The institute of higher learning that I work with has a fleet of vehicles. We haven’t got yet I suppose a Global Positioning System (GPS) to track all the vehicles. When we have trips we sign a paper to log the time start and end and also the distance traveled as recorded in the vehicles […]

Firefox 3.0 Beta 1, dubbed as Gran Paradiso is out already; not as an official release though. This beta release is intended for testers who would like to try out the new Firefox browser. Beta testers give feed back to the developers of any bugs for corrections prior to final release.
I have downloaded the 8.6Mb […]

Running a small business does not allow one to hire a full time person to handle computer data. This is where most small business get into trouble. People take for granted the value of the data they work in until they are smacked dead when their computer goes dead.
A solution for such scenario would be […]

Google is one of those companies that never tires in innovating. Lately, I received a notification that Google have added a new feature to their chatting software gtalk. Gtalk allows one to chat with somebody on their mails contact list. The newly announced feature is Group Chat; which will allow one to chat with multiple […]

Computer business is the main thing why I got hooked up with computers. I was a student then and I could remember being lured into computers as our family runs a computer center. It’s not a big one but one that stores like 15 to 20 desktop computers. There are six employees doing shifts daily […]

Sometime browsing the net is kind of a monotonous task. To pep up my browsing during the wee hours of the morning, a little of music on the background will help. I tried to experiment with the Firefox browser add-on for playing music called FoxyTunes.

It’s very versatile for a small media player browser plug-in. The […]

Holiday is just around the corner and there are things people would like to buy. Computer geeks are not excluded to this kind of fraze. I for one have been thinking of getting some computer stuff to pep up my old time arsenals. I have web hosting needs so maybe I could upgrade it from […]

Installing HP Laser Jet 1200 Series PCL is very tricky. One needs a CD with the driver and printer programs to use it. How about if the printer’s CD installer is not available?
One way to install a remote HP Laser Jet 1200 Series PCL printer without installation CD is to create a local printer […]

People get short of cash every now and then. Some things come up out of the blue; emergency expense as we call it. When this happens, one could easily avail of payday loans. I remember before in our small computer business we also fall short of cash. The flow of the money is not just […]

I have uninstalled Oracle Database Release 10.2.0.1 using the Oracle Universal installer but have noticed that after restarting the computer there is still one service listed OracleDBConsoleorcl.
I checked the service properties and found it to be residing in c:\oracle folder.

I deleted the oracle folder where the executable file reside and restarted the machine. To my […]

Oracle Application Express Post-installation task:

Restart Processes(ex. listener, etc.. )
Choose the HTTP Server
Configuring the Embedded PL/SQL Gateway
run apex_epg_config.sql passing the file system path to the base directory where Application Express was unzipped.
if apex_3.0.zip was unzip in C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\
ex. @apex_epg_config C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1;
Unlock the ANONYMOUS account
ALTER USER ANONYMOUS ACCOUNT UNLOCK;
Verify Oracle XML DB HTTP Server Port
ex. SELECT DBMS_XDB.GETHTTPPORT FROM DUAL;
Enable […]

Just as a preliminary, to work around the access to “apex_admin” you can perform the following steps:
(1) Go to you ApEx installation folder (where apexins.sql is located.
(2) log into sqlplus as sys
(3) ALTER SESSION SET CURRENT_SCHEMA = FLOWS_030000
(4) @builder/f4050
*note, I also ran @builder/f4550 and @builder/f4700 by accident and these were probably not needed
(5) close sqlplus
(6) […]

Steps in installing Oracle Application Express:

Download apex_3.0.zip file
Unzip apex_3.0.zip
Copy extracted directory “apex” to $ORACLE_HOME\
ex. $ORACLE_HOMEC:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\
 Change working directory to apex
ex. cd C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\apex
start sqlplus and connect as SYS
ex. sqlplus sys/ as sysdba
run apexins.sql with the following five arguments
- password - password of the Application Express Administrator (ex. oracle10gdb)
- tablespace_apex - tablespace to be used by Application Express […]

Having a laptop is useful. I can go places with it and do some web development; I can also use it in class trainings. It’s very handy and the features are the same as desktop computer.
One moment during the training class I have with some Mongolian folks, I need to show a video clip […]

Outlined below are the possible topics for Oracle Application Express Developer’s Guide Session:

Creating Reports

Generating Reports Using Wizards
Editing Report Attributes
Adding Links in Reports
Saving or Printing Reports in Different Formats

Creating Forms

Creating a Form on a Table With a Report
Creating a Tabular Form
Creating a Master-Detail Form
Editing Form Attributes

Working with Pages […]

Oracle Application Express can be installed in different operating system platforms. Outlined here are the installation requirements in Windows XP environment.
Topics:

Oracle Database Requirement
Browser Requirement
HTTP Server Requirements
Disk Space Requirement
Oracle XML DB Requirement
Oracle Text Requirement
PL/SQL Web Toolkit

Oracle Database Requirement
Oracle database release 9.2 or higher is the required database for Oracle Application Express version 3.0. Oracle Database 10g […]

Oracle Application Express an introduction to aspiring application developers.
Topics:

Oracle Application Express a Synopsis
Architecture of Oracle Application Express
About Application Express Environment
User Roles in Application Express

Oracle Application Express a Synopsis
Oracle Application Express is a free web application development tool for Oracle database. Just by using a web browser and armed with a limited programming skill, you can develop professional […]

The old photo frames or photo albums are becoming a thing of the past. Photos are one of the most treasured things we have at home and we keep tons of it. But we do seldom have the time to open it up and look at them. We only have the time to open them […]

In many growing companies or businesses communication and collaboration are difficult areas to respond. This is especially when the offices spans different geographical location. For example satellite centers of higher education spread throughout multiple locations definitely will have some collaboration barriers. There are problems like the ability to communicate effectively and efficiently with various regional […]

People are going crazy about PageRank. It seems that it’s everything, maybe for those living based on it. Google’s latest PageRank update really did hit a lot of people. Most sites that have links or ad links we’re hit by PageRank penalty. My site was not spared, before I have PR5 but now it’s down […]

Offices are full of electronic machines that aides in the operation. Ours is not an exemption; we have fax machine, copying machines and printers. For fax machines alone we have Panasonic brand but of two different model. The first one is a Panasonic Kx-fhd-352 and another smaller one Panasonic Kx-f-1150. It’s sometimes difficult to find […]

There are rumors that Google’s PageRank would eventually die down. The recent downgrade of PageRank from most of the sites have caused disappointment to bloggers. There’s no perfect system to rate out popularity of the web pages on the net; PageRank, Alexa, Technorati, but none among them is considered to be flawless.
Here comes a neophyte […]

The video sharing industry is the hottest development in web 2.0 era. Popular sites that host Flash video files: YouTube, Myspace, Music.com, and more. You want to download and keep those needed files, but the problem is when you just can’t easily download them. The common right click and save as does not work. Doing […]

Money matters can get one crazy sometimes. This happens especially when unexpected expense comes along. If we are lucky we can borrow some from our family, relative or friends but sometimes they are not just around the corner. One facility that aids in bridging cash needs between pay days is through payday loans. Payday loans […]

Two variety of Windows XP that are capable of allowing other computers to connect to it via Remote Desktop software are the Home edition and Professional edition. Both operating system needs to be set so as to allow connections. I would like to outline the simple steps on how to setup Windows XP for remote […]

Computer games have become rampant. Every now and then I can see kids after school rush to a friends home to play computer. Even small kids age 5 know how to play computer games. Little bit older kids like age 8 do know how to access network or internet games. Adults are not exempted to […]

Remote connection started with NT Server and Windows 2000. The good thing about remote is that, you can connect to your computer at the office from home and access all of your programs, files, and other resources as though you were actually right in front of your computer at office. People thought that to make […]

Competition on web marketing is very stiff. One that has the edge to answer to prospective client’s inquiry will have the upper hand. There are various ways to achieve this like using live chats or even text alerts on mobile phones from web pages. The parameters on when and to who will a certain alert […]

Hard disk are a common data storage system. The reality of storing data on a hard disk is that it takes space and when the data is deleted or moved it leaves some “holes” or fragments of unused space. This fragments of unused space cause the reading or access of information much slower. Thus, defragmenting […]

Calling through the normal telephone lines is somehow expensive due to the infrastructure that is being used. It’s already a thing of the past with the advent of VOIP or voice over internet protocol. Voice signals are converted into digital signals and passed through the internet and decoded again to voice signals upon reaching the […]