JPMorgan Chase Website Down

The online sites for Chase retail banking and credit card transactions are down due to technical problems.
Millions of users/clients have been unable to access their accounts and go on with their daily activities such pay their bills online and make transactions.

The company is aware of the problem but has thus far been unable to fix the issue.

Meanwhile Chase is asking its clients to use good old ATM’s for their bill payments and other banking services as they try to resolve their online banking problems.Chase has 16.5 million customers who bank online and many are growing increasingly frustrated with the lack of information and the span of this outage.

It is not uncommon for big websites to have issues but it is odd for such an important site to suffer an outage lasting for so long without a real explanation.
As to when the site will be up and running again, no one knows at the moment.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. confirmed the outage this morning with a message posted on the website. It appears the problem began overnight, and the company is working to fix it, said spokesman Tom Kelly.

ATMs at Chase, the nation’s second-largest bank, were not affected. The bank’s telephone banking service was also operating normally.

The bank urges customers to conduct their transactions at a branch or by phone, at 1-800-935-9935. A recording at that phone number tells callers to expect a long wait to speak with a banker

How to Install Oracle 10g on Mac OS X

Oracle 10g has been certified on Mac OS X Leopard. I will explain Installation of Oracle 10.2.4 on Mac OS X 10.5.8.

Initial Requirements:

Make sure your Mac is updated and has 5GB of disk space and 1GB of RAM.

Oracle Installation requires compilers(gcc) which is not present with default Mac installation.So we need to install Xcode tool  which contain all the required programs and compilers.This tool can be install from OS X Disk or you can download from Apple Developer Connection.

Create required groups/users :

1.Create Oracle inventory group :

# dscl . -create /groups/oinstall

# dscl . -append /groups/oinstall gid 100

# dscl . -append /groups/oinstall passwd "*"

2.Create Oracle software owner :

# dscl . -create /users/oracle

# dscl . -append /users/oracle uid uid_number

# dscl . -append /users/oracle gid oinstall_gid

# dscl . -append /users/oracle shell /bin/bash

# dscl . -append /users/oracle home /Users/oracle

# dscl . -append /users/oracle realname "Oracle software owner"

3.Create the home directory for Oracle user as:

# mkdir /Users/oracle

# chown oracle:oinstall /Users/oracle

4.Set the password for Oracle user:

# passwd oracle

Change Default Kernel Parameters

Edit /etc/sysctl.conf and add the following

vi /etc/sysctl.conf

kern.sysv.semmsl=87381

kern.sysv.semmns=87381

kern.sysv.semmni=87381

kern.sysv.semmnu=87381

kern.sysv.semume=10

kernel.shmall=2097152

kernel.sys.shmmax=2147483648

kernel.sys.shmmni=4096

kern.maxfiles=65536

kern.maxfilesperproc=65536

net.inet.ip.portrange.first=1024

net.inet.ip.portrange.last=65000

kern.corefile=core

kern.maxproc=2068

kern.maxprocperuid=2068

The values are recommended by Oracle.Reboot machine for parameters to take effect.

Configure Oracle user’s environment 

Create .bash_profile and add the following.

# Must match kern.maxprocperuid

ulimit -Hu 2068

ulimit -Su 2068

# Must match kern.maxfilesperproc

ulimit -Hn 65536

ulimit -Sn 65536

export DISPLAY=:0.0

export ORACLE_BASE=/Users/oracle

export ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.2.0/db_1

export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib

export ORACLE_SID=ret123

PATH=$PATH:/$ORACLE_HOME/bin

You can specify SID of your choice.

Download db.zip and unzip it and run the Installer.

~oracle$Cd db/Disk1

~oracle$./runInstaller

You can perform standard or advanced installation.

You need to run couple of scripts as root user.

Make sure to set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to avoid errors related to different tools.

If your Mac is using DHCP (most likely) then you may see the error shown below:

~ oracle$ lsnrctl start

LSNRCTL for MacOS X Server: Version 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on 14-SEP-2010 14:48:49

 Copyright (c) 1991, 2007, Oracle.  All rights reserved.

 Starting /Users/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/bin/tnslsnr: please wait...

 TNSLSNR for MacOS X Server: Version 10.2.0.4.0 - Production

System parameter file is /Users/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/network/admin/listener.ora

Log messages written to /Users/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/network/log/listener.log

Listening on: (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=ipc)(KEY=EXTPROC1)))

Error listening on: (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=dhcp-usca14-133-197.SFBay.Sun.COM)(PORT=1521)))

TNS-12545: Connect failed because target host or object does not exist

 TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error

  TNS-00515: Connect failed because target host or object does not exist

   MacOS X Server Error: 49: Can't assign requested address

Listener failed to start. See the error message(s) above...

Edit $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/listener.ora  to fix the error.

SID_LIST_LISTENER =

  (SID_LIST =

    (SID_DESC =

      (SID_NAME = PLSExtProc)

      (ORACLE_HOME = /Users/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1)

      (PROGRAM = extproc)

    )

    (SID_DESC =

      (SID_NAME = ret123)

      (ORACLE_HOME = /Users/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1)

    )

  )

LISTENER =

  (DESCRIPTION_LIST =

    (DESCRIPTION =

      (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = localhost)(PORT = 1521))

      (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = IPC)(KEY = EXTPROC0))

    )

  )

We need to add new sid so that listener listen to new sid at port 1521. Changes are highlighted in bold.

Then also change ret123 alias definition in $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/tnsnames.ora :

RET123 =

  (DESCRIPTION =

    (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = localhost)(PORT = 1521))

    (CONNECT_DATA =

      (SERVER = DEDICATED)

      (SERVICE_NAME = ret123)

    )

  )

Save file and restart the listener.

Connect with sqlplus.

~oracle$ sqlplus /nolog

~oracle$conn /as sysdba

~oracle$ startup

How to make clicking and scrolling work with Trackpad on Mac

My system is Mac OS X 10.5.8.
Edit Info.plist file located in:
 /System/Library/Extensions/ApplePS2Controller.kext/Contents/PlugIns/ApplePS2Trackpad.kext/Contents/
Login as root:
sudo su -
enter password:
vi /system/Library/Extensions/ApplePS2Controller/Contents/PlugIns/ApplePS2Trackpad.kext/Contents/Info.plist


edit this part of the file
<key>Synaptics TouchPad</key>
<dict>
<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
<string>com.apple.driver.ApplePS2Trackpad</string>
<key>IOClass</key>
<string>ApplePS2SynapticsTouchPad</string></font>
<key>IOProbeScore</key>
<integer>5000</integer>
<key>IOProviderClass</key>
<string>ApplePS2MouseDevice</string></font>
</dict>

Just remove the "Apple" so it reads
 <key>Synaptics TouchPad</key>
<dict>
<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
<string>com.apple.driver.ApplePS2Trackpad</string>
<key>IOClass</key>
<string>PS2SynapticsTouchPad</string></font>
<key>IOProbeScore</key>
<integer>5000</integer>
<key>IOProviderClass</key>
<string>PS2MouseDevice</string></font>
</dict>
Now repair permissions:
chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/ApplePS2Controller.kext/Contents/PlugIns/ApplePS2Trackpad.kext/Contents/Info.plist
chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/ApplePS2Controller.kext/Contents/PlugIns/ApplePS2Trackpad.kext/Contents/Info.plist
exit
Reboot...........
Now you will be able to click and scroll using trackpad.