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How to add additional packages to a Fedora repo

How to add extra packages to your Fedora / CentOS / RHEL repository with the createrepo command. Continue reading

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Vmware player on RHEL 5: How to get rid of Clearlooks error

How to get rid of a clearlooks theme error when starting vmware from the command line. Continue reading

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Offline Physical 2 Virtual conversion (p2v) using free tools

How to convert a Physical Linux server to a Virtual Linux Server using free tools. Continue reading

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Installing RHEL 5 using the VMware Paravirtualized SCSI driver (pvscsi)

How to install RHEL 5 with the VMware Paravirtualized SCSI driver embedded into the installation media, and then how to automate the installation using it Continue reading

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Generating a java heap dump when WebSphere AppServer is not responding

How to convert a system dump to a java heap dump . Continue reading

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CNTR0019E: Initialization failed due to invalid property “supportedMemberTypes”.

Any problem where WMM (WebSphere Member Manager) doesn’t start properly is a deal breaker for Portal. Once WMM fails, every other component will fail, and you’ll be faced with a nasty 404 message. After installing 6.0.1.4-WP-IFPK83731.zip and 6.0.1.4-WP-IFPK70263.zip on a … Continue reading

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5 Steps to installing Portal 6.1.5 on Ubuntu 9.10

Here’s how to install Portal 6.1.5 on Ubuntu 9.10 Continue reading

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The security certificate “America Online Root Certification Authority 2” has a public key of length greater than 2048 bit.

I’m doing a bit of work for a client and they run this crazy Citrix Metaframe thing, which I’ve heard of but never used before. It’s like a remote access tool / website wrapped in java applets and special clients … Continue reading

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Creating a Virtualbox guest machine from a physical machine

How to create a virtual machine from a physical machine using a Linux live CD and VirtualBox. Continue reading

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Oracle runstats oneliner (ok, two liner)

Use this to generate a runstats script for your Oracle system. Only works for 6.1 . Also very ugly 🙂 #!/bin/bash export PROFILE_PATH=/opt/WebSphere/wp_profile cat ${PROFILE_PATH}/ConfigEngine/properties/wkplc_comp.properties | grep DbUser | grep -v source | grep -v ‘#’ | grep -v DBA … Continue reading

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