We have the same problem on a customer computer. Windows 7 x64 with JRE 1.6 update 21, forms application runs very slow (2 seconds to step from one field to another). On the other hand we have an laptop with windows 7 64bit where forms is running fine….
One of my favourite sources of IT news and information is The Register, a UK based IT news related website that is written with style and often makes what can be a dull subject of IT, compelling reading. I just read an article by Jon Collins which details results of a recent poll asking about [...]
I will get back to the stats stuff at some point, but I’m quite busy at the moment working on something that I can’t talk too much about, but which is throwing up enough generic issues to talk about. This is one that I meant to blog about ages ago when I first noticed it [...]
I’ve just got my laptop back from being repaired at the Apple store. It is now quieter now than it was when I bought it. It seems apple can find a decent fan if they really need to. Fingers crossed now it will stay this way for a while. Unfortunately I had to brave the [...]
It was ten years ago that asktom was “born” (and five years and a month ago this blog was)… The first question asked was about Oracle 7.3 on a Sun 5.5.1 machine – in early 2000 (right after we got by that year 2000 thing). Funny, the last time it was updated was…. just a [...]
Oracle runs Oracle Developer Days (ODD) for all kinds of topics. Typically they’re a 1 day event, jam packed full of information. Most start with a keynote session, and then offer two or more tracks, so you hear a general talk and then have a choice of tracks and subject areas to switch to. In [...]
I have been helping out one of our new customers over the last day or two and I have even managed to get to the bottom of their problem FTW! They use BIEE and BIP and wanted to mount a BIP report in a dashboard page, so far so good, BIP does that! Just follow [...]
A couple of days ago I was sorting a printer out for my mom. It was a 5 minute job, but it was preceded by over 2 hours of getting the laptop up to date… She only turns it on to do a specific task, like send an email, then it is switched straight off, [...]
If you follow this blog you know that my laptop is Windows 7 but I live my life in Linux Servers. As such, I’m a big fan of the bash shell. I’ve been running Cygwin on my laptops for as long as I can remember to get all of my favorite Linux commands on Windows. [...]
I submitted my slides last Friday so the Hotsos Symposium countdown has really started now – I’ll be presenting in just under 4 weeks time. I’m looking forward to it even more than I was for a couple of reasons. 1) I noticed from Kerry Osborne’s blog post that he’s now doing two presentations. I [...]