Download from Oracle directly with wget in a remote shell

1. Browse downloads in browser and select the one you need 2. Get the login screen 3. copy redirectUrl param from the address bar of your browser 4. get back to terminal window 5. type: wget \ --post-data='redirectUrl=<redirectUrl of your download from above> &username=<your oracle username>&password=<your oracle pass>' \ https://profile.oracle.com/jsp/reg/loginHandler.jsp hit Enter and...

Another free from Sun is no more

Once there was a way to open ODF (Open Document Format, read OpenOffice) docs in MS Office. You could get a free (as in beer) plugin from sun and open files. Not anymore. Although the Oracle site still, at the time of writing, offers the software for free with the tagline “Get it now: FREE”, users clicking through will find that Oracle are now charging $90, per user, for a right-to-use license for the...

Yes, I said that this will happen :)

Oracle has changed Solaris 10 license from “free to use” to “90 days trial” Expect trials for Java SE, MySQL and some “light” versions barely working you can get for free: Now, with its acquisition of Sun finalized, it seems that Oracle has appended this sentence to the license paragraph above: Please remember, your right to use Solaris acquired as a download is limited to a...

Another project to be doomed?

Last week, Oracle laid off two more members of Sun’s already-decimated APO (Orca screen reader, a project led by Sun’s Accessibility Program Office.) Open Letter to Oracle here Now it’s more like offense if they close it ...

Oracle kills Project Darkstar; adios to virtual worlds | VentureBeat

Oracle kills Project Darkstar; adios to virtual worlds | VentureBeat. Here you go. Another “useless” thing made by Sun bites the...