Install SUN/Oracle JDK and PostgreSQL via zypper or Yast.

Download pljava here http://pgfoundry.org/frs/?group_id=1000038&release_id=1024

Create a directory for example /usr/src/pljava and extract pljava there.

create /etc/ld.so.conf.d/postgres.conf with this two lines in it if your using …

The Jenkins project provides a rpm installation repository for CentOS which installs Jenkins with some changed locations for configuration files.

If you want to change the default port for Jenkins you need to change the file /etc/sysconfig/jenkins

JENKINS_PORT="8080"

Change it to the port you want to use …

On Windows XP Professional installations I had a strange behavior with the mstsc rdp client.

After a while, the mstsc client expired and if I tried to start it the following message showed up:

I was pretty sure I didn't installed a pre-release service pack on that machine. The problem …

If you want to use the graphic drivers provided by Nvidia, the easiest would be to install them via RPMFusion.

Using the .run installer from the Nvidia download page didn't work for me. There need to be too many manual changes to make it work properly.

1. Install the RPMFusion repository …

This week I came over a nice project called Neubot - announced by a IT news page. This piece of software will check the global network neutrality. I like free internet access and hope that you are able to support this nice project with some of your resources. The package is …

This time I upgraded my Fedora just after being released by the Fedora team. It looks like there is a little masochist in my head. But to be fair the Fedora release team did quite a good job with their upgrade mechanism. The system was installed with a Fedora 13 …

This tutorial explains a basic configuration using PostgreSQL and CentOS. For detailed information about configuration parameter please read the PostgreSQL documentation which is very good organized.

First thing you should do is updating your system to the last patch level. Be sure all the other installed software on this system …

On my workstation I am running Fedora and KVM for testing some Linux based configurations. It's an AMD based system with 2 x Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2216, 8Gb of Ram and normal SATA hard discs. Works still o.k for everything I am experimenting with and has enough …

Today my workstation asked me to update from Fedora 13 to Fedora 14.

Because I didn't need it and the data on it are not important for me for the next few days I started the upgrade and monitored it beside I was working on my Mac Book.

The workstation …

In this article I will explain what is meant by the buzzword Virtualization and how this can improve your IT environment in the VMware/XEN/KVM context.

One thing which Virtualization is not, it's magic. Many consultants are trying to explain it's as a total new technology and big improvement …