I didn’t realize that it’s been a month since I got back from Lalandia (it feels like it was yesterday), and I still have something to finish blogging about. Shame on me!
My evening at the Lalandia Waterpark is probably one the most exciting time I had in Denmark. The Waterpark adventures started right after the Gala Dinner. It was a pleasure after dinner to dive into a hot tub and sip cold cocktails. Not only was it it a pleasure for our bodies but for our minds as well. In the photo below, you can see us discussing Tapio Lahdenmäki’s presentation on indexing.
If Jonathan Lewis and Cary Milsap are impressed with Tapio’s work — you can be sure it’s worthwhile to read (twice) his book, take his masterclass, or attend one of his presentations.
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I’ve got notification of new download on OTN. Here is the link to OEM download page with 10.2.0.4 is for Linux x86 and Windows x86. Other platforms should be available upon release on the same page. I think I also saw it on in my Google Reader mentioned but today I couldn’t find it.
We are rolling it out for one Oracle Agent installation with one of our clients today - let’s see how it works.
YES! This long awaited time has come!
I was able to go through all the feeds. I have cheated a little but not intentionally. About a month ago, don’t remember exactly, I mistakenly hit “mark all as read” link of the Google Reader plugin on the Google Home page and there is no undo functionality as in the real Google Reader interface. At first I thought, that s…cks — I “lost” 1-2 months worth of valuable reading. Now, I think that was a great idea — I feel so much less stressed and relieved having my reader empty. 
I just need to make sure the same happens to my email Inbox one day! (Hint: if I missed to reply on something - it might be by accident. Ping me again.)
I hope I will have time to spend a bit on the BAAG web site but there are AUSOUG and UKOUG conferences coming and, even though I have presentations already, I need to change there quite a bit - I’m not happy with their last versions (will I ever be happy?).
Anyway, good to have all feeds read every day and I wish the same to you — my dear reader.
Some time ago (yeah… shame on me) I mentioned having troubles running CRS on virtual machines using VMware Server. I found a solution a while ago and, since I promised to share if I find anything, now is the time.
First of all, I’m happy to admit that my observations regarding Windows hosted VM’s running better compare to Linux hosted were wrong. Indeed, how can Windows run faster than Linux?! 
I used VMware Server 1.0.3. As host OS I used 64 bit Ubuntu or 32 bit Windows. Guest OS was 32 bit Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 (a la Larry Hat 4). As you could see later, I tried VMware Workstation 6.0 as well without any visible improvements. For shared storage I use either NFS exports from host OS (when using Ubuntu) or Openfiler when using Windows (even more CPU saturation).
To recall the problem… Virtual machine started to eat CPU like crazy when I start CRS inside virtual machine. Even without Oracle database - just starting CRS is enough. I could see that vmware-vmx process was consuming about 60% on one CPU core (AMD Athlon64 3800 X2). Inside virtual machine I could only see from time to time init.cssd in top and average CPU consumption jumping from 10% to 90% without any process in top that I could see. I tried strace on vmware-vmx processes in my host OS - could only see that most of the time is spent in poll system call.
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If you haven’t added Mary Ann Davidson’s blog to your RSS reader, you should at least check it out. It’s relatively low traffic but every post is quite long and full of interesting thoughts. Give it a shot.
Today, I’ve got a reminder about disclosing your bias and professional ethics. Not that it’s something completely new but after reading this post, you tend to re-evaluate some information sources and events.
PS: Hm… does this blog come back to life?
Just saw this this blog post and even spent 10 minutes watching the video demo.
In under one hour and could be as low as 30 minutes!?
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I just wondering how people have time for that twittering, flickering, blogging, facebooking, del.icio.us-ing, listing, and other 42 types whatnot-web-two-point-zero-ing, and still getting some work done and keeping family happy.
I’m definitely doing something wrong here. :-\
I guess I’m just too slow…
I can’t resist mentioning this super cool feature here. It might be old news but that’s how I can catch up on my feeds. Anyway, Google Reader can now search all your subscriptions.
How many times you were looking in your reader history for a particular blog post you read 2 month ago but only need now?
I have already mentioned the 80/80 percent rule for the MOW, and I bet you suspect that 42% of “80% of useful stuff” was done after hours. And you’d be right on the mark!
First on the schedule of the second evening (28th of September) was the Gala Diner. Mr. Nogood opened it and marked Oracle ACEs, OCP/Ms and Oak Table Network members with special distinction — a blue silk sash. Sadly, I can’t find mine in my travel bag; I think perhaps the Water-Park has it now.
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