Oracle OpenWorld 2015 Networking Opportunity Events #OOW15

Where I can keep track of the special events (note: these are not “parties” as so many people are misled to believe – you should expect to be contacted by sales and account professionals at each event) at OOW.  To attend one of these events:

1. You’re registered as an OpenWorld Attendee.
2. You’re either a prospect, customer, or goodwill contact for the host. That means you actually contact the host and ask to attend before OOW.
3. You visit the host’s booth at OpenWorld in order to pick up whatever is required for entry and get to know what the host actually does.
4. Do not just show up at the event and attempt to “crash” it – just spend your time at a regular OOW reception the same evening and you’ll still get plenty of party time.

• OTN Kickoff Event, Sun 1-5p, Moscone South Upper Lobby
• OOW Cloud Welcome Event, Sun 7-9p, Yerba Buena Gardens
• YesSQL Celebration, Mon 4-5:30p, Park Central Hotel, Metropolitan III
• InterRel CA, Mon 6:30-10:30p, Mission Bowling Club
• DSI Eng/Constr CA, Mon 6-9p, Hotel Vitale
• Oracle/Redstone WebCenter & BPM CA, Mon 6:30-8:30p, Mezzanine
• Oracle Commerce CA, Mon 6:30-8:30p, Waterbar Restaurant
• Oracle OBIEE/EPM CA, Mon 6:30-8:30p, 25 Lusk
• Oracle Consulting CA, Mon 7-9p, LuLu Restaurant
• Red Hat CA, Tue 6-9p, Aquarium of the Bay
• Excel4Apps CA, Tue 6-8p, FANG Restaurant
• Celantra Systems CA, Tue 6-8p, Steinway Piano Gallery
• Lexmark CA, Tue 6-9p, The Keystone
• OAUG Anniversary Party, Tue 6:30-9:30p, IBM’s Bluemix Garage (inside Galvanize SOMA)
• CSS + DSI CA, Tue 7:30-11:30p, Slim’s Presents (Conference Room Pilots)
• Hitachi Client & Partner Reception, Tuesday 7:30-9:30p, Temple Club (aka Ki)
• Velocity CA, Wed 4:30-6:30p, Thirsty Bear Brewing (incl. TI shuttle)
• Oracle OTN Bloggers Meetup, Wed 5:30-7p, Jillians
• OOW Appreciation Event, Wed 6:30-12:00a, Treasure Island (Elton John & Beck)

Visit all those vendors and make them feel welcomed this year!

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Also here’s a guide to noshing at the nearby Ferry Building (end of Market St, at the waterfront):

http://www.7×7.com/eat-drink/ultimate-foodie-tour-ferry-building

Oracle OpenWorld Fun Community Events There are 3 community events at OOW this year, A guided bike tour hosted by Oracle’s PL/SQL and cycling guru, Bryn Llewelyn on Saturday, October 24th at 10 a.m. A run across the Golden Gate Bridge hosted by the SQL Dev team on Sunday, October 25th at 8:30 a.m. 4th annual swim in the San Francisco Bay hosted by Oracle ACE Director Chet Justice on Monday, October 26th at 7:30 a.m.

The 2014 List of OOW Events

The 2013 List of OOW Events

The 2012 List of OOW Events

And OakTable World is back once again, at the Creativity Museum (this year, no pre-registration required).

Agenda:

http://www.oaktable.net/oaktable%20world%202015

Agenda for Oaktable World 2015, located at Creativity Museum, is

time	Monday Oct 26	Tuesday Oct 27
8	8:30 – Welcome with Mogens	Toon Koppelaars – hash joins and Bloom filters
9	Mark W. Farnham – Minimizing the concurrency footprint of transactions with Logical Units of Work stored in PL/SQL	Kyle Hailey – Virtual Data
10	Kerry Osborne – SQL Translation Framework	Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman, AWR Warehouse Trending and Analysis with OBIEE
11	Greg Rahn – Taming JSON with SQL: From Raw to Results	Marco Gralike – Improving XML performance with the 12c In-Memory Column Store
12	ted talks	ted talks
1	Dan Norris – Exadata Database Machine Security	Cary Millsap – Performance
2	John Beresniwicz – AWR Ambiguity: What do do when the numbers don’t add up?	Gwen Shapira – Real-time data integration
3	Kevin Closson – Modern Platform Topics for Modern DBAs	Alex Gorbachev – Big Data
4	Tanel Poder – Connecting Oracle with Hadoop	Chris Antognini – Adaptive Dynamic Sampling

Ted Talks between noon and 1pm

Monday	Tuesday
Eric Grancher – graphing outliers	Jonah H. Harris – Manipulating the Oracle Call Interface
Greg Rahn- What Cloud Can Offer For A DBMS	Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman – TBD
Jonathan Lewis – indexes, column groups and 12c	Jonathan Lewis Virtual columns

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Mommy, What’s a 404? Level3 Takes over Your DNS Lookup

An ancient hieroglyph of a Page Not Found error – 404

One day, there will no longer be any unknown sites, addresses, or anything of the kind thanks to modern technological advances in how we look things up.  That little Address bar became the gateway to all sorts of inventive ideas of how to make our lives easier, simpler, more useful. Instead of remembering arcane website addresses, or before that, actual IP addresses, we’d have browser plugin helpers for our search engines to convert any text in that address bar to searchable terms for our favorite Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask, DuckDuckGo, whatever engine to look it up for us.

BuyThisDomainAndMakeMeRich.com

Enterprising (sort of) domain campers tried to out-think our mistakes and pre-register every variant of a misspelled or syntactically-incorrect website address out there and re-direct them to their own domain-for-sale pages to generate income.

Mozilla thought ahead and offered it’s version of simpler language “friendly” 404 pages to describe in regular words what happened.

There is nothing to see here. Move along.

Easier, and easier. Less to remember every day. Your mind is becoming a blank page, open to whatever creative thought you can imagine, unhampered by useless memorized facts and figures.   Just type in whatever words you can remember describing what it is you were looking for, and presto, your browser (or Siri, or Cordera, or whatever) provides you with a nice list of places you meant to actually visit.

Thanks to some more inventive programmers, and some back-channel deals with the global service providers that actually lookup and translate the addresses to physical computers out there in the Cloud, you won’t have to be bothered with those pesky 404- errors ever again (unless you actually try typing in an invalid public IP address, in which case your browser search engine will take over and try to look that up.)

Welcome to searchguide.level3.com – no more 404’s ever. Even if you wanted them.

Presenting searchguide.level3.com (operated by Yahoo! no less) which has partnered with several of the global domain name service (DNS) providers to re-direct those disappointing address-not-available lookups to its own pages providing you with nice (we knew you were actually trying to lookup using a search engine, so here’s our nice results list, including sponsored advertising ala AdChoice.)

Now, even your worst mistakes in typing can generate income for someone else.  Who’d have thought? Yea, Skynet/Genisys!

While it’s probably a matter of time before 90% of the well-known DNS service companies monetize their DNS services, leaving it up to you to either re-configure manual resolv.conf files pointing to non- monetized lookups, or at least switching to Google’s Public DNS (which tracks you everywhere you click anyway – 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) or any of the ones that still remain https://vpsboard.com/topic/2542-level3-public-dns-servers-search-engine-redirect/

Eventually, we’ll probably see the AltInternet end up creating its own subterranean DNS similar to what Tor still does.

2015-September Shinnyo Podcast Pain and

2015-September Shinnyo Podcast Pain and Suffering – 2015-September Shinnyo Podcast Pain and Suffering We Really Hate Pain Leading the Horse to Water that It Won’t or Can’t Drink Taking off the Bandage Rain Flows Downstream Subscribe to this Podcast (RSS) or iTunes or via Flipboard When we first enter this world, we learn the harsh feeling that pain delivers. As parents, we … Continue reading 2015-September Shinnyo Podcast Pain and Suffering → http://ow.ly/33zMG9

2015-September Shinnyo Podcast Pain and Suffering

2015-September Shinnyo Podcast Pain and Suffering

• We Really Hate Pain
• Leading the Horse to Water that It Won’t or Can’t Drink
• Taking off the Bandage
• Rain Flows Downstream

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You Cannot Find Peace By Avoiding Life — Virginia Woolf

When we first enter this world, we learn the harsh feeling that pain delivers. As parents, we spend lifetimes trying to keep our children from experiencing as much as we felt when we were growing up. As aged people, we spend on pharmaceuticals and every contraption imaginable to avoid having to suffer from it.  And our own imaginations create our hopes of next world existence in places free from pain – heaven, nirvana, the after-life.

We even will often leave ourselves in relationships that are painful simply because we want to avoid the additional pain of having to end it – because in some sense, it may feel worse (mostly from sense of guilt) to end the relationship, rather than endure and continue. This particular point is often seen as one of those “double-edged swords” with what seems to be negative outcome no matter which path you choose. Remember that guilt becomes a trigger for our own negative behavior, as well, as it is triggered from our emotional wish to try and relieve the pain and suffering of others. But also remember the premise that others can only change themselves, just as we can only change ourselves.

Through that same idea, we cannot end the suffering of someone else, even if we are causing it, because we can only remove ourself as a source of pain. Even if you go away, their pain they feel may continue. You cannot achieve a goal of making another person’s world free of suffering. They have to be able to create and sustain that for themselves.

We are even taught that suffering trains us to be tougher, or more resilient. (e.g. “Man up!” or “Tough it out!”) While love may work through the premise, that “All love flows through your own love for you,” pain follows a similar path. When you put yourself through a painful life, it actually tends to transmit the same to others. Ever had an emotional reaction to seeing an senior war veteran, realizing what that person had gone through and still emerged alive? Was that feeling joy and elation? Or was it empathy for their pain?

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This is why Shinnyo talks about your attitude when performing voluntary service is really important. If you view contributing your time and efforts as a burden, or a task you’d rather avoid, others will not see the positive nature of our efforts – they feel the pain instead. In doing our work, any work, if we do not retain the joy and happiness related to why we are doing it, we actually can produce a counter-productive result. Instead of more people being encouraged to “follow our lead” and help-out, we end up giving people the idea “Wow, I’m really thankful I don’t have to do what they’re doing.”

Physicians of all sorts learn the concept behind expediency in trauma treatment leading to faster recovery (and ideally, less pain sustained.) The pain of pulling a bad tooth endures less than suffering from the infection. But I think the verdict is still undecided on removing bandages from a healing wound. Some say, doing it quick has a momentary shock of pain, but it’s over quickly. Others find removing it slowly and deliberately causes less incremental pain, though it takes longer to subside. Either way, leaving it in-place doesn’t end the suffering, it merely avoids it, but perpetuates the pain’s eventual emergence.

The difficult thing is that emotional pain can extend long beyond the physical cause. That’s because emotions are triggered from inside your mind, and not a splinter you can just remove. I think it’s this kind of pain that often binds us to inaction – why we stay in bad relationships, or even perpetuate ones that we know aren’t good for either person, but it seems preferable to having to experience the actual pain of breakup and dissolution. Or maybe we even try to convince ourselves that somehow the pain will end if we just suffer through it, even though we’re causing it (which is why emotional pain isn’t a bandage you can simply remove.)  From a physiology standpoint, emotional pain is biochemical – which means until you change the chemistry that creates the trigger, the psychological experience will endure.

Even a person with advanced dementia and Alzheimer’s can still feel emotional pain. And all the sedatives and tranquilizers you can take, won’t change the biochemistry that is causing the sensation; they just mask your momentary awareness of it. Only actual change in mind (setting forth the right thoughts), body (cessation of the bad behavior), and soul (this is the motivational part of why you are listening, or reading this – it is your Self you are changing) can heal an emotional wound.

When you feel life’s burdens seem to be never-ending, part of the feeling may also be the result of what we consider karma or the product of previous generations. That is not to say, the blame is from your ancestors – each generation is given the opportunity to address that burden and each generation can address it, or pass it on to the next.  You have the capacity to transform burdens into life’s challenges and your opportunity to overcome them, or be overwhelmed by them.

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There’s an old illustration of a thief who has a strong attachment to money. Succeeding generations of their spiritual downstream also maintain a similar attachment, whether in the opposite direction (they loath and refuse to accumulate it), or reinforcing it (by hoarding or collecting it.) The attachment becomes a never-ending hunger that cannot be satiated either way. That is where the concept of embracement of life’s events becomes empowering. Shinnyo (oneness with truth) says life never delivers you a challenge you are not ready to accept. How you deal with it determines so many things downstream from your choices. Whether called the Butterfly Effect, or leave it unnamed, this is the actual power you have to affect the world around you.

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