November 2010
5 posts
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Using python and Oracle on Ubuntu
First of all, download Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (around 200MB) after you complete a free registration for Ubuntu.
If you don’t have 1GB of swap, then you cannot continue with the installation unless you create some:
$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swpfs1 bs=1M count=1000 $ sudo mkswap /swpfs1 $ sudo swapon /swpfs1
(taken from here)
Then after the installation is completed, you can...
Don't install slime via apt-get (at least for...
I had huge problems with my .emacs setup when I moved it to an Ubuntu 10.10 box. I could connect with slime-connect to my swank server but I couldn’t eval anything. I was going ballistic for a couple of hours (I have my .emacs setup on bitbucket and it works perfectly) until I tried to connect remotely to the swank server (so I could at least blame the server).
But remotely everything kept...
Installing Clojure in Ubuntu 10.10 [the easy way]
Installing Clojure in Ubuntu can be found in a lot of places and that’s the bad thing. A lot of copy/paste and things that are out of date (like Java). I’ve been installing Clojure in a couple of Amazon servers for a cluster, so I gathered ALL the info in one big-huge line.
What this line does:
Installs add-apt-repository (so we can add Sun’s Java 6 JDK - it’s not available by...
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Starting ubuntu 10.10 (64bit) on Amazon EC2
Instead of searching around AMI’s, Ubuntu’s here:
You can search with this is id (for West Europe): ami-505c6924
Convert date to sql date in Clojure
It seems simple (everything is simple after you’ve seen the solution) but couldn’t find a post so here it goes: