Comments on: The Dirty Dozen

By: Dominic Delmolino

Dominic Delmolino — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:02:43 +0000

You know, I have the same concerns sometimes about whether to comment on a blog post in comments or write a full-fledged posting in my own blog… Can’t decide where to put the content.

By: Doug Burns

Doug Burns — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:44:28 +0000

Alex,

Sorry, I didn’t notice this comment at the time.

>> Our overseas colleagues work with remove X/VNC basically just as well as we do from the office. Doug?

Yep, it worked surprisingly well, including VNC, RDC and port forwarding the X stuff. 9i OEM was no problem at all, to my slight surprise!

By: David Edwards

David Edwards — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 03:21:02 +0000

Noons: You could always do View -> Page Style -> No Style. Not pretty, but it works. You could also install an Add-on such as Web Developer which allows you to add your own style sheet (among much other functionality). Dave.

By: Noons

Noons — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 22:24:26 +0000

yeah, I know. that’s the same as the menu option. but what I want is for Firefox to ignire whatever stylesheet comes with the site and use mine instead. At least on what comes to font size. I must dig this up again, I’ve seen it before in one of the prior incarnations of dizwell.

By: Alex Gorbachev

Alex Gorbachev — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:26:23 +0000

try using the OUI across an ocean span, for example.

You’d be surprised.
You know how I work from home usually? I have my desktop PC always on in the office and use remote connection via VPN.
Our overseas colleagues work with remove X/VNC basically just as well as we do from the office. Doug?

Noons – not that Iâ€™m smart ;-) but CTRL + will make the text bigger and CTRL – will shrink it again.
Better yet, CTRL and mouse wheel. ;-)

By: Pete_s

Pete_s — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:24:15 +0000

Noons – not that I’m smart ;-) but CTRL + will make the text bigger and CTRL – will shrink it again.

By: Doug Burns

Doug Burns — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 02:40:26 +0000

Another thing: restrict it to remote dba.

Smart tip – I’ll do my best. I’ll probably blog a bit more about remote working on my personal blog, too.

do you folks know how to make Firefox display your blogs and site in a larger font?

Not off the top of my head, no, but there’s bound to be someone who does …

By: Noons

Noons — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 02:00:39 +0000

sounds good to me! something like the “dirty dozen no-nos of dba’ ing”,
or words to that effect, anyway? Or maybe the ” 12 deadly sins”?
Another thing: restrict it to remote dba. There are heaps of stuf already out there
for general purpose dba work. Remote dba is a totally different proposition, eg:
try using the OUI across an ocean span, for example. It’s just unusable. So,
given that mr Oracle refuses to let people clone installations – why, to this
day, beats me! – then what are the alternatives? What about mass-patching?

One question: do you folks know how to make Firefox display your blogs and site in a larger font? I know, View->text Size -> Increase. That’s not the point, I just want to see it in a larger font upfront!
11 px at 1280X1024 pxl lcd monitor, it’s bloody hard to read!
I’ve got a bell going on somewhere that someone posted a solution to this, but I can’t find it!