'Spin'

I have got some stuff from the amazon crowd. I have just finised 'spin'. I would not say it is a world changing book, but it does the trick in making us ponder on the finite nature of us. We are finite biologically speaking and species speaking. Finite, cause the sun will become a red giant in one billion year, the universe will expand forever and making the world around a cold and dire place. But, hey we still go SGA so why bother :-)

Windows 2008

I have installed the latter on one machine (dual core, 1GB RAM). so far so good nothing major, except there are some changes to the interface and changes in the way the 'role' of the machine can be affected.

I will do some test on the following:-

1. performance evaluation as compared to XENapp
2. Test of Oracle 11g on it (not certified as of 08/04/2008).

The Road.

I got that book after reading a review from salon.
I thought this item was about survival, indeed it was, but the writing was so nihilist that i went numb after a while. Although the scenery was not repetitive i wonder how bad it meant to portrait an unknown catastrophy. Finally no clue on what happened in the world, but it looks to be a neutron bomb war of some kind or some solar eruption of some kind killing all life. probably the latter rather than the former.

scared Sh1t !

I used to be scared before..watching stuff like blair with project, read salem's lot etc. But, i was in for a ride with that one. I can say one thing..'mind over matter'. the movie, well it is a sam raimi anyway, is very well done with a possibility of it happening when you are 'out there' on your own.

Mysql 5.x Adding New users.

I tried to create a new user with the mysql admin tool on windows (version 5.x) but ot no avail. Is there a bug with domain servers ? the message was '...dataset has changed..refresh your result set..'.. Although I had no-one opened. I wonder...

Anyway I used the good old method of starting the command line and adding the user manually..

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'max.here.com' identified by 'XXXXX';

most people forget the quote '' on the user 'root' or otherwise..

u have too usually to flush privileges after this command.

Oracle RAC on windows.

hmm..talk to most oracle dba, they will u that there is no such thing as oracle rac on windows..'goodness gracious..this is blasphemy!'..

actually there is and it surprisingly seem to be quite resilient.

Jericho.

well, i have just finished the episode 1 and 2 of season 2. Jericho has gone interesting this season. What i like, is the murkiness of everyone involved, from the committed military man to the main character himself.