Archive for September, 2007

Building Perl DBD::Oracle driver for DBI on Ubuntu 7.04

27 September, 2007 in Oracle, perl, ubuntu

DBD::Oracle is not in the Ubuntu repositories so I’m going to build it from source. Oh what fun.
Steps
Download DBD::Oracle source from CPAN and untar to a directory somewhere
Download Oracle Instant Client for Linux x86 - get the Basic, SQL*Plus and SDK RPM packages for version 10.2.0.3
Install build-essential and alien from repositories if you haven’t already
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geforce go 7200

27 September, 2007 in hp dv2000, nvidia, ubuntu

my hp dv2000 laptop has a nvidia geforce go 7200 as is evidenced by the following command output
lspci | grep -i nvidia
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce Go 7200 (rev a1)