Monthly Archives: July 2009

Upgrading Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris

Posted on July 14, 2009 by andy

Ran into a problem trying to upgrade my Oracle instance from 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.4: “Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2009-07-14_10-28-22AM. Please wait …oracle@dbserver:/u04/database$ Exception in thread “main” java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /tmp/OraInstall2009-07-14_10-28-22AM/jre/1.4.2/lib i386/motif21/libmawt.so: ld.so.1: java: fatal: libXm.so.4: open failed: No such … Continue reading →

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Andy Keen’s Stag Do

Posted on July 12, 2009 by andy

Just come back from a fun packed day/evening out for Andy’s stag do orgainised very well by KKev. We all met up via various forms of transport at a pub near Surrey Paintball for lunch before embarking on an afternoon … Continue reading →

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Older but with a new guitar

Posted on July 6, 2009 by andy

Yep, another year old and another year wiser? Probably not….but still turning 36 gave me an excuse to buy another Ibanez. The new guitar is an 2003 Ibanez S1625TKS which I had to pick up in Kilburn, London before heading … Continue reading →

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OpenSolaris and time-slider

Posted on July 6, 2009 by andy

These warning messages have been really annoying me with my OpenSolaris installation so I thought I’d see if I could do something about it. The data zpool is a mirrored 1Tb pool and even though I’ve got 50+Gb of storage … Continue reading →

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To the Pub for dinner

Posted on July 5, 2009 by andy

Pheebs and I finally managed to go for dinner at the Sun Inn in Bentworth to celebrate my pending birthday. The food and beer were very good and we both thoroughly enjoyed the atmosphere in the pub. I’d like to … Continue reading →

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