Gmail Voice Is about Future Search

This is a fascinating piece, albeit speculative, about Google’s recent foray into VoIP with GMail Voice. Gmail Voice Is About Future Search, Not Free Calls It seems very likely to be true, considering Google’s similar use of reCAPTCHA for digitizing print. If true, do you care? Should Google’s T&C for GMail Voice make their intentions [...]

Winning at GMail

By way of John Gruber, Mike Monteiro has finished the GMail game by successfully using up its storage, which amounts to 8.19 GB. An irony pointed out by a commenter, GMail does boast “Who needs to delete when you have so much storage?!” in its Trash folder. When GMail launched, its storage limits were fantastically [...]

Managing the Android Market

Interesting stuff. Yes, the Android Market needs some cleanup, but then again, isn’t much of this more a reflection of the interwebs, where thar be dragons. Compare this to the sanitized App Store, complete with its quirky approval process and Big Brother-approved content. Jon Lech Johansen\’s blog The points about billing and for-pay app development [...]

Log Buffer: #104: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

Today, 4th July, is Independence Day. I know this because Tech Republic has sent me an e-mail of special Independence Day offers. Only not that special, as the list seems to be the same list of offers they mailed for Father’s Day. At least that made sense: after all, nothing says “You’re the best dad [...]

Log Buffer: #104: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

Today, 4th July, is Independence Day. I know this because Tech Republic has sent me an e-mail of special Independence Day offers. Only not that special, as the list seems to be the same list of offers they mailed for Father’s Day. At least that made sense: after all, nothing says “You’re the best dad [...]

10G DB Console Administration Toolset

Readers of this blog know how important I think 10G Grid Control is to the future of Oracle database administration. DBAs must learn to leverage the intelligence built into the Grid Control product set to reduce the amount of time they spend administering, monitoring and troubleshooting Oracle databases. That being said, there are times when [...]

10G Enterprise Manager Standalone Java Console

Before we return to our series of blogs on 10G EM features and functionality, I think it is important for us to discuss the 10G Enterprise Manager Standalone Java Console. Previous blogs have contained information on troubleshooting 10G EM management server to agent communications. But what happens if the entire environment goes down and you [...]