Author Archives: Graham

Can you tell me how to get, how to get to the Solaris boot prompt?

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Graham

Whenever I have to install Solaris (on SPARC), I never remember how to get it to boot from a cd.  Sparc machines have their own bios system, which comes up as a  this minimal, black on white serif-ey command prompt. … Continue reading →

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Checking the version of the Oracle JDBC driver jar

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Graham

How to check if you have the right version of the Oracle driver installed to use with WebSphere Portal. Two methods of checking this are discussed. Continue reading →

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Eclipse + flash drive = IDE anywhere

Posted on March 3, 2009 by Graham

I’m taking a introduction to Java course at night school at the moment.  I’ve bought so many ‘Learn Java in 15 minutes’ books and they just sit on the shelf and get dusty. So the class is supposed to make … Continue reading →

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Hello World.

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Graham

Who are you, and what are you doing here? Continue reading →

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