web 2.0, tools, software reviews, tweaks and latest technology
Archive for July, 2006
StumbleUpon.com, Smarter way to discover sites
Jul 31st
Don’t Search… Just Stumble!!! A new promising way to discover
Thanks to StumbleUpon.com for bringing in lot of visitors to my blog site in the recent past; which made me write this post
In recent weeks, I have been watching a steady increase in the number of referrers being sent from the site StumbleUpon. Moreover I got similar referral hits on my other site ExpertsHeaven.com. Initially I was under the assumption that StumbleUpon is some kind of SPAM site and sucking my bandwidth (Even I was thinking to ban the site IP ). Lucky I didn’t do so since I really More >
(No Ratings Yet)
Reducing memory usage in FireFox
Jul 30th
Learn how you can tweak your Firefox application to consume less memory and work little faster.
I’m crazy about this browser right from the day of release. Firefox bought me in a change of browsing style. I really love this tool. But only concern I’ve about Firefox is its memory usage. Hope this would be the concern for other users as well as the Firefox developers. It sucks most of the memory space. I’d say Firefox is memory ravenous compared with IE.
Firefox has lot of memory leaks and that has been fixed the most in the latest release. Anyway that’s not More >
(4 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)How to find free/used temporary table space in Oracle
Jul 29th
If you’re a freak who work around with Oracle as backend, you would face the sitution where the oracle temporary space would be exhausted.
The usage temporary tablespace can’t be found out exactly using DBA_FREE_SPACE. To find out the true value of temporary table space we may need to use V$TEMP_SPACE_HEADER data dictonary.
SELECT tablespace_name, SUM (bytes_used), SUM (bytes_free)
FROM v$temp_space_header
GROUP BY tablespace_name;
If you’re looking out to find out the usage of other table space we need to use the following script.
CLEAR SET HEAD ON SET VERIFY OFF SPOOL file COL tspace form a25 Heading "Tablespace" COL tot_ts_size form More >
(1 votes, average: 1.00 out of 5)
YouOS, a new kind of computing platform
Jul 27th
YouOS is a kind of web-based operating system. Web-based OS is still at the idea level and YouOs is still in its Alpha stage. I came across this site recently. YouOS is an experiment in a new kind of computing platform. YouOS allows you to run a virtual computer through a web browser. YouOS keeps your data saved and when you log back in again the ‘computer’ is the same as you left it. It’s a platform for web application development that’s hosted online with an online IDE and online execution. All the apps in there run in JavaScript with AJAX. More >
(No Ratings Yet)Tips to increase blog traffic
Jul 26th
“Write what your readers would like to read”.
– a mantra all bloggers should follow
Hmm.. it’s very very true. If you like to write something don’t write just for your shake make that readers like to read it too!! But how do you know what a reader likes to read? Besides different people have different tastes. What I have to say is that- whatever content you write, pay attention to your writing style.
Here are some more tips on increasing your blog traffic by improving your style on writing contents:
- Use Attractive Titles
Using attractive titles is one way of getting readers to visit More >
(No Ratings Yet)Finding locked objects in Oracle
Jul 26th
If you’re wondering why particular query or procedure is talking a long such a long time to run; then make sure you check out whether the object you’re accessing is locked or not. There are quite a few dba views available to make our task less complicated. You can use the below query which will return you the list of locked objects.
SELECT c.owner, c.object_name, c.object_type, b.SID, b.serial#, b.status,
b.osuser, b.machine
FROM v$locked_object a, v$session b, dba_objects c
WHERE b.SID = a.session_id AND a.object_id = c.object_id;
You can now decide whether to kill the job/ process or someother roundabout to remove More >
(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
Partition Table Doctor, manage your partition
Jul 24th
Partition Table Doctor is a tool for managing Partition tables. Partition Table Doctor is effective when it comes to Partition recovery and hard disk data recovery. This tool was great help for me when I was struggling with Partition errors. It was a wretched night for me; I was under assumption that entire thing got ruined for a minute. Yes, all the logical hard drivers I’d in my system had gone away after an illegal system shutdown. This was not new to me it has happened in past several times but mostly on the secondary hard disk which I don’t use More >
(2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)
