Petr’s blog about Linux

I need to connect to the Oracle database in my work to get some data from it. I’m not the Oracle expert, but I decided to use DBD::Oracle. Most of the manuals and how-to pages describe, how to install client libraries to system (usually as root), which was not my case. I just need one [...]

My photo collection is stored on the server and accessed by cifs protocol to my notebooks. I’m using digiKam to browse my collection in KDE. This software is storing all thumbnails in ~/.thumbnails/ according http://specifications.freedesktop.org/thumbnail-spec/thumbnail-spec-latest.html and create sqlite database where it stores all information about photos. The advantage is, that these thumbnails can be also [...]