Category Archives: Tools

Carbonite Throttling

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Bill Leeper

I recently noticed that my Carbonite backups were going vey slow. Digging around their site I found that they do indeed throttle personal accounts once you have more than 200GB of information stored. While many will find this plenty, if … Continue reading →

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Setup Netbeans on OSX and Oracle OCI8 for Ruby on Rails

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Bill Leeper

I switched over to Netbeans on OSX from TextMate after using Netbeans a lot on my ubuntu setup. First thing I ran into was the following error when I started the application. oci8lib.c:98:in oci8lib.bundle: OCI Library Initialization Error (OCIError) The … Continue reading →

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Dual View Monitor on Ubuntu (karmic)

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Bill Leeper

I have been cursing Linux and specifically Ubuntu’s lack of out of the box Dual View support for some time now. I am using an older computer, a Dell Latitude 120L. The Latitude is a nice computer and served me … Continue reading →

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Netbeans 6.7.1 hangs on Subversion until you set it up

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Bill Leeper

The default install of Netbeans comes with the Subversion plug-in, but it is not setup. Attempting to do anything with Subversion will hang the system. Browse to Tools -> Options -> Miscellaneous -> Versioning -> Subversion Fill in the “Specify … Continue reading →

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