Monday, August 23, 2004

Windows Upgrade Causing Campus Headaches (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Microsoft Corp.'s decision to release a major upgrade for its flagship operating system in the same month that hundreds of thousands of students are reporting to college campuses across the nation is causing a major headache for the higher education community. [Yahoo! News - Technology] Yet again, the powers in Redmond have stuck it to us.  They are releasing a patch that has had about as much testing as a PeopleSoft application (expecting the users to test it for them) into an environment where most people don't have a clue about what they are running on their machines, let alone how this wonderful, UNDOCUMENTED patch is going to affect close to 1000 applications (probably by turning off features that are needed and ignoring the truely glaring security holes it is supposed to be fixing, but I digress). Grab your ankles on this one - the virus writers are already hard at work on the next generation of worms to mess up your newly patched system... 4:25:02 PM    comment []

Displaying PDF files stored in the Database. Tom, How can we display PDF files stored in the database, using htp.p (OAS PL/SQL cartridge )calls and dbms_lob ? We are developing a document archival and display app. Using ctxload, I can upload the files. Now, I would like to display the file... [Ask Tom MOST RECENT ARTICLES] Actually, this is quite useful - again if you are an Oracle person. 4:20:17 PM    comment []

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