I was going to do some experiments with Windows the other day. I do not use it much so I'm fine with complete reinstall. But after reinstalling it from CD, installing all updates, and tuning some settings I realized that it may be a good idea to look for another way of having a "clean" system set up and running. The obvious solution: use a "dd" command from your favorite *nix to copy raw partition on an external disk and then copy it back when you need it. The only problem: my Windows partition is 150GB and it almost empty (just installed and updated system), so the idea of wasting 150GB of my drive did not excite me. Of course I may try to compress that image but the blocks from unused space will most likely contain some random data (that partition was approx. 30GB before I started my experiments) and the compression may not be very efficient at this point. So the next step is to try to find a utility that will clean up partition by writing some simple pattern into all unused blocks. After a little googling I found an excellent solution: Eraser (http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/). ... Read full article
Summer Glau - Alphas
Summer Glau - Alphas : Summer Glau will be a guest
We heard a rumor couple of weeks ago that Summer Glau will be guest starring on the new Syfy show Alphas.
It has been discussed by our members in these forum threads:
Summer Glau Guest Star on Alphas
Summer Glau will guest star on Alphas, along with Garret Dillahunt and Brent Spiner, as confirmed from the Alphas panel
at the San Diego Comic Con that was Friday July, 22. Executive producer Ira Steven Behr didn't go into details about the characters they'd be playing, but
he did say that he'd just seen Glau's episode and that she's "terrific"
in it.
Source ign
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ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SNAPSHOT", line 2256
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SNAPSHOT", line 2462
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SNAPSHOT", line 2431
ORA-06512: at line 1
then it's probably because your schema was created by exporting and importing data from schema with another name. If you examine the content of a schema dump file like this:
$ strings myschema.dmp|less
then you may see undocumented arguments in commands that create materialized views:
The string "DB.GLOBAL.NAME" is obviously a global database name where you exported schema from. It is followed by a few digits and a name of the exported schema. There is also a lot of other stuff I have no idea about, but that probably does not matter.
The point is that if you import a dump file into schema with different name the "MYSCHEMA" argument will not be changed. So when you later try to refresh that materialized view Oracle will search for tables in schema "MYSCHEMA" instead of the current schema. And this is how we can get "ORA-00942: table or view does not exist" error.
So to fix that we should find where that "MYSCHEMA" is stored in the database and change it to the name of the schema the data was imported into. It turns out that it is stored in two tables: "SYS.SNAP$" and "SYS.SNAP_REFTIME$". Basically you need to connect to your database as SYSDBA and execute the following queries:
update SYS.SNAP_REFTIME$ set MOWNER=SOWNER where MOWNER<>SOWNER;
commit;
Of course you should examine contents of those tables before executing these queries in case there is a legitimate reason for some materialized views to have differences in those values.
Disclaimer: I have no responsibility for this advice. If you crashed a production database executing code you found on a fan site you have no one to blame but yourself.
Chuck is on SciFiNow Covers.
SciFiNow is a science fiction, horror, cult TV and fantasy UK magazine. Inside the issue #56 of the magazine, on stands on July 2011, Chuck gets a four-page article for its incredible and so far successfull struggle to survive in a non-scifi-friendly tv universe. The covers says : "How tv's hottest geeks beat the network and the secrets to season five".
I scanned the magazine primarily for Summer Glau's photos as Greta; but then i figured out it would be nice to make the scans of the complete article, being a fan of Chuck myself.
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Chuck on cover of SciFiNow UK.
Dark Horse VS: River Tam vs Buffy Summers!
Dark Horse : River Tam (Serenity) or Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer);we're giving you the chance to decide once and for all who would win in a fight;
Credit : Darkhorse
Show your support to Summer Glau and vote for River Tam (Firefly) at :
http://www.darkhorse.com/Blog....summers
For the updated results and more about the fight, go to the Summer Glau Wiki Forum at :
Forum thread : River vs Buffy
NBC's official website has annouced the Winner of "The Cape's Submit Your Villain contest" along with the three Runner Ups
The Cape's Submit Your Villain contest - The Winning Fan Villain is ...Fire Bug
The Winner : Fire Bug by Volyman
Tom Wheeler on the Winning Fan Villain
See a note from The Cape's creator Tom Wheeler on the winning fan villain.
The two runner ups are :
You can find the 50 faves villains submitted by fans on NBC
Source : Tom Wheeler on the Winning Fan Villain at NBC
Summer Glau as the bodyguard
IMDb daily poll for Monday, February 27, 2011 : We just heard the news that Warner Bros is planning to remake The Bodyguard. Who do you think they should cast in the lead roles?
Summer Glau as the bodyguard
Summer Glau was nominated to be the bodyguard for...Justin Bieber.
Link to voting : Justin Bieber and Summer Glau -- with Summer as the bodyguard at IMDb - Daily Poll
And the results for "Summer Glau as the bodyguard" are :
Unbeliebebable!