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YouTube, Viddler or Seesmic?
via The lost outpost by Andy Piper on February 13, 2008
As regular readers will know, in the last couple of months I’ve been experimenting with video both on my blog, and also with video sites like Seesmic (I’m lucky enough to be one of their pre-alpha testers).At some stage I’ll write about the capture and editing aspects of this whole adventure, but not today. Today I want to take a brief look at the sites I’ve been using.How well do video...
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Drupal 6: More than a feeling
via CMS Report - Putting focus on today's Content Management Systems by Bryan on February 14, 2008
A few days ago, I mentioned that "Drupal 6 feels ready to me" for public release. Evidently, that was more than feeling as Drupal 6 was released early Wednesday morning.As a user of Drupal, let me start by saying thank you toall the developers and advocates that brought Drupal 6 to light. I'vebeen watching Drupal 6 grow from a distance this past year and have made some observations. There...
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OFA - Whats that all about then
via orawin.info - by Niall Litchfield on February 13, 2008
Cary Millsap of OFA,Optimising Oracle and OakTable fame has written the first part of one of those series (he'll finish before me) on how OFA got started. You can find it here. I don't have much to say on OFA itself - except that for my Apps readers I'm not talking about Oracle Financial Analyser - but this quote did jump out at me.I don't know about you, but when I practice some...
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How the OFA Began, Part 1
via Cary Millsap by Cary Millsap on February 13, 2008
By all outward appearances, my Oracle career began in Miami when I presented paper 513 at 1991 International Oracle User Week. It was a paper called "Configuring a growing Oracle V6 database for optimal performance." That paper was an early milestone en route to what would eventually be known as the OFA Standard:The OFA Standard is a set of installation guidelines that will give you faster, more...
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Now We Know What TOAD Means
via Eddie Awad's Blog by Eddie Awad on February 14, 2008
Tab Overload And Deluge sourcePop quiz: How many tabs are there in a Toad?---Related Articles at Eddie Awad's Blog:Your SQL Tool Part IIYour SQL toolFirefox tipsComments Do Make a DifferenceWhat does RESERVED = Y really mean?
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Tennis: Murray into semis
via BBC News | UK | UK Edition by (author unknown) on February 15, 2008
Andy Murray beats Nicolas Mahut 7-5 7-6 (7-5) to reach the semi-finals of the Open 13 in Marseille.
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Heathrow 777 crash: 'No anomalies in the major aircraft systems'
via The Register by (author unknown) on February 19, 2008
... Branch has issued an update (pdf) on its investigation into the 17 January crash-landing of a Boeing 777 at Heathrow, indicating that there "were no anomalies in the major aircraft systems" and that the "autopilot and the autothrottle systems behaved correctly and the engine control systems were providing the correct commands prior to, during, and after, the reduction in thrust".…
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We’re on GigaOM
via Defensio, the blog by Carl Mercier on February 19, 2008
Alistair Croll just wrote a nice article about us on GigaOM. Feel free to stop by and let the world know why you love Defensio!
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Homeless man 'lived in airport'
via BBC News | UK | UK Edition by (author unknown) on February 19, 2008
A homeless chef who made Gatwick Airport his home for more than three years is remanded in custody.
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Oracle Standard Edition
via orawin.info - by Niall Litchfield on February 19, 2008
... a 2-node RAC on Dell 2950's 2 Dual core's per server. Quote was $306k.Well if I were the business I'd choke as well. That's an indefensible software cost for that sort of install. I costed up a quad-core E5430 version of the above hardware, complete with, RHEL5, 16gb RAM and redundant SAN connections. Total cost of the hardware (but excluding the SAN/NFS storage that yo...
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