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Adobe Reader printing issue WA

Oleg — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:52:59 +0000

As I found today trying to print my expenses report – Adobe Reader X (10.1.2) will not print PDF documents (Windows XP Home -SP3).

The workaround I found is:

After opening Reader X, navigate to Edit/Preferences/General, untick the “Enable Protected Mode at startup” box at the foot of the form, and restart Reader X when prompted.

This appears to have resolved the problem.

Аттракцион невиданной щедрости

Oleg — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:56:06 +0000

Всем привет!
В связи с окончательным переездом вашего покорного слуги на платформу BlackBerry, а также апдейта своего BlackBerry девайса распродаю следующие лоты:

Samsung Galaxy i7500:

Обзор устройства
Телефон с рутом, прошитый под Android 2.1, в очень хорошем состоянии.

Цена лота: 10000

BlackBerry 8220 Pearl

Обзор устройства

Телефон разлочен, изначально американский T-Mobile, в идеальном состоянии. Отдаю с коженным чехлом и подключенным BIS от МТС.

Цена лота: 5000

Gilad Shalit free after five-year ordeal

Oleg — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:20:55 +0000

Install Oracle 10g XE in Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit

Oleg — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:55:35 +0000

This is an aggregate instruction on how to install Oracle 10g XE in Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit. As I’ve updated my system to 64-bit this is that I found:

First of all we need to be sure that we have installed the 32 bits libraries.Open the terminal and run the following command

sudo apt-get install libc6-i386

After this we do the following. We have to download Oracle 10g XE.We download it from Oracle official site.
We also have to download an extra deb package. For that we to the following

wget -c http://oss.oracle.com/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/libaio_0.3.104-1_i386.deb

When we got this two packages. We have to force the installation of oracle.

dpkg -i --force-architecture libaio_0.3.104-1_i386.deb

Extract the deb file, open Oracle-xe-universal_10.2.0.1-1.0_i386/DEBIAN/control and remove the dependency for libc6 so you end up with:

Depends: libaio (>= 0.3.96) | libaio1 (>= 0.3.96)

Then cd to the directory that contains the extracted folders and do a dpkg-deb --build oracle-xe-universal_10.2.0.1-1.0_i386 && sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture oracle-xe-universal_10.2.0.1-1.0_i386.deb

When the installation is ready. We need to configure it

sudo /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure

and we edit the ~/.bashrc

gksudo gedit ~/.bashrc

Add the following lines and save the file

ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin export ORACLE_HOME export ORACLE_SID=XE export PATH

Fix some issues you could add your user to DBA group

sudo usermod -a -G dba your_username
also fix issue that DBA group can not start listener

sudo chmod g+w /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/network/log/listener.log
After this Gnome menu links “Start Database” and “Stop Database” should work.

If you like enable database auto start then

sudo nano /etc/default/oracle-xe
and change line

ORACLE_DBENABLED=false
to
ORACLE_DBENABLED=true

And get enviroment variables set correctly

sudo nano /etc/profile
add line end of file

. /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin/oracle_env.sh
then

sudo cp /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin/nls_lang.sh /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin/nls_lang.sh_original sudo nano /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin/nls_lang.sh
and change first line

#!/bin/sh
to
#!/bin/bash

Svetlana Yaseneva’s works

Oleg — Mon, 30 May 2011 04:24:41 +0000

Me in Calgary

Oleg — Fri, 06 May 2011 21:32:53 +0000

So, the weather is fun, sun is shining, birds are singing, groundhogs are warming their bellies and I’m living in Calgary now. After 4 very difficult winter months life is getting more and more better. Frankly, I learned about myself that, as Pushkin said: “…вреден север для меня…” (I’m allergic to the North). However as it is Spring now, Alberta seems to be very nice place. A lot of beautiful places to hike, especially I like Bridgeland neighborhood and I even start to looking for apartments for rent there )).

It all depends on my immigration status in Canada… The other issue I’m thinking over now is if I need to buy a bicycle or not? $28 per day as rent fee looks inappropriate versus purchase of a brand new bicycle for $78 in Zellers. The only question is what shall I do with this bike after May 28th, when I’m going back to Russia as I’m not sure that I’ll back to Calgary.

In Calgary I found a wonderful community – Grace Baptist Church, that I attend now. It reminds me Saddleback Church, at least how I imagine it.

The funny thing that happened to me in Calgary is that I purchased a שמע ישראל ring from Israel and as it was delivered I realized that the only finger it fits is ring-finger. It looks a bit ambiguously )))

IPv4 Exhaustion Counter

Oleg — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 01:45:23 +0000

Glamorous Russian Girls

Oleg — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:46:13 +0000

On my way to the office I witnessed a hilarious scene – a russian girl dressed in a sexy suite walks by the street, one of her hands is casted in plaster, nevertheless the manicure on her injured hand looks so good, and… OMG!!! her plaster cast is decorated with bows! )))))))))

Dreamhost + SVN

Oleg — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:09:47 +0000

Working on one of my projects I found that you may got an error when you try to check out your Dreeamhost hosted SVN repository. The root cause is that you surprisingly are not allowed to create repository for subdomain that name is different from “svn”. So the repository http://svn.mydomain.com/p1 will work, http://code.mydomain.com/p1 probably not.

Hope it will be helpful for somebody.

Waiting for US Visa

Oleg — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:21:57 +0000