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US federal authorities have claimed to have unearthed a major H-1B visa racket with the arrest of at least 11 persons, most of them US visa (more…)

This is one of those tidbits only a true geek will appreciate. For those of us who are completely out of the Unix loop, the operating system measures time by counting seconds from January 1, 1970. Needless to say, quite a few seconds have passed in the past 39 years and today, at 6:31:30 PM EST, that magical number will reach the wonderfully sequential 1,234,567,890 mark.

Cuba launched its own variant of the Linux computer operating system this week in the latest front of the communist island’s battle against what it views as U.S. hegemony.

The Cuban variant, called Nova, was introduced at a Havana computer conference on “technological sovereignty” and is central to the Cuban government’s desire to replace the Microsoft software running most of the island’s computers. (more…)

The Discoverer Metadata Conversion Assistant can convert an EUL into an rpd. It cannot convert Discoverer workbooks/worksheets into BI EE Answers requests. This functionality is planned for a future release.

Take a look at “Section 11.2, “Migration of Oracle BI Discoverer Metadata”” - http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E10415_01/doc/bi.1013/e10416/general_10134.htm#BEHHADDJ

Interesting article, confirming a lot of what we have learned: if SOA is just used as a replacement for older point-to-point integration methods, it flops. Benefits come from re-architecting business processes using services.

http://apsblog.burtongroup.com/

If you’re a BlackBerry user, you’re probably getting tired of hearing about all the things Apple’s iPhone can do. Rumor even has it that a more iPhone-like BlackBerry is in the works. But don’t despond: Your current trusty emailing device has a few tricks up its sleeve that you may not know about.
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I find that many readers are moving away from Windows to Mac due to various reasons and thought it worthwhile to list how to do common tasks in Mac which Windows users are so used to doing in Windows. (more…)