Another nice Ubuntu Screenshot
Here is Ubuntu’s (Hardy Beta) window switcher (using compiz) on hardware that won’t even run Vista with Aero. 2GHz processor, 512MB RAM, Intel Integrated Graphics with 32MB memory.
Ubuntu as Vista + Mac
Here is a screenshot of my Ubuntu Desktop at work. Check out the vista menu and the Mac Dock (install awn-manager from Synaptic)
Installation Woes Part Deux
I inserted my XP CD again and selected Setup instead of Repair. It didn’t even recognize the Windows partition as NTFS. So basically Windows update destroyed more than just a
Reinstalling Everything – XP vs Ubuntu
Finally I replaced the dying hard drive on my Thinkpad and went on to install both XP and Ubuntu. First I installed XP because I’ve had trouble installing it second
Life Without Windows – Welcome Ubuntu
A few months ago, the Windows installation on my home laptop crashed irrecoverably. Windows will not boot in regular or safe mode or any other way. I have no intention
Oracle GUI Clients
If you search for Oracle GUI Clients in Google, you turn up with nothing. After some more hunting, I found TOAD. I have been using the Free version of TOAD
Gripe 3, 4 with Oracle – concat + magic quotes
Concat: Most of the database queries I run at some point are used to generate HTML and rather than go through the results of the query and add HTML to
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Ruby (no Rails) + FastCGI
One of the projects I’m working on is recreating the Surplus Property website at UVA. We are doing this in Ruby+FastCGI, which I’m using for that first time. It took
Gripe 2 with Oracle – Additional Columns in Group By
In the MySQL world, I can do this: select a, b, c, max(d) from e group by a In the oracle world that results in: ORA-00979: not a GROUP BY
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Gripe 1 with Oracle – Pagination with queries.
Two months ago I moved to the Department of Procurement Services at the University of Virginia. Now I get to use Oracle for the first time and it is an
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