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MacBook Pro Mid 2009 : Replacing hard drive with SSD…

I’ve had my 13″ MacBook Pro since the mid 2009 refresh and it’s been really reliable. Apart from one brief visit to Apple to replace a noisy fan, I’ve had no worries. A few years ago I upgraded from 4G  to 8G RAM, so I’m not stranger to taking the back off it. Even though [...]


MacBook Pro Mid 2009 : Replacing hard drive with SSD… was first posted on May 10, 2013 at 9:27 am.
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MobaXterm 6.3…

Thanks to Norman Dunbar for pointing out that MobaXterm 6.3 has been released. You can find the download and changelog in the usual place. I’ll be interested to see how the performance improvements to SFTP work out. I’ve seen some issues with this during transfers of large files before. The built in NFS and VNC servers [...]


MobaXterm 6.3… was first posted on May 9, 2013 at 8:17 pm.
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UltraEdit 4.0 for Mac/Linux…

UltraEdit 4.0 has been released for Mac and Linux. The downloads are in the usual place. You can see the latest changelogs here (Mac, Linux). Fun, fun, fun… Cheers Tim…


UltraEdit 4.0 for Mac/Linux… was first posted on May 9, 2013 at 2:25 pm.
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The year of the “back-fill” author…

I recently filled in this years ACE Director self assessment survey. Among other things, as part of that process I check how many articles, blog posts and forum answers I’ve posted over the year. Whilst getting these numbers I noticed about 50% of articles I put live this year weren’t promoted to the front page as [...]


The year of the “back-fill” author… was first posted on May 7, 2013 at 1:28 pm.
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Win A free copy of the Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Integration and OA Framework Development and Extension Cookbook

Following on from last weeks book competition, the kind people at Packt have offered another prize. This time 2 e-book copies of Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Integration and OA Framework Development and Extension Cookbook by Andy Penver. The competition will run for about two weeks, so I’ll be selecting the winners on 10th May 2013. To [...]


Win A free copy of the Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Integration and OA Framework Development and Extension Cookbook was first posted on April 30, 2013 at 10:59 am.
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Iron Man 3…

Iron Man blew me away when I first saw it. Iron Man 2 was good, but not as good as the first. Iron Man 3 was better than Iron Man 2, but not as good as Iron Man or The Avengers movie, in my opinion. Don’t take this as a major criticism, because all of [...]


Iron Man 3… was first posted on April 29, 2013 at 11:50 pm.
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Nightmares about exams…

It’s been over 20 years since I finished my finals for my first degree, but this time of year never fails to affect my already terrible sleeping patterns. I’ve started waking up in the morning panicking about an exam, which I’ve forgotten to revise for. It takes a few minutes for me to realize there is no [...]


Nightmares about exams… was first posted on April 29, 2013 at 10:25 am.
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Prize Winners : Managing Multimedia and Unstructured Data in the Oracle Database e-book

A couple of weeks ago I started a competition to win 4 copies of Managing Multimedia and Unstructured Data in the Oracle Database byMarcelle Kratochvil. Thanks to Packt for donating the prizes. The competition closed today and the lucky winners are: Kim Berg Hansen Stuart Uren Steve (dnunknown) Bayu Satria Setiadi Once I’ve published this post I’ll be [...]


Prize Winners : Managing Multimedia and Unstructured Data in the Oracle Database e-book was first posted on April 26, 2013 at 10:37 am.
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OPT_PARAM Hint saves the day…

One of the developers was performing a delete using a nested subquery, which was throwing out ORA-00600 errors. The ORA-00600 Lookup Tool on MOS suggested it was caused by this bug: Bug 14347248  ORA-600 [kkqjpdGetContext:1] parsing SQL with subquery The workaround in the bug suggested running this ALTER SESSION command. alter session set “_optimizer_unnest_disjunctive_subq”= FALSE; Rather than alter [...]


OPT_PARAM Hint saves the day… was first posted on April 25, 2013 at 3:08 pm.
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Fedora 19 Alpha…

For those eager beavers out there, you can now get hold of Fedora 19 Alpha from the pre-release location. The release notes can be found here. I’m keen to check out the improvements to MATE in version 1.6, as this is now my standard desktop. Cheers Tim… Update: It installs in Oracle VirtualBox and the [...]


Fedora 19 Alpha… was first posted on April 24, 2013 at 11:53 am.
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