Italian Postal Codes

The full list of italian postal codes (CAP), ready to use!

http://italy.fsfe.org/it/projects/cap/

See also:
http://www.michelem.org/2006/09/29/tutti-i-nuovi-cap-italiani-come-ottenere-il-database-completo/

Flow charts on line

this web site is very very nice
http://yuml.me/diagram/scruffy/class/draw

Remote Desktop under Linux

I've refined the parameters for rdesktop, to perfectly work with my resolution and my italian keyboard:

rdesktop -u administrator -g 90% -k it -PKD $IPaddress

PL/SQL into T-SQL

It's unbelievable!
Microsoft provides free tools to migrate database objects (stored procedures included) to SQL Server. Very very useful.

SSMA: Migration Made Easy
http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2005/en/us/migration.aspx

CPU-Z

I've just discovered a program which allow us to know how many RAM banks are mounted inside our pc!
The program is CPU-Z, and you cand download it from here.

Running Reports with Oracle Report Server 10G using a web browser

Of course, it's possible to run Oracle reports with a simple http request.
This approach only requires Oracle Report Server installed on the machine/server and responding on its port 8889.

• Verify that you have all license rights to install Oracle Report Server


• Install a PDF reader (personally I love foxit reader)


• Verify that these environment variables are set:
  REPORTS_PATH = C:\your_reports_folder;
  PATH=C:/DevSuite10_home;C:/OLD_DevSuite9_home;etc...
  Important: Make sure your latest Dev
  Suite is on your PATH environment variable first, before any older versions!


• Start OC4J


• Start your web browser and run your report using this sintax:
  http://<reports server name>/reports/rwservlet?report=<report file name>&<other report parameters>

Example:
http://localhost:8889/reports/rwservlet?report=rep_007.rep&userid=username/password@192.168.19.58:1
521/ORCL&desformat=pdf&destype=cache&YOUR_REPORT_PARAMETER1=image.bmp&OTHER_REPORT_PARAMETERS=...

Common problems:
If your report calls other libraries, these must be in the same directory of the report, and must be compiled/recompiled with Oracle reports builder 10g.

To avoid errors like the following:

Not able to load oracle.reports.util.EnvironmentGlobal class
Using oracle.reports.util.Environment class

you must also generate/regenerate REP file using 10g Report Builder AND check whether the file/folder has enough privilege to the logged in user.
If you still have problems try to copy it to another folder: there might be problem with the acess right in your folder.

For reference:
Useful guide to Oracle Reports http://www.rittmanmead.com/files/quick_start_guide_oracle_reports.html
Using the Oracle Reports Web Service http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10464_05/bi.904/b13673/pbr_webservice.htm
In the case that you can't use report server and you're forced to use something on the clients, thake a look at
http://www.orafaq.com/forum/t/37321/2/

How to insert code (such as HTML, PHP, Javascript code) in your Blogger post?

The solution is simple.

1. Copy the code into your NOTEPAD
2. Use Edit->Replace (or Ctrl+H) and in find all the < and replace them with & l t ; (delete the spaces between the characters, without spaces you would just see another < here)
3. Use Edit->Replace (or Ctrl+H) and in find all the > and replace them with & g t ; (delete the spaces between the characters, without spaces you would just see another > here)
4. Copy the code from NOTEPAD into the Blogger post
5. And you are done

What have you done? The & l t ; is another way of telling the browser to shov a <.

Simple!

.NET MVC and Jquery

To understand jquery a good place to start (how to show/hide divs, fade effects, and so on) is http://docs.jquery.com/Tutorials:Getting_Started_with_jQuery and http://visualjquery.com/

When you are planning to build a .NET MVC form which performs insert/edit/delete over a DB, it's very useful the jqgrid plugin. The only "problem" that I found with jqgrid is that it requires data in a json format and, IMHO, this is not very "comfortable".

If you make a google search, you'll find examples of MVC responses which make almost everything by their own.
It would be great if you keep all your javascript code in a proper contentplaceholder of your views:
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="ScriptContent">
your code here
</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>

In the Master Page it must stay empty: ;-)
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="ScriptContent" runat="server">
</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>

There is also the way to use Intellisense for jquery in Microsoft Visual Web Developer! to do this simply refer to the -vsdoc.js file in the head of your MasterPage:
<script src="../../Scripts/jquery-1.4.1-vsdoc.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Install Windows or Linux from usb

To install Linux from USB I recommend UNetbootin.
UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for a variety of Linux distributions from Windows or Linux.

For what concern Windows, here's one of the best forums that explains how to install Windows from USB.

MvcContrib

http://www.jeremyskinner.co.uk/2009/03/01/mvccontrib-grid-part-5-the-action-syntax/

Acer Aspire 3810T: Fixes for Xubuntu 9.10

suspend fix
Change GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="i8042.reset=1" in /etc/default/grub.
Run sudo update-grub.
Reboot.

NHibernate and MVC Guides

NHibernate
Official web site http://nhforge.org/
Getting started guide http://nhforge.org/wikis/howtonh/your-first-nhibernate-based-application.aspx
Good and quite complete article (in italian) http://aspnet.html.it/articoli/leggi/2563/introduzione-a-nhibernate/

MVC
Jeffrey Palermo's book released under Creative Commons license:
http://github.com/jeffreypalermo/mvc2inaction

Official web site http://www.asp.net/mvc/

Good guide (in italian, focused on MVC1 but concepts are the same) http://aspnet.html.it/guide/leggi/166/guida-aspnet-mvc/

A set of concepts reused in MVC and in NHibernate 3.0 (NHibernate 3.0 will be the first version to use .NET 3.5)
http://aspnet.html.it/articoli/leggi/3201/le-novita-di-aspnet-mvc-2/
http://aspnet.html.it/articoli/leggi/2510/le-novita-di-c-30/

How to resize a Virtualbox disk partition using GParted

http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/122/26

Data Recovery

A collection with the best programs useful for data recovery.

- RECUVA
- PC INSPECTOR File Recovery
- Panda Recovery
- TOKIWA DataRecovery
- SoftPerfect File Recovery
- Undelete Plus
- FreeUndelete
- ADRC Data Recovery Software Tools
- Glary Undelete
- Avira UnErase Personal

How to crak a WIFI LAN

Aircrack-ng is a cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured.
It's also a set of tools for auditing wireless networks.

http://www.aircrack-ng.org/

HJ195

Free Utilities, Software Tools and Applications

Dia: a program to draw structured diagrams.