Life is not work alone - Sony WEGA KV34HS420 with 7 blink code

I just ordered the chips to hopefully fix our TV.

http://k0lee.com/2011/05/fixing-a-sony-wega-with-6-or-7-blink-code/

I'll let you know how it goes!

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It's a year later and the chips are still running great.

oracle instant client

I cannot stand how non-integrated the oracle instant client RPM really is.  There is so much they could do to make it easy but they just don't.  Is "they" Oracle or Fedora?

1) ldconfig - Why is this not part of the RPM suite?
2) ORACLE_HOME - I've added a custom RPM to add a /etc/profiles file to set it correctly
3) tnsnames - I've made a pseudo requires/provides called "oracle-client(tnsnames)" and then we should be able to provide that capability in our Alpha, Beta, and Production tnsnames RPM versions. (Remember to provide the tnsnames in the /etc folder to support SET UID root applications)

Fedora Server "Spin" Install Proposal

After thinking about what I want in a Fedora server "spin".  I decided that I actually don't want a "spin" at all.  I think what would be better is to add an application to the current spins that is an analyze and install the minimum requirements for the hardware, ssh and yum.

So, now the question is what are the minimum requirements for network, ssh and yum and how do we get this done.

Postgis Quick Guide

Nice quick cheat sheet

http://www.bostongis.com/postgis_quickguide.bqg

Learning SQL - Count(DISTINCT COL1)

I've been writing SQL for 20 years now and I learned something new today.

Select Count(DISTINCT COL1) From table1;

I had no idea this even existed let alone that Oracle supports it.

Rant Fedora 16 for Headless Servers

I cannot believe that there is not a spin for headless servers.  It would seem to me that since Fedora is the test bed for RHEL that they would have that as an option.  But, maybe that competes.  Who knows?

Fedora 16 RPM Rebuild

We are gearing up for Fedora 16.  I was able to get most of my applications rebuilt on Fedora 16 Beta with nothing more than rpmbuild -ta XXX.tar.gz.

I had to add a couple of spec files to the older tar balls but in general it was easy porting dozens of RPMs to FC16 from FC12.

I hope to go live soon!

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We ended up going CentOS 6.3 as FC16 went too avant-garde for us to use in production any more.

I collected most of the SRPMs rebuilt with rpmbuild --rebuild just fine.  Many of the CPAN packages that I had build are available on many of the CentOS servers.