Downloads and changelog in the usual places, but you will probably find your auto-update has already installed it for you. 🙂
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Tim…
Oracle related rants (and lots of off-topic stuff)…
Downloads and changelog in the usual places, but you will probably find your auto-update has already installed it for you. 🙂
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Tim…
The downloads and changelog are available here.
Happy upgrading!
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Tim…
The announcement page has a video explaining the new features, which seem to make it easier to repost other people’s content, where you would normally expect to just tweet a link. Not sure what I feel about this yet!
Happy upgrading.
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Tim…
Update: WordPress 4.2.1 came out today.
WordPress 4.1.2
You can read about the fixes in this release here.
I’ve just installed it on 5 separate installations and there were no dramas.
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Tim…
If you’ve been near oracle-base.com recently you will see things have changed a bit…
The Main Website
For a couple of weeks I’ve been playing with Bootstrap and Font Awesome to make the main body of the website mobile friendly. Last night I got a bit bored so I decided to shift the whole site to the responsive mobile template so it’s a single look and feel regardless of the device.
Less than 5% of my traffic is from mobiles and tablets, so that wasn’t really the motivation for doing this. Over the years I’ve accumulated a whole bunch of crappy code to deal with specific situations and it was getting a little hard to manage the basic framework of the website. The switch to using Bootstrap meant I could effectively throw a whole bunch of my code away, making my life much easier. The main goal has been to keep everything plain and clean and minimize the amount of time I spend on maintenance. That leaves me more time to work on content, which is the important thing. The whole responsive thing was an added bonus.
It’s a work-in-progress. There are still some things to neaten up a little.
Overall, I’m relatively happy with it and it seems to work fine in the browsers I’ve tried (IE, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari) and the mobiles and tablets I’ve tried it on.
The Blog
I switched the blog to the “Twenty Fifteen” theme a few days ago. The old theme was getting a bit long in the tooth and required an ugly plugin to be make it mobile enabled.
I’m not totally happy with the “Twenty Fifteen” theme, but it will do until I find something I prefer. My main criteria is it has to be really plain. 🙂
Comments?
If anyone has any comments or suggestions I would be happy to hear them.
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Tim…
Updates:
KeePass 2.29 has been released. You can find the downloads and changelog in the usual places.
Read about my Adventures with DropBox and KeePass to see how I make use of it.
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Tim…
UltraEdit v22.0 has been released. You can see the new features here. For such a mature editor, it’s surprising when something new comes out that makes you take a step back. I think they’ve done just that in this release. The document map shows a miniaturized version of the page, making scrolling through large files really simple.
I’m not sure if this is an idea they kicked from another editor, but this is the first time I’ve seen this and it’s really handy! Hopefully it will get added to the Linux and Mac versions soon.
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Tim…
I decided I wanted to play with the newly released Spartan browser on Windows 10. Spartan comes with Windows 10 (build 10049), which does not have an ISO download available at the moment. So instead, I downloaded the x64 ISO image of Windows 10 (build 10041) and installed it on VirtualBox.
To get build 10049 you have to switch the Windows Update settings from “Slow” to “Fast”, which gives you access to the latests builds as soon as they are available.
That done, Windows Update will then download build 10049, which is pretty much a full OS download again. Once rebooted, the OS auto-installs for ages, with a few reboots, but when it is done you are left with the latest Windows 10 build.
It boots to the desktop and feels quite similar to Windows 8.1. If you are interested in the latest start menu, here it is.
If I’m honest, I’ve never seen the Windows 8.1 start menu live. The Windows 8 menu was so bad I installed Classic Shell on the Windows 8 machines for my family. I’ve never removed it since the 8.1 upgrade. As a result, I don’t really know if this Windows 10 start menu is new or like the 8.1 menu. I would probably stick with this menu myself, knowing that Classic Shell is always available if it pisses me off. 🙂
Most importantly, THIS IS SPARTA(N)!
Not surprisingly, it’s a just a browser and any site that sticks reasonably close to the standards will work fine.
So that was the fun bit. Now I’ve got to look at what this is going to break. I’m guessing Oracle Forms isn’t going to like it. 🙂
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Tim…
PS. Alex – By “and junk” I was not implying it is junk. Este Uimitor!
Update: Installed Oracle Database 12c on Windows 10 without any problems. Happy days!
I’ve just done a quick survey of cloud storage pricing for some of the popular providers. Times have certainly changed since I last looked at this. Depending on what you are looking for, each service has its own sweet spot, so there isn’t a one-size-fits-all answer. All the prices are in GBP for a whole year based on today’s exchange rate and rounded up to the nearest pound. Check the pricing in your region, as this stuff varies, as does service availability by region. 🙂
Provider Free 100G 1TB 10TB Unlimited Google Drive 15G £16 £78 MS One Drive 15G £24 £80* DropBox 2G £79 Box 10G £84 £132 Amazon Cloud Drive 5G £32 £325 Hubic** 25G £ 9 £87
* Price based on buying an Office 365 license for a whole year, which comes with 1TB space.
** Thanks to Eric Grancher for pointing out this service.
Things of note.
As with everything, you have to check the T&Cs for fair use policies, maximum file sizes, bandwidth throttling, data jurisdiction etc.
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Tim…
Update: Someone tweeted this Top 5 comparison.
Hot on the heels of version 7.5 comes MobaXterm 7.6. 🙂
Thanks Rob for pointing that out!
Happy upgrading. 🙂
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Tim…