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Replacing your Windows/Mac apps on Linux

Switching operating systems can be tough. When you get accustomed to certain applications sometimes it can be hard to learn how to use other ones. I recently installed Ubuntu Eee (soon to be Easy Peasy) on my Eee PC 901 and it took quite a while to find apps that cam do everything I can do within Mac OS X and Windows. Here’s a quick guide so you can make your Linux machine feel like home.
HP announces Mac-compatible MediaSmart
Sometimes connecting Macs and PCs on the same media network can be a pain. There are plenty of media servers that work well with one but not the other, or require third-party software to work well with one (usually on the Mac side). HP is making connecting the two platforms a bit easier with the newest version of its MediaSmart media server that’s fully compatible with both.

The MediaSmart Server ex485 and ex487 models will both have features that set the MediaSmart above other such servers. As any media server, it can hold and stream music and photos with any computer, using HP photo viewer for photos, and streaming music directly to iTunes for any computers connected to the same network.



Automated Database Maintenance Task
Management in Oracle Database 11g Release 1

This is a brief overview of the management of automated database maintenance tasks in Oracle database 11g. I've tried to keep this article quite light for two of reasons:

1. I'm sure a lot of people will never touch these settings. Having said that, if most of your processing is done at night, having the maintenance windows opening at night is not a good idea and you should consider altering them.
2. The basic management tasks are quite self contained, but beyond that the discussion moves on to the scheduler and the resource manager, which is a bit beyond the scope of the article. I've put links to articles on those subjects at the bottom of this article.

Oracle 11g includes three automated database maintenance tasks:

* Automatic Optimizer Statistics Collection - Gathers stale or missing statistics for all schema objects (more info). The task name is 'auto optimizer stats collection'.
* Automatic Segment Advisor - Identifies segments that could be reorganized to save space (more info). The task name is 'auto space advisor'.
* Automatic SQL Tuning Advisor - Identifies and attempts to tune high load SQL (more info). The task name is 'sql tuning advisor'.
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