This is about getting Oracle XE running on a Linux laptop, specifically my laptop. running Xubuntu, a variation on Ubunt...
Microsoft have announced they will stop supporting Windows XP around now. Apparently there is still a lot of it about. It was a...
I’ve just upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 to 11.04. It went well. Here are my upgrade notes:
The machine is a (now aging) Dell Insp...
My old laptop, a Dell Inspiron 9400 I got about 4 or 5 years back, has lasted well. I thought about upgrading a while ago when i...
I have been upgrading my laptop from Ubuntu 8.04 to 10.04.
The process was fairly simple. My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 9400 an...
Under Linux these are called launchers. It took a little while for me to spot this and I was trying to make these the hard way....
I have now officially switched my laptop to Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) from Windows XP.
The laptop is a Dell Inspiron 9400. I go...
There are lots of things I don’t like about Oracle, but some of them are historical. Back in the ’90s I wrestled with upgrading...
I’m migrating my laptop (Dell Insprion 9400) to Ubuntu ‘Hardy Heron” 8.04.
Tonight I tried hooking up to the printer,...