Aug 092004
 

Last Friday I received my Oracle ISV kit, as described in this post. Its contents are two boxes: one with the Windows CD’s and one with the Linux CD’s.

The strange thing about the delivery is in the DHL part. Oracle sent me the kit via DHL, and earlier last week they TRIED to deliver the package at my address. But I was at work, nobody was home, so they left a message that I should call them for another appointment. When you call them, you will learn that DHL in The Netherlands does NOT deliver outside office hours. That’s a service level from the stone age! What normal household has people in the house during office hours? I arranged something with my girlfriend, but otherwise I would have to collect the package at their headquarters in Apeldoorn. That’s a 40-minutes-trip by car. That sucks! In other words: DHL (at least the Dutch one) sucks!

 Posted by at 15:37
Aug 092004
 

If you draw diagrams on a regular basis, chances are that you already own a softwareprogram that helps you with that. But if you have to draw diagrams only on a very irregulare basis, Microsoft’s Visio might be a bit expensive. Consider using Dia, a gtk+ based diagrammers tool. It’s free, and there is a Windows version as well.

 Posted by at 14:56