I’ve just put another Oracle 11g new features article live:
Resource Manager Enhancements in Oracle Database 11g Release 1
Cheers
Tim…
I’ve been having a little trouble with my Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop. Every few minutes the screen would go really dim, like it was in power save mode. Switching it to standby and back or remote desktoping to it would kick it back into gear, but that’s not exactly helpful.
Yesterday I rang Dell to see [...]
I feel a certain dread at posting this because I suspect I’m going to get numerous comments from haters, but I wasn’t all that impressed with The Dark Knight. It was overly long, a bit whiny and moralistic and definitely took itself too seriously. A movie should be more than the sum of it’s parts [...]
Vmware ESXi is now free:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/28/vmware_esxi_free/
Cheers
Tim…
Looks like Google’s “Wikipedia Killer” called Knol has arrived. Check out this announcement.
I’ve created a bio and a Knol called Oracle. I expect lots official people will want to collaborate on that one.
Cheers
Tim…
The latest article in my OCP revision notes has surfaced:
Scheduler Enhancements in Oracle Database 11g Release 1
The detached and lightweight jobs look fine, but I’m not totally happy with the remote external jobs. I don’t think they quite live up to their promise, and they seem like a security issue waiting to happen. I assume [...]
WALL-E is probably one of the most impressive CGI films I’ve ever seen. The first thing that struck me was how realistic everything looked. At times you could be fooled into thinking it was live action with a computer generated character superimposed. That’s Pixar Animation Studios for you. The second half of the film looks [...]
Server Builds
My room is full of servers again. I’m still rebuilding loads of kit to send to the new site. Yesterday I installed RHEL4 on two servers ready for 10gR2 installations, and RHEL3 on three servers ready for AS10g (9.0.4) installations. The versions, especially App Server, may sound strange, but this is to duplicate the [...]
Wordpress 2.6 is out, so get upgrading…
Cheers
Tim…
I’m sorry to polute my movie review blog with some Oracle stuff, but here’s a little something on AWR Baseline Enhancements in 11g.
Cheers
Tim…