Monthly Archives: May 2011

HP Pavilion M8530F – Upgrade Vista to Windows 7 64bit

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Pang

It took a while to upgrade Vista to Windows 7 on my HP Pavilion M8530F. Here all tricks and tips to do it correct in the first place: 1) Windows 7 upgrade adviser … 2) Black Screen after just upgraded … Continue reading →

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Oracle ADRCI – package database incidents report

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Pang

Whenever to create Oracle Service Request (SR) in metalink, It will take a while attach trace files and/or RDA report. The good news is Oracle introduced command line tool ADRCI from 11g to help this out in more efficient way. … Continue reading →

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Download Oracle Patch in command line, no browser

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Pang

GUI and browser are always available in database server. It cause pains when download Oracle software and/or patches. However, We can use command line tool wget and cookies to workaround it perfectly. We need only 2 things: […Read full story … Continue reading →

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SELinux and Oracle on RHEL 5

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Pang

“I can’t help you unless turn SELinux off”. It is not true. We got some ways to workaround it or fix it. As Oracle said it is because SELinux blocked Oracle components somewhere in metalink note 454196.1 where the typical … Continue reading →

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