Fedora Core 5 install woes

I’ve done a few installations of FC5 now, including one laptop. Most have gone smoothly. The most recent machine, though, had a NVidia graphics card (FX5200 to be precise). Woe....

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Joel on recruitment

The perenially entertaining and makes-you-think (in a good way) Joel has a new service on his site: a rather selective jobs listing, with, most usefully, an RSS feed. See Joel’s...

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Remote access to a PostgesQL server

A quick note to myself in case I have to do this again, or in case it helps someone else get through the same task more quickly. Gotchas to watch...

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Oracle error messages: could try harder

I’ve not been able to find a way of loading a complete Oracle PL/SQL script via a JDBC connection (i.e. analogous to using @ in sqlplus). So, least worst thing...

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IJCAI-07 - Workshop Programme

I hadn’t realised that IJCAI was coming around again so soon. IJCAI-07 is being held in January in Hyderabad, I guess because it will be too hot there any other...

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