One of the major concerns with My Oracle Support comes from the use of flash on the server.  One of the main reasons given is that people require the capability to download patches directly to the server.  For many users, this is a major concern since the server is frequently in a remote datacenter.  One [...]

Oracle has now updated note 848202.1, Installing and Troubleshooting Adobe Flash Player on Linux
This is a little bit cleaner than the workaround I posted yesterday since you do not need to replace the /usr/bin/firefox with a shell script.
However, it uses the nspluginwrapper which Oracle does not support.  The previous workaround was done using products covered by [...]

I was shocked to see the following when I went to download a patch the other day:
Note: FTP patch download service will be retired as of September 18th, 2009 and “My Oracle Support” will be the only interface for downloading the patches and updates.
The problem is that I am using Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 x86_64 and [...]