Author: BlackXanthus
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The Web Archive
Bouncing aroudn on the web archive, I managed to find a load of old websites (and I mean OLD, circa 1997), some with pictures of me with HAIR!. I decided to see if I could find my old pal David Leverton’s page about me, just to see if ti was what I remembered. It appears,…
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Rman handy Commands
http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~baumbach/ORACLE10g/rman.html Being as my day job is still system administration, we’ve recently moved onto Oracle. For this, I need to know a bit about RMAN, the Restore Manage for Oracle. I don’t yet know enough to publish a sensible article about it, but I’m working on that. Currently these are just bits and pieces while…
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And the World turns
You know, it’s very odd how life’s highway decides it wants to take you places you never thought you’d ever want to go. Those of you that know me will have no doubt heard about the random desire I have to join the Church. Yes, I know. Me, in the Church. It appears that no…
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Another Reason to Hate Microsoft.
And I thought today was going to be a good day. There I was, minding my own business, turning up for work (late, again. I really need to do something about that), and all of a sudden, I find out that there’s a “ffwdan”, or for you english out there, a “hassle” (Tech Support Call).…
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Why Can’t I Own A Canadian?
I found this using Stumble. I found it entertaining. Especially as I’ve not stoned anyone to death in a long, long time. SK
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The Natioanls 2007, Systemless GM’s Writeup (pt 1.)
The “Student” National Roleplaying Championship was held this year in Edinburgh, and I have to say, it was a fantastic event. Then again, it always is. A lot of hard work was put in by Lucy and her crew to organise the event, as well as by those that GM’d. Some of us travelled 10…
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A Quick Test
A Quick Test (remember to turn on buffers). Phil
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Hello world!
Hello World (Well, it was a bit obligatory, wasn’t it? Best I remember to get this Database backed up someplace sensible… like my home directory… or even (gasp) turn the backups back on on Odin!). SK