Not Another Nice Story

Time moves so fast that it's been ten days since last post here. I've been very busy recently with my English test and my Ubuntu. It's been full of English learning material within past two months. I've got pieces of English exam recently. The first exam was last Saturday. It was TOEFL exam at ITS Language Centre. I don't think I did well by the way. The second one was last Thursday at TBI. It was speaking and listening exam. Not good enough I think, but not bad as a beginner hehehe. It's going to be writing and reading exam next Tuesday. I didn't put much hard-working attitude in all of these English exam because I think learning English is something that I've got to do regularly, You can't learn English very hard for weeks and then stop, can You? Listening to BBC and watching movies with subtitle help me improve my English. Creating our own English speaking environment, that's all We can do when We can't always find native speaker to speak to. Well... enough about English.

The second thing that needs my attention is my Ubuntu. I removed my Hardy finally and installed Jaunty. I needed to switch to safe mode graphic at the first installer menu because, as I said in my previous post, it shows blank when I try to use the live CD. Is there something wrong with graphic card or graphic driver? Whatever. Jaunty installed successfully, finally. Then It's high time we install everything, but something odd happened.

First, when I tried to install google earth from synaptic I couldn't find the package eventhough I did check many time if I missed something. I found no difficulties when I installed it on Hardy. And then guess what? Surprise... google package appeared later when I searched it again in synaptic. Don't know why.

Second, I tried to install Oracle XE. I did exactly the same steps as I did on Hardy. Again, no package found in synaptic. So I tried to install it from terminal. Wow... it worked. Package installed successfully. Did I miss something?

Third, when I tried to start Oracle instance, tada... nothing happened. I read again my previous notes about starting Oracle on Hardy. That was exactly 100% same steps. Frustrated, I started Oracle from 'Applications' menu. The error console said that there was no privilege to start instance. Ok, I added my username to dba group and tried to start instance again. It worked. So? From now on, I need to do extra step to start Oracle instance. First, start listener using lsnrctl start, and then use 'Start Database' choice from 'Applications' menu. What the hell... Ok stop there, don't want to know why.

And fourth, I can't start my iReport. What the hell has just happened here. I doubled click iReport.sh and it's just hang up. Shows nothing but blank terminal and grey spash screen.

I really miss my Hardy.