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Re: Underscores make a difference

Tom_Fox — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 09:08:55 -0000

Good stuff! My copy of the book is on its way. Lucky for me, an Amazon.com distribution center is down the road. Shame they don't allow pick-ups.

Re: Higher-Speed Internet

Tom_Fox — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:45:31 -0000

When our DSL provider increased our speeds, initially it was 3Mb up and down. Then, after everyone was converted to the new speeds, they dropped my upload to 768kb. Oh well, can't have everything.. :)

My only complaint with our DSL is that you must pay for a landline, even though we rarely use it.

Re: Underscores make a difference

Tom_Fox — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:48:20 -0000

So tell me, how does this article know I linked to you? I'm ignorant on all blog technology it seems.

Re: Higher-Speed Internet

Tom_Fox — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:42:24 -0000

Yeah, it was unfortunate that they teased us with 3Mb upload though. :) Of course, it is still usable so I won't complain about that.

The cable service in our area keeps lowering the upload speed. I think it is down to 64Kb or 128Kb now.

Re: Underscores make a difference

Tom_Fox — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:43:31 -0000

Cool.. I was wondering how in the world that happened. I guess I should read the fine manual, eh? :)

Re: Hit every minute

Tom_Fox — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:31:08 -0000

Is that some free reporting software?

Re: Hit every minute

Tom_Fox — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:32:46 -0000

Sorry for the double commenting, but I thought I'd mention that you may want to block this IP entirely to anything on your subnet. I keep getting hit by people trying SSH, FTP, and every other protocol known to man. I ended up running a firewall on the Linux box as well. Layered security can be painful, but it is a necessity these days.

Re: Generate a string of any size

Tom_Fox — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:24:14 -0000

It's always these types of things that trouble me. Good show!

Re: Tip on resizing pictures

Tom_Fox — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:12:47 -0000

I just use old faithful... MS Paint.

Re: CASE gotcha in Oracle 8i

Tom_Fox — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:14:52 -0000

What version did 8i start with? 8.1.5? I'm new to the Oracle world, and the version numbers confuse me.

Re: Tip on resizing pictures

Tom_Fox — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:57:30 -0000

"Image menu -> Stretch/Skew" or CTRL-W

Re: CASE gotcha in Oracle 8i

Tom_Fox — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:58:53 -0000

Ahhh.. wikipedia... didn't think of that.

Re: Free Oracle Database 10g

Tom_Fox — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 07:51:26 -0000

I assume that HTMLDB 2.1 is still beta as well as XE, since I cannot find any information about 2.1 anywhere.

Also for supported/unsupported features, here's a good list.

Re: Comparison between MS SQL 2005 and Oracle 10g

Tom_Fox — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 09:16:02 -0000

Ack, the grammar in the PDF is driving me crazy! One would think that they would have done a grammar check before publishing.

Tom

Re: Oracle Metalink Firefox search plugin

Tom_Fox — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:31:38 -0000

Now that Firefox 1.5 is out and they have a new domain (http://www.mozilla.com/), do you know if these plugins are compatible with 1.5?

I'm going to test them soon, but our baby is coming, and I'm running out of time.

Re: My favorite Firefox keyboard shortcuts

Tom_Fox — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:39:59 -0000

Don't forget these:

Shift+Enter = wrap domain with www. and .net (so for awads.net, type awads and hit Shift+Enter)

Ctrl+Shift+Enter = Same as above, but uses .org instead

Re: Shop till you drop

Tom_Fox — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:41:37 -0000

Merry Christmas to you as well, Eddie. By the way, our daughter was born 12/15 and she's doing great. Check her out at my site, if you wish.

Take care,

--Tom

Re: SQL formatter in Oracle Raptor

Tom_Fox — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:48:23 -0000

I must say I'm impressed so far. Now if they would only get EM 10gR2 released.

Re: Cool Firefox extension: Foxmarks

Tom_Fox — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 21:22:21 -0000

I'd like to find one that uses a Subversion repository. Thus, not only can I keep past revisions, but they are always accessible via a web browser as well.

Re: Char or Car?

Tom_Fox — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:13:48 -0000

For varchar2, I pronounce it as:

var car 2

However, when saying the word "character", the char portion is pronounced "care", so I hear this too:

var care 2

Re: Oracle Rootkit

Tom_Fox — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:21:45 -0000

I was a security consultant prior to being a DBA.

I found that many folks tend to think of security as blocking outsiders. Yet, too many times, an internal attack causes more problems, due to lack of auditing for internal users. Further, if a company deploys a VPN with another company, you can possibly have users at another company taking stabs at your data without your knowledge.

Oh boy, what a wonderful world we live in.

--Tom

Re: see-quel wins, but what about the others?

Tom_Fox — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:24:02 -0000

I sure was going to be in trouble with my wife if she knew I had the wrong date

Just don't miss your anniversary.. :)

Re: SQL formatter in Oracle Raptor

Tom_Fox — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:17:18 -0000

Just noticed that I can no longer right-click the SQL worksheet area in Raptor R2 Build 08.97. CTRL-B still works, however.

Re: SQL formatter in Oracle Raptor

Tom_Fox — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:52:31 -0000

As an FYI, R3 fixed the right-click issue.

I use it as a replacement for sqlplus on my desktop, since I can manage multiple databases at once. However, if I'm changing tablespaces or anything that might damage data, I fire up sqlplus.

Re: What’s in a Label

Tom_Fox — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:50:10 -0000

I'm not a developer, but the term GOTO reminds me of writing BASIC on my Commodore 64. I can't believe it still exists, besides in Windows batch files.

Re: I’m upgraded and updated

Tom_Fox — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:33:50 -0000

I'm using the same them you had:

Semiologic, 2 columns 3.2 by Denis de Bernardy

Works fine on my WP 2.0 release. Did 2.0.2 break it?

Re: I’m upgraded and updated

Tom_Fox — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:37:25 -0000

Just an update... I patched to 2.0.2 and the theme still works.

Re: I use Oracle Database 10g Express Edition to …

Tom_Fox — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 22:30:05 -0000

I'm still trying to figure out how to get my select lists to work in XE. It's driving me crazy!

Re: Oracle vs. PostgreSQL

Tom_Fox — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 21:57:48 -0000

It seems every time I turn around, someone is comparing Oracle to something. Some of the comments I agree with and some seem way off:

PostgreSQL is much more suitable for the casual database developer.
-- I'm a DBA, so I can't see the difference in programming Oracle or Postgres.

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PostgreSQL has a solid set of features that includes most, if not all, of what developers would ever use.
-- Oy, just because that's all they currently use doesn't mean that's all they should use. If this were the case, then just what are Oracle Corp's (or Postgres or MS) developers working on?

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Let's all go back to flat files and skip all this complex relational stuff. :)

Re: Is it true that anyone can contribute to Wikipedia?

Tom_Fox — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:40:37 -0000

That's why I don't trust Wikipedia entirely. You gather a few billion (maybe million, who knows) people who claim to know things and entering data. Some of the data is accurate while some is not. It's more or less a holding cell for data on what the popular vote holds. In their own terms, you can't change things constantly, so you can have the correct facts and enter them, only to have many more people change it back to something else. I trust it as much as I do Microsoft.

Re: You Have Egg on Your Chin

Tom_Fox — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:35:15 -0000

Well, even in the US, there are different dialects. For example, in Missouri, you will hear people say "you'ins" (pronounced you - ins) instead of "y'all".

Also, in the Boston area, you'll hear people pronounce the letter O as -ah-, like Bahsten (Boston).

Re: Ubuntu on Microsoft Virtual PC Works Like a Charm

Tom_Fox — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:40:40 -0000

Any reason why you would believe this wouldn't work? I haven't find issues with any x86 OS on any of the virtual machine software (Virtual PC for Mac or Windows, Virtual Server, or VMWare).

Re: Ubuntu on Microsoft Virtual PC Works Like a Charm

Tom_Fox — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:08:59 -0000

Oh I see; After I read my earlier post, I apologize if it came off the wrong way. I knew there had to be a reason for the test, but I wasn't seeing it. I haven't tried Vista, and not planning to in the near future.

Were the problems you read about due to Vista + VPC or VPC + Ubuntu or a combo of all 3?