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Oracle 11g R2 and Windows 7 … dealing with Enterprise Manager Troubles
Oct 3rd
So, this weekend I thought to refresh my experience with Oracle. And in that attempt, I decided to install latest of Oracle DBMS family, Oracle 11g. Now, it’s been a while since I used oracle, it was version 10g. And they have been significantly improved in version 11g, so I wanted to try them. But I think something that have not changed or may be will never change is their web interface for EM (a.k.a. Enterprise Manager). If you have not used Oracle before then for info, EM is basically their central management console for installed Oracle instance.
Now if you are installing Oracle DBMS in a system which as “Static” IP (think of it as an IP that doesn’t change with time), then you have no problem at all. But if you are like me and installing in a machine which has DHCP enabled, and its IP gets changed frequently … or just say it is your laptop or desktop at home network, then you will not be able to access this EM after sometime. The reason is, It is sticked with your IP that it assumes is static !! So, you will get “Page Not Found” message when you will try to access EM, once your IP gets changed. And worse thing is in Oracle 10g, before installation the UI (Universal Installer) checks for pre-requisites and it warns you about having DHCP enabled but in Oracle 11g you will not see anything like that.
So, back to my experience. I installed Oracle 11g R2 as usual, and I fired up the EM. It worked just fine at first, but after sometime when I tried to run it again I was greeted with same old message “Page Not Found”. And I almost smashed my laptop 
(I know, sometimes I over react to things) … then I realized then I forgot the most important step of preparation, Installation of Microsoft Loopback Adapter !!
Installing Microsoft Loopback Adapter
Things look very different in Windows 7, so it was a bit difficult to find “ADD Hardware Wizard” to add an adapter. Then I found that I can run it using “hdwwiz.exe” and after that it is same as we used to with older windows versions. Following are screenshots of whole installation and configuration procedure.
IIS 7.5 + Multiple websites = troubles
Aug 29th
Today when I was trying to work on an ASP.NET application which I was saving on my “Default Web Site” in IIS, I was getting “unable to start debugging on the web server. the iis worker process for the launched url isnot working” error whenever I try to run & debug any application in my Visual Studio 2010. Even my old application which were stored in IIS very long time ago were throwing me same error!!! …. But if I try to access that application directly by typing its path in browser, I was able to run them properly !!! .. So I figured out that something must be wrong with my IIS (or its Settings ) but not with my application itself …
Freeze the time … and protect your system !!!
Aug 25th
Well, it’s not title of new sci-fi movie where hero freezes time in order to save his computer from vicious villain 
… it’s about a software called Time Freeze by Wondershare. If you have known already, there is a really good site called Giveaway Of the Day, which gives away a licensed software everyday for free !!! In past this site has given many free but really good software including Anti-viruses, Firewalls, Utility Software, designing software etc. And today they are giving away this really cool app. by Wondershare.
I am already using a sandboxing software called SandBoxie (free)… and Time Freeze is doing same. If you are like me and do lots of web surfing to unknown new site or say you love to “experiment” with your OS by installing new software / games etc. then this is the right thing for you. By creating virtualized system, it prevents any kind of harm that can be done because of viruses, software or even by yourself 
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Installing SharePoint Server 2010 in Windows 7
Aug 18th
Well, firstly I would like you guys to know that in no way it is an “original” post. I was installing SharePoint Server 2010 in my Windows 7 machine (which is not supported by default by SharePoint )so this all about the whole process … possible errors and their solutions. So you can say its kind of consolidation of different posts which I looked for answers. (And link to those posts are in the end) with my own workaround…
With that said, lets begin our journey of Installing SharePoint Server 2010 in Windows 7 …
As first step, download demo of SharePoint Server 2010 from official Microsoft site. And then run the installer. With surprise you will be greeted with error saying that you need to have Windows Server 2008 (x64)with SP1. Means that as a minimum system rec. you need to have 64bit edition of Windows Server 2008. Which I don’t have… So I did little “Googling” and with no surprise there were lots of people were complaining about this rec. (mostly people like me who just want to try SharePoint ) … and I stumbled across my fav. Site (the Code Project) where someone had posted a solution to this problem.
Go to “C:\Program Files (x86)\MSECache\oserver2010”
Find FILES folder Then Setup folder Edit config.xml file (using Notepad with Admin privileges) … and add …
<Setting Id="AllowWindowsClientInstall" Value="True"/>
Hosting You Website from Home, with IIS and DynDNS
Mar 1st
How does this sound ?? Geeky ?? If you are computer user and enthusiastic enough then you can run your website right from your home !!! This is what I’ve been doing from couple of months. And believe me, its not “that” difficult to do. Hell, even you can host your own wordpress blog like me like this too. Microsoft has lately release a tool called, Web Platform Installer a.k.a. WEB PI … As a pre-requisite all you need is IIS and SQL Server Express edition. (Actually WebPI does have SQL Express packaged with it) And if you have read my guide to install and setup IIS on your PC then its way too much easy to setup. All you need is to download that Web PI tool and then from “Web Applications” choose to install WordPress from Blogs. There are many more Web App available to download free. And the best thing is its very easy to install and configure any of these apps, even if you have never heard of them before (after installing using that app. is a whole different story though 😀 ).
Anyways, what I mean is YOU CAN DO IT … 😀 … but once you do, if you want to run your own site, you need to have two things with you a Static IP and a Domain Name … An IP address is like address of your Web Server or loosely say address of your Computer .. and Domain
Windows 7 GOD MODE
Jan 10th
If you have been playing games, you might be aware of “GOD MODE” that we use in Games. Basically it make you “GOD” and you can be killed by anyone , get all weapons and hell sometimes you can even fly in air and walk though the wall !!!
No no, this god mode won’t let your windows 7 turn in to windows 7000 … but can say it will put all the administration settings into one page (like, UAC or Security Center or Internet Options are few to name). I read it on one of my favorite site Download.com.
Setting Up LIVE WRITER for Blogging…
Dec 22nd
There are many blog writing tools available presently. Some of them are integrated with browsers (say, Scribefire for Firefox or Blog uploading tool in Flock browser) and some are standalone app. like Windows Live Writer (WLW for short), hell even there are some paid blog writing tools are available too ( i wonder who will pay for this sort of tools as we already have free good alternatives ), Rocket Post and Mars Edit are few to name !!!
I am new recruit of this blogosphere, but I know sometimes it makes our life easy if we have blog writing tool at our disposal. We can write, edit or can do anything we want even we are not connected to internet (which is a bit difficult for me , i can’t live without internet.). So, I have been using Windows Live Writer from the day one I created my blog.
So, in today’s how to I will show how to setup Windows Live Writer to work with Self hosted WordPress Blog.