Monday, March 28, 2016

GPL 3 seems to have a negative effect on sharing, not a positive

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There are a lot of reasons I feel this way, but this post is just my latest example. Nice job to Benny Cornellissen: http://blog.bennycor...
Thursday, February 4, 2016

Oracle primary key creation in parallel

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After an earlier post,  Saving a LOT of time with Oracle foreign key creation in PARALLEL , I was asked about primary key creation in parall...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Stop calendars added on Google calendar from appearing or sending notifications on your phone

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A quick shout out to Ben Rimes (@techsavvyed) for posting a quick walk through for removing the endless spam of notifications on an iPhone o...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Increasing Swap Space by Stealing from /home

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  Recently, I was installing Oracle 12c on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. This should have been easy, right? In this case, I did not install t...
Saturday, February 7, 2015

Saving a LOT of time with Oracle foreign key creation in PARALLEL

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One of the things that can consume a ton of time when doing DB maintenance is recreation of foreign keys. You can't drop and recreate ...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Props to David Latham: Apache and SELinux

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So, I was working on a CentOS 6.4 box to set up an SVN server. Early in the process, I decided I would try (for the first time) to successfu...
Thursday, September 5, 2013

Cool page talking about Linux RAM usage

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So, first, I've been using Linux for a really, really, really long time. Like... 1994. I had to hack a SCSI driver to get my Adaptec 294...