Software

This seems really silly, but I end up forgetting how to do this, and then I have to go poking around for a good while before I find it again.

I downloaded the Windows 7 beta pretty shortly after it was available. I quickly took advantage of some free disk space on my drive, shrunk my partition, and set up dual boot with Windows Vista.

Excuse me while I rant a little.

I still consider myself pretty new to Oracle. For about 3 years now, I've been applying the Critical Patch Updates (CPU) to about 9 pairs of Windows Servers. Each pair has one server which runs the database and one server that runs the application server. After all of this time, it still just amazes me how hard it is to patch an Oracle System.

If you complain about Microsoft Patches, then you really should move over to Oracle's side of the street. Here's just a few reasons why:

Steam is selling lots of great games at some pretty sweet discounts. So if Santa didn’t bring you what you wanted, then check out this sale.

One thing I really like about Steam is that you don’t need a CD for the games that you buy, and you can install from the internet.

Well, it looks like I was right about the demo, mine says “pre-load complete” now, and when I double click on it, I receive the message that “a locked copy for Left 4 Dead has already been installed on your computer. Purchase it now and start playing immediately”. Oh well.