10/31/2005
Oracle to release free version of 10g
Wow, Oracle is planning to release a free version of their database to compete with open-source databases like MySQL.
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Rocking the blogosphereWow, Oracle is planning to release a free version of their database to compete with open-source databases like MySQL.
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Here’s a great post about exceptions vs. status codes. The author is very much in the exception camp but he cites a Joel on Software post that argues against exceptions and there is some interesting discussion in the comments.
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The good news is that they have breakfast. The bad news is that it wasn’t very good.
The hashbrowns were lacking in flavor and they didn’t know what a chai latte was so the end product ended up being something akin to a glass of hot milk with a shot of chai.
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Skiers or friends of skiers,
My cousin has a timeshare week that she can’t use and would like to rent. It’s a 3 bedroom condo at Powder Ridge Village, see link below. She would like to get $300 or best offer for the week which is December 2-9, 2005. Email sandralipkowitz@sbcglobal.net
if you are interested.
http://www.powderridgevillage.com/sales.html
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Did you know that Bruce Springsteen wrote “Blinded by the Light” - that weird song where everybody mishears the lyrics?
I had no idea. I’ve only ever heard the version by Manfred Mann.
Thanks to Joe for pointing this out to me in the comments on another post.
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I was hoping to repair my Windows 2000 installation using the CD, but it just not was happening.
Time to reinstall Windows from scratch…
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