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After a quick shot at installing Debian from the seven (!) downloaded CD-images, I decided my time was too valuable to pretend being as geeky as Debian apparently requires. Let me just say, that installing Debian 3.0r2 had a very 1998-ish feeling too it. Instead I decided to give Fedora Core 2 a try, and what a difference. Everything installed without a hitch from the DVD-image, and so far I have been able to use all of my hardware, including the integrated Intel network adapter, Matrox G450 graphicscard (in DualHead mode), and my USB-mouse (all of which did not work with Debian, without downloading and compiling modules).

I just stumbled upon an essay today that completely blew me away: Great Hackers by Paul Graham. Here are two parts that I could totally relate to:

After software, the most important tool to a hacker is probably his office. Big companies think the function of office space is to express rank. But hackers use their offices for more than that: they use their office as a place to think in. And if you’re a technology company, their thoughts are your product. So making hackers work in a noisy, distracting environment is like having a paint factory where the air is full of soot.
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This could explain the disconnect over cubicles. Maybe the people in charge of facilities, not having any concentration to shatter, have no idea that working in a cubicle feels to a hacker like having one’s brain in a blender. (Whereas Bill, if the rumors of autism are true, knows all too well.)

But hey, go read the essay yourself and then send the link to your boss. For the completely clueless manager you may need to buy the book: Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age.

• Oracle9iAS Discoverer Integration with Oracle9iAS Portal
• Integrating Oracle9iAS Portal Discoverer and Portal
• How To Enable Single Sign On (SSO) For Discoverer 9i (9.0.X)
• How To Synchronize A Discoverer Private Connection With A Portal SSO Userid For A Workbook Portlet
• Pointers to 9iAS (9.0.2) and Discoverer 9i (9.0.2) Install Documentation
• Discoverer 9.0.2 Known Issues: Post 9iAS 2 Release Issue
• Discoverer 9.0.2 Known Issue Connecting With Discoverer 9.0.2 Plus and Viewer FAQ’s

• Also, patch 9.0.2.53 corrects many of the minor problems in the initial release.

  Discoverer 9.0.2 Known Issue:
  Discoverer With mod_osso And Portal Fails With “HTTP Error 403 – Forbidden”

  Use this as a workaround:

• Stop OPMN <$BI-FORMS_ORACLE_HOME>/opmn/bin/opmnctl stopall
• Modify <$BI-FORMS_ORACLE_HOME>/Apache/Apache/conf/mod_osso.conf and set OssoIPCheck off.

NOTE: The $ORACLE_HOME here is the BI-Forms Oracle Home, not the Infrastructure Oracle Home
• Restart OPMN <$BI-FORMS_ORACLE_HOME>/opmn/bin/opmnctl startall