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"I know open source is about freedom etc. But we really need one Linux to rule them all if we want to see progress in this space. For the most part RHEL (and its clones) rule the server market and Ubuntu rules the desktop, but even this fragmentation is a pain. A quick Google on any subject returns billions of hits on a variety of distros and versions. It's still too complex for Joe Shmo to navigate through. Until we see some consolidation it will remain a server product or a geek desktop product. Pity. Cheers Tim... (Posting from a Linux desktop... :) )" - oraclebase

"The cupboard is most probably stationary and maybe (s)he is a consultant on the subject of principles. Please don't ever read anything I write. I can't spell for toffee so I do this sort of thing all the time. :) Cheers Tim..." - oraclebase

"Hi. I've already given my first impressions on Rich's original blog, so I won't repeat myself. I have been wondering if wave could end up being the new friendfeed. My biggest challenge in terms of a Web 2.0 wannabe is actually keeping an eye on everything. Friendfeed helps, but it's not the answer. With the right extensions, wave could merge my emails, RSS, social networks and microblogs into a single consistent stream? You never know. :) I know it's a bit of a trivial use, but maybe that will attract the masses more than the business aspects of collaboration... Cheers Tim..." - oraclebase

"Hi. I watched the 1:20 Google I/O session on youtube. First, let me say I was very impressed by the idea and the technology, but I have some reservations: - Are people ready for a product like Wave? Many people are struggling to cope with basic Web 2.0 concepts and Wave takes it a step further. Not sure how it will be perceived by the non-geeks in the near future. - It is not just a beta in the Google sense of the word. It looks less than an alpha to me. I think there is a long way to go before I would commit to using the product. During the demo there were bugs, page refreshes required and functional omissions. - I wonder what network impact of wave will be. In a large company with constant updates between multiple wave subscribers. Is this going to be an issue? Fast forward 6 months and I hope all my doubts are unfounded. I can't wait to have an interface like wave. :) Cheers Tim..." - oraclebase

"The most important thing to do when starting a new job is, find out where the toilets are. As you're working from home you've got that one sorted. The rest is plane sailing. :) Cheers Tim..." - oraclebase

"Now that's just mean. You better not go neat Newcastle in the near future. ;) Cheers Tim..." - oraclebase

"Hi. If you judged Drogba on this performance alone you would have thought he was drafted in from a Sunday league side. He was just plain rubbish. He missed some goals I think I could have scored. And the feigning injury and all that nonsense just adds to the sorry package. Ballack... His name says it all. He's a load of Ballacks. :) He's big and strong, but he wouldn't know how to play football if a Penguin book of football walked up to him, slapped him in the face and told him out to play. I'm not sure he even realizes he's meant to be playing football. Barcelona were playing better football, but Chelsea were stronger and muscled them out. Just as Jamie Redknapp said, if they carry on playing like this the last 20 minutes is going to get really dangerous. I think he may be psychic. :) Iniesta is very good, but the guy hit the deck every time someone sneezed near him. The authorities really need to do something about it. Either punish them or start presenting awards for the best faker..." - oraclebase

"Noooooooo. Everyone knows that you disappear from the blogsphere once you join the evil empire 2.0. :) Well done mate. Sounds like a great oppertunity. Hope it all goes well for you. I'll be thinking of you when I'm at the OpenWorld Appreciation night and you are struggling to find a ticket. :) See you at ODTUG or OpenWorld. Tim..." - oraclebase

"I love VMs. I do everything with them. I keep a clean Linux (CentOS 5) install as a host OS and do everything on VMs. As you mentioned, if anything goes wrong you just fire up a clone. It's also cool when you need to transfers stuff between physical machines. Just move the images. No reinstalls. :) The cloud stuff sounds cool, but I wouldn't trust it for a demo. :) Cheers Tim..." - oraclebase

"If that's even half-way true it's freakin' hilarious. Cheers Tim... PS. Always type, don't write..." - oraclebase

It's an ACE directors gang symbol and we would kick any other gangs... - oraclebase

If we create a Silicon Valley Side Story, who would the rival gang be? - Ontario Emperor

Are you on the run. You are never in the same place two days running. :) - oraclebase

I read it in University during my biology degree. Consider Selfish Gene and Extended Phenotype also. More of the same... :) - oraclebase

"I'm not saying Vista is the better choice of Windows. XP is leaner, faster and a bit neater. It's just I have a proper license for Vista on that laptop, and I'm not into breaking the law these days. :) Cheers Tim..." - oraclebase

"I'm not saying Vista is the better choice of Windows. XP is leaner, faster and a bit neater. It's just I have a proper license for Vista on that laptop, and I'm not into breaking the law these days. :) Cheers Tim..." - oraclebase

"One advantage Apple have over Windows and Linux is they only have to worry about a small amount of hardware drivers. If they started to sell OS X for install on all x86 & x86-64 kit they would have to write thousands of drivers. The biggest gripe I have with Linux (even Ubuntu) is the limited number of divers. I've switched between Linux and Windows several times on my laptop. A few days ago I switched back to Vista. I don't like it, but it does more of the things I need, with less hassle. I switched from CentOS5 to Ubuntu on my PC. I'm coming to the end of my love affair with Ubuntu. I think I'm going to switch back to CentOS5. It's more solid and that machine is more of a server, so it's a better match. As I've said before, stick to VMs and your transitions between OSes are very easy. :) Cheers Tim..." - oraclebase

"One advantage Apple have over Windows and Linux is they only have to worry about a small amount of hardware drivers. If they started to sell OS X for install on all x86 & x86-64 kit they would have to write thousands of drivers. The biggest gripe I have with Linux (even Ubuntu) is the limited number of divers. I've switched between Linux and Windows several times on my laptop. A few days ago I switched back to Vista. I don't like it, but it does more of the things I need, with less hassle. I switched from CentOS5 to Ubuntu on my PC. I'm coming to the end of my love affair with Ubuntu. I think I'm going to switch back to CentOS5. It's more solid and that machine is more of a server, so it's a better match. As I've said before, stick to VMs and your transitions between OSes are very easy. :) Cheers Tim..." - oraclebase

I guess it depends on if you mean directly or indirectly... - oraclebase

Seriously, it can be used indirectly. I'm in marketing, and when our architect became an ACE, I made a point of communicating that (at the time) only about 150 people in the world had that designation. I don't know that an ACE Director designation will influence a parent's day care choices...but it sure doesn't hurt. - Ontario Emperor from fftogo

"Has a new version of the iPhone been released? You would have thought the press would have picked up on that!" - oraclebase

"Has a new version of the iPhone been released? You would have thought the press would have picked up on that!" - oraclebase

"Hi. I think there's an element of emperors new clothes about reinstalling a machine. When I switched from CentOS 5 to Ubuntu 8 on one of my boxes I lived on it for a few days. After that I realized no matter what OS I run I spend 99% of my time in Firefox and virtual machines, so the OS doesn't really matter for me. Now it's just another box I use, rather than my preferred box. Although I agree that Ubuntu has come a long way in terms of ease of use, I think one of the biggest things that's helped Linux on the desktop is the fact we do more stuff online these days. This frees us up from the constraints of the environment. Cheers Tim..." - oraclebase

"Hi. I think there's an element of emperors new clothes about reinstalling a machine. When I switched from CentOS 5 to Ubuntu 8 on one of my boxes I lived on it for a few days. After that I realized no matter what OS I run I spend 99% of my time in Firefox and virtual machines, so the OS doesn't really matter for me. Now it's just another box I use, rather than my preferred box. Although I agree that Ubuntu has come a long way in terms of ease of use, I think one of the biggest things that's helped Linux on the desktop is the fact we do more stuff online these days. This frees us up from the constraints of the environment. Cheers Tim..." - oraclebase

"I do everything on the internet or on VMs. If I lost my laptop tomorrow I could be back online in the amount of time it takes to buy the new laptop, install VMware Server and copy over the VMs. If you can get into the habit of doing this it makes life very easy. :) Cheers Tim..." - oraclebase

"I do everything on the internet or on VMs. If I lost my laptop tomorrow I could be back online in the amount of time it takes to buy the new laptop, install VMware Server and copy over the VMs. If you can get into the habit of doing this it makes life very easy. :) Cheers Tim..." - oraclebase

"They should just palm off their whole operation to Google. Google University would set an essay, automatically search Wikipedia, create an essay for you, mark it, gmail the lecturer a link to Google Analytics, which would have a plugin for essay results. People could automatically complete their entire degree in about 10 minutes with no need for human intervention. I call it progress! Cheers Tim... PS. I think a lot of companies will start farming off their infrastructure to big companies like Google and Amazon. The resources they free up from mundane administrative tasks can be used to do something creative. I know a lot of people will see this as a threat to their livelihood, but it wasn't long ago we were all working the fields guiding 1 horse ploughs. Cheers Tim..." - oraclebase

"The incorporation of email into a lifestream would be good except for spam. As new communication methods become popular, spam hits them too. I've not been a twitter user for long, but I'm already starting to see an increate in twitter spam. Currently, I get people asking questions on my forum, email, twitter, Oracle Wiki, Oracle Mix, LinkedIn etc. If would be nice if all these things were consolidated into a single uber-stream. :) As it is, they are not, so I can either keep checking several services, or rely on email notification to tell me what to look at. For me, email is a useful notification service, more than a collaboration tool. Cheers Tim..." - oraclebase

"The incorporation of email into a lifestream would be good except for spam. As new communication methods become popular, spam hits them too. I've not been a twitter user for long, but I'm already starting to see an increate in twitter spam. Currently, I get people asking questions on my forum, email, twitter, Oracle Wiki, Oracle Mix, LinkedIn etc. If would be nice if all these things were consolidated into a single uber-stream. :) As it is, they are not, so I can either keep checking several services, or rely on email notification to tell me what to look at. For me, email is a useful notification service, more than a collaboration tool. Cheers Tim..." - oraclebase

"The classic one is when you buy a new car. As soon as you buy it, everyone else seems to drive the same car. I think a lot of this is down to how observant you are. Chances are that song is played in the mall every week, but you only noticed it because you heard it on My Name Is Earl, which brought it to your attention. In the same way, when you buy a car, you start to notice similar cars for the first time. They were always there, but you ignored them. That's my totally unscientific opinion. :) Cheers Tim..." - oraclebase

"The classic one is when you buy a new car. As soon as you buy it, everyone else seems to drive the same car. I think a lot of this is down to how observant you are. Chances are that song is played in the mall every week, but you only noticed it because you heard it on My Name Is Earl, which brought it to your attention. In the same way, when you buy a car, you start to notice similar cars for the first time. They were always there, but you ignored them. That's my totally unscientific opinion. :) Cheers Tim..." - oraclebase

It says "one at a time" for me. :) - oraclebase from twhirl