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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Whoops
We’re working on migrating to a new hosting provider, and have run into some minor issues.
THIS DOESN’T COUNT AS DOWNTIME.
I Long for Home
As some of the Sector members know, I’m having problems at work. I basically hate my life from 0800 to 1800. As I hate it more and more, I realize how much I miss my cave. I love the cave. I do not like being away from the cave. In it, I feel comfortable and at home. I am surrounded by the things I love.
Ever since I bought a house, I have not really had time to properly build my cave. I have not been able to organize it or to flesh it out. I hope that one day, I will get that time. Until then, I will spend a lot of my work day longing to return home.
The New Facebook is a Sack of Shit
I do several things when I wake up in the morning. Several of them involve my computer.
1. Press Snooze
2. Press Snooze
3. Stare at Ceiling
4. Check Email / Twitter / Facebook / Fark
6. Look Outside Window for Soviets / Zombies / Satin-Clad Nymphs
7. “Damn. Damn. Damn.”
The rest of my AM routine is a variable combination of showering, pop-tarts, and dwelling on my past.
Oracle + Government = Fail
As some of you know, I pretend to be an Oracle DBA as part of my day job. Oracle is the Microsoft of the database industry. It’s bloated, hard to use, and entrenched in businesses around the world. One of its biggest customers is the US Government.
The main component of the software that resides in memory is the System Global Area (SGA). It contains all kinds of caches and sort areas where Oracle does all the work on behalf of database users. If you’re running a critical production server with nothing else but Oracle on it, the System Global Area should be as large as possible while still leaving some RAM for the operating system.