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- On Loading and Extents
- Parallel DDL and operations such as a direct path load via SQL*Loader rely on direct path operations. That is, the data is not passed to the buffer cache to be written later; rather, an operation such as a CREATE TABLE AS SELECT will create new extents and write directly to...
- Tags: Extent, Execution Server
- White papers 2007-05-01
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- UK CS graduates more likely to be unemployed
- People over the years have said to me, "computers are the future; you'll end up getting a great job with wads of money." I'm not a money person, to be honest; I think my CV over the last couple of years proves that to some extent. But with new information...
- Tags: Computer Science, Computer, Productivity, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Windows 7 wishes
- Windows 7 wishesOn layers.Per Ed's post, IE 8 continues to be integrated and integral to the OS. It is likely that many other user space apps that MS creates, will at least be partially embedded, if not completely.End user applications have no business being part of the OS itself,...
- Tags: Operating systems, 64-bit, Luna, Microsoft Windows, Windows 7 Wishes, operating system, Aero, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Test case: what happens when a government requires renewable energy?
- Test case: what happens when a government requires renewable energy?....It's pioneers like Colorado that will finally propel us into the 21st century. Great news! Love it when the old ways are trounced by new tech AND soundly at that!"[B]Despite a continuing boom, oil and gas companies here are on the...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Telecom & Utilities, Westinghouse, mW, tax, Xcel Energy Inc., renewable energy
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Limelight by the numbers: Akamai's thorn?
- Limelight Networks may have won a medal for its role behind the scenes to keep NBCOlympics.com humming, but the company is still dwarfed by its largest rival Akamai. The big question: Does Limelight have enough headroom to gain meaningful share from Akamai? Jason Perlow detailed how content...
- Tags: Patent, Akamai Technologies Inc., Limelight Networks, Jason, Company, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- The biggest open source threat to Microsoft
- The biggest open source threat to MicrosoftDid he.......no...False alarm. He didn't buy a Laptop. Never mind. ;)What makes it different from Wine then?or Mono for that matter? I had worked on Win-OS2, which is a Windows 3 inside OS/2, during OS/2's heydays. It failed miserably even with IBM's...
- Tags: Operating systems, cloud computing, Storage management, Linux, Dana, open source, Face it Linux, Microsoft Windows, operating system, virtualization, HPCC, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- SAP wrap and transparency points
- This week's SAP influencer summit was a roller coaster affair. On the one hand I didn't detect anything fundamentally new on the BusinessObjects side other than a considerable amount of repackaging with a view to gaining additional sales. There's nothing wrong with that but it didn't demonstrate a huge amount...
- Tags: Small And Medium Enterprise, SAP AG, Smb/Sme, Retail, Channel Management, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Two flavors of software as a service: Intuit QuickBase and Etelos
- There are dozens of flavors of clever applications aimed at the office productivity market, often spawned as a result of the Web 2.0 explosion. Where the Web 2.0 application market is driven by eyeballs and their resulting advertising monetization, the enterprise 2.0...
- Tags: Security, Software-as-a-service, Intuit Inc., Intuit QuickBase, Etelos, Developer Platform, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Collaboration, Emerging Technologies, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Police Surveillance: Go Snoop, Yourself
- With New York planning to put in another 3,000 surveillance cameras and monitor all license plates coming into the island of Manhattan at 20 entrances with its Operation Sentinel, travelers and residents should not only get over any indignation at being snooped on to this extent...
- Tags: Camera, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Analyst: Apple will sell at least 4.47 million iPhones this quarter
- Analyst: Apple will sell at least 4.47 million iPhones this quarterIt's broke.http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/12/poor-iphone-3g-service-revealedI read the headline and thought......"That'll be Munster then".And, yea, it was so.RE: Analyst: Apple will sell at least 4.47 million iPhones this quarterNotice RIMM stock has been trending down the last few day while Apple stock has be...
- Tags: Investment, Apple Inc., stock, Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- The Unix sysadmin salary premium
- The Unix sysadmin salary premiumThe non-obviously conclusions I draw...The non-obviously conclusions I draw from this is that organisations looking fron Windows admins could do well by bring in guys with Unix experience.(I can hear someone say "No self respecting unix guy would take the job", to which the answer is...
- Tags: Operating systems, Unix skill, Unix, salary, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- No more need for an antivirus software?
- No more need for an antivirus software?This still uses a thin client type application installed on the client.Yes, its more clound than local, but most corporate AV's work similar to this. They are more client heavy, but with a little tweaking they could move to a cloud type formation....
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Operating systems, Debian repository, software, virus, antivirus software, Linux, DSL
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- Gmail outage the latest cloud stumble; Where's the offline synching?
- Google's Gmail outage on Monday was the latest stumble for nascent cloud computing services, which are becoming the lifeblood for small businesses and startups. The Gmail outage--along with Amazon's stumbles of late--raises a few key questions: Where's the offline synchronization capability? Can we depend solely on the Web? Is Microsoft's...
- Tags: Software, Google Inc., Google Gmail, Backup, Microsoft Corp., Outage, Service, MobileMe, Ryan, Cloud Computing, E-mail Providers, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- The Microsoft middle ground
- The Microsoft middle groundYes, but the current perceived credit crunchshould get rid of a lot of the "me-too" fat from the system.Only the genuine knowledgeable IT lovers will be left ....Price vs TCOYour piece fails to mention the well-documented costs of owning MS-based desktops and servers. The delta in...
- Tags: Printers, Operating systems, PRODUCTIVITY, lock-in, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- Apple sued for ... slavery?!?!!
- Apple sued for ... slavery?!?!!You SUE for slavery?Huh.I did not know that. I would have thought criminal charges for such an act would be more appropriate.I have a question, though. If he disliked the arrangement so much...why didn't he just quit? Some people will sue over anything.RE:...
- Tags: Apple Inc., overtime
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- Windows wars: Are you a dog or cat?
- All this Vista versus XP versus Windows Server 2008 stuff got me thinking. Maybe its not just technological issues with Microsoft's latest desktop OS that is creating strife between the user bases. Perhaps -- if we take a page from Jungian theory -- there is a...
- Tags: Desktop, Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Apple drops iPhone 2.0.1 update
- Apple drops iPhone 2.0.1 updateThey don't know what they are doing!Talk about a keystone cops company!Microsoft makes updates and sticks by them otherwise user confidence will be erroded! -FSBhttp://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.comThese iTards are growing toooo fast, they are beninnging to remind me of Gaggle!RE: Apple drops iPhone 2.0.1 updateI know you mean...
- Tags: Desktops, Apple iPhone, iPhone 2.0.1 update, iPhone 2.0.1, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- Should Microsoft become more Apple-like?
- Should Microsoft become more Apple-like?Not unlike AppleLook at the iPod/iTunes combination, the Mac/OSX combination.The only difference is where they obtain their revenue from, Apple hardware, Microsoft from software.Both want to lock you into their products, one way or another.I would say MS is a platform companyjust not necessarily that they...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., Does Windows, Apple Inc., business model
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- Should Microsoft become more Apple-like?
- About a week and a half ago, Mary Jo Foley wrote a piece where she argued that Microsoft was planning to get more "Apple-like" in the PC and phone space, based on various statements from Microsoft executives. I intended to write a response that following Monday, but work intervened, which...
- Tags: Microsoft Zune, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- System Accelerator (exe)
- System Accelerator is this simply cool tool that not only makes your PC faster but also takes care of its other needs so that you can have uninterrupted joy while using your computer. Your Internet speed can go up by just tweaking up you computer. This software fine-tunes your computer...
- Tags: Computer, SystemAccelerator.com, Productivity, Internet
- Software downloads 2008-08-04
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