SQuirreL and Oracle ORA-01867

Global Preference (v3.1)

I have had a specific error plaguing me for some time now, when using the SQuirreL SQL client to access an Oracle Scheme with a database link to another Scheme.  The query might look something like this:

SELECT * FROM SOMETABLE@OTHERSCHEME

I would consistently get an ORA-01867 error. Every forum I searched seemed to point back to DATE or TIMESTAMP handling. Playing with the Global Preferences, I found that the DATE handling option titled Interpret DATE columns as TIMESTAMP must be un-selected. -- Chad

How to set chrome as your default browser for Thunderbird on Ubuntu

From this bug report:

it appears that in Thunderbird 3 the protocol handlers are ignored in favor of the
settings in the "Attachment" preferences. Indeed, once I set the http and https
"content types" to xdg-open, Thunderbird correctly opened http and https links in
Chrome.

Export from iMovie to play on Blackberry Bold 9700

Want to export a video from iMovie to play on your Blackberry Bold 9700? Tired of showing your videos on the youtube player? No problem!

For the impatient: use MPEG4, 25fps, auto key frames and restrict to 1248 kbits/sec at 480x270 letterbox. Audio is AAC codec, Mono, 44.1, and a target bitrate of 64k.

A 3:30 video renders to about 33MB.

First choose 'Export using Quicktime' from the menu



Then you will see a dialog like this. Choose options



After that you should see the setting for the video formatting and audio. Choose the top 'Settings' button.



Now you will get a dialog for the video format. Use MPEG4, 25fps, auto key frames and restrict to 1248 kbits/sec. Now close this dialog, and hit the 'size' button.



Choose a custom size, and enter 480x270, preserve aspect using letterbox, and deinterlace. Close this dialog, and choose the sound settings button.



Use an AAC codec, Mono, 44.1, and a target bitrate of 64k. Close this dialog.



Now give your video a name, and hit save

Squirrel not starting fix

If OOM kills squirrel hard, and squirrel will not restart giving a Null Pointer error, you can follow this thread below by removing the SQLAliases23_treeStructure.xml file from your $HOME/.squirrel dir. It is a transient file.

Stack trace:

tor@unwise:~/SQuirreL SQL Client$ ./squirrel-sql.sh
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at java.awt.EventQueue.invokeAndWait(EventQueue.java:997)
    at javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait(SwingUtilities.java:1323)
    at net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.fw.gui.GUIUtils.processOnSwingEventThread(GUIUtils.java:350)
    at net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.gui.WindowManager.(WindowManager.java:161)
    at net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.Application.executeStartupTasks(Application.java:753)
    at net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.Application.startup(Application.java:246)
    at net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.Main.main(Main.java:60)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.gui.db.JTreeAliasesListImpl.initTree(JTreeAliasesListImpl.java:233)
    at net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.gui.db.JTreeAliasesListImpl.(JTreeAliasesListImpl.java:101)
    at net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.gui.db.AliasesList.(AliasesList.java:44)
    at net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.gui.WindowManager.createAliasesListUI(WindowManager.java:877)
    at net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.gui.WindowManager.initialize(WindowManager.java:861)
    at net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.gui.WindowManager.access$200(WindowManager.java:77)
    at net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.gui.WindowManager$1.run(WindowManager.java:165)
    at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:199)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:597)
    at net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.Application$1.dispatchEvent(Application.java:195)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:269)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:174)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:169)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.gui.db.AliasFolderState.applyExpansionAndSelectionToNode(AliasFolderState.java:144)
    at net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.gui.db.AliasFolderState.applyExpansionAndSelection(AliasFolderState.java:160)
    at net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.gui.db.JTreeAliasesListImpl.applyAliasFolderState(JTreeAliasesListImpl.java:264)
    at net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.gui.db.JTreeAliasesListImpl.initTree(JTreeAliasesListImpl.java:220)
    ... 15 more