It’s not an alert nor error log file if it is encoded in XML format!!!!! Oracle’s 11G listener drops xml rather than plain text log files, yet their engineers will ask you to go find the plain text logs which are now hidden in a new trace directory…. eye roll.
Tagged oracle, text is still king, xmlOh who cares, it’s pretty darned funny.
Tagged commercials, televisionThere is a second special election for all of Fairfax County to elect a new Chairman of the Board of Supervisors. This one is scheduled for February 3rd, and turnout should be a little better. According to the Fairfax county board of elections, the ballot will look like: Sharon Bulova Patrick Herrity Carey Campbell Christopher […]
Tagged fairfax county election, Politics, votingSo it appears that the DishPVR 508 can play Dolby Digital (AC-3) just fine when the channel and programming have it (nearly all HBO programming, several networks); but if you capture a show with Dolby Digital encoding, the encoding is lost as the PVR function only captures stereo…. unless I am doing something wrong. Update: […]
So I had a lot of fun over the past several days researching possible upgrades to our old surround sound receiver. It has been an educational week or so, and in the process I completely gutted our two entertainment center stacks of gear; vacuumed out the cubby holes where everything was, wiping it all down, […]
Tagged audio, HDTV, Music, receiver, videoThis is for all those audio/video geeks out there; I am perplexed by connectivity options for our audio and video gear, and have been overwhelmed by options. I think we may need a new receiver…. We mostly watch a DISH Network Dish DVR 508 that has S-Video, Composite video, RCA Stereo, and TOSLINK (optical for […]
Tagged audio, home theatre, videoWe had a fantastic Winter Gather with La Belle Compagnie warming and filling the house. We’ve used all the bedrooms before, but I can’t recall when we had need for more like we did this time. Planning was done for the Spring public shows (Military Through the Ages, Marching Through Time, and International Congress on […]
Tagged la belle, petsSo La Belle is half-way through it’s annual Winter Gathering at my house and we made an excellent discovery. La Grange Meritage, 2005, is fantastic. We are a large group this year (18 adults and several children) and the two bottles we had on hand were not enough. Yum! It is a bloody good thing […]
Battlestar Galactica’s new season starts this Friday, January 16th. Fringe’s new season starts next Tuesday, January 20th. Heroes resumes it’s current season on February 2nd. Dollhouse makes it’s debut on February 13th.
Tagged televisionI love the writing for this listing: craigslist.org/nva/fuo/991160393.html Damn – some fool had the ad removed, here is the text for the fun of it: What a shame – I will grab the text from the buffer on my browser – it’s just a funny ad for a loveseat… Congratulations on clicking the best link […]
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