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Thursday, July 29, 2010

MailStore Home - The free single-user desktop solution for email archiving


MailStore Home enables you to backup all your email messages from multiple applications and accounts into one secure and persistent archive. Lightning-fast search, one-click backup, powerful export - all information from your email is at your fingertips anytime. Never lose important email again!



All information from your email, is at your fingertips whenever you need it, without fail.

MailStore Home Archives Email From:

·                                 Microsoft Outlook 2000, XP, 2003 and 2007
·                                 Microsoft Outlook 2010 BETA (32-bit version only)
·                                 Microsoft Outlook Express and Windows Mail
·                                 Microsoft Exchange Server Mailboxes
·                                 Hosted Microsoft Exchange Mailboxes
·                                 Mozilla Thunderbird and SeaMonkey
·                                 POP3 and IMAP (including webmail services such as Gmail and Yahoo)
·                                 .eml and other files
Mailstore Home does not interfere with your settings or mail configuration, meaning it can do no harm, only good.

Benefits

·                                 Archive all email messages centrally, securely and permanently
·                                 No storage limitations
·                                 Search your email in a fraction of a second (incl. attachments)
·                                 Integrated CD/DVD burning, backup archives with 1 click
·                                 Conserve disk space; MailStore Home saves only a single instance of mail and attachments
·                                 Preview saved messages directly in MailStore and reopen them in your local mail client (e.g. Microsoft Outlook)
·                                 Your email can be exported to a variety of destinations
·                                 Messages are stored MIME-compatible, and can be recovered at any time without information loss (e.g. to import them in other applications)


Help Page: http://en.help.mailstore.com/MailStore_Help

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

How to Run the System File Checker (Sfc.exe) Offline in Windows 7 and Vista

The System File Checker (sfc.exe) is an useful tool that lets you scan the integrity of Windows system files, and repair corrupt or missing system files. Numerous cases have been resolved thus far by running Sfc.exe with the "scannow" parameter. However, there are situations where in a corrupt or missing system file prevents Windows from booting normally, and running Sfc.exe from Windows isn’t possible. In such cases, Sfc.exe can be run offline using two additional parameters, via the Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) in Windows 7 and Windows Vista.

Booting into Windows RE

Configure the boot order in the BIOS such that the first boot device is your CD/DVD drive.
Insert the Windows 7/Vista Setup DVD and restart the computer.
Alternately, you may use the Windows 7/Vista System Repair Disc if you have one.
When prompted, press a key to boot from the DVD. In the "Install Windows" screen, click Repair your computer

Select your Windows installation, and click Next


Editor’s Note: Make a note of the drive-letter of your Windows 7 installation, as seen from Windows RE
This is the drive-letter you want to reference when running Sfc.exe offline.
Click Command Prompt



To scan the integrity (and repair) a specific file, use this command:

sfc /scanfile=d:\windows\system32\zipfldr.dll /offbootdir=d:\ /offwindir=d:\windows
 
The above command scans the file zipfldr.dll and replaces it if required.

To scan the integrity of all system files and repair them, run this command:
sfc /scannow /offbootdir=d:\  /offwindir=d:\windows
 

This process takes some time (<5 min) to complete, and there weren’t any integrity violations.

Monday, July 12, 2010

Installing Oracle9i on Red Hat Linux 7.1 - 7.2

  Overview
This article is a comprehensive guide for installing Oracle9i (9.0.1 and 9.2.0) on the Red Hat Linux 7.1 and 7.2 operating environment. Keep in mind the following assumptions:
Downloading / Unpacking Oracle9i Installation Files
Swap Space Considerations

Known Issue #1 : (Error with Oracle 9.0.1 during linking of ins_plsql.mk)
The "binutils" package that ships with Red Hat 7.1 and Red Hat 7.2 will not work with Oracle 9i. You will see this bug show up during the "link" phase at around 62% when trying to link PL/SQL (ins_plsql.mk)
You have three options to get around this bug:

Known Issue #2 : (Error with Oracle9i during the linking of ins_oemagent.mk and ins_ctx.mk)
If you have ever installed Oracle8i on Red Hat Linux, you may be aware of several environment variables that had to be set in your .profile or .bash_profile:
Make sure that you DO NOT set these environment variables in your profile (login) script when installing Oracle9i. They will cause the installer to fail during the linking of the OEM Agent (ins_oemagent.mk) and Context (ins_ctx.mk)!
Known Issue #3 : Oracle 9.2.0 Only : (ORA-01041 / ORA-03113 during connect after shutting down the database in same SQL*Plus session)
When shutting down the database using SQL*Plus, you will need to do one of the following in order to startup the database again: There seems to be a bug in SQL*Plus that does not allow you to perform a shutdown followed by a startup in the same SQL*Plus session.
If you attempt to perform a startup and shutdown in the same session, you will be confronted with an ORA-01041 and ORA-03113 error. What seems to be happening is a problem with the allocation of shared memory segments. If you mistakenly try this, you have two options to recover from it:

Below is an example of the problem and how to solve it by removing the shared memory segments created by the startup command after shutting down the database:

Install the Java Development Kit (JDK)
In order to use Oracle's HTTP [Apache] Server, you will need to download an appropiate JDK. This can include either Sun's JDK 1.3.1 or Blackdown 1.1.8_v3. In the past, Oracle has always recommended Blackdown. I prefer Sun's JDK myself and have been successful using it with 9i. As per the JDK documentation, install JDK under /usr/local.
Then create a symbolic link to the JDK under /usr/local/java.


  • Sun's JDK 1.3.1 Download from: http://java.sun.com
    Install as root:

    % cp j2sdk-1_3_1_01-linux-i386.bin /usr/local
      % chmod 755 j2sdk-1_3_1_01-linux-i386.bin
      % ./j2sdk-1_3_1_01-linux-i386.bin
      % ln -s /usr/local/jdk1.3.1_01 /usr/local/java
  • Blackdown 1.1.8_v3 Download from: http://www.blackdown.org
    Install as root:

    % cp jdk118_v3-glibc-2.1.3.tar.bz2 /usr/local
      % bzip2 -dc jdk118_v3-glibc-2.1.3.tar.bz2
      % tar xvf jdk118_v3-glibc-2.1.3.tar
      % ln -s /usr/local/jdk118_v3 /usr/local/java
Create Oracle Account and Directories
Create Oracle User Account: % groupadd -g 115 dba
% useradd -u 173 -c "Oracle Software Owner" -d /u01/app/oracle -g "dba" -m -s /bin/bash oracle
% passwd oracle

Create Oracle Directories:
% mkdir /u01
% mkdir /u01/app
% mkdir /u01/app/oracle
% mkdir /u01/app/oracle/admin
% mkdir /u01/app/oracle/admin/O901DB
% mkdir /u01/app/oracle/admin/O901DB/adhoc
% mkdir /u01/app/oracle/admin/O901DB/adump
% mkdir /u01/app/oracle/admin/O901DB/arch
% mkdir /u01/app/oracle/admin/O901DB/backups
% mkdir /u01/app/oracle/admin/O901DB/bdump
% mkdir /u01/app/oracle/admin/O901DB/cdump
% mkdir /u01/app/oracle/admin/O901DB/create
% mkdir /u01/app/oracle/admin/O901DB/dba
% mkdir /u01/app/oracle/admin/O901DB/exp
% mkdir /u01/app/oracle/admin/O901DB/logbook
% mkdir /u01/app/oracle/admin/O901DB/pfile
% mkdir /u01/app/oracle/admin/O901DB/release
% mkdir /u01/app/oracle/admin/O901DB/report
% mkdir /u01/app/oracle/admin/O901DB/tuning
% mkdir /u01/app/oracle/admin/O901DB/udump
% mkdir /u01/app/oracle/product
% chown -R oracle:dba /u01/app/oracle

% mkdir /u03
% mkdir /u03/app
% mkdir /u03/app/oradata
% mkdir /u03/app/oradata/O901DB
% chown -R oracle:dba /u03/app/oradata

% mkdir /u04
% mkdir /u04/app
% mkdir /u04/app/oradata
% mkdir /u04/app/oradata/O901DB
% chown -R oracle:dba /u04/app/oradata

% mkdir /u05
% mkdir /u05/app
% mkdir /u05/app/oradata
% mkdir /u05/app/oradata/O901DB
% chown -R oracle:dba /u05/app/oradata

% mkdir /u06
% mkdir /u06/app
% mkdir /u06/app/oradata
% mkdir /u06/app/oradata/O901DB
% chown -R oracle:dba /u06/app/oradata

% mkdir /u07
% mkdir /u07/app
% mkdir /u07/app/oradata
% mkdir /u07/app/oradata/O901DB
% chown -R oracle:dba /u07/app/oradata

% mkdir /u08
% mkdir /u08/app
% mkdir /u08/app/oradata
% mkdir /u08/app/oradata/O901DB
% chown -R oracle:dba /u08/app/oradata

% mkdir /u09
% mkdir /u09/app
% mkdir /u09/app/oradata
% mkdir /u09/app/oradata/O901DB
% chown -R oracle:dba /u09/app/oradata

% mkdir /u10
% mkdir /u10/app
% mkdir /u10/app/oradata
% mkdir /u10/app/oradata/O901DB
% chown -R oracle:dba /u10/app/oradata

% mkdir /opt/bin
% chown oracle:dba /opt/bin

Oracle Environment Variable Settings:
An example ".bash_profile" is provided in the Configuration Files / Scripts section below.
Run the Oracle Installer
As the "oracle" user account:
Configuration Files / Scripts
Example:
    .bash_profile
$HOME/.bash_profile for the "oracle" user account.
    initO901DB.ora
Sample instance parameter script for Oracle9i. Place this file in ~oracle/admin/O901DB/pfile before running the RUN_CRDB.sh script below.
    create_database901.tar
An example "create database" set of scripts. Untar the file to ~oracle/admin/O901DB/create. If you decide to change the name of the ORACLE_SID, here are the files that need to be changed:
  • crdb.sh
  • create_database.sql
  • postDBCreation.sql
The main script to run is: RUN_CRDB.sh.