I have moved on to my next adventure in writing a native database interface. We have decided to add native DB2 support to our product offering. I was fairly excited when I first started out to install this but after 5 days, I am frustrated and dismayed at the lack of forethought or testing put into the product. I downloaded DB2 8.2 from IBM’s web site and installed the 90-day trial for enterprise edition on my Sun Sunfire V20Z development server running Redhat Fedora Core 3, 64-bit edition. Now I bet there are alot of people who want to test DB2 under these types of conditions and from what I read, it just won’t work. » Read more: IBM DB2 on Fedora Core 3 64-Bit
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IBM DB2 on Fedora Core 3 64-Bit
August 22nd, 2005Callvantage QoS
August 12th, 2005I finally got around to fixing the QoS problem with my Callvantage VoIP setup. After determining about 3 months ago that my Callvantage box was dropping packets and causing general outbound havok on my system, I decided to move it inside my network behind my trusty linux firewall/router/mailserver/gameserver box. The unfortunate side effect was that I lost the Quality of Service capabilities. This caused a serious delay in voice transmission and sometimes even stuttering while I was talking on the phone. I usually just accepted it until my friend got his new Actiontec router and it handled VoIP QoS automatically. Now if Actiontec can do it, I know my outdated Redhat 7.3 install should be able to. » Read more: Callvantage QoS
Oracle Time
February 1st, 2005Sorry it’s been so long since an update. I have been working and coding hard. I was presented with the challenge of adding native ODP.NET (Oracle Data Provider) support to my current project. For those who are looking to get a start on Oracle here is what I did.
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