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OpenWorld Here we Come !

August 27th, 2010 by Iouri Chadour
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I applied for Oracle Open World blogger registration and to my own surprise I received a pass to conference. I have not had a chance to post anything valuable here for awhile – but I promise I will try to make a use of my 5 days at the conference and catch-up on posting new and useful content here. I also hope to get in touch and meet some of the folks that I have been following for some time.

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Internet Browsers Compared

June 7th, 2010 by Iouri Chadour
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I just love this browser comparison that I found on OSXDaily blog. It does a great job of representing the “magic quadrant” of browsers:

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Brosers Compared

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Process Scheduler Tracing and Troubleshooting

January 20th, 2010 by Iouri Chadour
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Straight from Oracle – here is a new guide for troubleshooting and tracing different processes. It also include updates for XML Publisher and Crystal reports.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/25496613/

Enjoy!

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Oracle supports code sharing

January 19th, 2010 by Iouri Chadour
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It seems Oracle starts to promote code sharing through it venture with CollabNet. I have not seen much content related to PeopleSoft other than one-ff document about audit records. Let’s hope this will pick up in the future.

https://www.samplecode.oracle.com/

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PeopleTools 8.50 Upgrade Scripts Now Available

January 19th, 2010 by Iouri Chadour
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This is related to my previous posts regarding the  Oracle support for One-Step Upgrade. I found and article on Oracle blogs that references the actual documentation and Change Assistant Templates for the scripts:

(Link for Tools 8.50 upgrade page:)
https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&id=889204.1&type=NOT

(Link for Tools 8.1x to 8.50 upgrade page:)
https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&id=889174.1&type=NOT

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The Irony of wizdom

January 10th, 2010 by Iouri Chadour
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The following is just an observation:

Clever, smart – all describe our ability to learn faster than average. Wisdom is an ability to utilize what you have learned to implement an idea in real life – to Create. Ironically, those same skills and standards we have learned throughout our life – made us clever, smart and educated – create a frame of reference , a box, that bounds us to think within its dimensions. I’d like to think of creation as of building a dimension, a vector, maybe an ability to build a different shape altogether – ability to believe and follow through to the very end.

Some of us build our dimensions within a “box” created by others’ . And there are others, who can create completely new ones for us to follow and fill them up.

Everything in life is analogous – some people can create faster than others, like flowers that can bloom and bring fruit several times a year, some can do it once in a lifetime – like some types of cactus.

I hope we all find a way to bloom and bring fruit at least once in our lifetime.

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Blackberry client for Wordpress

January 6th, 2010 by Iouri Chadour
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WP Team has done great again – they teamed up with Danais and released their very own free  blackberry client. I have to say that I would much better use theirs than anything else. I did try BBMetaBlog – but for some reason I could not get it to work on my BB.

I just tried it and it is wonderful – you can get categories, tags posts, comments and the interface is sooo neat.

Here is the link to the app which is also available OTA:

http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/07/07/wordpress-for-blackberry-beta/

Enjoy!

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Clean up those Windows Update backup files

October 29th, 2009 by Iouri Chadour
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As I started running out of space on my little HP Mini 1000 netbook, I started to wonder what what the problem: I have not installed anything new but this thing is running low on space. So after a quick research, here is what you can do to quickly gain some space:

a) Delete old system restore points:

  1. Open Disk Cleanup by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button. In the search box, type Disk Cleanup, and then, in the list of results, click Disk Cleanup.
  2. If prompted, select the drive that you want to clean up, and then click OK.
  3. In the Disk Cleanup for (drive letter) dialog box, click Clean up system files. Administrator permission required If you’re prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
  4. If prompted, select the drive that you want to clean up, and then click OK.
  5. Click the More Options tab, under System Restore and Shadow Copies, click Clean up.
  6. In the Disk Cleanup dialog box, click Delete.
  7. Click Delete Files, and then click OK.
b) Delete Windows Update Backup Files:
I have read about this method in the post by Danny Archer. If you just want to get rid of those here is  Windows Update Utility.

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Why do you need to have fun at work

October 22nd, 2009 by Iouri Chadour
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The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
David M. Ogilvy

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PeopleSoft Security Logging

August 19th, 2009 by Iouri Chadour
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This question came up during the recent application security audit – how does PeopleSoft track user sign in attempts and locations.

Aside from the obvious PSOPRDEFN table there is PSACCESSLOG – this table has OPRID, LOGIPADDRESS, LOGINDTTM, LOGOUTDTTM columns that give you information about user sign on activity. LOGIPADDRESS will contain the RemoteAddr property  of  %Request object, which is also useful in case you validate user ip address at the sign on. The only problem this could pose is in case your users are behind a single or multiple gateways that perform NAT. Then the value of this field would contain those NATed ip addresses and not the actual user ip addresses.

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