I like this song a lot. I like the combination of hip-hop sound and traditional Chinese instrument (Is it Erhu/Nanhu?). The Chipmunks cover is kinda hilarious and relaxing, especially when you can’t speak Chinese, and you have spent hours upon hours trying to pronounce the words correctly, and simultaneously trying to memorize the lyrics. *Grin*

Here’s the lyrics:

嚇 命有几回 合擂台等着
he ming you ji hui he lei tai deng zhe
Humph, How many rounds are there in life, the arena is waiting

生死状赢了 什么冷笑着
shen shi zhuang yin le she me leng xiao zhe
After winning a death duel, who’s smiling coldly?

天下谁的 第一又如何
tian xia shui de di yi you ru he
Who controls the fraternity? So what if (you) are the first

止干戈 我辈尚武德
zhi gan she wo bei shang wu de
Stop interfering in my martial rules

我的 拳脚了得 却奈何 徒增虚名一个
wo de quan jiao liao de que nai he du zheng xu ming yi ge
My punches and kicks are great but I only gained a meaningless title

江湖难测 谁是强者 谁争一 统武林的资格
jiang hu nan che shui shi qiang zhe shui zheng yi tong wu lin de zhi ge
The martial fraternity is too hard to predict. Who will be the strongest? Who will have the qualifications to rule the whole fraternity?

小城里岁月流过去 清澈的勇气 洗涤过的回忆
xiao cheng li sui yue liu guo qu qing che de yong qi xi yi guo de hui yi
Time passes fast in the city, the limpid courage washed away my memories

我记得你 骄傲的活下去
wo ji de ni jiao ao de huo xia qu
I’ll remember you, living on proudly

霍霍霍霍 霍霍霍霍 霍家拳的套路招式灵活
huo *9 jia quan de tao lu zhao shi ling huo
Huo (*9) family punch’s moves are flexible

我我我我 我我我我 活着生命就该完整渡过
wo (*8) huo zhe shen ming jiu gai wan zheng du guo
I (*8) I have lived life and should live to the finish

我我我我 我我我我 过错软弱从来不属于我
wo (*9) guo chuo ruan luo cong lai bu su yu wo
I (*8) Mistakes and weakness will never come from me

霍霍霍霍 霍霍霍霍 我们精武出手无人能躲
Huo (*8) wo men jing wu chu shou wu ren neng duo
I (*8) None can evade when our fine moves are executed

Source: http://www.jay-chou.net

The original version of Huo Yuan Jia (Fearless):

The live version:

When uninstalling a program in Windows, it is normal to expect that all related services of that program will also automatically removed. If somehow your services is not automatically removed, you could manually remove it using the following method

1. Remove the entry in the registry
   Click Start – Run – type Regedit, press Enter. Then go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services
   Find the name of the service, then delete that folder.
2. Using command line
   click Start – Run – type Cmd, press Enter. use the following command:
   SC delete <service name>
   (You might need to enclose the service name with quotes if it contains spaces)

A few months ago my colleague asked me to try out TOra (Toolkit for Oracle). I downloaded the latest stable version of TOra (2.0), and get it installed in my PC.

But somehow I could’t get it to connect to our Oracle test DB. I tried all combinations of the connection settings, but I always get either of these error messages whenever I press the connect button:

• ORA-06401: NETCMN: Invalid driver designator
• ORA-12560: TNS: protocol adapter error

Desperate for guidance, I lurked at TOra’s community forum looking for one. I found a number of questions from people who apparently have the same problem as mine. I tried the tips given there, but I still unable to get TOra connected.

I stopped my experiment with TOra because my colleague suggested us to settle with Oracle’s SQL Developer instead. I noticed that SQL Developer is a Java-based Windows application, so I already anticipated that it is going to be much slower than native Windows application.

So after months of occasionally frustrated by SQL Developer’s slowness and memory-hogging, I return back to trying to get TOra connected. Hoping that my fortune is improved this time. And it does improved 😀

I installed TOra (the latest stable version is still 2.0) and then visited TOra’s community forum for clues. Then I found out someone mentioned that TOra 2.0 was build based on Oracle Instant Client 10. Hmm.. I am still using Oracle 9.2 Instant Client. This could be the main cause why TOra unable to connect.

So I downloaded Oracle’s Instant Client v. 10.2 and extracted its content to my TOra installation folder. Then I tried the following settings:

Voila!!! It works!!!

Update:

Unfortunately, I am still unable to use TNS record to get TOra connected. I’ll update again once I have success getting TOra connected using TNS records.

To make TOra able to use TNS, please set the following Environment Variables:

• TNS_ADMIN. Value: fullpath of TNSNames.ORA’s directory
• ORACLE_HOME. Value: fullpath of Oracle’s installation directory

Once you’ve done above steps, a new connection provider [Oracle (TNS)] will be available.