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I’ve spent all morning installing Solaris 10 and Oracle 10gR2 on the ISP4400 and configured my first ZFS filesystem. I’ll blog about that later, but I had to get this one out of the way before Scotland play France at football at five o’clock. This is from an interview with Walter Smith, Scotland’s manager, yesterday.… Continue reading Supporting Scotland

I couldn’t agree with this more. I can’t work with people who tell lies to cover up their inadequacies, no matter what the underlying reasons. In the end, someone else will share the pain so it’s utterly selfish behaviour. You can tell I’ve been burnt by this, right?

Believe me, I’m getting a bit tired of not posting anything technical but to get one last thing out of the way before I do, I mentioned in a recent blog that I might talk about Psoriasis. Now, I happen to agree with Andy C that talking about your illnesses is probably boring for anyone… Continue reading Psoriasis

It’s been back to work with a vengeance this week, but quite enjoyable as I’ve been spending time explaining to one of the vendors on a super-expensive project that RAC won’t deliver what they’re looking for. However, I feel there’s some unfinished business before I get back to the occasional Oracle technical blog, the usual… Continue reading The Very Last, Final DBF Blog, really …

might be rubbish, but I know a man with a much better one. These are courtesy of David Kurtz. I’m particularly happy about the ones of Michael Möller (or M2) doing his dance during the Miracle Abba Musical. I think you’ll know the ones I’m talking about when you see them 😉 Good effort, all… Continue reading My Camera …

First, someone else’s pictures. Much better than mine, obviously, but their camera seems to be a little suspect because all the pictures of me look grey, drunken and not a little scary. Second, I wanted to apologise for the fact that, not only were my pictures pants, but that quite a few of those blogs… Continue reading Some more DBF stuff

Why you should never let your host handle your registration (and no, the company name is not real) Still, at least deciding I was American got me into the best house and far enough from the Party House to get some sleep occassionally 😉 Julian Dyke and I are waiting for our taxi to the… Continue reading Miracle DBF – Wrap-up

What a marvellous night. As usual I was rushing around a little but made it back to the centre just in time for the Margaritas. Then we had dinner which was very much to my taste (meat and potatoes, basically) but the lobster for starter wasn’t my kind of thing. But my dinner partners appreciated… Continue reading Miracle DBF – Day 2.79

This Miracle DBF is a tricky affair. A combination of beer, lack of sleep, too much detailed Oracle information, swimming pools and scary, scary slides can lead to this type of result … And this … In fact, it’s a very good job that I have been entirely sober for the entire conference 😉

These Miracle guys (and girls) certainly know how to stage an event. My highlights of the last 24 hours include Sitting in the baby seats at the back of Mogens 7-seater, surrounded by everyone’s luggage and some goat food, with Jonathan Lewis lording it at the front. Mogens has a really nice place – fantastic… Continue reading Miracle DBF – Day 1