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Archive for November, 2008

Oracle, you failed attracting me for now

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 Posted in english | 2 Comments »

Dear Oracle, today I had some spare time I wanted to use for something productive so I decided to setup Oracle 11g on a 64bit linux system but I quickly found out that I can only use Oracle 10g XE for ...

IPSwitch WS-FTP Server 6.1.0.0 sucks!

Thursday, November 13th, 2008 Posted in english | No Comments »

I just got a phone call from a customer who complained about the short timeout of the ftp server which is 60 seconds and I agreed with him and I promised him to change the value to 300 or whatever ...

Ajax Webserver Jaxer from Aptana – Javascript on the server – my criticism

Friday, November 7th, 2008 Posted in english | 7 Comments »

Aptana is a Canada based company who is known for their integrated development environment and some weeks ago they released a new product which is called Jaxer, the Ajax Server that enables you to write serverside and clientside javascript at ...

Syntax Highlight GeSHi for MediaWiki 1.7 Debian 4.0

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 Posted in english | No Comments »

For those who have installed mediawiki 1.7 on debian 4.0 wanting to highlight sourcecode probably tried SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi to work properly but failed with every attempt, so did I but finally I found a version that works just fine and ...

Online video lectures

Saturday, November 1st, 2008 Posted in english | No Comments »

English: http://mitworld.mit.edu/ http://www.uctv.tv/ondemand/ http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/ http://www.scivee.tv/ http://www.yovisto.com/ German: http://video.s-inf.de/ http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/diva/index.html http://timms.uni-tuebingen.de/ http://www.metheval.uni-jena.de/courses.php http://www.leuphana.de/?id=13456