Linux Documents / Books

Hello oracle community,
normaly I am working with windows based systems, but it is time for a change. I would like to learn more about Linux and specially about Oracle Enterprise Linux. What I am looking for is not only a book or document about the operation system, but in combination with the installtion and administration under Oracle 11g. I am not new to Oracle, but a beginner when it comes to Linux. Any suggestions ?
Krischer

Ikrischer wrote:
Hello oracle community,
normaly I am working with windows based systems, but it is time for a change. I would like to learn more about Linux and specially about Oracle Enterprise Linux. What I am looking for is not only a book or document about the operation system, but in combination with the installtion and administration under Oracle 11g. I am not new to Oracle, but a beginner when it comes to Linux. Any suggestions ?
KrischerIts possible the book 'Linux Recipes for Oracle DBAs' ISBN13: 978-1-4302-1575-2 et al might be of some help, but it might not be by itself totally suitable for a complete linux newbie. ISBN-13: 978-0072230536 might just be worth it iff you can pick it up really cheap second hand. The certification book Oracle Enterprise Linux Administrator Certified Associate Exam Guide (Exams 1Z0-402 And 1Z0-403) (Paperback) might be worth it if it does finally become available in february (ISBN-13: 978-0071615440); but it might go into too much depth and will be less RDBMS orientated.
Mind you I'd always be inclined to checkout Tommy's advice as I'm usually very inclined to respect it.

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Oca linux fundamental book

hi
which one is the linux fundamental book for OCA linux?
what is the exam pattern ?is it MCQ based or practical based?
regards

you wrote:
hi
which one is the linux fundamental book for OCA linux?
what is the exam pattern ?is it MCQ based or practical based?
regardsI believe Oracle Enterprise Linux Administrator Certified Associate Exam Guide (Exams 1z0-402 and 1z0-403) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 978-0071615440) is finnaly due to be published 5th feb 2010 (ref amazon.co.uk .... not always right) and one assumes this will be the most focused book for this exam.
There's a number of other books that would help with 1z0-402 ... i've covered some of those in previous posts. I'd imagine for 1z0-403 one would have to use a number of different sources if you using the above book.
The exams are multiple choice based, however one assumes students will do practical hands on in their preparation.
See: [http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=144]
Edited by: bigdelboy on 01-Feb-2010 12:20 (Expanded after hitting return too early).

Importing a ,docx document (book)

Hello
I need to use the demo of Indesign4 to import an 80 page book of poetry created in Word 2003. I need to create a PDF with bleed for a 6in x 9in book.
I have converted the document to Word 2007 docx, but when I try to place this into Indesign I can paste in the document, but only the first page appears, even if the Indesign document has 80 pages at 6in x 9in.
Has anyone any idea of what is happening?
Mike Engles

Are you pasting or placing (the latter is the correct method)?
Are you familiar at all with InDesign? When you have more text than will fit into a frame, the remainder becomes "overset" and is inthe document, but not yet on a page. You'll see a red Plus sign in the text frame outport to indicate the overset.
You can click the overset indicator with the selection tool to load the remaining text into a cursor for threading into a new frame or frames. By holding down the shift key when you click this loaded cursor you will auto-flow all of the remaining text into the document, adding frames or pages as necessary to hold it all. You can also use autoflow when you place the text in the beginning.
Clicking a loaded text cursor behaves differently depending on what's under it when you click. If there is an empty frame (you'll see the cursor change to have included parentheses, indicating that you will flow into a frame) the text will fill flow into the frame, or if the frame is threaded with others and is not the first frame in the thread, into the first frame.
If there is no frame, a new frame will be created on the fly, with the top edge at the y-coordinate where you clicked, and the width will fill the column guides surrounding that point and the frame will extend to the bottom margin. If auto-flowing, subsequent frames will start at the top margin and extend to the bottom. If new pages are required, they will be based on master of the last page the text flowed into, which can cause some unexpected results if the master has a frame not threaded to another on the opposite side of a two-page spread.
Peter

InDesign workflow question for longer document (book)

I'm new to Indesign and have read through the help topics and searched around but I can't seem to find an exact answer... I may be phrasing my question wrong.
I have a complete book in basic text (txt). What is the desired (or best in your experience) way to start work. In my mind I want to import the text as a whole, populate all pages, then I want to come back and format chapters and add images.
Everything I try doesn't support my idea (I am new to this software and I may just be approaching this incorrectly.) I also come from a different background and a different tool set so any advise would help.

To elaborate on Simon's answer, this is my workflow for straight-on books:
- Make a basic set of Master pages. You will need at least a single set with page numbering and, optionally, headings.
- Load all text. You will get lots and lots of pages, because it's still unformatted, but that's okay.
- I usually cut off front matter and put each item on a page of its own, so tiddling with it won't cause reflow of the entire document. You will need at least a title page and a reverse; "proper" books have a minor title page, a (c) page, a proper title page, and a blank. (Grab any one from your bookshelf that you like and copy its layout for these.) My first "true" flowing page is the first page of chapter 1. Remember to insert 2 pages (or perhaps more -- an even number) for a table of contents.
- Go through the main text from first to last page, applying basic formatting, paragraphs, subtitles, etc. -- the plain text works. Make and use paragraph styles for each unique format -- do not (or at least as possible!) apply local formatting. Use character styles for italics and bold in plain text.
- Go through the main text again, applying formatting to each new chapter. Insert page breaks (Odd Page Breaks for right-hand starting chapters) where appropriate. If you use Odd Page Breaks, insert them before
i every
new chapter (or use the "Break On Odd Page" Keep Option) -- i.e., not just when you seem to need one. It will change if you reformat or add picchers.
- Go through your text
i again,
this time adding all pictures, tables, etc. You can do the previous steps in any order you like, but this one must be done from front to back. If you have right hand chapters and the one before it has no text, make that one completely blank (i.e., remove header & page numbering).
- Tidy up the front matter and generate the contents.
- Remove the extra blanks at the end. These were the overspill from the plain text import.
- Sit back 'cause you're done!
As you see, your own ideas weren't bad at all.

Is there anyway to transfer a pdf document (book) from iBooks to a third-party app like PDF Expert?

I've been having problems using Dropbox to transfer a large pdf document(2.3GB) from my MacBook Pro to my iPad. Each time I upload the document to my Dropbox, the file becomes unreadable. I am able to read the document on my MacBook Pro before uploading it to my Dropbox, however. Since the uploading process seems to be corrupting the file somehow, I decided to transfer the file using iTunes, which places the doument into the iBooks app on my iPad. I have opened the file using the iBooks app and I am able to read it, but I want to be able to use PDF Expert to read the document and so I need to somehow move the document from iBooks to PDF Expert. Is there a way to transfer the file? Or I'm I now limited to using iBooks only? Any assistance would be appreciated.

Have you tried GoodReader? It claims to handle very large file sizes and it's very good for annotations. It's my PDF reader of choice on the iPad
From the GoodReader manual:
File types to view in GoodReader
There are two types of viewing engines - the ones that we've written ourselves, and the built-in device's standard viewing engine. Our own engines provide great flexibility and many additional features not found in the built-in engine (for example, opening very large files). The built-in engine is very powerful and knows many file formats, but has many limitations and no additional features.
Files of very big size (our own viewing engine):
very large PDF files (including password-protected). File size is not the limit. Revolutionary PDF Reflow (Extract Pure Text) mode. See Viewing PDF Files for details.
very large TXT files. See Viewing TXT Files for details.
high-resolution pictures and other graphic files (including slideshow viewing mode). See Viewing Pictures for details.
And as a free bonus - files of normal size (iOS standard viewing engine):
all file formats supported by Safari engine: Microsoft Office files - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML files and Safariwebarchives
iWork'08/09 files - Pages, Numbers, Keynote (files must be saved with Include Preview option)
.ai files saved with PDF Compatible option
audio files (natively supported by iOS)
video files (natively supported by iOS)

My reader states that a document (book) can not be opened due to Adobe DRM. What do I need to do in order to open this book. I have no problems with my other Kobo reader

Any help would be appreciated.

There really isn't anything in the information you provided to indicate that you have been hacked, and you don't have a virus. Worse case is that you have been hit With a web traffic redirect wihich will NOT allow any outside access to the iPad.
Some steps you can take:
Clear the browser cache: Open the settings app, select Safari, then tap the Clear History and the Clear Cookies buttons (make sure you have the Fraud Warning turned Pn while you are at it)
Reset the iPad: Simultaneously hold down the Home and On buttons until the iPad shuts down. Ignore the off slider should it appear. Takes about ten seconds. Restart the iPad using the On button.
Check your iOS versions. If you hven't updated to 5.1.1 yet, you might consider that. It has a security fix that helps prevent this.
As suggested above, as a last resort, restore the iPad to factory settings.
But again, it is HIGHLY unlikely you have been hacked. And you do NOT have a virus.

Migrating from Windows to HP-UX or Linux documents?

Hi all,
Where can I find more info on how to migration an Oracle 8i database from Windows to HP-UX or another Unix platform? Sure, I could do a manual export/import job after setting up the new box but is there a better way? Are there guides available for these things?
Thanks.
joe.

I think that exp/imp is your only choice.

Does anyone know of an e-reader app for the iphone that has text to speech capability? I have a Kindle 3G that can read whole pdf documents and books but I cannot figure out how to do it on my iphone 4.

Does anyone know of an e-reader app for the iphone that has text to speech capability? I have a Kindle 3G that can read whole pdf documents and books but I cannot figure out how to do it on my iphone 4.
All of the apps I have found on the App store either do not have the text to speech capability or if they have it they will only read a page at a time or simply read the text you paste into their window. I really do not understand what is so difficult about having this feature as Kindle provides it--though Amazon does not make the feature available on its iPhone 4 app.
Please help.

thanks. yes i am aware of the VoiceOver feature but it is NOT the solution to my problem. as you said, it is a solution to a different set of issues. i want the text to speech ability because i there are books i need to read but do not have the time to sit down and read them and have become used to listening to them read to me either by a professional human reader or with the text to speech software on the Kindle.
I think Apple makes the best audio devices but i am really disappointed in this inexplainable shortcoming. if apple can give us siri they ought to be able to design a nice little button that i can push to turn on text to speech while i am in a document, book, magazine or webpage. clearly it is possible as apple has added the "reader" button in safari to have web pages dropped into the reader format.
thanks for your suggestion though, it is what everyone suggests but it does not address the issue.

Every document in a book restarts from '1'

Hi, I have a long document (book) that is almost ready to print. I don't know how or why, but it seems that the pagination has gotten totally screwed up. I have 35 documents which together make a 165 page book. In the book panel everything was numbered correctly from 1-165, but I guess I did something (don't know what) and now every document starts at '1' (1-4 for example). I have tried for two hours to change settings and nothing helps. As an experiment, I created a completely new book, created new documents to put in that book, and even THAT has the same problem. I can't figure this out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Craig

Yes that was it. Apparently I had turned on section numbering. The odd
thiing is that when I turned it off nothing seemed to happen. Syncing
didn't make any changed either. What DID make a change was when I
chose to start every chapter on an odd page - THEN ir repaginated
correctly. I then changed it back to having chapters start on the next
page, repaginated and everything was fine. Thank you so much. I was up
until 2 am trying to figure this out and slept poorly as I dreamt
about it as well. I have finally finished my book and I just want to
be done with it!
Craig

Book on Oracle/Linux

I have been trying to find a Linux/Oracle book. Has anyone heard
of one? I am trying to avoid all the bboks with a lot of NT
fluff. Thanks much in advance.
null

There aren't any out yet, but a couple are in the works. Watch
for them by Q4 of this year.
Matt...
shmoooth (guest) wrote:
: I have been trying to find a Linux/Oracle book. Has anyone
heard
: of one? I am trying to avoid all the bboks with a lot of NT
: fluff. Thanks much in advance.
null

Unable to generate a PDF file for 1 of 3 books

I'm making three documents (books) in FrameMaker and then converting to PDF. The first two books generated to PDF with no "major" problems. There were a couple of glitches here and there but most were simply operator error. This forum solved two of my problems.
Now, with the third book, I can't generate the PDF and get error messages in the log file. I've gone back and triple checked everything and can't find a thing that's different between this last book and the first two. I've used the same templates and all of the paragraph formats and character formats are identical in all three documents.
I'm setting all of the PDF setup parameters the same. In the Adobe PDF setup, I've made certain that the "Rely on system fonts only..." check box is unchecked.
One of the error messages in the log file says,
%%[ Warning: LucidaSans cannot be embedded because of licensing restrictions. ]%%
%%[ Font vendor (B&H) does not permit this font to be embedded in PDF. ]%%
This would make sense if Lucida Sans font were only used in this one book. But it's used in the first two books as well and they generate as PDF with no problems. In fact, just to make sure, I went back and generated one of the first books over again and it worked perfectly.
The only significant (?) difference in the third book is that it is much larger than the first two. It runs to 150 pages while the first two are 45 pages and 70 pages. But I've worked with books as large as 450 pages in the past.
I've been creating the PDF documents by the FM Save as PDF feature. But because of this problem, I downloaded and installed a trial version of Acrobat X. Then printed to PS file, opened with Acrobat and tried to distill. Got the same results and the same error messages.
My experience with FrameMaker and Adobe in general is that error messages and indicated results may be cryptic and sometimes have absolutely nothing to do with the actual problem. In any event, I'm totally snowed by this one. (I really shouldn't pick on Adobe for that. Microsoft is much worse when it comes to vague and cryptic error messages!)
Sure wish I had a Mac right now. Or Linux. Or...

Thank you very much for the input. That makes perfect sense to me. The Lucida fonts are, indeed, all from Bigelow & Holmes (B&H). So that explains the difficulties I was encountering. Now, here’s where it gets a little weird.
I created the first two pdf files at work. I work about half of the time from home and was trying to create the pdf file yesterday at home. And that didn’t work. This morning, I loaded all of the files back into the computer in the office and tried again. No problem! Created a nice looking 162-page pdf file. Oh, I did say it got weird, didn’t I? Well, the computer at home and the one at work are both running the same version of Win 7 Pro, the same versions of FM10 and Acrobat X. And the Lucida fonts installed (probably the default set with Windows) are all B&H fonts. That’s right; the same on both computers.
Your input was very helpful because I might have continued spinning my wheels for another day or so on this thing. As it is, I’m considering the matter solved because I just won’t try to make pdf files from these three documents at home. The other alternative would be to use a different font. Umm, no, not at this time. All of the body paragraphs are Lucida Sans. What a task that would be! The other alternative, of course, is to spend a few bucks and by fonts for my home computer that have the proper licensing.
Again, thanks!

Got Tom Wolsky's FCE book and I have a question

Tom - Thanks for your really nice FCE 4 book!
I just got a Canon HF100, and I'm about to shoot a LOT of video (about 100 hours worth). I want to get the settings right before I record all that stuff.
With FCE 4.0.1, is there any problems or cons if I shoot my footage in 30F instead of 60i ?
I know that Canon's 30F is a simulated 30 progressive, and it actually records in 60i.
My intention in using the 30F, is that I'm filming martial arts moves, and I want to to grab progressive frames from the video and put those frames into documents / books to illustrate the moves on paper. I don't want the pictures to come out jagged interlaced looking when I'm moving in the picture. I hope I'm explaining myself well here.
I don't want shoot everything with Canon's 30F mode, and then run into issues / problems with FCE because Canon's weird simulated 30p mode somehow screws things up and I should have shot in 60i instead.
Also, I like vivid colors in my video. I think it looks like a better picture. Should I shoot my video using Canon's Vivid color filter mode? Maybe I should just shoot in normal color mode and add the vivid color effects in post with FCE?
Please help, I need some expert advice here.
p.s. I'm shooting everything in 1920x1080. That's one thing that's kinda out of date in Tom's book. He said FCE 4 doesn't really do 1920x1080. But now with 4.0.1, I think it truly does support full HD. It's probably because he wrote the book before that feature was added. Thank God it was added... what a relief.

Just a couple of points before Tom responds:-
1. Do a short test (possibly only taking minutes) using the different settings, 30PF and normal interlaced before you even dream of shooting anything serious. Burn the results to a DVD-RW (so you don't waste a load of DVDs on testing). This way you will see which method suits you best - things don't always turn out the way you might imagine.
2. You can get excellent quality from an interlaced HDV frame if you deinterlace it (if necessary) before printing. You don't need to shoot progressive.
Anyway, do some quick tests and find out which looks better.

Document text now linked to another document - how to remove?

I admit I am new to InDesign and am learning through the proverbial firehose. I have been selecting, copying, and pasting content from one InDesign document into my current working document. Because the new document uses different Character and Paragraph Styles from the old one, I delete the ones that get copied over from the previous document and reassign all the copied text with the current ones. Up until now, this worked without problems. The last time I did this, somehow the imported content linked my current document to the old document I copied it from. So every time I try to modify it in the new document, even the smallest thing like deleting some text, it has to go back and open the old document before it can make the change in the new one. This really slows things down to practically being unusable. How can I break this link to the old document? Thanks! Phil

Hi Peter. I think I have a better understanding of what happened, although I'm not sure why it caused a problem. The best part is, I think I've found a workaround that stops the problem from happening. I had been working with all my InDesign files on a remote network drive, but was unhappy with the file transfer speed. So I copied the whole folder, with all the Documents, Books, Links, and everything, to a local hard drive and started working on them there. I think that is when the problem started happening.
After moving the files to my local drive, the file speed still seemed slow, but I didn't realize until this morning that even when I open the Book on the local drive, it is still pointing to all the documents on the network drive. I only realized this when I looked at the Documents on my local drive, and they were still earlier versions, all the updated documents were still on the network drive. So, suspecting that the problem had something to do with confusion of file locations, I did two things. First, I copied the whole folder AGAIN from the remote drive to my local drive. Then I opened the offending Document directly (not via the Book) and deleted the last section I had copied and pasted from the old Document. This seemed to cure the problem of it always looking for the old Document it was copied from. Then I deleted the Book itself, and am in the process of reconstructing it using all the Documents on the local hard drive folder.
This raises a few questions about the best way to work.
1) Is it better to edit individual documents of a Book by opening them from within the Book, or should I edit them individually, and then update the Book when I am all done? I'm starting to think the latter would give faster response, because the Book would not always have to update all the Documents with every change you make in one of them.
2) When I'm done with the Book, I then want to move the whole package (Book, Documents, Links, Fonts, etc.) to a network drive for access by other users. Will I need to delete and rebuild the Book after I have moved it to the network drive, since otherwise it would still be pointing to the Documents on my local drive? Or is there an easier way?
Also, if you can recommend a good reference with this kind of information, it would be much appreciated. I do have InDesign CS5 Classroom in a Book, but it doesn't have this kind of information.
Phil

Images cut from Microsoft Word document being picked up in the file size by Acrobat distiller

Hello All;
I have a large MS Word document (book manuscript) with almost 400 images (all grayscale) and found that the tiff images needed to be replaced with jpegs to reduce the file size. I created the jpegs, cut the tiff images from the document, and inserted the replacement jpeg image for each tiff image cut. It reduce the file size in Word from 595 Mb to 210Mb. However, when I ran the distiller, it is somehow picking up the file sizes of the tiff files as it still gives roughly the same output (595 Mb) for the Acrobat document. Is there a way I strip out the tiff image overhead from the pdf or a way I can cleanse it from the MS Word document? Thanks in advance.

Acrobat automatically compresses images when a PDF is made, usually doing something equivalent to JPEG (it's your choice, check the creation options).
So, changing from TIFF to JPEG in the original file will usually make not a bit of difference to the original file size.
There is no simple 1 to 1 connection between the size of a Word document and a PDF. Some things are bigger, some are smaller.
You can experiment with Save as ... optimized PDF settings. Also, use Audit Space Usage in that dialog to see what is using the space.

How can you move to a specific page in a large document

Trying to move to specific page within a 90-page document on I-Pad, other than scrolling--Is there a way to "go to" page # whatever?

Okay,
I just loaded up Dropbox to check it out. When you are looking at your PDF in the Dropbox window, you can click the Action button in the upper right, (the box with the curved right arrow), and that gives you the option to Open In... iBooks. If you don't have iBooks yet, you can download it free from the App Store.
One it's in iBooks, you can search and go to pages with it. iBooks allows you to create "Collections" (folders), where you can sort your documents (books). Try it out.
ivan

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