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Today I stumbled over an ad or a link for SEO (search engine optimization) and website grading. I put in the URL for this blog (http://blog.4loeser.net) and was surprised to see the following as part of the report: Basically, what the tool found out is that what I have been writing about in my blog requires only Primary or Elementary School education to understand my blog. Could that mean I

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When you enjoying a regular life, over time you usually accumulate a lot of stuff. Some (most?) of that stuff is rarely used, but you have to dust off or clean it anyway, you somehow pay for keeping it through shelves or cabinets you need, through rent or paying off credits. That's one of the reasons why Spring cleaning has been invented (and my wife repeatedly asks me to clean up my home office)

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When you are a software developer, you don't necessarily have insight into the pricing and sales process. From coding days I know how to hook up functionality to a license server and how to make sure features are only used when money was paid (that's the part regarding job security). So recently I tried to learn more about how DB2 software (distributed software in general) is priced or what forms

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If you are traveling too often or, of course because of the economy, have to cut down your budget for roses and chocolate, here is something to try. It doesn't say whether you can change the message using a USB plug or whether it is useful to deal with customers that need that little extra attention. Anyway, try it and let me know...

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Youtube has a new IBM commercial, officially by "Servers For Truth", dealing with the still ongoing discussion about Oracle's TPC benchmark-related claims and the facts behind them. If you ever experienced election campaigns in the US, this commercial comes close to some of those election-related spots.

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Maybe this is how all started. Over the years in the US I had to deal with lots of the then more advanced systems where it was a battle of human vs. machine. Having a foreign accent didn't help and often the machines won. And so I learned that there is almost always a "*0" to get into the "cheat mode"...

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IBM this week published a 60 page strong Redpaper titled "System x Virtualization Strategies". After giving an overview of IBM's System x platform, it discusses various options for virtualization on System x, including solutions from VMware, Red Hat, Citrix, and Microsoft. If you are new to virtualization or want to get an up-to-date overview, this is worth a read.

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I had written about the Data Privacy Day on January 28th. One of the big corporate sponsors is (any guesses?): Google. Quoting from Wikipedia: Data Privacy Day's educational initiative has focused on raising awareness among teens and young adults about the importance of protecting the privacy of their personal information online, particularly in the context of social networking.It turns out

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The European Parliament voted down a temporary agreement that allowed US agencies to access information on bank transfers of EU citizens. Strong privacy concerns were the driving motivation behind the parliaments decision to stop the data access. The decision is interesting for EU citizens in several aspects: One is the strong emphasize on data privacy and data protection, the second one is that

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Over the past few days I have been playing with db2diag. It is the log analysis tool and it allows you to search, filter, and format the DB2 diagnostic logs. One of the simple examples is that I wanted to see when errors or warnings were produced on my test system. I could do that by calling: db2diag -l Error,Warning -fmt "%ts %level %db" This would only print the timestamp, the "error" level,

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Earlier today I wrote about a 24 hour ECG. That got me thinking. Did you know that IBM Information Management Services actually offer health checks? You can have a "health" specialist (in this case not a physician!) look over your database installation. Like you would expect, if there are findings, recommendations are given and maybe a prescription is handed over. Similar to the 24 hour ECG,

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Someone in my family currently is having a 24 hour electrocardiography (ECG). Basically, the heart region is fully wired and connected to a "wearable" mini-computer/database and data is collected over a 24 hour period. That part of the 24 h ECG is fully automated. The person in question gets wired, the computer set up, and everything is ready to go. The more complicated part is keeping an

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On YouTube you find the condensed iPad Keynote. It boils down to...?!

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I was reading Conor's take on the great "Larry E. Show" which made me watch it. As eWeek stated, Larry E. is protected by the First Amendment, i.e., he is more or less free to say what he wants, even if it is far from the truth. But it is interesting to see how the world looks according to Larry. Does he believe what he is saying? Or is it fake? That reminded me of a very famous scene in a movie.

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Maybe, you didn't know that today is Data Privacy Day. I didn't know before, but it is an important day. With more and more data created, especially personal and behavioral data, it's important to think about how and where YOUR data is handled and by whom. When I sign up for a service or order something online, I usually take at least a quick look at the fineprint in the terms & conditions. The

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End of last year our dishwasher suddenly "behaved". An error message was on its display and the water pump was running continuously. Pressing the OFF button didn't change anything. After consulting the user manual, we followed the suggested 2-step approach: 0.) (Don't panic) 1.) Shut off the fuse switch if you are sure there is no water damage. 2.) Call the service. We were lucky to have the

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I was just reading Scott Hayes' performance blog article "Are you REALLY ready for production?" and his "Unwise Practice #1". The related recommendation matches exactly what a customer told me the other day. The customer happily mentioned that over the years they moved to give the oldest hardware to their application developers, especially for Java-based applications. The result was that they

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One of the new or enhanced features in the DB2 9.7 FP1 is the option to store the diagnostic logs in separate files for a physical host, a database partition, or both (DPF environments). The idea is that by separating the diagnostic logs the possible contention is reduced and hence the diagnostic logging performance increases. In addition, the storage administration might become simpler. To do

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Let me start by pointing out that I don't have an iPhone and haven't tested the following application named iPhone pilot. It should also be obvious to not use it in public for your own security. Anyway, here it is: Apparently it also has a multi-player mode, making it the right toy for boring all-hands meetings, group outings, or just lunch breaks...

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It seems like I have a follow-up to my "About my pants and your systems". This weekend I was kind of dosing off in a train of thoughts when I noticed my wrist watch. It is very lightweight and I usually don't notice it while wearing this watch. The design is very simple, just 3 hands (hour, minute, second) and a date indicator. I also have a more chunky sports watch with an atomic clock, solar

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Happy New Year everyone, I hope you had a good start into the new year. After I was first stuffed a couple of times by my mother-in-law, then by my mother, my wife and I had an afternoon for ourselves. We decided to go shopping for clothes. Well, as you might guess by this time, it turned out to be no such a great idea in some (few?) aspects. I tried on some pants and then realized that just

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With the last post this year, I wish you Happy Holidays, time for family and some rest. All the best for 2010, may all your transactions commit. Henrik

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Imagine that in the XML world there is already 2010, but in your relational world it's still 2009.  This or the reverse could happen if you directly use fn:current-date() in XQuery and the CURRENT DATE special register in SQL. The reason is that XQuery by definition operates in and returns UTC-based time and date values, e.g., whereas the SQL context in DB2 refers to the local timezone. To work

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A new Redbook has just been published that discusses XML Processing on z/OS. The book starts out with XML Essentials, so that even beginners to the XML world can make use of this book. After the introduction the different options of XML processing, ranging from COBOL, PL/I over CICS, IMS, and DB2 pureXML to Rational Developer and Java-based solutions are discussed in an overview section. The rest

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Forbes has an interesting article "When Google Runs Your Life". Basically, Google is on its way to impact (control? profile?) most of your private and corporate life. It has its reach into search, mapping and navigation, online and offline applications, into communication (both landlines and mobile). Through its browser and operating systems as well as DNS services it is also at the door to the

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