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I noticed a post on the Oracle-L list by Connor McDonald, who is a UKOUG stalwart and Oak Table member, about FreeNAS. It struck me how often I’ve been in a situation at work when I’ve been touting around storage vendors to get some very low cost, very high capacity storage for disk backups. It’s… Continue reading FreeNAS

Thanks to Mike Scott for this one.

… that just keeps on giving. Cheers, Henrik 😉

It’s another long one, but at least there’s nothing about Oracle in here. Tonight is the Champion’s League Final . I’ll leave the small matter of why only one of the teams were champions of their national league last year for another time but, as I watched the supporters milling around in Paris on this… Continue reading Rotterdam

If you have the money, the time and the chance to get to Denmark, then this training looks pretty good. Okay, so I know the organisers and one of the ‘experts’ but, if the description is to be believed, I wish there were more courses like this available. A guy I work beside attended a… Continue reading I wish I could go to this

There was a note waiting for me when I got home tonight. “Neighbours! Wednesday the 17th of May is the Norwegian Constitution Day. On that occasion, the boys in Number 5 are having a small party in their garden. The party will only be during the day, from about 2pm till about 10pm at the… Continue reading Norwegians

No doubt this is incredibly old hat and I’ve just missed it somewhere along the line, but with a nod and a wink from Andrew Fraser at work and using my more stable server connection, here’s a small thing I didn’t know. On Unix and Linux, you can have a personal .tnsnames.ora (note the leading… Continue reading .tnsnames.ora

More interesting links from the past week. To start with something non-technical, there have been a number of blogs (and a deluge of comments) on Tom Kyte’s blog about classic book recommendations. I’m sure Tom would welcome a couple of dozen more recommendations (Joke!). That blog of his will end up being as time-consuming as… Continue reading Blog Round-Up

Many months ago, when I first bought the old server, I decided I would need to get some network connectivity sorted out for it because the noise it makes is ridiculous. Personally, I don’t mind it that much, but not everyone feels the same way so it was only fair for it to live in… Continue reading Driving Me Crazy!

Okay, let me start by issuing a loud and fair warning. If you don’t like industrial-strength bad language, skip this blog and find something else to read. Equally, you probably don’t want to have your speakers turned on in the middle of a quiet office when you open this link. However, the audience at yesterday’s… Continue reading We Do Not Use Keys