Remedial Robocopy Recursion Remedy

If you ever made your own back up script with Robocopy that included the user folders without the /XJ switch and then want to clean up your back up drive, you found this ugly nested structure that you could not delete.

To the rescue is Deep Remove Folders Directories in Windows at http://deepremove.codeplex.com/. Works like a charm. Thank you, JuanPablo!

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Setting up an Eclipse Development Environment for WebCenter Sites

Most Java developers are familiar with Eclipse. While the Content Server Developer Tools (CSDT) does not work the same as other application-specific Eclipse plug-ins, it does provide the ability to perform custom development more easily with WebCenter Sites (a.k.a. Fatwire prior to the Oracle acquisition) than other options if you are comfortable in Eclipse.

Install the Jump Start Kit (JSK)

The first trick is finding the JSK. You must have an Oracle Support account to access it through normal channels. On the Oracle Support site, search for “webcenter sites JUMPSTARTKIT” in the Patch category.
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Retirement Notice: My Work Chair

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The base of my home office chair bent beyond repair last week and I finally had to replace it today. It has supported my rear through the following:

Employers – netNumina (who gave it to me when they bought new furniture), FYW, Jupiter Media, Keane, Quin Street Publishing, BEA, Oracle, Primitive Logic

Locations – Charlestown, Cambridge, Manchest-by-the-Sea, Fort Mill, and Oceanside

Customers – CholesterolCare.com, Fidelity, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Jonesco, Sullivan Real Estate, O’Neil Machinery, Dunkin’ Donuts,  Iron Mountain, US Government, Bank of America, VMWare, Northern Trust, GNMA, Sempra

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Linux, Firefox and WebCenter Sites, Oh No!

If you use WebCenter Sites on Linux with Firefox, you may have hit the nasty issue where the latest Firefox update disabled your tools. These are the steps I followed to get it working again:

  1. Locate your Mozilla installation plugins directory. In the example below, it is at /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
  2. Locate your Java home. In the example below it has been set as the system variable JAVA_HOME
  3. Go to the plugins directory and sudo as root
  4. Create a symlink to the Java plug in
  5. Important! Exit root before performing the next step or the plug-in will only be enabled for root.
  6. Run jcontrol and sites you need to run the plugin to the security exception list

Example commands:

[myusername@ol6vm]$ cd /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
[myusername@ol6vm plugins]$ sudo su
[sudo] password for myusername: 
[root@ol6vm plugins]# ln -fs $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so libnpjp2.so
exit
[myusername@ol6vm plugins]$ $JAVA_HOME /jre/bin/jcontrol
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Port Forwarding from Windows 7 Host to Oracle Linux Guest with Virtualbox

A link to my LinkedIn post to a blog with the how to is https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/blog-mash-up-virtualbox-port-forwards-windows-7-oracle-scott-nelson.

In short, go to advanced networking and add the port to the Virtualbox instance settings then go to the Firewall control in Oracle Linux System Administration menu and add it there, too.

One of those things that took hours to figure out and moments to explain.

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