Find oracle program version

Sometimes you'll need to find out which version of your Oracle program is.
Maybe for patching purpose or bug issue.
Try this

strings | grep Header
adident Header


I personally like adident, much easier. =P


Reference

How to do a MD5 checksum on Ubuntu

$md5sum

should be the same as the one you saw on the original source web page

Oracle TRM Resource

Most of the eTRM didn't get the detail information of the tables
In my opinion, I can get those information from the db myself why do I need a paid eTRM?

I found this useful link including the traditional TRM with PDF format.
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/A88418_01/html/trmdoc.html

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3 steps to install/upgrade OpenOffice.org on your ubuntu

Applied on 9.10 and up

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openoffice-pkgs/ppa
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install openoffice.org

Grub Rescue

The following text is reference from this blog article.

The original text is Chinese. I translate it into English

http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/jw!39j4lB.fEQ9h3IciAIk-/article?mid=421

I originally got a SATA II Hard Drive and installed a Ubuntu 10.10 on it.

And for some unknown reason. It won't show the grub menu.

Then I choose install another Ubuntu on another disk and the 2nd Ubuntu is smart and can let me get my 1st Ubuntu

But after that I found there are too many software need to be re-install & configure

I decide to go the hard way.

The error message is

No such a device

I have no idea what should I do then.

After googled from that blog article.

I follow his instruction and unattach my 2nd hard disk and do the following:

grub rescue>set
prefix=(hd0,msdos1)/boot/grub
root=hd0,msdos1






This seems correct, then I do


grub rescue>ls
(hd0), (hd0,1)



I got only one partition, so I can startup via the 1st partition

grub rescue>set root=(hd0,1)
grub rescue>set prefix=(hd0,1)/boot/grub
grub rescue>insmod normal
rescue:grub>normal



Then I can see my grub menu(Long time no see)

Then I got a normal startup (No more extra hard disk)

After in the GUI of Ubuntu, now need to modify the 
/boot/grub/grub.cfg

run update-grub to update the grub menu
sudo update-grub

now reinstall the grub

sudo grub-install /dev/sda

restart again. my 1st Ubuntu is back :)