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Below is the RPM for xine-ui version 0.99.6. See the About the Xine RPMs post for information on how this RPM was built.

xine-ui — The user interface

To use this, you'll also need xine-lib - as of this release, the most recent release of xine-lib is 1.1.19.

(To save disk space, only the current release and two prior releases will be maintained.)

Below are the library and development RPMs for xine-lib version 1.1.19. These were built on Ubuntu Linux and converted to RPM using alien. Be sure to check out the About the Xine RPMs post for more information.

xine-lib — The main xine library
xine-lib-dev — The development xine library (needed if you’re building an interface against xine-lib)
xine-lib-doc — Documentation

You’ll also need a user interface - as of this release, the most current release of xine-ui is 0.99.6.

(To save disk space, only the current release and two prior releases will be maintained.)

After three years on WordPress, the DJS Consulting Tech Blog has moved to BlogEngine.NET.  There are several reasons for this change, some technical and some not.

• PHP's Fast CGI processor has a problem where, if all of the processes are busy, the server will simply time out.  While this hasn't afflicted my server as much as others, it has caused problems; when this problem occurred, none of the PHP sites were accessible.
• Through experience with a very heavily-used site, I became less enamored of WordPress's "read from the database every time" way of doing business.  I also found that various caching plug-ins for WordPress, on this particular site, did very little to ease the load.
• Since I first looked at Mono (Linux's implementation of the .NET framework), it has matured significantly.  It supports most of C# 4.0 already, which was released earlier this year.
• BlogEngine.NET is a rapidly-maturing blog platform, and the project has a stated goal of 100% compatibility with Mono.  This is good, because you can mention Mono problems to the team, and you're not dismissed because you're running Linux.

It had been a while since I had updated SQL Developer. It turns out that version 2.1 was released March 1st of this year. I've downloaded it and created a Debian package. It can be downloaded from the DJS Consulting Linux Software Repository.

I've used it with Sun's Java 6 Update 18; I have not tested it with OpenJDK. If you have problems getting it to work, you may want to check the previous post on this topic.

Below are the library and development RPMs for xine-lib version 1.1.16.3. These were built on Ubuntu Linux and converted to RPM using alien. Be sure to check out the About the Xine RPMs post for more information.

xine-lib — The main xine library
xine-lib-dev — The development xine library (needed if you’re building an interface against xine-lib)
xine-lib-doc — Documentation

You’ll also need a user interface - as of this release, the most current release of xine-ui is 0.99.5.

(To save disk space, only the current release and two prior releases will be maintained.)

Below are the library and development RPMs for xine-lib version 1.1.16.2. These were built on Ubuntu Linux and converted to RPM using alien. Be sure to check out the About the Xine RPMs post for more information.

xine-lib — The main xine library
xine-lib-dev — The development xine library (needed if you’re building an interface against xine-lib)
xine-lib-doc — Documentation

You’ll also need a user interface - as of this release, the most current release of xine-ui is 0.99.5.

(To save disk space, only the current release and two prior releases will be maintained.)

Below are the library and development RPMs for xine-lib version 1.1.16.1. Additionally, beginning with this release, there is also a documentation RPM available. These were built on Ubuntu Linux and converted to RPM using alien. Be sure to check out the About the Xine RPMs post for more information.

xine-lib — The main xine library
xine-lib-dev — The development xine library (needed if you’re building an interface against xine-lib)
xine-lib-doc — Documentation

You’ll also need a user interface - as of this release, the most current release of xine-ui is 0.99.5.

(To save disk space, only the current release and two prior releases will be maintained.)

Oracle SQL Developer is a Java-based tool that provides a graphical interface to a database. While it's main focus is Oracle (of course), it can be hooked up, via JDBC, to many other databases, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server. It's similar to Toad, but is provided by Oracle at no cost.

Oracle provides SQL Developer in either an RPM, or a generic binary install. I like the ability to manage packages, but I've never had much luck at getting RPM to run on Ubuntu. I downloaded the RPM file, and, using alien, I converted the package to a .deb package (Debian package format) and installed it. It worked like a charm!

I haven't tested it with gcj, but using Sun's Java 6 update 7 from the Ubuntu repositories, it ran just fine. After you install the package, do a directory list on /usr/lib/jvm. You're looking for the Sun JDK - if it's installed, you'll have a symlink java-6-sun that points to java-6-sun-1.6.0.07. Once you've determined the location of the JDK, run "sqldeveloper" from the command line - the program will prompt you for the path to your JDK. Enter it (probably "/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun") and you're good to go. (You have to install the package as root - but, for the rest of these steps, use your normal user, not root, as this puts settings in a .sqldeveloper directory off your home directory.) The package installs an icon in the "Programming" or "Development" group. Once you've told it where the JDK is, you can use this to launch it.

Download SQL Developer 1.5.1 Debian Package

For those of us who are cookie-conscious as we surf the web, you're aware that a lot of sites give cookies with names like _utma, _utmb, _utmc, and _utmz. It turns out that these cookies come from Google Analytics.

However, using AdBlock Plus, there is an easy way to kill it. To put in a filter for it, click the "ABP" stop sign icon, and click the "New Filter..." button. Enter "http://www.google-analytics.com/*" and press Enter. That's it! Those _utm* cookies are now a thing of the past.

Below are the library and development RPMs for xine-lib version 1.1.14. These were built on Ubuntu Linux and converted to RPM using alien. Be sure to check out the About the Xine RPMs post for more information.

xine-lib — The main xine library
xine-lib-dev — The development xine library (needed if you’re building an interface against xine-lib)

You’ll also need a user interface - as of this release, the most current release of xine-ui is 0.99.5.

(To save disk space, only the current release and two prior releases will be maintained.)