Change login screen for Gnome

Since Fedora 11 the Gnome theme always show the available users in a list.
This is a risk because people can see which user(s) there are available on a system.

This behavior can be changed by the following command:

su -
gconftool-2 --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --direct --type bool --set /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true 

With this the "normal" login screen is returned.
Only the "others" is still availbale for selection
You need to know the username and the password B-)

Fedora 12 and dual screen with Gnome panels (and how to move them)

After installing Fedora 12 in my installation the panels stayed on the screen of my laptop. While the monitor setup beside it is the primary window to work on. So I could not drag them to the other screen.

After some googling I found this link and this works for me:
In short the solution is one of the following:

1. press ALT and then click the panel and move it to the position you want
2. Right mouse click on the panel and select properties. Then unmark the 'expand' property. This will enable you to drag them to any place on the screen. When all is positioned check the 'expand' property back again and all will work fine.

This helps a lot in the way to work.

New release of Fedora ;-)

Get your chance to see the new Fedora Constatine !!!!!!

Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Release 1 (10.3.2) released!!

You can read about it here!

Or you can directly start with downloading here!

Have fun!

Oracle FMW 11g (11.1.1.2.0) released!!

You can read about it here!

Or you can directly start with downloading here!

Have fun!

Install Oracle XE on Fedora 11 x86_64

In order to install the oracle xe database on Fedora x86_64.
Download the oracle-xe-univ-10.2.0.1-1.0.i386.rpm.

In the installation guide is stated that the following packages are necessary.

• glibc – 2.3.2
• libaio – 0.3.96

So I installed these packages:
yum install glibc libaio

The installed the rpm : rpm -ivh oracle-xe-univ-10.2.0.1-1.0.i386.rpm
And then executed
"/etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure"
Which successfully ran with given answers to the questions.

After this I tried to start the database and got many different error messages.
Tried to start the database but nothing was started.
But there was nothing coming up.

Also tried "sqlplus /NOLOG"
connect / as sysdba
startdb

Then the errors stated there was not INITXE.ORA, so created the initXE.ora.
The following errors where the database files were not located.....

After numerous attempts and failing every time I uninstalled the rpm.
rpm -e oracle-xe-univ-10.2.0.1-1.0.i386.rpm

And removing all installed files "rm -rf /usr/lib/oracle/xe"

After some googling... It came to mind I am running a 64bit machine and the rpm is for a i386.
So I installed also the i586 packages:
yum install glibc.i686 libaio.i586

After this reinstalled the rpm : rpm -ivh oracle-xe-univ-10.2.0.1-1.0.i386.rpm

and configured the database.
Now all is running perfectly.....

Changing the font of JDeveloper 11R1 on Linux

Just installing the new release of JDeveloper 11.

But when running on Linux the font size seems a little bit off.
In order to make this better to look at a chane is needed in the ide.properties.

This file is located at:   ~/.jdeveloper/system11.1.1.1.33.54.07/o.jdeveloper
There is a commented field "#      Ide.FontSize=11"
Changed it to 'Ide.FontSize=10' and then started JDeveloper that looked a lot better........