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Comment on Installing Oracle 11 XE on Ubuntu 10.10 or 11.04, 64-bit by uncommonguy

uncommonguy — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:37:53 +0000

A colleague asked me the other day about this, and we discovered the debian package is gone. I don't know if this is temporary or permanent. I will update the post with a pointer to this URL to get the debian package I was able to download. http://www.mediafire.com/file/94xtimz64qvx1p6/oracle-xe-11.2.0-0.5.x86_64.rpm

Comment on Installing Oracle 11 XE on Ubuntu 10.10 or 11.04, 64-bit by Richard Martens

Richard Martens — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:20:59 +0000

Could you please explain where to download that debian package? I only can find the RPM…

Comment on Solaris troubleshooting by Qin

Qin — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:42:46 +0000

Nice blog! Next time run into trouble will check this first.

Comment on On project managers by Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 24 May 2011 13:30:20 +0000

Carl,

It's called "The Dilbert Effect"

Comment on Domains I own and how they're being used by kellen

kellen — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:23:20 +0000

con-trivia-list. A site that has a list of trivia answers? or a site for all the answers not for trivia?

Comment on started reading Ender's Game by uncommonguy

uncommonguy — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:34:01 +0000

I need to go search Facebook for replies to that thread. Nobody knows about this blog, so nobody else replied. I did buy Flatland, which I intend to read soon.

I read the other 7 books of the Ender series, and they are all good. The main followups like Speaker for the Dead are much different novels with more adult and philosophical story. The Ender character was originally created in a short story specifically to set that book up before it became a full-fledged novella. One of the books is Ender's game told from Bean's viewpoint and adds a lot. The others follow Earth' history following the end of the war as the Battle School kids move into positions of power.

Comment on How to Download Oracle 11gR2 from command line by uncommonguy

uncommonguy — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:12:51 +0000

Looks like WordPress changed my double-dashes to single-dashes, even in your comment. I will edit the original. Thanks for pointing that out.

Comment on How to Download Oracle 11gR2 from command line by stelmd

stelmd — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 12:03:50 +0000

Thank you for a tip.
For those who are not familiar with the command line:
the following arguments should be written as "–tries –user, –password" (with precending "double dash")

Comment on Home Improvement Todo by john

john — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:24:43 +0000

Thanks for this article for Home Improvement

Comment on started reading Ender's Game by Nick

Nick — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 03:03:32 +0000

Yeah, I read Ender's last year, literally in one sitting. I could not stop. It was great.

No recommendations come to mind, but I can mention the opposite: I read Wrinkle in Time in 5th grade and again last year (ish). It was really enjoyable until halfway through the book — page 158 if I recall correctly. A character underwent some inexplicable change that completely evaporated my empathy for her. I finished the book, but no longer have fond memories of it.

I look forward to hearing about this list you compile. I too should read the Guide. I had always thought you had read it!