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How to install Oracle Database 10g Express Edition on Ubuntu
I needed to install Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (XE) on a VMware Workstation virtual machine (VM) running Ubuntu 8.04 as the guest operating system today. It wasn’t as straightforward as I would have expected compared to my previous experience of installing XE on Windows-based platforms.
Disabling system beep in VMware
I’ve recently been plaged by an obnoxiously loud system beep from VMware Workstation. I hunted around the Internet and discovered that adding the following to the .vmx configuration file for the virtual machine will silence it forever. mks.noBeep = "TRUE" Source: http://blog.pauked.com/?p=391