Updated my Ubuntu to 8.10 this week and have been poking around the new features. Yesterday I found “Cruft Remover” under the System > Administration menu. I assumed it was something similar to CCleaner on Windows. CCleaner scans your system and finds UNused items which are safe to remove. Unfortunately the Cruft Remover tool itself [...]
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A co-worker told me about this one… SQuirrel SQL bills itself as a “universal SQL client”. At work we use Oracle and I’ve been happy using Oracle’s SQL Developer. At home on Linux I’ve been searching for something to interact with MySQL. The MySQL Administrator and MySQL Query Browser tools provided by MySQL work but [...]
Last night I decided on a whim to upgrade to the latest RC (release candidate) of Ubuntu called Hardy Heron (8.x). It’s due to officially be released in a few days so I figured it should be fairly stable and I thought I’d beat the rush and upgrade now. Usually I do these sort of [...]
Alan has a list of the OpenBD (Open BlueDragon) Steering Committee on his blog: Andy Allan, Peter Amiri, Mike Brunt, Sean Corfield, Mark Drew, Adam Haskell, Jordan Michaels, Alan Williamson, Matt Woodward and Andy Wu LOTS of good names on there and some really nice quotes but obviously I’m going to have to step up [...]
This weekend I downloaded the Flex Builder Linux alpha, but ran into some issues and after digging around in the forums it was hinted that a new release would be out ‘soon’. Soon turns out to be this morning. Alpha 3 was released today! I’m looking forward to getting home and trying that out! I [...]