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Monday, 19 October 2026
Sunday, 18 October 2026
Netbeans, java and unpack200
Modern versions of Java (JDK 14 and newer) have completely removed the unpack200 tool, which older NetBeans plugins (like the legacy C/C++ CND kit from NetBeans 8.2) rely on for extraction.
So we need the unpack200 binary from an older Java version, specifically JDK 8 or JDK 11 and this can be obtained from:
https://adoptium.net/en-GB/temurin/releases?os=mac&version=8
Choose the JDK and TAR.GZ
Extract and place somewhere, for example /opt/ and then when installing the C/C++ plugins from the NetBeans 8.2 Plugin Portal, which will fail, you can then point the unpack200 file to:
/opt/jdk8u504-b01/Contents/Home/bin/unpack200
Monday, 14 September 2026
Saturday, 5 September 2026
Mount Windows share in Linux
Brief note on mounting a windows share in Slackware.
Friday, 4 September 2026
Sunday, 30 August 2026
Build a working Debian system with MySQL 5.1
TBC
Saturday, 22 August 2026
Setting up a windows domain
This example uses Windows Server 2025
Thursday, 30 July 2026
Tuesday, 28 July 2026
DHCP server on Slackware using dnsmasq
Example configuration file:
Tuesday, 21 July 2026
Oracle database 11g on Oracle Linux 6.10/7.9
The below was carried out on VirtualBox