Author Archives: Shad

New Web Hosting Provider

Posted on November 2, 2008 by Shad

I recently switched from a web hosting plan with IX Web Hosting to a Virtual Private Server (VPS) plan with Rose Hosting. I had the “Business Plus” plan with IX Web Hosting for 2 years. The service stability was always a little spotty, but the price-benefit ratio was acceptable for most of my time with […]

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Solaris 10 + IPMP + Oracle RAC

Posted on August 23, 2008 by Shad

I recently installed a 2-node RAC cluster using the following configuration: Operating System: Solaris 10 (SPARC-64) Oracle Clusterware: 11.1.0.6 Oracle ASM: 11.1.0.6 Oracle RDBMS: 10.2.0.3 Because the servers had 4 network interface cards, I asked the system administrators to configure IPMP on the Virtual IP and Private Interconnect interfaces. The Clusterware, ASM, and RDBMS installations […]

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Amarok Variable Bit Rate (VBR) Track Time

Posted on June 27, 2008 by Shad

I just recently installed Amarok on my Ubuntu desktop at home. It has been years since I have used anything other than XMMS to play my mp3 collection. Let me tell you…Amarok is probably the best mp3 player I have used including anything I have used on Windows. (I do not have a Mac, so […]

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National Debt

Posted on February 9, 2008 by Shad

I have been concerned about the national debt since I was in high school. Seeing how the debt has increased astronomically since President Bush has been in power, I started pondering which presidential candidate will most likely be the most fiscally responsible. They all appear to want to give “tax refunds” to the American people. […]

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Spinning Forms Processes

Posted on December 22, 2007 by Shad

Do you happen to have f60webmx processes that run for days or hours on end, consuming up to 100% of your forms tier CPUs? I do, and I decided to do something about it. The following script will kill forms processes that hog the CPU past a defined time limit. I have set the process […]

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