Recently I got some new hardware that I will use to run some useful software. To use the software from anywhere, I’ll need to have remote access. As I cannot do DMZ or port forwarding with my new internet provider, I decided to connect my home server using VPN to Read more…
7zip is a popular compression program for Windows. It allows to effectively compress files, split them into several archives and to add protection by using a password. This all works fine if you are a Windows user. In case you now want to extract such a multi part password protected Read more…
Recently I restarted one of my Linux servers and the computer did not start up as expected. No external accessible service was running, like apache or SSH. This made the computer inaccessible from remote and left me in the dark. After a while, the server responded to ping, but nothing Read more…
The following procedure for installing SMP3 with an Oracle DB is for Linux. For tests, you can use Oracle Express. Check your environment/company if you can use that version. Prerequisites Ensure that Oracle XE is up and running. It is important that the tnslistener is working! Run the listener and Read more…
Preparations Install some additional packages via yum to ensure that the installation and execution of the database will work. The list may differ, depending on the actual version of CentOS you are using, but the internet gave me back the following packages and you should be on the safe side. Read more…
It’s 2015 and somehow I think that is a reason to simply have enough bandwidth for upload and download to help me with my digital life style. Cloud is in, and accessing files from everywhere is tempting. As cloud only means to be able to access data from any internet Read more…
I like VMs. Sure, everything should be cloud, and AWS, Azure, etc are great (if you can afford them). But nothing beats having a local VM running with 6GB RAM even when you are not online. Cost? 0 $. I am just electively using the laptop I already use. Put Read more…