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I’ve got an old Intel MacBook Pro 15″, which was no longer getting operating system updates, so I decided to install Linux Mint 22.2 to keep it going for a while longer. I only use it for watching crap (YouTube, Prime Video, Netflix), so there was nothing on the laptop I cared about. Prep Work …


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The new My Oracle Support (MOS) portal has gone live, and it’s not been well received so far. I just want to mention a few things that are affecting me as a regular user of MOS, in the hope that someone will see them and fix them ASAP. Old doc links are broken The internet …


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I was looking through my RSS reader and I noticed this post from Connor McDonald. For some reason I had completely missed the releases of VirtualBox 7.2.2 and 7.2.4. 🙂 Connor had some issues with the host-only networking with VirtualBox 7.2.4 on Windows, so I thought I would give it a go and see if …


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Over the last few days there have been some rumblings about the proper on-prem release of Oracle AI Database 26ai. Yes I know you can run it on-prem on engineered systems or using cloud@customer, but that is not the proper on-prem release as far as I’m concerned. Yesterday the rumblings became a firehose due to …


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It was my session at UKOUG Discover 2025 yesterday. For those that came to the session, thank you. For those that couldn’t make it, but want to know what I was speaking about, it was essentially this blog post, with a bit more attitude. Retired again It’s become a bit of a standing joke over …


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