryl: A healthy breakfast

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson

I finished banging Beryl in to my newly installed Ubuntu box last night. I run a dual boot Windows XP and Ubuntu 6.10. The mix of IDE and SATA disks made Grub gag a bit but it all went ok in the end. I had previously installed Fedora Core (from 1 to 5) but decided […]

A Series of Unfortunate Events, and Recommendations for Linux Support

Sunday, January 29th, 2006 by Mark Rittman

I just got in an hour or so ago after a week spent over in Ireland. As I
mentioned the other day, I was due to do a bit of presales work with a public
sector client, and I took the opportunity to
spend the
weekend in Belfast with Janet and the kids and the rest of her family […]

VMWare Player Prebuilt Virtual Machines

Friday, January 6th, 2006 by Mark Rittman

Spotted
via

Duncan Lamb’s site: the
"Community Virtual
Machines" page on the VMWare website, where you can download prebuilt
virtual machines for use with VMWare and the new (free) VMWare Player,
including:

Debian Sarge 3.1
Fedora Core 4
Fedora Core 5 Test 1
FreeBSD 6.0
KDE on SuSE OSS 10.0
Kubuntu (KDE on
Ubuntu)

Of course there’s the standard "supported" VMs as well, including ones for
Ubuntu,
SuSE 10,
Oracle on Red […]

OTN Step-By-Step Guide To Installing 10g On Linux x86

Friday, September 24th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

Installation
Guide: Oracle Database 10g on Linux x86: "This is the first in a
series of guides that provide all the steps for installing the major components
of Oracle 10g software on Linux. All three of the certified
English-language distributions of Linux are covered in detail (Asianux is not
covered), and the articles assume that inexpensive Intel x86 hardware is […]

mySQL As A Data Warehousing Platform?

Monday, May 24th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

Julian Ford passed on a link
to an article by Michael J. Radwin on Buildng
Data Warehouses With mySQL. The article refers to a presentation by John
Ashenfelter who’s also written a book
on mySQL and data warehousing which is due out in July 2004.
Data warehousing using mySQL on one hand sounds counter-intuitive but also
has a few things going […]

Guide To Installing Oracle 10g On Debian

Monday, May 17th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

Andy Todd points out a useful
guide to installing Oracle Database 10g on Debian. According to the guide, "We
go through, step-by-step, the process of installing Oracle 10g Release 1
(10.1.0.2) Enterprise/Standard Edition for Linux x86 on a Debian unstable
installation as of 2004-04-01. This chapter was originally written by Damien
McAullay with suggestions from Giuseppe Sacco"