I wasn’t really sure I wanted to see The Book of Eli. A post-apocalyptic story with an religious angle didn’t strike me as being my bag, but the Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman factor swung it for me. It’s not as depressing as I thought it would be, and certainly not as preachy as it [...]
I recently managed to screw up my Grid Control VM, so I was forced to reinstall it. I’d not written an article on it since 10gR2, as I’ve just been applying patches since then. Faced with a new install I decided to go x86_64 and do clean install direct to 10gR5. Oracle 10g Release 5 [...]
After tonight’s karate session I felt tired and wired at the same time, which is a bit of a weird combination, so I thought I would chill out by watching a film. Daybreakers turns the normal vampire film on its head because the world is populated by vampires and humans are nearly extinct. I suppose [...]
My previous article discussed the DBFS. This article gives an overview of the PL/SQL APIs for managing and interacting with the DBFS. Oracle Database File System (DBFS) PL/SQL APIs There’s a lot in there, so this is just skimming the surface. Cheers Tim…
I really enjoyed Sherlock Holmes. I’ve never read the books and I’m not a fan of the TV series, so I wasn’t sure I would go for this, but it really works for me. Thanks to Noons for encouraging me to go. Robert Downey Jr. is always great, so no big news there. I know [...]
I’ve been having a play with the DBFS functionality in 11gR2. Oracle Database File System (DBFS) in Oracle Database 11g Release 2 For the most part it is extremely simple. If you are working on Linux then it’s a really neat solution. On any other platform you are limited to using the dbfs_client tool, which [...]
… you’re watching Aliens for the billionth time and you notice that as Van Leuwen says Ripley’s company number of NOC-14472, in the background on the monitor it’s listing her company number as NOC-14672. Please help me… Cheers Tim…
There were some minor outages on the site yesterday. It seems the PHP engine on the server took a nosedive a few times. That lead to a rather interesting interaction with the support staff at my hosting provider. It went like this: Site dies. I ring support, they also see the problem and raise a [...]
WordPress 2.9.1 has arrived. Happy upgrading… Cheers Tim…
Since finishing the Discworld series* I’ve really struggled to find something else to latch on to. I’ve tried a few things, but nothing has really grabbed my attention. Being the nonliterary type I am, one of the most important factors in any book is how easy it is to read. Some of the stuff I’ve [...]