A piggy bank of commands, fixes, succinct reviews, some mini articles and technical opinions from a (mostly) Perl developer.

Where to download oracle wallet mkstore

It looks like mkstore was the utility in 10r2 but by 11g it had been deprecated by orapki.

An article mentioning both tools.

Linux window managers

Window managers:

  • Mate (fork of Gnome 2),
  • Mint (Extensions for Gnome 3),
  • or Cinnamon (Fork of Gnome 3)

Gnome 2 was good, Gnome 3 was where it all went wrong, but now people are switching back to Gnome 3.

See also evilwm (joke) or xfce (supposed to be fast).

When Ubuntu's window manager went bad (11.04 -> 11.10)

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Web developer browser plugins

Chrome:
  • Chrome itself doesn't require admin privileges to install
  • Chrome has dev tools built in - type F12 and select a tab e.g. Network, or right-click on the page and choose 'Inspect element'
  • chrome://net-internals/
  • Web developer plugin
  • Modify headers
Internet Explorer:
  • Internet Explorer should be installed by default
  • It has some dev tools built in - type F12 and then:
    • Menu: Find | Select element by click
    • Menu: Cache | View cookie information
    • Tab: Script | Console
    • Tab: Network (IE9 and later) | Go to detailed view | Double-click an item for headers and cookies
Standalone:
Non-GUI:
  • curl -D -
  • wget -S