Everything around Mac OS X
Earlier this week, Oracle quietly released the RPM packages for Oracle 23ai Free Edition for ARM64 systems. This release is very interesting for developers using Macs with ARM processors as it allows them to create Oracle 23ai containers for their development and engineering environments. In this blog post, I’ll walk you through the steps of […]
Oracle Database 23c Free – Developer Release is all over since Oracle released it yesterday. See the Official Oracle pages Oracle Database Free or the blog post by Gerald Venzl Introducing Oracle Database 23c Free – Developer Release. Connor McDonald even got a special delivery from Oracle. A few important web pages related to Oracle […]
Once and a while I have to create PDF’s out of my PowerPoint presentations. The same a couple of weeks ago when I finished my presentation on Oracle Transparent Sensitive Data Protection at the SOUG day in Baden-Dättwill. I prefer to do this with a minimal amount of extra tools. So no AcrobatReader, GostScript etc. […]
A couple of days ago, I’ve received my new 15″ Mac Book Pro. So far I’m quite happy. Ok the the circumstance, that I have to carry around a bunch of adapters. I’m waiting for the first projector at customers with USB-C connection. But thats an other story. Initially I thought, that I will not […]
Recently I’ve had to install the Adobe Acrobat Reader on my MacBook Pro. As usual, I was in a hurry and had no time to complete the installation. Since then Safari will always use Acrobat PDF Viewer plugin to display PDF. Because I prefer using Mac OS Preview to view PDF files, it is time […]
When switching from Mac OS Terminal.app to iTerm I realized that the
ps
does not work as expected. A
ps -ef
throws an error even if
man ps
shows an option for -f. It seems that the compatibility can be set with a environment variable COMMAND_MODE.