30 hours until I chop in my lovely blue Toyota Celica for a black Peugeot 106….Damn you, car insurance mafia!

Finally, a way to get rid of that damn magnifying glass in Google search… 

Yeah, it’s good.  It’s very good :)

Yes, that time of year has returned once more - the clocks have gone back, the evenings are drawing in earlier, and the upper lips of men all around the world are getting colder.  So, for the second year running, the MDA team have decided to brave out another month of Movember and grow their facial folicles for charity once again.

Here’s how it’s going to work:  our clean-shaven company team (currently 5 people, and growing) will hide their razors, shy away from the scissors and grow their beards until the end of November, at which point we will try our very best to hack our gob-mullets into a style nominated by those who have kindly donated their hard-earned pennies (that’s you!).

Last year we were grateful and astounded to find that we raised over £1000, all of which was donated towards beating prostate cancer.

You can donate online via the Movember website, or pass on your hard earned pennies to me personally if you prefer - the website address is:

http://uk.movember.com/mospace/53881/

Go on - you know you want to!  Chip in a few quid to help us beat prostate cancer by walking around looking like cavemen for a month!

Dave

I’m glad to be on early shift today and tomorrow, and then on Holiday on Wednesday….it’s only 4 days until the big day….Yikes!

The following RMAN error was received when running a compressed backup of a 1TB+ database on Oracle 10.1.0.4.0 on Solaris 9.

RMAN-00571: ===========================================================

RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============

RMAN-00571: ===========================================================

RMAN-03015: error occurred in stored script full_backup

RMAN-03002: failure of backup plus archivelog command at 07/22/2010 05:31:40

ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [17114], [0xFFFFFFFF78900020], [], [], [], [], [], []

ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [kgh_heap_sizes:ds], [0xFFFFFFFF78900010], [], [], [], [], [], []

Recovery Manager complete.

This appears to be an issue with this particular environment (OS and/or Oracle version) however nothing was logged in /var/adm/messages to suggest a hardware issue.

Solution: remove RMAN compression from the backups.  Removing compression also had a vast performance improvement.

So it looks like the Twitter to Facebook app is finally working again - here’s a test to see if it really does what it says on the tin….

I think Scotts so Easy is far superior to Oats so Simple, and definitely worth waiting that extra microwave-minute for a decent bowl of porridge!  It’s great to have a bowl with some substance in it, not some mushy puree’d oat soupy stuff.

Yummy!

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