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  • Oracle Database 10g Express Edition

    wow, the free Oracle starter database version – called Express Edition – has reached production state! In my opinion it has never been easier to get an working Oracle database installed on Linux. The download is just 220 MB large and you won`t belief it – it comes as an RPM package! Hey, and it already includes a nice web…

  • 22C3 is coming up

    Wow, the end of 2005 is coming, so – same procedure as every year :-D In my case that will be the 22nd Chaos Communication Congress. Just finished booking the train ticket and hotel. The line-up of interesting talks is quite overwhelming this year. There are a lot of talks about buffer overflows and related topics – I am very…

  • Creating Windows EXE-Files under Linux

    Sometimes a cross-compile environment can be very handy. Sam Lantinga form the libsdl.org project made a shell script (build-cross.sh) that makes it very easy to setup an GCC cross-compile environment for MinGW. I used the follwing changes for the script: GCC_VERSION=3.4.2-20040916-1 BINUTILS=binutils-2.15.91-20040904-1 MINGW=mingw-runtime-3.3 W32API=w32api-2.5 The EXE-files are a little bit large in size, but when you strip them the size…