Category Archives: Rants & Raves

Why Do I Have To Suffer Your Children?

   Send article as PDF    I’m trapped on a plane for four and a bit hours and your bloody child has been screaming it’s head off for most of the way.

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Everything? You Ever Wanted To Know About Christmas

   Send article as PDF    From The Thinking Atheist on YouTube via RDFRS: Guess what, all those Christmas Carols and so on, are not quite what they seem. Happy “Christmas” Cheers.

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The Green Thing

   Send article as PDF    This is doing the rounds on email at the moment, but it made me laugh. Grumpy old sod that I am! Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman … Continue reading

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Can We Have 10g and 11g on the Same Server?

   Send article as PDF    If you install 10g and 11g on the same server, which one do you wish to supply the executables for “oraenv”? If you install 10g first and allow 11g to overwrite the files in … Continue reading

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Removing “Rogue” Expensive Oracle Options After Upgrading to 10.2.0.x.

   Send article as PDF    Install 10.2.0.1 – the base release – of Oracle and deselect the various Enterprise Edition Options – these cost money and we don’t like that, especially if we don’t use them. Patching to 10.2.0.5 … Continue reading

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Norm’s Law of Computing

   Send article as PDF    Software efficiency halves every 18 months thus compensating for Moore’s Law. Cheers.

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This Page Intentionally Left Blank …

   Send article as PDF    Except, it’s not!

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The Frogs Are Back!

   Send article as PDF    Yesterday, 24th February 2011, was about the first reasonably warm day of the year. The pond and paths around our house are now filled with frogs. It must be spring!

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What Do We Need, Banks or Hospitals?

   Send article as PDF    The government’s wonderful new system for the NHS starts tomorrow. GP’s will take over running things where the Primary Care Trusts used to and Primary Care Trusts are to vanish. If any hospital fails … Continue reading

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I’m Seriously Offended …

   Send article as PDF    It seems that this new government is off it’s bloody head.

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The Pope Is Coming – Lock Up Your Kids!

   Send article as PDF    The pope arrives in the UK today. Personally, I think he should be arrested.

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The AA Insurance Company “Scam”.

   Send article as PDF    My wife recently changed from her old insurance company to the AA as they gave her a much better quote for herself and me as named driver. However, it soon turned out to be … Continue reading

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The Election Is Coming!

   Send article as PDF    Oh joy! Politics. How lovely.

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Fly Monarch? I Don’t Think So!

   Send article as PDF    On Saturday the 10th of April, at 20:30 our journey home from Sharm El Sheikh began on a Monarch Airlines Airbus A300. We were sitting in row 15, seats A and B – if … Continue reading

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How Much Does it Cost to Keep Politicians Honest?

   Send article as PDF    £6.5 million per year it would appear.

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