16 November 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Installing Sun (Oracle) JDK 1.5 on an EC2 instance

TweetI’m currently working on moving a Tomcat-based application into EC2. The code was written for Java 5.0. While Java 6 would probably work, I’d like to keep everything as “same” as possible, since EC2 presents its own challenges. I spun up a couple of t1.micro instances and copied everything over, including the Java 5 JDK, [...]

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31 August 2011 ~ 2 Comments

64-bit Firefox 6 on CentOS 6 x86_64 (or Fedora) with Flash 11

TweetSo I’ve gone back to Linux from Mac, due to the SSD issues I had with my Macbook Pro basically making VMware unusable. A Win7 VM would grind the guest and host to a halt on the 7200 RPM SATA OEM drive, and the SSD wouldn’t work, so I put the SSD back in my [...]

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09 June 2010 ~ 0 Comments

HOWTO: Install Flash plugin on Firefox on Fedora / CentOS / RedHat Linux

TweetUpdated 8/31/2011 See my newer post on this subject. I know I’ve been through this before because I’ve setup Fedora before and it’s working. But I just installed FC12 on my desktop at home (since my Seagate drive bricked itself a few days ago and I had to reinstall anyway) and while I finally got [...]

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