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Wonderful, must-read article with a super quote. “The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.” – Herbert Spencer

EXECUTE DBMS_MONITOR.SERV_MOD_ACT_TRACE_ENABLE(service_name => ‘betterlogic.com’, waits => TRUE, binds => TRUE, instance_name => ‘bpel1′); select * from dba_enabled_traces; EXECUTE DBMS_MONITOR.SERV_MOD_ACT_TRACE_DISABLE(service_name => ‘cmprod.colo.cmarket.com’, instance_name => ‘bpel1′); oracle@rac34 udump]$ trcsess output=”dump.file” service=”betterlogic.com” module=”JDBC Thin Client”

Oracle forms compile failed with “Out of file descriptors”. Fix: projmod -s -K “process.max-file-descriptor=(basic,10000,deny)” oracle Reference: IBM Resource Limit Configuration

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The disk mount point was cleared to get ready for 300G disk migration.

Dellâ„¢ PowerEdgeâ„¢ 2900 Systems Hardware Owner’s Manual

My desktop computer is actually in a network closet in the room next to my office. I have a USB hub and DVD/CD drive on my desk. The cables pass through a hole in the wall. This way I don’t have any noise from my computer in my office. Also, the network closet is locked [...]

You just get a mess that keeps sucking time and resources. Get closure. Get it done. Walk away.

This little at job performs a full backup and sends the output of the log file to me via email. I use this for incidental one-time backups of databases for releases and migrations. I like to schedule these early enough that I can get the results of the logfile and create another backup if this [...]

FYI – The new Daylight Saving Time changes that started in March 2007 will soon be changing back to Standard Time on November 4th, 2007 .        Year       DST Begins        DST Ends      2007                     March 11                         November 4      2008                     March 9                           November 2      2009                     March 8                           November 1 [...]

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As much as I would like to dis-like certain products, I do like to have ability to communicate with people in a way that they can understand the message. For some that includes using MS Office 2007. So here is a link to the compatability download to enable 2007 files to be opened and saved [...]

A great way to increase your productivity is to add more screens to your computer. I currently have two computers with two screens each for a total of four screens. This is nice but I still dream of adding more screens. I was in Best Buy and saw that the 24″ screens are finally in [...]

Oracle is putting enough informaiton and management into their Enterprise Manager product that it makes sense for anyone who manages anything more than a trivial site to be able to use and understand it. The grid controlwill be a key technology.

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Here is a free report showing why e-commerce search is important. A nice read from Download the 37signals E-Commerce Search Report

I like to see passionate people perform no matter what the venue or outlet of their passionate manifestation is. Passionate dabs, programmers, writers, advertisers, designers or singers, it is all about communicating and connecting your passion to another person or mass populations. dabs express their passion in a artfully crafted and easily maintained schema and [...]

Arrived in Vegas. Already seeing and speaking with some attendees. Looking forward to the new announcement from Charles Phillips. Going to see Prince tonight! Standing room only crowd. Hope it is a high energy passionate performance!!! Ya, could it be anything else?