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Greece
I just spent a few days in Greece, visiting Athens, Sounio and Delphi.
The temple of Hephaistos in the ancient Greek agora in Athens
Killing an Oracle session
Every time you log into Oracle, you create a session. This is an easy way to kill these Oracle sessions, thanks to this article. First, select the session ID and serial number as such : SELECT s.sid, s.serial#, s.osuser, s.program FROM v$session s; The osuser and program field can be used to identify the session. Then you can kill the session using : ALTER SYSTEM KILL SESSION 'sid,serial#'; It’s also possible to kill the session immediately (but that’s considered rude) : ALTER SYSTEM KILL SESSION 'sid,serial#' IMMEDIATE;
Cambridge
Some pictures of Cambridge (in the UK) were added to the website. It’s near where I live these days. Some of the colleges are shown, as well as photos from a visit to Wimpole Hall. This last one is a stately home in the countryside.
King's college chapel, the symbol of Cambridge
Asking for a value in Perl
The following Perl snippet is useful if you want to ask for a value from the user. The get_new_value function takes the variable name and a default value as parameter. These are printed on screen. The default value is used if no input is given. use strict; sub get_new_value { my($param_name, $param_current_value) = @_; print "$param_name [$param_current_value] :"; chomp(my $input=<stdin>); my $new_value = $input eq "" ? $param_current_value : $input; return $new_value; } my $var = get_new_value('VAR', $ENV{VAR});
Highlight the current line in Vim
To highlight the current line in Vim, you have to set the cursorline setting. :set cursorline :set cul These two are the same. This can also be set in your _vimrc file, you don’t need the colon then. Here’s an extract from my vimrc file: set cursorline set nowrap set ic " Ignore case set ai " autoindent set tabstop=4 set shiftwidth=4 set expandtab set cul " Cursor highlight map <f1> ^hhxxj0 map <f2> ^i <esc>j0 The last 2 entries add mappings for F1 and F2, to dedent and indent the current line.