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Re: Corrupt download caused installation to hang, unzip lessons learned

Brian Bent — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:35:24 -0000

Dan,
Curious if a checksum of the zip file would have revealed a different number than what is listed on the OTN page. Yeah I know it is after the fact, but another tool at hand to help us with those files we download from the Internet.

Brian

Re: Copy and Paste for the iPhone? Sort of . . .

Brian Bent — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:11:39 -0000

Unfortunately it looks likes Apple is breaking OpenClip in the 2.1 release of the software. I agree with you Jake. This is one of those necessary apps that should have been in there from the beginning.

Re: RIP My Windows Laptop

Brian Bent — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:10:15 -0000

I switched to a MBP about four months ago because I was tired of my Windows laptop. I like having a native scripting environment, all the native tools built into the OS that I use on a daily basis and a solid Linux environment that just works with the hardware. It took me a bit to find some of the comparable software on Mac, but I can't see myself going back to Windows unless I am forced to.

To add to your list of software, I use also use Chicken of the VNC (http://sourceforge.net/proj..., Remote Desktop Connection and probably my most used piece of software iTerm (http://iterm.sourceforge.net/). If you haven't used iTerm, give it a look-see. It allows you to easily store ssh sessions to other hosts. I was missing my command line version of SQL*Plus, but luckily Oracle released the Instant Client (http://www.oracle.com/techn... for Mac/intel.

So far my experience has been great. Becoming more comfortable with it everyday and it seems like more folks like us are switching to Macs as well.