Archive for July, 2008

Oracle Calendar on Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.0.4)

1285 days

by Raymond Mul in Linux

[update apr 2009]:
also works on Debian Lenny. Eric Gerlach mentions the following : If you’re running the amd64 port of Debian or Ubuntu, you have to install ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk for the installer to work.

[update dec 2008]: also works on Intrepid Ibex!

Recently I reinstalled my computer at work and missed my Oracle Calendar. Here is a small howto to setup the calendar client.

Download the latest client from the Oracle website. Currently client version is cal_linux_1012.tar.gz (39,732,486 bytes)

Extract the client…

tar xvzf cal_linux_1012.tar.gz

After extraction you find a directory OracleCalendar_inst/ go there and do the following..
But wait, there’s more

Mediawiki Farm – Administer multiple wiki environments

1287 days

by Raymond Mul in Linux

2009/07/28 Update: I’m working on a robust version that handles the diversity of mediawiki’s databases. Therefore the script should work with newer versions of mediawiki.
2008/06/19 Update: Added entry, howto setup VirtualHosts / CNAME
2008/04/28 : version 0.4 is available.

Overview

As we all know, wiki’s are hot. And at the University we’ve got request constantly for facilitating them. BUT, there’s also a big issue and that is the fact that there isn’t any easy administration tool for installing and archiving wiki’s. So, with that in mind I started to work on a solution to administer multiple wiki’s, in this case mediawiki’s.

So, what does it need to do

Well basically, I just want to run a command line script that creates a wiki-directory linked to the source directory for easy updating and create a wiki database and user.

If this is what you want….. then read on

Ubuntu on Dell XPS M1330

1305 days

by Raymond Mul in Apple OSX, Linux

Latest update: 4 aug 2008

For recapping my findings, I wrote up a small article on how to install Linux Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition (32bit) on a Dell XPS M1330.

Goals:
I switch from 64bit back to 32bit for compatibility reasons. There are to many apps that don’t work and are required to fit my needs. So I set up a boot partition (350MB – unencrypted) and a encrypted partition (100GB). Then I used that partition to set up LVM2 and prepared a root (10 GB), home (86 GB) and a swap partition (4 GB).

Download @ www.ubuntu.com and make sure to check “alternate cd” checkbox. It gives you the opportunity to install lvm2 on a encrypted partition.

Intro: Normally I run OSX os on Macbook Pro’s. However, since these are very pricey, and I smashed mine to smithereens, I’ve decided to buy a cheap Dell.