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Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.16 and Vagrant Box Hosting Issues

Tim... — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:41:16 +0000

Oracle released VirtualBox 7.2.16 was released yesterday. The downloads and changelog are in the usual places. I’ve done installations on Windows 11 and Linux Mint and both seem fine. Vagrant If you are into Vagrant you can find my builds here. https://github.com/oraclebase/vagrant You can see the list of Vagrant boxes I build and use here. https://portal.cloud.hashicorp.com/vagrant/discover/oraclebase As normal. I’ll be doing … Continue reading "Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.16 and Vagrant Box Hosting Issues"

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Oracle Support : An Update

Tim... — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:17:17 +0000

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"

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Oracle Support : A recent experience

Tim... — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:04:01 +0000

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"

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Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.14

Tim... — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:30:48 +0000

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 7.2.14"

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Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.14 was first posted on July 23, 2026 at 6:30 am.
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Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.12

Tim... — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:39:22 +0000

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"

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Running Large Language Models (LLMs) Locally : Some Clarification

Tim... — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:32:17 +0000

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"

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Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.10

Tim... — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:20:44 +0000

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"

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AI Vector Search : Generating vectors outside of the database using Ollama and EmbeddingGemma

Tim... — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:40:01 +0000

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 database using Ollama and EmbeddingGemma"

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Running Large Language Models (LLMs) Locally : My new inference machine

Tim... — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:25:05 +0000

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"

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No Agile? No DevOps? Without them your AI assisted development will fail!

Tim... — Mon, 18 May 2026 06:31:34 +0000

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 will fail!"

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No Agile? No DevOps? Without them your AI assisted development will fail! was first posted on May 18, 2026 at 7:31 am.
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