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     Patents and the Penguin Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
     Author:  Ben
     Dated:  Tuesday, May 11 2004 @ 05:33 PM BST
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    LinuxThe bigest rick to the very existence of open source software is Patents. They may even make the free exchanging of ideas in the open source communities imposible. Once an idea is floated a company could patent it and own it, stopping the open source comunity using it. Full article at http://www.adti.net/penguin.html.



     adding/mounting disks (including raid) in debian Gnu/Linux Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
     Author:  Ben
     Dated:  Tuesday, May 11 2004 @ 01:56 PM BST
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    LinuxTrying to mount a Windows Highpoint RAID disk but also info on adding new disks.

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     New films from cultureshop.org Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
     Author:  Ben
     Dated:  Sunday, May 09 2004 @ 05:41 PM BST
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    VideoNew films from cultureshop.org include 4th World War, Undercurrents News Network 1, We interupt this Emp-ire, Rogues, Rascals, and Runaways and Despite the City.

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     Good/best of breen Debian GNU/Linix Programs/Utilities I use Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
     Author:  Ben
     Dated:  Sunday, May 09 2004 @ 03:36 PM BST
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    LinuxHere is a list of the aplication and utility programs I use.

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     Ripping Audio CDs and making iso Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
     Author:  Ben
     Dated:  Sunday, May 09 2004 @ 02:48 AM BST
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    LinuxAs with windows Audio CDs can not simply me mounted and copied.

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     Fisherman and Businessman Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
     Author:  Ben
     Dated:  Tuesday, April 27 2004 @ 05:15 PM BST
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    Humor & StoriesThe American businessman was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.

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     Changing prompt colour in oracle forms 6i to canvas background Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
     Author:  Ben
     Dated:  Thursday, April 22 2004 @ 02:10 PM BST
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    OracleOne of the really infuriating things about Oracle Forms 6i (and possibly other versions) is that when you set a visual attribute for a item the prompt, as well ad field, takes that background colour. Seing it is common to have the field background white and the canvas background gray this is a paid. The following procedure sets the background colour for all prompts to the background colour of the canvas the prompts field sites on - i.e. it automaticaly sorts out the problem.

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     Building dynamic drop down lists in oracle forms Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
     Author:  Ben
     Dated:  Wednesday, April 21 2004 @ 04:01 PM BST
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    OracleThis uses a procedure which takes the field name and sql. The SQL returns description, code and they must both be of type char. The field must be set a list type field. It is also nessesery to put go into the property sheet for the field and in 'Functional' section use 'Elements in List' to set up a single dummy value. There must not be a default value defined in the property sheet for this to work and the field can not be required (i.e. manditory validation has to be programed later.

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     Building a Freevo/MythTV PVR Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
     Author:  Ben
     Dated:  Monday, March 15 2004 @ 03:24 PM GMT
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    LinuxMy main project at the moment is to build a Linix based Free Tevo. The two options seem to be Freevo or MythTV.

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     Getting firewire drive working in debian bf2.4 Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
     Author:  Ben
     Dated:  Tuesday, February 03 2004 @ 11:46 AM GMT
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    LinuxIt seems firewire support is in kernel. so far I have modprobe ieee1394 and ohci1394 but am not sure how to mount the drive.

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