Oracle related rants (and lots of off-topic stuff)...
My last post was a rant about Oracle Support. As a result of that some folks from Oracle reached out for a meeting to discuss my experience. This was not about the specific SR, but my general experience of using Oracle Support as a customer. In this post I ll discuss some of the information that Continue reading "Oracle Support : An Update" The post Oracle Support : An Update first appeared on The…
If you follow me you know I have a history of moaning about Oracle Support. I have had some good experiences in the past, but overall I would have to judge the services as a complete fail. Website Since the migration of the main Oracle Support website, the user experience has been terrible. A lot Continue reading "Oracle Support : A recent experience" The post Oracle Support : A recent experience…
Oracle released VirtualBox 7.2.14 a couple of days ago. As I mentioned in my previous post, I was expecting this release to coincide with the the normal quarterly patch cycle. The downloads and changelog are in the usual places. I’ve done installations on Windows 11 and Linux Mint and both worked fine. Vagrant I didn t bother updating my Vagrant boxes for Continue reading "Oracle VirtualBox…
Oracle released VirtualBox 7.2.12 a couple of days ago. This comes hot on the heels of version 7.2.10, which I wrote about here. The downloads and changelog are in the usual places. I’ve done installations on Windows 11 and Linux Mint and both seem OK. As with the last version, on Windows 11 I got away with a straight upgrade, but Continue reading "Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.12" The post Oracle…
After my recent posts on this subject I got some questions, and I thought I would use my responses to write a new post. I m hoping this makes the situation more clear. I ll link my other posts on this subject at the bottom, in case you want to look at them. Some of these topics Continue reading "Running Large Language Models (LLMs) Locally : Some Clarification" The post Running Large Language…
Oracle released VirtualBox 7.2.10 a couple of days ago. The downloads and changelog are in the usual places. I’ve done installations on Windows 11 and Linux Mint and both went fine. On Windows 11 I got away with a straight upgrade this time, but it s worth remembering the cleanest way to upgrade on Windows is to do the following. Continue reading "Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.10" The post Oracle…
I ve posted on social media a few times about various open weight models released by Google. A recent post resulted in this question. how to store and use an gemma 4 model from oracle database? I gave this answer. You would have to use the EmbeddingGemma model. Then programmatically generate the vector embeddings outside of Continue reading "AI Vector Search : Generating vectors outside of the…
I ve written a few posts about running local LLMs. Up until now I ve been running them on my crappy old laptop. It s a bit slow, but it works OK. The problem is it uses most of the local resources and I can t do much else until the LLM finishes the task. My original plan was Continue reading "Running Large Language Models (LLMs) Locally : My new inference machine" The post Running Large Language…
I ve been reading and watching a lot of content about AI assisted development, and without fail the people who are getting the most out of it seem to be those where agile and DevOps development are already part of their culture. Some basic definitions Here are some basic definitions that will help with the discussion. Continue reading "No Agile? No DevOps? Without them your AI assisted development…
Fedora 44 was released a few days ago. Let’s start with the standard warning. As usual I worked through a few variations of Oracle installations on Fedora, including 26ai. The only real gotcha was 21c, which required a downgrade of the binutils package to install. In comparison 19c and 26ai were cleaner. As explained in Continue reading "Fedora 44 and Oracle" The post Fedora 44 and Oracle first…