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Shiira

As an avid Apple user, I'm always on the lookout for interesting and useful apps.

I stumbled across Shiira the other day and was pleasantly suprised. Yes, it is *another* browser, but its exceptionally fast. Its based upon Web-Kit (the same foundations as Safari) and so has great compatibility, yet it appears to render pages a lot faster than Safari does…

Give it a shot.

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Slow SCP Speeds

When I reformatted my server and put Fedora Core 4 on, I had a marked decrease in transfer speeds. Before the format, i was getting about 3mb/sec, which although is slow over a 100mbit network, it was bearable. However, after the format, I had speeds on scp throttling at about 60Kb/sec!

The confusing thing was that transfers over http and ftp were going at about 9mb/sec, ruling out any hardware problems. After quite a bit of hunting around the internet, I stumbled upon an article that I've now misplaced the link for .

Anyhow, the fix is below.

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Running Oracle 10g XE & PHP on Linux

I decided to reformat my local webserver the other day. This server generally runs all my code on it before its published onto the web. I was using Fedora Core 4 Test 3, but decided to lose some stuff I've installed on there, and put a full release of FC4 on.

I settled on the following LAMP options:

• Apache 2.0.55
• PHP 5.0.5
• MySQL 5.0.15

I decided that I'd stick Oracle XE on as well, and have a play with that. Surely if MySQL is that simple to install then Oracle can't be that much harder! Or so I thought...

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