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Ecofont, reduce ink consumption saving the green (and money)

Quick post only to point out a nice project of Spranq.nl called Ecofont. The aim of the project is to help people reducing the amount of ink used for printing, and save money too
“The font produced uses up to 20% less ink” - they say. You can download it for free here http://www.ecofont.eu/downloads_en.html, [...]

Automatic Oracle 10g Startup and Shutdown at Ubuntu Linux system boot

Set the restart flag to “Y” in /etc/oratab, from something like this
dbname:/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1:N
to something like
dbname:/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1:Y
Copy&paste the boot script code that follows into /etc/init.d/dbora (the file dbora doesn’t exists, so create it) and modify the bold values to reflect your installation:
#!/bin/sh
# description: Oracle auto start-stop script.
#
# Set ORA_HOME to be equivalent to the $ORACLE_HOME
# from which you [...]

Auto increment Integer Value on Oracle Database (10g)

Using databases it is often useful to have rows identified by a unique numeric value (mainly for ID columns), no matter what the value is. If, like me, you have a background of MySQL (where auto increment values are easy like saying AUTO_INCREMENT) but for some reasons you have to develop something on Oracle Database [...]