02.20.10

Twenty-five things about me …

Posted in Photoblogs and stuff at 1:35 pm by jceasar0118

1.  I am a voracious reader.  I read almost anything in print: fiction, non-fiction, religious or technical books; heck, I even read pornographic materials.

2.  While it takes me weeks to choose which book to buy, it takes me  two days and sometimes a day to finish reading a book.

3.   It takes me 5 minutes to get dress.  However, it takes me an hour to take a shower.

4.   I bite my nails when I am in blissful mood. I bite my nails when I am stress. Shoot, no wonder I never had a manicure service in my life.

4.  I am very moody.

5.  I am addicted to the smell of Vicks vaporub.

6. I think that Bethooven’s Ode to Joy is the most beautiful music written in the entire world, followed by Milkshake by Kelis. The latter statement is a joke of course.

7.  I hate the Los Angeles lakers with passion.

8. I fantasized of being a vampire killer …ha…ha..ha…

9.  My undies are all from Victoria secret.

10.  I have a thing for pajamas, specially Ralph Lauren pajamas. Whenever I  go to a shopping outlet, the first thing that I look for is Ralph Lauren pajamas.

11.  I want to be a comic writer when I was child.  My mom gave a little support because there’s no money in comic writing. Then  I thought of becoming a doctor, but I am afraid of blood.  Law doesn’t suit me, I am too blatant. Hence, I end up becoming a programmer.

12. I stock on toothpaste. I get anxiety attack if my stock of toothpaste is down to two tubes.

13. Fried chicken is my favorite food when I was child. Now that I am grown, I hate fried chicken.

14. Contrary to what most of my friends believe, Paris is my favorite city in the world not Las Vegas.

15.  I cried the first time I saw Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night.”  Perhaps the cool dark color spark my sentimentality, regrets, and memories of my childhood.

16. I smirked the first time I saw Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa.”  In my opinion, Leonardo’s painting of “St John” is more compelling than “La Gioconda (Mona Lisa).”

17.  I would rather hang out in Barnes and Noble, Borders, BestBuy, Fry’s or museums than step in to supermarket or shopping mall.

18.  If I were to meet a genie, I will not ask for riches but will want answers to satisfy my curiosities. Number one, who the hell was behind JFK assasination? Second, who was Jack the Ripper? Third, who was the mastermind behind Benigno Aquino’s assasination.  Fourth, did Dr. Jose Rizal knew that he would be shot in Bagumbayan. Fifth, how in the world did the Egyptians build the Pyramids.

19.  I am not a computer nerd, I just find solace writing codes.

20. I am oblivious to the way I dress.  But  I don’t wear anything that is not named-brand.  Isn’t that an oxymoron?

21. I have several pair of shoes, however they all look alike ….ha..ha..ha…

22. I am very opinionated.  However, most of the time I just don’t care and pretend to listen.

23.  I find using MS Word or Excel extremely hard.  I am having  hard time figuring out how to insert page number, add colors or bold a text.  However, I find it extremely easy to learn a new programming language.

24.  I know how to build computers. I even know how to change car transmission oil and spark plugs.  What is strange is I don’t know how to cook.

25. I have three tenets in life: First, I don’t let anyone see me bleed second, I always have an escape plan and third I never let anyone insult me, and if I get insulted, I never retaliate right away; I muster all my strengths and hit back hard even I don’t have a reason to hit back.

02.01.10

must she really need to know?

Posted in Photoblogs and stuff at 11:43 am by jceasar0118

It took me more than a week to install Oracle Application Server 10.1.2.0.2 on our new server. One reason why it took me that long is  the whole setup is a mistake from the get go and second I could barely concentrate at work because I am dreaming of  Antonio Gaudi’s works in Barcelona. Yes people, I am going to Barcelona in June.

The Linux server that we have is a 64 bit machine, I was trying to install a 32 bit applications– go figure how it’s going to be an easy feat. I posted questions to Oracle forums and to whatever technical forums that I can think of, some posters were helpful, however most of them answered in a very condescending tone. I can’t blame them, after all why in the world did we procure a 64 bit server, when we are going to install 32 bit apps. I have too much pride to admit to my boss the duress that I am in. Did I not bastion the beauty of having a 64 bit machine and the amount of memory it support. But the darn OAS would not install, it’s missing libraries left and right.  I thought of Frankestein, did he not walk on earth , according to Mary Shelly, with odd body parts. With the thought of Frankestein in mind, I proceeded with a plan, if I can’t install OAS using the oinstaller,  I will build my application server with odd body parts.

Error number one.
Error in invoking target ‘relink’ of makefile ‘/home/oracle/OraHome_1/precomp/lib/ins_precomp.mk’.

What’s wrong with this server, which part of I am not in the mood to work, it doesn’t understand. I looked at the error, I checked the make.log and the ‘relink all’ would not work because it’s missing ‘libc_nonshared.a’. Great, I checked /usr/lib/ and the file is not really there, for what reason that I don’t know.  As far as I am concern I followed Red Hat Linux documentation to the “t.” I took a deep breath and did an sftp to get this file from another server. Problem solved.

Error number two.
Error while loading shared libraries: libclntsh.so.10.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Seriously, C compiler problem again. I remember my college days when I banter with my C language professor every opportunity that I have. The boy thinks that he is the only one who can write C program. By the time I completed the course, I already know all the Miracle C tricks in the world.

gcc296
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/gcc32 -m32 -static-libgcc -B /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/ $*

g++296

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/g++32 -m32 -static-libgcc -B /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/ $*

execute as root following commands:
mv gcc gcc.save
mv g++ g++.save
ln -s /usr/bin/gcc296 /usr/bin/gcc
ln -s /usr/bin/g++296 /usr/bin/g++

Problem Solved.

Error number three
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: blah … blah.. blah…
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2: undefined symbol: _Xsetlocale

It just never ends…must I must I really have to cheat the system to get the installation complete.

To resolve this problem I have perform the following steps.
su - root
cd /usr/X11R6/lib

mv -f libXm.so.2 libXm.so.2.backup
ln -s libXm.so.3 libXm.so.2

Problem solved.

Happy days again; I did a little of “Frankestein” here and there and my server is up with “odd body parts.” I can go back to what I do the best and that is to daydream. If my boss were to asked, how did I get the server up, seriously, must she really need to know ;-)