Deploying Chrome for Windows Enviroment

As you might be interested in deploying Chrome to all the Windows client in the network.

Thanks to Google we now have the .msi version of the installer.

You can get the installer at the link below :-

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/chromebrowser.html

for quick command to install deploy remotely to a single pc you may would like to use PS Tools from Sysinternal / Microsoft and just do a quick command of  : psexec.exe //pcname msiexec.exe \i installer.exe \passive

ubuntu - change primary display

Recently just got an dual monitor setup for my workstation. As my setup consist of a notebook and 1 external monitor; the default primary screen are to my notebook screen and I wanted to change it to my external monitor as the primary and I notice that there is not such option in the Display / Monitor option, only clone setup are available. 

After a goggling attempt I found an easy way :-

At Terminal you can just do : xrandr (it will display a list of available output)

type in : xrandr --output HDMI-0 --primary    (as i wanted my HDMI out connection to my Monitor as primary)

Custom Date Format for Oracle SQL Developer

By default the SQL Developer only display the data in Date-Month-Year format. If you would like to change the output it is fairly easy.

Goto Tools -> Preference and Look for Database tree and expand it and select NLS.
For e.g.  DD-MM-RR HH24:MI:SS will give me a result as 31-MAY-11 14:01:12

Toad - Can't Find Oracle Client ( Win7 64bit)

Today I've encounter a quite a funny issue with the Toad 9 client. As usual the programmers folks would be doing their own development software.

Seems the Toad 9 is showing error Unable to locate Oracle Home. Path & TNS Admin have been added in the system variable. The error seems still coming :)

A few search on the internet suggesting to add in the ORACLE_HOME & ORACLE_PATH in the system variable but on works.

Currently we are using Instant Client 11_2 fo 64bit Windows. As some suggest since the Toad 9 is a 32bit software the instant client should be a 32bit as well, I change the instant client 11_2 to a 32bit version and it still wouldn't work.

Just to give it a try I load in the version 10_2 32bit Instant Client and viola it work like charm !