Monthly Archives August 2008

Clone Wars and X Files…

It was a bank holiday weekend in the UK, so I went to the Cinema a couple of times. I had already seen Hellboy II: The Golden Army in the week, so my choices were a little limited…
Start Wars: The Clone Wars: I was expecting this to be really bad, but it was actually OK. [...]

VMware ESX and Oracle RAC…

It looks like those possible VMware ESX articles I mentioned yesterday are now on the VIOPS site.

10g RAC on RHEL4 using ESX Server and NFS

11g RAC on RHEL5 using ESX Server and NFS

If you’re interested in the enterprise VMware kit it’s worth taking a look at the site. New stuff is being added all [...]

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

I’ve been waiting for Hellboy II: The Golden Army for quite a while and it didn’t dissapoint. I like the characters, it looks good and above all it doesn’t take itself too seriously.
Like the first film, it’s not without its faults, but overall I thought it was cool. After some of the recent film dissapointments, [...]

Flights, OpenWorld, VMware and stuff…

I realize I’ve been a little quiet of late, but life has been really busy and something had to give…
Flights for my conference dates are now sorted. Big thanks to Victoria, LaShon and Sylia. I better get on the case and book my hotels. The plan is:
Birmingham > Frankfurt > San Francisco > Auckland > [...]

WordPress 2.6.1…

WordPress 2.6.1 is available for download.
Cheers
Tim…

Oracle ACE Office Hours in the OTN Lounge…

There are going to be even more ways to meet Oracle ACEs at this years OpenWorld. The OTN Lounge is going to have some time slots where you can meet and chat with Oracle ACEs about any subject you want. See here:

Oracle ACE Office Hours in the OTN Lounge

Some Oracle heavyweights have already signed up [...]

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor…

I read some pretty damning reviews of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008), so my expectations were very low. This was a good thing because I came out thinking it was OK. I really do mean OK, not great or even good. Just OK.
The film takes itself far too seriously. There is some [...]

Automatic Storage Manager (ASM) Enhancements in 11g…

More OCP revision notes. This time an overview of ASM enhancements…

Automatic Storage Manager (ASM) Enhancements in Oracle Database 11g Release 1

Cheers
Tim…

Hosting Problems…

There’s an intermittent issue on server hosting oracle-base.com. If you have any trouble getting to the site, wait a while and try again.
Cheers
Tim…

Oracle AS… WebLogic… What?

I knew Oracle had bought BEA, so I knew they had acquired the WebLogic stuff, but I can’t remember reading that they had practically scrapped their own Application Servers in favor of it. The last I read about it was this:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/04/oracle_bea_roadmap/

Yet a quick visit to the Oracle websites makes it look pretty clear that WebLogic [...]