Oracle Public Synonms troubles

I got schooled today on this topic.

Our internal users were having issues trying to restore database through our front end web interface.
They were able to pick the database server but the drop down for all the schemas were blank.

Quickly getting to the point  the public synonym for sys.dba_users was missing.

Easy way to see this is from enterprise manager drill down to Schema > Public>  there should be an object called DBA_USERS.

To fix our issue loggin in as Sys

CREATE PUBLIC SYNONYM DBA_USERS FOR DBA_USERS;
COMMIT;


After that was ran all of the schemas populate the drop down list now.

Hope this will help people.

BSOD on newly imaged dell

Had a strange issue when i tried to image a laptop it went through it's normal process and imaged the machine.

When it started to boot into windows it displayed the normal startup window then went straight to blue screen.  Pulling the hard drive and viewing windows\minidump showed that nothing was written to the hard drive.

I got to thinking hmm maybe it is a bad hard drive.  Running diag scan I did not find any issues.

Last step enter the Bios and see what there is to be seen.

The sata drive was set to AHCI. switching this to raid ready and poof computer boots without issue into windows.

Win 7 Sp1 failed to install because of old version of Security Essentials

Oh yeah SP1 u cant install because Security Essentials is installed Ha ha ha... Wait windows updates doesnt show any updates for security essentials and it doesnt appear to be running under process NO WAY....

yeah it was a Houdini issues.   Luckily I stumbled on a MS article telling that the anti virus program can cause the sp1 to fail on update.

Sure enough only place to see it was there was under add/remove programs.

Got rid of it and now sp1 is installing.

Not able to ping computers on the same switch simple fix

This is one of those issues that just perplexes you for a while until you go OH silly me this is how you fix it.

I'm trying to get 5 laptops ready for a demo that will be using IIS and a Database server.

So currently i'm at the stage where all laptops are powered on and connected to a 8 port switch.

From command prompt i'm typing in the trusted ipconfig. Look at all the results and find it a bit odd all ips are class B for an 8 port switch.

Each machine doesnt even have the same first 3 bits its just all over the place for ips.

From command prompt i start to ping the machine to the right but i'm not getting back any reply. I'm thinking its an icmp so why isnt it going through..

Thought strucks me must be windows firewall.

Sure enough i go to inbound rules and look under file and print ICMP echo is not enabled.

Once i enabled on all the laptops firewalls they all started pinging and replying i'm here now use us.

Short post but none the less helpfull.

Data migration for existing user to a new pc

This is something that i've been struggling with for a few years now at my current position.

Setting up a new machine for an existing user with data.

There are solutions out there such as windows easy transfer but I find this just doesn't help me much.

I would say most users here do not know how to run this even with a guide or say it takes to much time to do. Really dont buy that answer so I gave up on doing that.

So far the only solution i found is to use the Admin share to transfer their data through our network.

This isnt so bad but it takes time to find out where all there data is scattered.

For some reason people jsut dont want to use my documents or desktop they want to have 100s of folders under c drive.

We have even setup a file share where each user gets 30gb of storage but hardly anyone uses that either.

For those who havent used the admin share here is a brief example.

Old computer where the data resides is called comp1 and i'm currently logged into the new machine as administrator.

\\comp1\c$ Thats it. It will prompt you for the user\pass so enter it in for that machine administrator.

From here on its 2 windows open with copy paste to move the data.

I could setup some scripts for the known folders but really with all the data scattered its easier for em to use the CTRL click method.

process that I took to upgrade my droidx to ICS

There are many search results now that pull back info on ICS for droidx. Or variants but not the full thing.

I had previously rooted my droidx and installed a early gingerbread rom so i was way back on the version.

Almost all of the information I used was from rootzwiki.com.

First step that I needed to do was get my phone to the latest gb build. At the time of writing this it was 605.

The sbf files that i used only got up to 602.

Great Guide is here.

http://rootzwiki.com/topic/331-guide-flashing-droid-x-sbf/

After installing and logging into the phone i performed an OTA to get to 605.

Once that rebooted i ran the one click Root.

I initially had issues getting clockwork recovery to work. Previously i had the free version of droid2 boot strap from the devs personal website i believe. That is no longer available for dowload there. The old apk i had installed but wasnt working for reboots.

Was only stock recover. So i bite the bullet and bought it from the Market for $3

After that rom manger was working and it rebooted into clockwork recovery.

The rom i'm using now is the Encounter ICS beta 3. Rootzwiki has a great write up on it with file and gapp to flash as well.

Rebooting into clockwork recovery I previously did not wipe the cach or factor wipe it. This was really needed.

Install from here takes about 4 mins maybe.

Phone starts up with a new interesting loading screen and will take about 30 seconds to load. If it keeps going on and on for a few mins more than likely you didnt wipe it and the cache. Follow the guide and be sure to get the 3 things they list.

Phone will start up with the new log in screen. Then the fun Verizon activation if you have that carrier.

Currently in beta 3 there are only a few minor things to me that are not working.

Camera. I think if this gets the drivers for this phone worked out this will be the perfect rom to use. I can wait it out : ) so far its stable and perfect.

For Netflix dont grab the apk from the market. When a movie plays the sound is perfect but the video is a black screen. Search the thread for netflix and it has some info for netflix to get it working. It is working now for me.

last issue is usb storage when you plug the phone into a computer. It shows the drive but will not let you open the drive. On the apps menue look for USB Mass Storage. run that and all will be good.

Over all i like it a lot over Gingerbread. Each release by google always improves in my own opinion. Its a shame moto isnt having an offical ICS for the droidx that I know of. It can handle it from my usage and would be great for others to have.

Since the phone i have is still under that lovely 2 year contract i'm sure its to get people to upgrade and not waste their time in making it work.

If you want to test this out go for it but you do it at your own risk.

Just in case most droid x phones on craigslist were running 80 to 160. just in case you mess it up so bad you have to get a replacement.

non booting Opti 990

This was a fairly good one that had me today.

Machine when powering on would spin up the fans and hard drive but would not show any output to the lcd screen.

I had a like opti 990 model so i removed the video card and swaped them since i've seen video cards go out.

That wasnt the issue. Next step remove the memory and boot it up at 2 sticks at a time.

That was it memory issues. So i went through each pair to find out non of the memory was bad. Just needed to be reset and everything booted properly.

Bios mem test showed nothing wrong as well.

So when in doubt always reset devices and cables just to be sure in shipping something didnt jiggle free. BUT i swear the mem chips were all pushed in properly and snug.