While doing some testing of Oracle on a Windows 7 computer I stopped the TNS Listener service also known as OracleOraDb11g_home1TNSListener. The problem is when I attempted to restart the service it would not start. While testing various other things I had made numerous changes so I started looking into what might cause the issue…
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Again I am fairly new to Oracle so it has been quite a learning process and typically I have been running into errors that are easy to resolve but being able to locate the answers easy has been challenging. While attempting to use sqlplus.exe from the Windows 7 command line I continued to receive a…
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I recently installed Oracle on a Windows 7 computer to test some tools that are available in Backtrack. I am very new to Oracle so it has been a bit of a learning process including the fact that I had no idea you can install Oracle without having to pay any money to download it…
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This is really easy to do but it will be different for Windows OS’s configured in Windows Virtual PC and Linux/Unix OS’s configured in Windows Virtual PC. For instance Windows XP Mode run from Windows Virtual PC will allow you to easily move the mouse between your desktop and the Windows XP Mode Virtual PC…
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Earlier today I needed to lookup the origin of some IP’s and I typically use whois but it wasn’t installed on the CentOS server I was working on. Attempting to install whois failed so below there is information on installing whois using the yum package manager on CentOS.