enabling hardware acceleration for Android SDK emulator on Linux
Developing Android apps on Linux and want to benefit from hardware acceleration in the emulator? Check my blogpost on the Whitehorses blog. http://blog.whitehor...
Tag: linux
Fix all your “cannot open shared object file” problems in Linux
After installing Oracle XE on Linux, and especially Ubuntu, you might find yourself with issues opening SQL*Plus and other tools. “sqlplus: error while lo...
Installing Guest Additions fails on Oracle Enterprise Linux 7.0
If you install the Guest Additions modules in a Oracle Enterprise Linux 7.0 virtualbox, you might encounter the following problem: The main Guest Additio...
Fix Linux environment settings on Oracle database – once and for all!
I’ve worked in so many environments where the Oracle environment variables are not set correctly. Especially all the preinstalled Virtualbox instances f...
Create a DIY dynamic DNS service, for free
I’m one of the unlucky people with a provider who doesn’t provide a static IP address. One solution would be to subscribe to a Dynamic DNS (or DDNS)...
“X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication”. Now what?
[weblogic@server ~]$ xclock X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. X connection to localhost:12.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). I...
Apparently… Spotify is coming for linux too.
Check this page: https://www.spotify.com/nl/download/previews/. If you follow the instructions (I’ve copied them here for your convenience) Spotify is ins...
creating an iso from a disk in OS X
When you quickly want to create an ISO image from a CD or DVD disk, simply do the following: insert the disk in your optical drive (yeah, I know this is obvious...