I popped over to the Sybase UK TechSelect conference. Its been a while since I met up with the Sybase and User Group people. I’ll always remember one of the opening presos made by one of Sybase’s VPs in the early ’90s. It sounded like Harry Enfield’s “loadsa money”, “here’s our results – you see all this money – it was yours but now its ours!” – “How much does it cost? Loads – if your asking that question, your too poor to have one”. Most businesses, including Sybase, have learned that you need more humility when speaking about company results. So Simon Cattlin, Sybase UK’s recently appointed MD gave an interesting and different presentation; he felt his personal newness made the traditional MD’s approach inappropriate, but he shared some of his thoughts about why he joined Sybase and the research he’d undertaken while making his mind up. …
Making Sybase Scream
This article is about running Sybase on a sophisticated UNIX. It discusses sizing Sybase’s max engines parameter, the effect of resource management tools & leveraging UNIX & Consolidation. Also note that this is not a Sun Blueprint, its meant to show you that you can, not how to. …
A brand new Qube
Well, my Cobalt Qube arrived today. This is the cube I won by blogging Sun’s premier field training event last February. Also you might ask why it took so long; it got lost the first time. Interestingly absolutely no documentation. 😥 Actually the original blog post pointed at a bunch of web resources, which have all gone now. …
Laptop Diary, Linux, software updates and grub
I contemporaneously published three Laptop Diary article on my sun/oracle blog, about Linux, software updates, grub and x-windows again, caused by my need to move my triple boot forward from its original Dell to a newly issued Toshiba. It might once have been helpful, but I doubt that it remains so in 2016, when I posted this bookmark. …
The best in the country
On my sun/oracle blog, I reflect on the 2005 BCS Infrastructure Developer of the Year competition; I was one of the judges. …
Sybase 15
I popped into the Brewer’s Hall at the invitation of Sybase for their UK launch of Sybase 15. The have three great new features to help them compete with Oracle and the free ones, and its good to see them spend some money and more importantly intellect on the database server. …
Learnings make benefit glorious blog server snipsnap
During August and early September, I made some progress in implementing a private snipsnap server. The original articles are here, and here. I used snipsnap for a number of years and most of my thoughts and notes on how to make it work are now posted to this site’s companion wiki, or to its own home site. …
The RSS Revolution
One of the reasons I started blogging was to participate in the RSS revolution. At least one of my feed providers has pointed at Yahoo as a server based RSS delivery/agregation solution, and I had to return to My Yahoo last week and discovered that they’ve upgraded the services available via this Yahoo feature. The picture immediately below, shows my new My Yahoo!
news page. …
Tag or Menu
Steve Hahn who writes at predictable
suggested that getting del.icio.us as an RSS stream and thus viewing not only other’s bookmarks but also the order they’re reviewed adds a new dimension to the bookmark list. Today, if you view my del.icio.us bookmarks, you can see that I’ve been looking at holiday and personal finance sites. The rest of this article, looks at reverse date order and clouds vs.lists. It represents my early experiments with social bookmarking and RSS. …
Using del.icio.us “clouds”
How curious? I’m working up an article on del.icio.us and their clouds
, and I discover that a tag based query does not show the cloud
, so you can’t walk across the cloud/tag fields. …