I have acquired a new Oculus Quest, which is a wonderful device. I aim at making it a useful desktop tool, and hopefully – some day – replace my entire working (Linux) desktop with this 360Degץ For now – this is a nice gaming platform, and while it is entirely immersive, and drowns one entirely…
I came across a Linux host (RHEL6.2) which I was not the one managing before, which required adding a node in Oracle 11.2 Grid Infrastructure. According the common documentations, as can be seen here, after cloning the host (or installing it correctly, according to Oracle requirements), you should run ‘cluvfy’ on the existing cluster node….
SSH is a wonderful tool. One of its best features is the ability to pierce a firewall and let you go through it. If you’re using the dynamic port (-D as argument in command line openSSH), you actually get a SOCKS5 proxy over which you can transport all your desired data. This allows you the…
I have an old Dell server (R610, if it’s important) and I seem to fail to connect to its iDrac console via Java. No other options exist, and the browser calling Java flow fails somehow. I have found an explanation here, and I will copy it for eternity 🙂 First – Download the latest JRE…
Installing VirtualBox on Ubuntu 18 (same as for modern Fedora Core) with SecureBoot will result in the following error when running the command /sbin/vboxsetup The error message would be something like this: There were problems setting up VirtualBox. To re-start the set-up process, run /sbin/vboxconfig as root. If your system is using EFI Secure Boot…
Just to remember, there is an explanation here, from which the following directive can be taken: (cpio -id; zcat | cpio -id) < /path/to/initrd.img
