Category Archives: Tips/Code Snippets
Installing Oracle Instant Client for Mac OSX
I came across few links for installing Oracle Instant Client on Mac OS X namely – this and this. But I don’t like to tinker with the System paths while installing any s/w manually. I did the same with perl … Continue reading
Posted in Databases, Tips/Code Snippets
Tagged Databases, Oracle, OSX, RDBMS, SQLPlus
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Build An MP3 Catalogue System With Perl – Conclusion
In the last post we saw how to read ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags using perl. In this post we will continue our journey towards creating a simple catalog for the MP3 collection. Quickly Getting the Desired Information out of the MP3 … Continue reading
Build An MP3 Catalogue System With Perl – Basics
My mp3 collection was increasing and I wanted to build a catalogue for the same. There are various steps in having even a simple catalogue system. In this post and a few posts that will follow, I will be explaining … Continue reading
Time-zone Setting in Linux and BSDs from Shell
Often the default time-zone in a linux and bsd system does not match our preferences. On a system which we have installed ourself, we may have selected the appropriate time-zone during installation, but as systems administrators we often get our … Continue reading
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Tagged CentOS, date-and-time, Fedora, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, RedHat, timezone
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Creating a DEB package for Oracle Java
Linux based operating systems comes by default with Open JDK installations. Often it is necessary for various developmental needs to install the Oracle Java. Oracle only supplies two installations of Java for Linux based operating systems – a rpm and … Continue reading