William Gibson (yes, that William Gibson) penned a fascinating op-ed piece for the New York Times this week. Op-Ed Contributor – Google’s Earth – NYTimes.com This bit hooked me (h/t Geekosystem) If Google were sufficiently concerned about this, perhaps the company should issue children with free “training wheels” identities at birth, terminating at the age [...]
I’m helping a colleague get OVD 11g up and running for an upcoming demo. We’re running on OEL 5 and I forgot to remind him to make sure to put the Oracle Validated package during install. If you don’t do this – you’ll most likely be missing some packages. An easy way to resolve this [...]
By default during an ODSM install Weblogic will configure the managed node that is running ODSM so it’s only able to accept incoming connections from browsers running on the same machine as Weblogic. Assuming that’s not the behavior you want (usually expressed by “Why can’t I get to ODSM from my laptop or desktop”) here [...]
OVD is a Java-based app and one of the limitations for Java-based servers is that if you want to run the service on a port under 1024 on Unix – you have to run it as root. The reason is that by default Unix requires anything on those ports to be run as root. In [...]
By default during an ODSM install Weblogic will configure the managed node that is running ODSM so it’s only able to accept incoming connections from browsers running on the same machine as Weblogic. Assuming that’s not the behavior you want (usually expressed by “Why can’t I get to ODSM from my laptop or desktop”) here [...]
OVD is a Java-based app and one of the limitations for Java-based servers is that if you want to run the service on a port under 1024 on Unix – you have to run it as root. The reason is that by default Unix requires anything on those ports to be run as root. In [...]
By way of John Gruber, Mike Monteiro has finished the GMail game by successfully using up its storage, which amounts to 8.19 GB. An irony pointed out by a commenter, GMail does boast “Who needs to delete when you have so much storage?!” in its Trash folder. When GMail launched, its storage limits were fantastically [...]
I got a comment on my blog asking: ” What kind of licensing terms is Oracle using for this release? Are they following the Sun licensing where you can download and use this for free and choose pay for support?“ Being specific about license questions in a blog is a good way to get myself [...]
I got a comment on my blog asking: ” What kind of licensing terms is Oracle using for this release? Are they following the Sun licensing where you can download and use this for free and choose pay for support?“ Being specific about license questions in a blog is a good way to get myself [...]
We released Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition 11g. This is the first Oracle branded release of the directory formerly known as the “Sun/iPlanet/Netscape” Directory. This release also coincided with the release of other key Oracle 11g Identity Management components such as Oracle Access Manager and Oracle Identity Manager 11g. Posted via email from Virtual Identity [...]