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Daily Archives Thursday, September 2008

A week in life of Travelin’ Steven

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Posted 11 September 2008 † Steven Feuerstein § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

IOUG SELECT Journal articles on RAC

Here’s a good reason to become an IOUG member or, if you already are a member, a good reason to dig out that username/password to the IOUG website. The most recent issue of the IOUG publication SELECT Journal contains several great articles (if I do say so myself) about Oracle RAC.
I contributed one article titled [...]

Posted 11 September 2008 † Dan § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Rise of the Machines?

Ironically, the same day as my tongue-in-cheek post about Chrome and HAL, news that United Airlines’ stock was pummeled thanks to algorithms broke.
After trying to write a short version of the story, I’m realizing it’s too complex. Here are the events in the sequence they’ve been reported by the Wall Street Journal:

Late on September 6, [...]

Posted 11 September 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

oracle-validated RPM also available on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 Update 2 media

In the comments on my previous post on the Oracle validated RPM, Frank points out that this RPM is also available on the Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 installation media, starting with Update 2. You can download Oracle Enterprise Linux from…

Posted 11 September 2008 † sergio.leunissen § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

COLLABORATE 09 IOUG Call For Speakers now open

While we’re still busy preparing for Oracle Open World, the IOUG, OAUG, and Quest groups have been busily assembling plans for COLLABORATE 09 happening May 3-7 in Orlando. Today, the IOUG opened their call for speakers on their website. Start thinking now about the topic(s) you’d like to present at the conference. The call for [...]

Posted 11 September 2008 † Dan § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °