Archive for November, 2007

Tie a napkin around that coffee handle … ?

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

What’s the deal with tying a napkin around the coffee pot handle? What does this mean? Does it mean that the coffee is no good, are you cleaning the pot, is it god forbid decaf (I use the orange pot for regular coffee if I have to make it). Seriously, I need to know what this mean! All I know is that every time I see that pot with that napkin it smells like starbucks. I hope you don’t mind that I poor it into the orange pot and brew the marked coffee with regular coffee.

You know you could just get some tape and tell me what is in the pot. Just in case it’s not the star-crack.

Can we talk about the lack of donuts ….

Oracle 10g XE Universal on Ubuntu 7.10

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

I just want to say straight out that the forum and user dos on the Oracle are fantastic. Tons of information and very straight forward.

The package installs very cleanly.

The only thing is to do is add yourself to the dba group.

Rational Application Developer 7.0 on Ubuntu J2C Issue

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

If you are running RAD 7.0 on Ubuntu (I could only verify that this problem exists in Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy). One of my co-workers had a problem defining the j2c in the admin console in RAD. RAD would kill itself on the update or apply button. Get the big nasty afu dialog.

The work around is to use Firefox (that’s what I used) to configure the server j2c properties. I’m not exactly what the problem is but using the other browser seems to work just fine. http://localhost:9060/admin

Hope this helps others and saves some time.