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Install VMWare tools

It's a small but simple task to install VMWare tools on your virtual machine. I used the VMware vSphere Client to connect iso of the official VMWare client software as a cdrom to the cdrom drive of the running vm. Copy the tar.gz file to a temp directory Extract the archive file Run the installation file The default parameters where sufficient for me so i could quickly continue I had to compile the tool again because there where no precompiled valid for my system. I...

Sending display from server to your client

Working on a unix server on ssh can be comforting for most unix fan's. Some times you would like to run an application on the server but have the display send to your own client. This can be done by preforming just two steps: Configure the server to send the display to your client Run a X server on your client to accept the x display Configure display This is the easy step simply open a ssh connection to the server and set the display variable to [ip]:0.0 Configure X server To...

Oracle 11g R2 sskgpsemsper failure

Today i started with installation of a fresh 11g database for a Spatial demonstration. Everthing went smooth until i stared the database. I recieved the following message: My search on the web for an answer resulted quickly in a answer: arjudba.blogspot.com there you find two solutions to fix the semaphores problem. Now the database is up and running and i can start installing Mapviewer with spatial data. This will be all explained in the next...

Install Firefox on CentOS

Installing Firefox on CentOS using yum is as easy as installing a windows. Show a list of available packages The server a 64 bits enviroment so i install the corresponding package it asks for confirmation of installing the packages and the dependencies. now firefox is installed and we can run firefox. Use '&' to start the browser in the background. happy...

Installing CentOS on virtual box

For a project i needed temporarily an CentOS server. I decided to install it on the former SUN virtual box, nowerday's owned by Oracle. Before i stared i also downloaded a netinstall.iso from one of the CentOS mirrors. Just a small ISO to get quickly started with CentOS. After downloading the virtual box i started with creating a virtual machine. I connected the ISO to the CD-ROM drive of the virtual machine. When booting the virtual machine the installation started. By just supplying...