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Oracle for real
More than two years ago I took an introductory class on the Oracle database management system. Oracle is used in my organization, but not nearly as much as SQL Server, which is where I had been spending almost all my time. My supervisor was an experienced Oracle DBA and handled such tasks as came up. However, she just left, to take a job in the private sector. I have inherited the role of Oracle DBA. She gave me a lot of information before she left, but there was only so much she could cover in the available time. So I have a lot to figure out on my own. Oracle is very different.
Oracle here at work runs on Linux (Red Hat and Suse). All the time I have spent working on Linux at home will now pay off. The Linux support team hers is small (three people), but very good. I am looking forward to working with them.
“Seynt Valentyne’s day”
Some history, via This Day in Ancient History.
The Scold’s Bridle
The sky is the limit
Monday Night Irish Class, January 31, 2011
Irish Class, January 31, 2011
Rang Gaeilge, 31ú lá mí Eanáir 2011
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Taispeáin agus Inis — “Show and Tell”
According to the Bombay High Court….
As noted at Slashdot:
At least we can know for certain the people trying to get creationism taught as science in our schools have equally wacky friends around the globe.
Incredible Basement
Apple turns the screws
Apple wants 30% of Kindle App ebook sales
It’s quite amazing how unpopular the move is. Even people on Apple sites are against it.
It’s all rather strange – Unless you consider the fact that people who are reading are not doing things Apple wants them to do i.e. watch movies, grow stupid, become consumers, watch TV, etc.
Books turn brainwashed consumers into free thinkers, and that might be the last thing Apple wants.
More, including comments (many NSFW), at Apple responds: we want a cut of Amazon, Sony e-book sales.
Politics and the AntiVaccination Movement
From Why the ‘Prius Driving, Composting’ Set Fears Vaccines
I talked to a public health official and asked him what’s the best way to anticipate where there might be higher than normal rates of vaccine noncompliance, and he said take a map and put a pin wherever there’s a Whole Foods. I sort of laughed, and he said, “No, really, I’m not joking.” It’s those communities with the Prius driving, composting, organic food-eating people.
