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Entries from June 2008

Microsoft Open Connectivity

June 25th, 2008 · No Comments

©David
Microsoft will be opening up, more specifically providing documentation, and describing how their applications communicate between each other. By court order, Microsoft will be providing draft versions by the end of March 2009.

This potentially means that any programmer, not even a recognized [...]

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Tags: Oracle

Amazon? .com? — Here come the TAX-man

June 25th, 2008 · No Comments

©Michael Karshis

Did you know there are only 8 states left in the U.S. that allow dot-coms the ability to not collect sales tax. The move to start collecting taxes in those last few states could bring, and will bring, huge amounts of cash. [...]

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Tags: Wall Street Journal-Tech

Are laptops safe from border paTROLLs

June 20th, 2008 · No Comments

 
©meshmar2

Traveling abroad? Want to come back into the country (U.S.)? Own a laptop? Have a business partner coming to the U.S.?
You just might want to re-think traveling with a laptop!

If you haven’t heard, travelers entering the U.S. with laptops or other storage devices could just have the device searched and potentially seized for fear [...]

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Tags: Wall Street Journal-Tech

opensolaris - SHAKY at best

June 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

©Laertes

I had really high hopes for Sun’s opensolaris. Everything was good until I needed to get an Internet connection.
While I was easily connected to my local network, which is interesting at best as I have a hacked a bridge between two wireless [...]

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Tags: Opinion · Review

Sun Microsystems - Turning IBM-BLUE?

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments

 
Here is an interesting twist to in the battle for computing platforms. Sun and IBM have gotten together to supply systems for Themis Computer of Fremont, California.

If you want to take advantage of the UltraSPARC T2 chip technologies but need an IBM blade server, this just might be the solution for you. Developed for both [...]

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Tags: Wall Street Journal-Tech

DBA - Colorado Springs, CO - 06/17/2008

June 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment

 
Help
Wanted

06/17/2008 Contact : Ronold Cadet, ronold.cadet@acsicorp.com

JOB DESCRIPTION [...]

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Tags: jobs

ONE

June 13th, 2008 · No Comments

©moriza

been ONE of those days as it seemed like i was the only ONE around on a the last and only train out of town.

the day started out ok. i had my ONE egg, ONE piece of bacon, but not ONE cup [...]

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Tags: Opinion

Oracle Session Tracing Part VI

June 13th, 2008 · No Comments

©laihiu
Part VI in our series will show you how to access and generate reports off of the trace files we generated in Part V through the use of the TKPROF and trcsess utilities.

In the last part of this series we re-visited methods on [...]

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Tags: Oracle

Salary and Company Review Website

June 12th, 2008 · No Comments

©AMagill

A new website www.glassdoor.com offers a peek into salaries and corporate culture. Given anonymously, users can register at this site, provide current and past salary information, along with a company review, and have access to salary and review information given by others.

This [...]

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Tags: Wall Street Journal-Tech

Oracle Session Tracing Part V

June 12th, 2008 · No Comments

©laihiu
Part V in our series will get closer to what we have for years experienced as Oracle’s tracing mechanism. Read On and get re-acquainted with creating trace files for TKPROF.

For many years DBAs have been getting low level tracing information about session through [...]

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Tags: Oracle