DB Designer is an excellent visual database design tool that was originally written and maintained by fabFORCE. The main developer was subsequently hired by MySQL and DB Designer became the MySQL workbench tool. Sometime after this the original DB Designer 4 code was forked as a new open source project to continue development on this [...]
Lets be blunt about it. The Oracle client can be a real pain to get working sometimes. Following are some basic steps that I used to get a properly working Oracle client installation on Ubuntu 9.10. Helpful Links http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B12037_01/java.101/b10979/instclient.htm#sthref1813 Getting the files The Oracle Instant Client main page is here. You will need to register [...]
I have seen some very well written blogs out on the interwebs which include clean and well highlighted example code inline with the rest of the document. Turns out it is really easy to implement in WordPress. I browsed around and found a nice comparison of different syntax highlighting tools and settled on the Google [...]
The default configuration under eeebuntu 2.0 works pretty well but there are a couple glitches that are annoying. For one the multi-touch scroll is very jumpy and sensitive. Here is a launchpad bug describing the driver problems in Intrepid with the Elantech toucpad. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/123775 See also this link for configuring the touchpad via gsynaptics. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad#Enabling [...]