Kde…

I just stumbled across this speech. I like it.

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/02/20/haruki_murakami/

I have been busy with the new job and lot of other things. I need to start posting again.

Oracle just announced the release of Oracle Virtualization software, Oracle VM. It sounds all great and fun but it needs two machines, one for installing the server and another for managing it. I don’t have two machines for this. I have two machines but this approach seems like a little too much effort for “virtualization”. How does this make it simple. I am sticking with VMWare for now.

I have MS Windows Vista installed on my laptop. Today, I was trying to transfer some photographs from my camera to my laptop. I also had my Oracle virtual machine on Linux running on the side. And guess what I got out of nowhere. The Blue Screen of Death. It has been a while since I have seen it. The kicker was what happened after I rebooted the machine. As the title of the post suggests, windows now knows what went wrong. I think that’s start. Give them a few more years and they will fix it for good.

Here are the details…


This was truly interesting and funny!

I just moved from Charlotte, NC to Houston, TX for a new job. I am giving consulting/contracting a (indefinite) rest. I don’t know if I will ever be a consultant again but for now I will be a Full-Time employee working on ’our’ in-house projects. Consulting was fun. I can’t complain at all.

Let’s see how houston treats us!!!

http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/

An excellent website. A collaborative effort in its true sense. A complete delight to read in my opinion.

The following is a list of books. There are three sections. First is the name of the book that I am currently reading. Second is the list of books that I am going to read in near future. And third is a list of books that I have read.

Kirtan Desai

I was reading tom kyte’s blog and found the following link there. I am not trying to copy/steal what he had there but I thought this was extremely important to publish. Not just for others but to keep reminding myself.

I think, for anyone who wants to learn anything, asking right questions is the only way to learn. Questions themselves can be directed to someone else or yourself. What’s important is that you ask questions that lead you in the right way. Check out the article below. It’s GOOD.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Tom also wrote about this and he had his own link besides the one above on his blog. Since I am sort of “re-blogging” here, it’s only fair to provide the original links. Or just in case you want to read them both.

http://tkyte.blogspot.com/2005/06/how-to-ask-questions.html

Kirtan.

There is an excellent article by Doug Burns here regarding the role of an individual who acts as either Developmentt DBA, Developer/DBA, DBA/Developer etc. The bottom line, as pointed out in the article, is that in a development environment where a DBMS is at the center of the project/application/system, individual(s) with strong knowledge of the DBMS must be utilized.

Leaving the future of an application or a system in the hands of developers who have little knowledge of the DBMS is not a good idea. Many companies nowadays let consulting firms come in and develop what’s needed. Many time these incoming consultants come with *consulting* experience and not with product or technology specific experience.

Even though the article is listed on SQL-Server specific website, I thought the artice was generic enough, to-the-point and meaningfull. It’s a must-read.

Kirtan

Fun times or “geek times” I should say started last weekend. So I finally gave vista a chance. Since I was involved with beta testing of Vista, they sent a licensed Vista Ultimate Edition to me. So now I have Windows Vista Ultimate on my new laptop. The first thing that I do when get a new PC is to clean up all factory installed mess. AOL, Norton Trial, Snapfish login, etc. , for example. The next thing I did was I installed VMWare.

Now I have a Ubuntu running on my machine, under VMWare, with Oracle 10g RAC installed and configured. I am loving this whole new setup. Here is a screenshot.

If you wish to have a similar setup, you can get the required tools from here. I also upgraded my HTMLDB to APEX 3.0. As you can see in the image above, there is an icon on the desktop named “HTMLDB 1.6″. The image below shows the version of the tool after the upgrade. Look at the version name and number on the right-bottom area of the screen in the picture below.

So all I need now is MS Office on my vista and I am all set. No other installation needed. Well, maybe I will install photoshop but that’s about it.