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  1. If you're using VIM as your editor and haven't ever pressed CTRL+V yet, now is the time!
  2. @jpiwowar thanks for the tip! I'll visit US for MOTS and OOW conferences anyway, so I'll try to grab some!
  3. @coskan the iphone world limitations are much worse than in the mac world (and i own a non-simlocked iphone!)
  4. crap, it looks like i can't even download #Expedia iPhone app as it's not available outside US
  5. @echupit yeah,that's also cool, although i've never used this host-based naming method outside classroom...
  6. @coskan i am planning to do a session for fellow oracle lunatics at the underground oracle Closed world ;-)
  7. ...and if you omit the port in the new "EZ" connect string, it defaults to 1521
  8. i rarely use the old TNS connect syntax with sqlplus anymore. I'm used to sqlplus user/pass@server:port/service syntax now!
  9. @eddieawad doh I just found out I can't install Kindle for my new iPhone as my itunes account tied to a singapore credit card
  10. @coskan I agree ;-) ..it's also quite old.. and now I'd call it hacking techniques instead :)
  11. what happens when you put Mogens Norgaard, beer and a table tennis table together? http://j.mp/bsSeW8
  12. First I learnt to trust instrumentation for troubleshooting. Then I learnt to distrust it for advanced troubleshooting.
  13. @amansharma81 i don't know about the pefrormance degradation yet... it's all very fast :) probably i'll have a new laptop by time it slows..
  14. an SSD hard drive for my laptop is my 2nd best investment in tech gadgets. 1st: noise-cancelling headphones. iphone will be 3rd :)
  15. @alexis_gil thanks, didn't know about this! however i still use some heavy apps on XP which may not run on the stripped tinyXP..
  16. @aejes yep, agreed, some of the tasks could be automated... like the vm(ware) tools zeroing out the unused space etc
  17. i just reduced my winXP VM size from 46GB to 11GB by dropping a snapshot, zeroing unused space (sdelete -c) and shrink disk