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		<title>HP Cloud starts to Rain!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mohammed Mawla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So HP Cloud is finally yielding for some beta rain since their announcement late Sep. It started late September when I signed up for private beta testing. They sent me this when I signed up Thanks for your interest in HP Cloud Services. We will be sure to follow up with you when access becomes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pythian at UKOUG: Wednesday December 8</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the final day of UKOUG there are quite a few Pythian presentations. Unfortunately a lot of them happen at the same time, so it won&#8217;t be possible to attend them all live. Using Oracle GoldenGate to Minimize Database Upgrade Risk 10:10, Media Suite Marc Fielding Even the best-planned database upgrades can leave nagging questions: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linux Patching and Oracle &#8211; how to detect RPM conflicts before they happen.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>still</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A common scenario in the life of a DBA on a linux server looks something like this: From: Sue-the-sysadamin To:the-dba Date: 2011-10-28 17:54:34 Dear DBA, We will be patching the linux systems this Friday night, October 28th at 21:00. The list of patches is attached. Let us know if there are any conflicts with Oracle. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Applying External Timing Data to Untimed Events</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>still</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or how to have an answer other than &#8220;I don&#8217;t know&#8221; when asked &#8220;How long does that take?&#8221;. Recently while working on a client site I discovered that it takes 30-90 seconds to make an ssh connection to one of the servers. Connections between servers for this client typically take &#60; 1 second, so the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swappiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 12:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fahd Mirza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swappiness, as the name suggests, affects the swapping in the Linux systems. Its kind of slider value. 0 means keep pages in memory as long as possible. 100 means at maximum throttle and in-between just a frequency for swapping. The minimum value for the swappiness is 0 and the maximum is 100. The default value [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using KateSQL to connect to an Oracle database in Kate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 15:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Fraser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the features announced with the release of version 4.6 of the KDE Software Compilation is KateSQL, a SQL Query plugin for the Kate text editor providing the basic functionality of a SQL client. It leverages the Qt SQL module, allowing you to make a connection to most types of databases. Out of the box [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Installing TOra with Oracle Support on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meercat)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hudson, SA Team Lead</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good afternoon sports fans. I&#8217;ve had a couple of requests to update my world famous blog on installing TOra. Frankly I have been wanting to get this out for a while but duties other than blogging have taken precedence. That and I think my blogging ran out of entropy and needed some other IO to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updating ASMLIB driver using &#8220;update-driver&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gleb Otochkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a controversial question whether use or not ASMLIB for manage disks for a ASM instance but I don&#8217;t want to start a new discussion about it in this post. I want to talk about updating ASMLIB after or before updating kernel version. We know that the ASMLIB driver is kernel dependent and has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Implementing Exadata: the results are in</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: recordings are now available Following up on my earlier webinar Implementing Oracle Exadata &#8211; Strategies for Success, I&#8217;ll be giving another webinar to present the results of the Exadata implementation at LinKShare. I&#8217;ll be talking about actual performance results, our zero-downtime go-live, compression experiences, and performance tuning in an Exadata environment. The webinar will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linux desktops, Windows only VPN clients, virtual machines and you &#8212; DIY VPN jump box</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 03:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hudson, SA Team Lead</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being in the remote administration business is a strange beast and offers lots of challenges, but when you are working for multiple clients sometimes connecting to the servers can be challenging enough. Here&#8217;s a little idea that I had this morning that may save someone some grief, so I thought I would jot it down [...]]]></description>
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