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Oracle SQLPlus under Ubuntu 12.10

I needed the Oracle SQLPlus client. Here are the steps to get it running: Go to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/index.html. There you find a link named Database Instant Client. Follow that link and choose x86 or x86-64. Download the following 3 packages: basic, sqlplus, devel. The install these packages with alien: sudo alien -i oracle-*sqlplus*.rpm sudo alien -i

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Office Communicator under Ubuntu 12.04

I recently managed to connect to office communicator under linux. First I installed pidgin-sipe and configured my account. But something seemed to be wrong with the ssl communication. So I copied over all ssl certificates from pidgin: cd ~/.purple/certificates/x509/tls_peers && sudo find . -type f -exec cp {} /etc/ssl/certs/{}.pem ;; sudo chmod a+r /etc/ssl/certs/* Then

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Menu Items have no icons in Ubuntu 12.04/gnome3

Some time ago I noticed that several programs have no icons in menus though they always had. I really didn’t like the lack of icons in eclipse so I was looking for a solution for this. I found two working solutions. Install dconf-tools and run dconf-editor to set two keys to true: org.gnome.desktop.interface.menus-have-icons org.gnome.desktop.interface.buttons-have-icons Install

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