Tag: MacOS

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Installing Weblogic Portal 10.3.6 on MacOS

There’s a number of things that go wrong when attempting to install Weblogic Portal 10.3.6 on MacOS that I’ve covered a few years ago in posts here and here.

To get round these issues, when installing with the generic installer you’ll need to pass these options:

java -d64 -Dos.name=unix -Dspace.detection=false -Xms1024m -Xmx1024m -jar portal103_generic.jar

Last time I needed to do this these options worked for me, although recently when I needed to do a new install I ran into this Fatal Error:

It seems the generic installer will only succeed on most recent versions of MacOS if you install with Java 6. You can chose a Java 7 install to run Weblogic with as part of the install steps.

This post describes installing with Java 6 (and this one describes the same error). I didn’t need to fake out the additional paths/libs with symlinks etc that this post does, I just needed to set Java 6 to JAVA_HOME, and then it ran through to completion ok.

The Legacy Java 6 installer for MacOS can be downloaded from here: https://support.apple.com/kb/dl1572?locale=en_US

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Paste and Match Style on MacOS

I can never remember this key combo – when pasting content from a webpage to somewhere else like Evernote, it’s incredibly useful to be able to paste just as plain text. Honestly, I don’t know why this isn’t the default behavior on the Mac.

Shift-Command-V

From here.

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Will the upcoming ‘modular’ Mac Pro be easily expandable?

It’s been rumored for a while now that a new upcoming Mac Pro, likely to be announced at WWDC 2019, will be ‘modular’. The last generation Mac Pro, usually referred to as the ‘trashcan’ because it looks just like a trash can, is anything but modular compared to previous generations.

This is what my 2008 Mac Pro looks like in the inside:

I have a mix of SSDs and HDDs in there, and I boot MacOS, Windows 10, Linux and run Proxmox to virtualize the hardware. I have 2 GPUs, one Mac native AMD and one generic nvidia .

I don’t think ‘modular’ means the same as expandable. My 2008 Mac Pro does everything I need as a daily driver desktop, and if I need it to do something different I can easily pull parts out and put new parts in.

I want the new Mac Pro to be as expandable as this, but I think ‘modular’ more likely refers to an ability to link multiple units together to add capacity and features, but that sounds like an expensive approach, and nowhere near as flexible as the expandability of prior generation Mac Pros. Fingers crossed, I’m looking forward to see what will be announced, but I don’t think the new Mac Pro will be as expandable as the previous generations.

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