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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I just love this browser comparison that I found on OSXDaily blog. It does a great job of representing the “magic quadrant” of browsers:

Brosers Compared
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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!
Tags: PeopleTools · Process Scheduler · Tracing
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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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 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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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!
Tags: Blackberry · Wordpress
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:
- Open Disk Cleanup by clicking the Start button
. In the search box, type Disk Cleanup, and then, in the list of results, click Disk Cleanup.
- If prompted, select the drive that you want to clean up, and then click OK.
- In the Disk Cleanup for (drive letter) dialog box, click Clean up system files.
If you’re prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
- If prompted, select the drive that you want to clean up, and then click OK.
- Click the More Options tab, under System Restore and Shadow Copies, click Clean up.
- In the Disk Cleanup dialog box, click Delete.
- Click Delete Files, and then click OK.
b) Delete Windows Update Backup Files:
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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.
Tags: PeopleSoft · Security