g'day.
So this is what a BLOG looks like from the inside huh ....
I'm sitting here in my office in the little old city of Adelaide,
South Australia, mucking around with my new Dell GX270. I just
installed Red Hat Enterprise Server 3.0 on it, and I can honestly say
it was a sheer delight. The GX270 has the latest Intel video card on
it, so getting earlier versions of RH, and even the beta of RH ES 3.0
to work was somewhat of a nightmare. After a few rounds of
experimentation (and now what seems like days of work) I was finally
able to get a screen res of a whopping 640x480 with 16 colors.
But
I was stoked to find that RH ES 3.0 just picked up my graphics card, my
spanking cool 18" flat screen monitor and configured a screen res of
1280x1024 with 24bit color RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX!. Just the ticket and
makes the upgrade certainly worth the effort, as little as it was.
But why I hear you asking, why are you installing RH ES 3.0?
Well the news my friends, is that the production release of the
product I work on, Oracle Application Server (9.0.4) will be certified
on RH ES 3.0 when it is released. So I thought I'd take it for a spin
and kick the tires so to speak.
After pulling down our close to final shiphome area, I ran the
installer and layed down the J2EE + Web Cache installation type. Now I
know that this might surprise some of you out there in radio land --
much like I was so pleasantly surprised by my RH ES 3.0 experience --
but the install just went in and worked .... well I had to apply a few
extra RPMs, and tweak one of our config file files to alter a
misconfigured pre-check setting (which I logged as a bug) but
Bingo!Bango! it is all installed and running.
And running pretty swiftly I must say, the page loads for the
management console (now called "Application Server Control") are like
night and day versus night compared to the previous release. It's now
usable. My distribution of fancy has always been the oc4j_extended.zip,
since it was trivial to install and is quite easy to configure and
deploy applications to, via manual modifications of config files. From
what I've seen so far of the 904 release, I will certainly be using
more of the OracleAS J2EE + Web Cache install. The management via the
browser GUI is no longer a burden, and is actually very productive.
Some of the local blokes I share the office have been going full
bore with the product since I've been giving them access to some builds
from our dev servers. We have our own little cluster setup in the
office here on whatever laptops we could scrounge up and get installed
with Linux. Our cluster and network has adopted somewhat of a Seinfeld
personality at the moment -- we have a cast of nodes in our cluster
which include a jerry, george, kramer, elaine, newman, banya, etc.
I'll post some more details of what we've been able to do with our Seinfeld crew next time I feel a blog coming along.
As those champions of Australian comedy, HG Nelson and Rampaging Roy Slaven like to say --
Bye Now!
5:36:50 PM
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