I have learned why internationalization is abbreviated to ‘i18n’ thanks to Sun’s internationalization documentation. Now if only I knew why there’s so much more moo shu than pancakes…
So I tried to install DB2 8.2 on Fedora 8 recently. The install seemed to go smoothly, but then I couldn’t really do anything. Running any DB2 command (like ‘db2′) would give strange errors like:
SQL10007N Message “-1390″ could not be retrieved. Reason code: “3″.
and
./db2cc: line 26: db2javit: command not found
and
DB2JAVIT : RC = 9501DB2INSTANCE : [...]
Recently I was asked to look at building a web application that would run on Tomcat and use Active Directory for authentication. Since I didn’t exactly know how to do this, I thought it would be interesting to get an OSS LDAP server up and running on my Mac and try hooking into it with [...]
I’ve recently been playing around with Fedora 8 as an environment for installing WAS while I work on certification. There were a couple of glitches that stumped me for a day or so, but since then it’s been working great.
 The first problem was related to updates. I could run the launchpad application, but when I [...]