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Daily Archives Tuesday, July 2008

Ancient History

I’ve just been browsing through a subdirectory on my laptop that has been copied from machine to machine over the years - even though some of the material needs programs that probably don’t exist any more.
This slide, from a presentation I gave at the UKOUG annual conference in 1996, raised a wry smile. The title [...]

Posted 01 July 2008 † Jonathan Lewis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Little Things Doth Crabby Make Part IV. Shared Disk for Oracle11g Clusterware: Not Shared Unless Writable.

While doing an install of 11g x86_64 11.1.0.6 Clusterware today I hit a problem I’ve seen before but had to think for a moment about what was the cause of the error. I figured if I had to scratch my head on this one, someone, someday would likely be out googling for the answer. Here [...]

Posted 01 July 2008 † kevinclosson § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Multitasking: Productivity Killer

A couple of years ago, I read Joel Spolsky’s article “Human Task Switches Considered Harmful,” and it resonated mightily. The key take-away from that article is this: Never let people work on more than one thing at once. Amen. The nice thing about Joel…

Posted 01 July 2008 † Cary Millsap § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °