I’m starting to think I’ve made a move into the PC support business, without wanting to or being paid for it… Over the last couple of weeks my brothers laptop (one of my old ones) has been acting a bit strange. Nothing I could put my finder on, but something was not quite right. Yesterday [...]
I need to download a copy of CentOS 2.1 (x86), but I can’t find it anywhere. I’ve been down the list of mirrors and they all list 2.1, but then have an empty tree below it. If anyone knows how I can get hold of it please drop me a line. Cheers Tim…
Over the last few days life has been giving me a little reminder about the usefulness of Homeostasis… On Wednesday afternoon I felt a little under the weather and by the evening I was throwing up in a big way. Eventually the effort of it all drained me to the point where I fell asleep. [...]
I remember hearing someone talking about this years ago and I never actually took the time to check it out. It looks like the real answer is “it depends”. For the basic loop processing and maths the JVM does look a little faster. It was just a curiosity thing, but I thought I might as [...]
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A few friends mentioned “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo“, but the title screamed Chick Lit to me so I avoided reading it until now. Well, it just goes to show you shouldn’t judge a book by the cover/title. It’s a down-and-dirty detective story with some rather grim elements, but it’s really engrossing and a [...]
The APPEND_VALUES hint is new to 11gR2 and allows you to use direct-path inserts from “INSERT INTO … VALUES” type statements. Pretty neat if you are doing inserts in a FORALL statement and need the extra punch. Cheers Tim…
This afternoon I’ve been cleaning up some data in an SQL Server database. I decided to use SQL*Developer to connect to SQL Server by following this post. Using Oracle SQLDeveloper to access SQLServer (The “Check for Updates” functionality doesn’t seem to work properly on my SQL*Developer running on CentOS 5 (64-bit), so I had to install [...]
A couple of days ago Sten Vesterli tweeted about the URL changes on OTN. The previous base URL of “http://www.oracle.com/technology” has been replaced by “http://www.oracle.com/technetwork“. There are redirects in place, so for many of the top level pages this isn’t a problem, but some of the deeper links result in “page not found” errors or [...]
I was recently nominated and approved as a member of the OakTable Network . Do you ever get that feeling that one day people are going to realize you don’t have a clue what you are talking about? I think that day just got a little closer. Cheers Tim…
One of my Yoga buddies was given a laptop by is dad and wanted to get it connected over wireless. His dad also gave him a wireless ADSL router, but couldn’t get it set up. This sounds like a job for Captain Support… The router wasn’t able to connect to the internet. It turned out [...]