Just found out the beta is no longer beta, PostgreSQL 9.0.0 has reached “release” status. Version 9 has native x64 Windows support, and per-column-triggers. Nice! Read the release notes for more information about the new version.
No info about a new version of PostGIS (yet).
Yesterday (well, last night) I was driving home from Groningen to Barendrecht, and switched on Navigon for the first part of the road and to see at what time I would be home (the estimated arrival time). I had the Milestone hooked up on the car’s USB-port to charge it, and was driving home quite happily, listening to David Guetta’s party on SlamFM. Of course the stereo was on 22 (which I can tell you is considerably louder than is good for me).
At a certain junction on the highway I wanted to make sure I took the right (as oppossed to wrong) lane, and looked to my Milestone to see what Navigon showed. To my suprise, the Milestone was blank. Black. Switched off. I turned on the Milestone again, only to see the Motorola “M” after which it died again. WTF?! Putting the car on cruise-control, I opened the back of the phone, checked the battery, replaced it, only to find that the phone would not even show the “M” anymore… My Milestone just died! It was still more than an hour driving, so I could not check anything else than I already had checked.
At about 3am I was home, I hooked up the Milestone to the charger, and it immediately responded with the charging-battery-icon. Phee-ew! When I checked later this morning after I woke up, the phone was properly charged and in 100% working order. Pheeeee-eeew!
Lesson learned: having Bluetooth for the carkit and GPS and the screen on all the time means that USB-charging is not enough to compete with the battery-drain……..
I just installed (well, unzipped) Minefield (non-branded Firefox) 4.0 beta for Windows x64, and must say: it rocks. Too early to give a definitive verdict, but sofar it looks better and really is x64. Which is nice, considering the memory usage of a typical Firefox session 😉
NoScripts works like a charm with the x64 version, I’ll have to test the rest of the plugins.
Update: Oh my, how could I forget? Adobe still lives in the previous century: there is no x64 Flashplayer…..
The GeoServer team “released” GeoServer 2.1 beta, you can read about it on this page. Especially the WMS-cascading and SQL-layers sound very promising. But the icing on the cake perhaps are the WPS capabilities. I wonder if the commercial vendors are as enthusiastic about this release as I am…. 🙂
Some people hack into resources of others. My wiki and my forums are almost constantly being hacked into, pages are altered, users are created, spam is left behind, etcetera, etcetera. That’s annoying.
I decided that the forums and the wiki will have to go. I hardly ever use them anyway. This is a message so you know where they went after they’re gone.
The Bravo surpassed the 5000km early this morning. I don’t even have the car for 1 month yet (still 3 days to go). Wow.
Dear Oracle spatial experts,
When I don’t license Oracle spatial, but only want to use Locator (as described in Appendix B of the Spatial User Guide), is it allowed to load the SDO Java classes into the database ($/md/admin/sdoloadj.sql)? Or does loading the Java classes mean that one switches to using Oracle Spatial, and thus requiring a valid license?
Comments are greatly appreciated. Perhaps Simon is reading this?
Thanks to this post, I solved my Oracle authorization problem. His comments don’t seem to work, so I thought I’d post it here.
For some reason, a client did not have Oracle Locator (10g) installed. So I started DBCA (I’m lazy), selected the correct database and selected “JVM”, “XML DB” and “InterMedia” standard database options to be installed. That should do the trick.
But only when you have enough free storage in your SYSTEM and SYSAUX tablespaces. Naturally, there was 3MB free space in system and a similar amount in SYSAUX. So the installer barfed on me. Hey, let’s just add some space (extra datafiles) and restart.
Say it ain’t so: Oracle crashed, but does not clean up after its behind. It does not rollback the installation! Therefore you cannot just restart or reinstall. Great. That’s what they mean by a mature product? The JVM has been in the database since, what is it, Oracle 8i?
1) Remove JVM: ?/javavm/install/rmjvm.sql
2) Bounce the database (if you forget to bounce, you will get an ORA-00028)
3) Start dbca and install jvm (and the rest)
Yes, I received my new (lease)car yesterday. Finally! It’s a Fiat Bravo Business. With a lot of extras of course. Although the engine is about the same size as my previous car (1.6 common rail diesel, 120bhp) the Bravo feels and reacts more potent, and it’s a lot quieter, but that’s with most new diesels.
Driving in a traffic jam is a breeze with the automatic gearbox (which is not so common in the Netherlands), and I can even switch to semi-automatic so I need to change gear by moving the stick to + or to -, or by using the flippers on my steering wheel just like in a race car. When driving semi-automatic, I prefer the flippers.
The car came with Blue&Me, a voicecontrolled carkit. I’ve heard stories of voicecontrolled carkits in other carbrands and the stories were not happy stories. So I was a bit afraid I would have the same experience. But without any glitch I coupled my private and my business phone (you can register several users) and both of them work flawlessly. The voicecontrol is brilliant, and works when talking loud or soft of even when you’re mumbling a bit. Compliments to Fiat for such a good system.