hello sadness...

平気! Even though my heart has been torn to pieces
happiness sneaks in filling in the cracks you left
I swear I wont even sigh
if sadness comes along, surprising me...
I'll welcome it as a friend,
that's a promise.

back home...

after 3 weeks in ali baba land...felt like much longer...

old buildings tore down, new buildings completed
trees cleared, bare sky, bare land, new shoots
people change, relations drifted, relations strengthened, people change

nothing actually changed...maybe, I am the only one changed.

or maybe, I didnt...when, there is no I.

iPod 3G battery replacement

Apple iPod (3G) third generation 15Gb. My first iPod back in 2003 to work with windows... firewire only. Back then, windows PC dont come with firewire port. Have to get a firewire port PCI card...and iTunes for windows 98. This is the best iPod by far, with no movable control buttons, cept for hold switch. Thinking it couldlast for years...and it did!

2009, battery last less than 20mins and on permanent charging in the office. Time to change the battery. Bought one from dealexteme.com at low low price of USD5.84. Then comes the problem, the iPod is a tough nut to crack. Broke the 2 plastic tool and left it on the desk until in feb, while clearing the desk, decided to try again with penknife and managed to replace the batt ... finally. on the 7th year. A new life.

Big Red 'O'

sun.com now redirects to oracle.com. Along with it, some Sun's products were renamed to align with Oracle naming conventions. Need sometime to get use to it.

Sun Solaris is now Oracle Solaris
Java is still Java
OpenSolaris is still OpenSolaris
Sun xVM VirtualBox is now Oracle VM VirtualBox
Sun Ray is still Sun Ray
Sun Ops Center is now Oracle Ops Center
Sun VM is now Oracle VM
Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is now Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
Solaris is now Oracle Solaris
Sun Studio is now Oracle Solaris Studio
Sun Cluster is now Oracle Solaris Cluster
Sun xVM Ops Center is now Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center
Project Blackbox/Sun Modular Datacenter is now Sun Modular Datacenter

Not sure about the Sun Java ES / Sun ONE products.

Sun + Oracle = Oracle

Oracle finally completed the purchase of Sun Mircosystems. sun.com is redirected to oracle.com. Sun has been a great technology company, lets hope it continues to be, under the new management.



See how Oracle spells UltraSPARC... http://tinyurl.com/yj7zvba

Oracle DB on Solaris Zone

Found a good article. Best Practices for Running Oracle Databases in Solaris Containers

Its a good read for understanding and setting up the right environment for Oracle DB. The script is less than desirable. Luckily I know zones well enough to not reply on the scripts.