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In the past few days i’ve spent my time at work setting up a Linux server with Oracle database. Since i have had some problems i have decided to write how to install it without any trouble.

In our company we have bought two Dell servers QuadCore with 4Gb of Ram and 2Tb of hard disk. We have decided to use one of them as a powerful machine to execute some automatic tests on a complex project that requires a lot of computation.

Since the project uses Oracle database, Oracle Warehouse Builder and Oracle Data Integrator, available for Linux and Windows both, i have decided to setup a Linux machine instead of a Windows one to get the more benefits i could.

I admit, i like Ubuntu too much, so my first try has been an Ubuntu Server 8.04 installation, but i’ve had lots of problem during the installation of the database.

So i’ve decided to switch to a more supported Linux version and the solution has been Centos 5.2 AMD64. Read more…

From Pirate Party:

The Pirate Party of Germany got a secret Document of the bavarian Ministry of Justice from a Whistleblower. In this Document, the Ministry discussed the Price of using a “trojan horse”-malware to wiretap Skype. It looks like the bavarian has already used such a Software, but that would be illegal.
The Price is interesting: 3500€ per month and use. Only mass use could produce such a low price.

And after this announcement the German police have searched the office of Pirate Party and now is searching the people who have liberated this information.
World is upset… Spy on private communication is anti-constitutional in Germany or not??

The Big Brother is here, and if you disagree they install you a trojan horse.
Good

For other info visit wikileaks or the register.

ps. If you want privacy (ah ah), don’t use skype or other proprietary closed software.
First rule is: no security through obscurity.
And before all, use GNU/Linux.

The “default” Xandros distribution installed in eeePc is quite good but there are some lack.

For example there aren’t installed  many driver for common printer. In my case, the Samsung ML-1520 (it’s a Laser Printer) didn’t works even it’s recognized correctly (splix driver arent’t installed…).

A simple solution it’s to install the Unified Linux Driver offered directly by Samsung. Just extract the tar.gz, run ./autorun and follow the wizard.

Because Open Source is better than closed source software…

Great italian article about Neelie Kroes and her talk about Open Source in the European Union.
The focus is on the formats interoperability (for example, ODF actually is the only ISO standard implemented and working correctly for the documents) and the freedom of choice.

Because Our Passion is greater than money of Microsoft or other big software companies.

Since we wanted to install Trac on our DreamHost domain we have followed the Natmaster tutorial. Anyway we came in trouble so here we describe how we have installed Trac. The proceeding is quite similar to Natmaster one, but we found some missing pieces that we describe below.

Here is the list of programs that we have installed:

• virtual-python
• Trac 0.10.4
• Clearsilver 0.10.3
• SQLite 3.5.2
• PySqlite 2.3.5
• Swig 1.3.31

If you have already tried to install Trac remove all installed programs in your directory (ex: packages) and remove the other files created (ex: .pydistutils.cfg) or paths setted in .bash_profile or .bash_rc.

Let’s start with a new installation! Read more…

Directly from MIT, Seek, simple faceted browsing of your mailbox.
This plugin is released for Mozilla Thunderbird.

There is also a good screencast: watch, download the plugin, install, love it…

Open Source Innovation, of course!

Hey, here we are! We are almost ready to start this new adventure.

This blog is our window on Internet. We will talk about Linux, opensource and especially our works!

And remember, first of all DevOnLinux is a way of thinking…

edo, marco, ste