I am very fortunate indeed to work for a company that truly values test engineers. However, over the years I’ve seen some places that treat testers as second rate citizens. They are simply a check box on the software (or hardware) development cycle.
A couple years ago I had the privilege of listening to [...]

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Yesterday I was searching for a way to make GMail my default email provider, so that when I click on “mailto” links GMail opens.  In Windows this is pretty easy, but I couldn’t figure it out for Linux.  So, bring on Google search.  I found this web page which explains it succinctly.  While I don’t [...]

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I manage users in Oracle infrequently enough that I have to look up password management each time I want to change a password.  So, this is mainly for me to remember:
alter user user_name identified by new_password;

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