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Daily Archives Friday, April 2008

Recent Brazil Visit

I had the opportunity to visit Brazil last week to meet with our reseller firm Teor. I was also speaking at a Dell Performnace Summit in Porto Alegre and the ENPO-BR event in Sao Paulo. Both events were well organized and enjoyed strong attendance.It …

Posted 04 April 2008 † Gary Goodman § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Battery Water

We recently installed a solar power system on a house we own in a very sunny clime. Along with the 12 180W solar panels, we have 16 batteries to store all that electricity from the sun. And those batteries need to be topped off with water - water for b…

Posted 04 April 2008 † Steven Feuerstein § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

BA launches bid for prestigious ‘marketing campaign’ award


Posted 04 April 2008 † andyc § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Big zips

I have just downloaded the database 10.0.2.4 patch for Windows 32bit. It is a zip file which weighs in at a cool 1,034,080,256 bytes. Opening it up reveals a single directory called Disk1. Well I suppose it’s one way of maintaining the fiction that Oracle installs fit on a single disk. This is the first time I have come across a patch which is too big to fit on a CD-R. It’s a pain, because DVD burners are not yet standard kit and certainly all our servers still just have CD drives.

Posted 04 April 2008 † APC § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °