Saturday, February 9, 2008

Bug fix for Oracle: ORA-12519,TNS:no appropriate service handler found.

I often come across such an exception when a long or fast transactions are going on n in Oracle.
Error is:
ORA-12519,TNS:no appropriate service handler found.

I dont know if I can call it as a bug.
The solution for this exception, I found is-
execute following sql statement in sql command window and you will probably out of this bug, but I am not sure if it would be.

Statement:
ALTER SYSTEM SET PROCESSES=150 SCOPE=SPFILE;

Any comments or updates in this post will really be appreciated.

Sunday, February 3, 2008

Microsoft pursues Yahoo!

RecentlyMicrosoft offered Yahoo! the bid of about USD 44.1 billion.
If the deal comes to fruition, the takeover would be one of the largest corporate takeovers in American corporate history, and likely the largest ever in the Tech sector.
Currently, Google is widely seen to be the technology and market leader in online advertising. According to estimates by Market space Advisory, a U.S. strategy consulting firm, 42 percent of online advertising business is dominated by Google while Microsoft, Yahoo, and Time Warner's AOL combined have about the same percentage of the market.
From a market point of view, the merger would help Microsoft and Yahoo compete with Google, and online advertisers obviously would like to see more competition in the market. However, there are still several hurdles to clear for the two to reshape the Internet world.
Firstly, both Yahoo and Microsoft are lacking an online advertising platform to take on Google's AdWords, which enables all advertisers, regardless of the scale of their business, to purchase highly targeted advertisements across a wide range of participating sites. AdWords also provides advertisers with data on how their advertisements are performing.
So finally it seems that google dont have to be afraid about such deal, but sure it will affect internet world drastically.

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Taare Zameen Par

Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders
that no one else seems to appreciate; colours, fish, dogs and kites
are just not important in the world of adults, who are much more
interested in things like homework, marks and neatness. And Ishaan
just cannot seem to get anything right in class. When he gets into far
more trouble than his parents can handle, he is packed off to a
boarding school to 'be disciplined'. Things are no different at his
new school, and Ishaan has to contend with the added trauma of
separation from his family. One day a new art teacher bursts onto the
scene, Ram Shankar Nikumbh, who infects the students with joy and
optimism. He breaks all the rules of 'how things are done' by asking
them to think, dream and imagine, and all the children respond with
enthusiasm, all except Ishaan. Nikumbh soon realizes that Ishaan is
very unhappy, and he sets out to discover why. With time, patience and
care, he ultimately helps Ishaan find himself.

free IMAP services from yahoo and gmail.

I have recently came across my gmail account is offering me IMAP service if you have the access to your account with IMAP protocol you can get your mails directly to your symbian phone or windows mobile or any email client.

Use following settings for mailbox in symbian phone:

outgoing mail server: smtp.gmail.com
incoming mail server: imap.gmail.com
security ports: 993

use full email address at username field.

Also i have recently came across an article showing that yahoo account also can be accessed via IMAP protocol. I dont know if it is officially available as free service. But it may be available for yahoo plus.

Use following settings :

incoming mail server: imap.next.mail.yahoo.com

outgoing mail server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com

use username and password of your account.