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a blind man in a dark cellar looking for a black cat that isn't there

Nicer Font Settings for VNC

19 Mar 2013
When using VNC, I find this makes the terminal more readable.

Port Security vs. Linux Server Network Configuration

17 Mar 2013
A simple networking problem I would never have resolved on my own…

Tools for Displaying and Inspecting Unicode Data on Linux/Unix

16 Mar 2013
Some tools and techniques for displaying, inspecting and troubleshooting Unicode data.

EVA - Good Enough for NASA

16 Mar 2013
A closer look at earned value analysis. As used by NASA.

Oracle 11g Timezones

15 Mar 2013
This is how I converted a timestamp from UTC to a local time zone using SQL…

Check Your Oracle 11g Code Page Values

15 Mar 2013
Make sure your textual data is being stored using the character encodings you need. Here is one way of checking.

How Does PowerCenter Connect to its Database?

14 Mar 2013
How does Informatica PowerCenter (in versions 8 and 9.5) connect to its Oracle database?

Glassfish Deployment Errors

14 Mar 2013
What do you mean, there is no installed container capable of handling this application?

Tomcat Native Module

26 Dec 2012
Installing the Tomcat native connector to allow use of openssl instead of the Java SSL implementation.