1. New to the "Top 5" list  permalink

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Jeff Hunter / So What Co-operative

A new entry to my all-time Top 5 list of bad advice I got from Oracle Support:Oracle Support: You should distribute your log groups to multiple disks to avoid contention.Me: But doesn't Oracle write to only one group at a time?Oracle Support: No, we're multi-threaded.Me: So you're telling me that Oracle writes to more than one redo log group at a ...

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New to the You can install Chrome OS on your Dell Mini 10v right now   —  You can now run Chromium OS, the open source developmental version of Google Chrome OS, on your Dell Mini 10v. Don’t have one? Neither do I, so don’t feel too bad.

2. Hong Kong Crunch: What’s up in China?  permalink

Hong Kong Crunch: What’s up in China?
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Hey, guys. I, John Biggs, will be in Hong Kong and Guangdog next week (November 30-December 5) to visit some folks and would love to meet up with Web 2.0 and gadget purveyors in mother China. If you would like to chat, drop me a line at john @ crunchgear.com and let me know what’s up. I’m thinking about doing an informal meet-up on ...

3. Portsmouth 1-4 Man Utd  permalink

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Wayne Rooney's hat-trick helps guide Manchester United to victory over bottom-of-the table Portsmouth.

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5. Will Pay-Per-Tweet Work?, Twitter Japan Ready to Test it  permalink

Will Pay-Per-Tweet Work?, Twitter Japan Ready to Test it
Arnold Zafra / The Blog Herald

In terms of getting ahead of the latest gizmos and other electronic devices, I envy our friends living in Japan. But when it comes to getting premium Twitter updates from, say famous celebrities and other personalities, I would rather not be in Japan. I mean if that is the only way I could follow those [...]

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Will Pay-Per-Tweet Work?, Twitter Japan Ready to Test it Twitter Japan to introduce payment model   —  TOKYO - Twitter Japan has further moved to differentiate itself from its global counterpart through the introduction of a tiered payment model that will charge audiences to view tweets from premium Twitter accounts.

6. Psystar’s folly: 12 million clones per year by 2011  permalink

Psystar’s folly: 12 million clones per year by 2011
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We all know that Psystar is busy bleeding out in federal court, but that doesn’t mean the fun stops. We’ll be dissecting their glorious failure for quite some time. The most recent development: it seems their plan for taking a bite out of Apple’s sales was comically ambitious. How many clones do you think they sold in 2009? ...