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 [...]
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. [...]
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 The previous base URL of “http://www.oracle.com/technology” has been replaced by “http://www.oracle.com/technetwork“.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 [...]
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 [...]
A little over two years ago I wrote about a new arrival in New Zealand. I got a call last night to tell me about a new addition to the population of New Zealand, so I would like to take a moment to formally welcome Naomi Freya Lukic to the universe. Thanks to the wonders [...]
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Posted 21 August 2010
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Regarding my previous post (here), it seems Guenadi N Jilevski has now removed the articles that are direct copies of mine. Thankyou for the quick action. There is still at least one article remaining that contains large chunks of text scraped from my site. I guess the fact he has included his own screen grabs [...]
Thanks to Don Burleson for pointing me at this article by Timur Akhmadeev that lists a whole bunch of articles that have been stolen by Guenadi N Jilevski. Unfortunately, this is only the tip of the iceberg. Just looking at the stuff he’s stolen from me, there are three types ripoff: 1) Complete Copies. http://gjilevski.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/edition-based-redefinition-in-oracle-database-11g-release-2/ [...]
WordPress 3.0.1 has been released. Happy upgrading… Cheers Tim…
I didn’t come from a computer science background, so when I started working with computers I spent a lot of time asking questions. I knew nothing, so there was nothing to lose by asking others for directions. As my knowledge progressed I found myself less able to ask questions of others because of pride. I [...]
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Posted 21 July 2010
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I was having a cleanup yesterday and I killed my FriendFeed account because I don;t really use it. I was then notified by a couple if disgruntled followers that they were using it to follow my posts. So I decided to ressurect my FriendFeed account. If you are into that sort of thing you can [...]
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Posted 16 July 2010
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