I happened to come across this nice liitle piece of software when I was looking for a DVD burner ( a freeware to be specific ) that supports burning DVD images of  ‘.nrg’  format ( which is the properietry format of Nero ). But I came to know that only Nero could handle .nrg files [ and i wasn’t looking for Nero! ]  while all other burning softwares used ‘.ISO’ format which is the standard format for DVD or CD images. One of the search results came up with this software called ‘UltraISO’ which was capable of converting  any Disc image format to another one ( it supports  .BIN, .CUE, .NRG, .ISZ  ,.MDF, .MDS, .IMG and other formats too! ). It can also be used as a virtual drive (just like Daemon Tools or Alcohol ). It has got a nice and neat interface and is pretty easy to work with.

Other features include :
- create Disc images
-burn image files onto Discs
-act as a virtual CD/DVD drive
-image file compression/decompression
-create floppy disc images
-create bootable discs     ,etc.

Screenshot

The only hitch is that its not free.I got a trial version and that was enough for me as I dont plan to convert these image files every other day. Rather, in future, I would go for image files in .ISO format which is supported by all DVD burning softwares! But  for those of you who are really interested, it comes for a mere $ 29.95 

For about 2 months, off and on, my Mac Pro goes crazy reading or writing to the hard drive.   This makes my Mac Pro feel like an old computer, even with 4 cores under the hood!

Most of my Googling, referred to a spinning wheel related to Safari.  No solution until now!

1. Open Applications\Utilities\Terminal to type some commands.

2. To find out which applications are taking up your CPU time, type:

top -o cpu

3. At the top of the list, should be the application taking your CPU time.  In my case it was mds.

4. To kill the process, type:

sudo killall mds

<type your password>

After that, my disk drive stop making all that noise!  What a relief!

While you’re at it, you might consider disabling Spotlight.  I don’t understand why it make my hard drive go crazy if it has had so much time to create an index for each hard drive.

To disable Spotlight, type:

sudo mdutil -a -i off

What Failed, sometimes Me

Wrong Top Sort

Along the way I tried finding the process that used the CPU the most.  I had accidentally set top to sort by process id (pid) so it never gave me the correct answer.  Looking at the man page, the above top command with -o cpu always sorts by CPU usage.

Iotop Error

After searching online, I found out that Linux uses iotop to find the process using the hard drive most of the time.  Fortunately, under the Mac OS X, it also exists.   But when I ran

sudo iotop

for a while, it would insert an error and prevent the proper culprit to show up in the list.

dtrace: error on enabled probe ID 5 (ID 19321: io:mach_kernel:buf_strategy:start): illegal operation in action #3 at DIF offset 0

Investing Ideas_12182009 review

S&P 500 index is corrected. Resistance at 1119.13 point index also failed to overcome. It will fail do in the nearest future. Now index has crossed the Red Balance Line. And if index will cross a support level at 1085.89 point, the strong likelihood that Down trend will be start.

Investing Ideas_18122009 review

Investing Ideas_17122009 review

Laughter is a good medicine?

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see also

http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/hospital-deaths-account-for-half-of-deaths-annually/

http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/even-many-doctors-are-mainly-selfish-self-centered-want-to-get-rich-fast-too/

The non conformer’s Canadian Weblog Recent Posts

•  A NO WIN SITUATION for the federal Conservatives
• Ex Toronto police chief Julian Fantino is one of those bad apples
• Hospital deaths account for half of deaths annually
• New Conservative Accountabiility report
• RCMP Accountability REPORT
• Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 50,
• Montreal Police Accountability
• A serious warning for Quebec’s Premier Jean Charest too.
• RCMP Mounties should be retired and replaced ASAP
• Most Canadians get uneven, inadequate diabetes test, care
• Now there are good and bad laws too, good and bad judges..
• WHERE’S THE STEPHEN HARPER PROMISED CANADIAN JOBS???????
• Too many Doctors are mainly selfish, self centered, want to get rich fast
• Mad Canadian telecomunications giants slug fest
• CANADIAN MOTHER’S RIGHTFUL SEARCH FOR JUSTICE

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 Almost since my first job after graduating from university I had learned that people are not to be trusted, need to be supervised, and corruption still exists in construction, universities, municipalities, governments, corporations, amongst professionals and politicians as well.

• Overuse of antibiotics and lab tests to protect against malpractice lawsuits (Pennsylvania State University estimates that as much as 91 percent of our nation’s healthcare expenditures are related to defensive medicine);
• Signifcant Fraud  in Medicare claims  ;
• Administrative inefficiency and redundant paperwork;
• Medical mistakes;
• Preventable conditions, such as uncontrolled diabetes

http://www.healthfreedom.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=933&Itemid=1

A  doctor is concerned that Manitoba labs are putting patients in danger , the province is now conducting an external review into the matter.  Pediatric pathologist Dr. David Grynspan says he’s noticed problems at provincial labs for the past two years. Last month, he submitted a 20-page report to the province which outlined concerns about heavy workloads, lack of accountability and some senior managers over-billing for work. Grynspan says those factors compromise patient safety. He says staffing levels may be to blame. Currently there are eight vacancies in the pathology department out of 46 positions. Grynspan says his report outlines one case where a patient’s samples were misdiagnosed.  Tory health critic Myrna Driedger says the province’s external review led by Winnipeg doctor Sharon McDonald won’t be objective.  “I think we need a totally independent external review and an auditor on that committee to look into these allegations,” says Driedger.  Arlene Wilgosh, the board chair for Diagnostic Services Manitoba, the group which oversees the province’s public labs says McDonald is bringing in a pathologist from outside the province, along with an independent labour lawyer to help in the external review.  Grynspan says he doesn’t agree with the review process and would like to see a completely external auditor do a thorough investigation of the pathology department.  http://winnipeg.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20091211/wpg_pathology_091211/20091211/?hub=WinnipegHome

Emergency  Wards in Hospitals can be a deadly place.. many people pick up all kinds of sicknesses there too.. shit disease included.. http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/victims-of-deadly-c-difficile-outbreak/   http://anyonecare.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/shit-disease/

Blood poisonings, infection traced to ER 40 affected by outbreak at Seven Oaks General Hospital  12/12/2009 1:00  A bloodstream infection has affected 40 patients at Seven Oaks General Hospital — including two who have died. The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority issued a news release late Friday afternoon, describing the situation at Seven Oaks as an outbreak in the emergency ward and asking anyone treated with intravenous medication and suffering flu-like symptoms to contact their physician. Dr. John Embil, the WRHA medical director of infection, prevention and control,  said his department became aware of the outbreak at the end of the summer when staff found a number of bloodstream infections linked to an organism known as Serrtatia marcescens.  Twenty patients were infected when Embil and hospital staff began tracking the source of the infection in late summer, and another 20 people have since been identified as also having the infection. Dr. Ricardo Lobato de Faria, the chief medical officer at Seven Oaks, said all but two of the 40 patients showed signs of the infection after they were admitted to the hospital following treatment in the emergency ward. Two others were treated in emergency and released but recalled when their blood work revealed the infection, he said.  Embil said officials’ detective work determined that the infection originated in Seven Oaks’ emergency ward but they’ve yet to learn what caused it in the first place. http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/blood-infection-traced-to-er-79119197.html  

Did they say that the infection was growing somewhere in the ER? Sounds like a late-night movie, but this is very serious. Who has the contract for cleaning, the same people who clean Maple Leaf Foods? Some serious Infections can be   airborne transmitted as well as the standard contact transmission, and no serious disease should be taken lightly by anyone.   http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2009/12/11/mb-bacterial-infection-er-hospital.html   http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/listeriosis-investigator-report/

Before 2007, Canadian hospitals OUTSIDE OF Quebec were not required to publicly report their in-hospital death rates.  The public release would force hospital officials to examine their internal practices and improve patient care. Reporting rates to the public allows patients to examine potential risks at their local hospitals. It also forces hospitals – everyone from the hospital boards to the CEOs to the medical and nursing staff – to compare themselves to other institutions. Dr. David Austin, chief of staff at Markham Stouffville Hospital, said the 43-point drop in the institution’s mortality rate can largely be attributed to how the hospital has improved the way its staff appropriately document patient charts. The hospital has also brought in sub-specialist physicians, including hospitalists and intensivists, to deal with specific in-patient issues.  “If you have sepsis in hospital, you have a one in three chance of dying,”   ”If you are admitted to hospital for stroke, you have a one in five chance of dying. If you are admitted to hospital for heart attack, you have a one in 10 chance of dying.” Dr. Indra Pulcins, director of indicators and performance measurement at   Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/737552–hospital-death-rates-fall-in-new-era-of-disclosure 

AND SPEEDING IS NOT THE CAUSE OF MAIN ACCIDENTS, OR ROAD DEATHS NOW TOO.. http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/speeding-is-not-the-major-cause-of-car-accidents-still/

All OAF Pages use a number of ”View Objects” to execute SQL queries against the E-Business Suite Database. These View Objects are actually XML files on the application server that contain an SQL query, this XML file is used in conjunction with a Java Utility called the JPX Importer to load a pointer to the content of the XML file into a number of Database tables that EBS uses to identify which SQL queries it should be executing when a page loads. These tables are collectively known as the MDS (Meta Data System) Repository. The MDS holds a lot more than just SQL query definitions but for the scope of this article we need not cover the other content. 

For this article we are going to use the Oracle Projects Search screen as our OAF web page on an R12 instance. We are going to modify the SQL that is used to query back a list of projects so that the SQL only returns projects that are within their current start date and end date as opposed to returning all projects.

Analysis

First of all we need to identify which “View Object” we will be working with, to do this we will need to activate OAF diagnostics. To do so locate the profile option “FND: Diagnostics” and set it to “Yes”. Now take a look at the page we are going to be extending…

Fig 1

 By turning on the “FND: Diagnostics” profile option you will now be able to see two new links on the page. The “Diagnostics” link which will appear in the header and the footer of the page and the “About This Page” link which will appear in the footer only. In order to identify the VO that is being used by the page we will first examine the “About This Page Link”. 

When you click on the “About This Page” link you will see an array of tabs all of which do various tasks which we can use as OAF developers however for the purposes of this article we will be looking at the default “Page” tab which you see when the page opens. 

All OAF pages are made up of a number of BC4J (Business Components for Java) and Web elements known as the MDS content or “Web Beans”. The BC4J content exists as compiled java code and XML under JAVA_TOP on the application server and the web content exists as meta data in the MDS Repository. The web content is organised into a tree structure i.e. you have a page which contains a table which contains fields etc… When the page loads this “Bean Hierarchy” is rendered according to its structure and this structure is what we can see in the “Page Definition” section of the Page tab. Click the “Expand All” Link. 

If you are familiar with OAF development this screen will be very apparent to you as representing the page structure layout that you are used to seeing in JDeveloper when building a page and navigating it will be simple. If you are not used to OAF page development and you are simply trying to identify the SQL behind this page then examine the View Object Column until you see populated content, you should then be able to determine that the “Name” column holds content such as “messageStyledText: Project Manager” and that this is describing the “Project Manager” column that we see on the OAF page. We can also see that there is a collection of columns indented below the “Bean” “table: My Projects Result Container” which refers to the result table that we see on the page.   

Fig 2

Implementation

Now that we have identified the VO we need to extend, oracle.apps.pa.project.server.ProjectListGenVO, we need to setup our JDeveloper environment so that we can create a new View Object that contains our extended code. If you have not already got your JDeveloper environment setup then do so now, you can read how to at the Apps Tech Blog post “OAF – Downloading and Configuring JDeveloper”. 

Start JDeveloper and follow the instructions below. Please note that this article only covers the procedure for JDeveloper 10g. The process although similar is slightly different in 9i. 

In the Applications Navigator right click the Applications Node and select “New OA Workspace” 

In the file name box enter a suitable file name, if you are often working with different clients then it may be an idea to call this XXCLIENT.jws, if you are working for your own company you may want to call it XXCUST.jws, the workspace name is however completely personal preference and up to you as a developer how you organise your workspaces and projects within JDeveloper. Leave the directory path as your default myprojects folder in your JDev Home, ensure that the “Add a New OA Project” check box is selected. 

Fig 3

Select “OK”. 

The new project wizard will now be launched, select “Next”. 

In the project name enter a meaningfull name, I recommend that the project name be pertinent to the piece of work you are doing i.e. XXCUST_projects_list, leave the default directory as your myprojects folder in the JDev Home. For a VO substitution the default package name will need to represent the VO file path on JAVA_TOP with the exception that it must be prefixed with your custom application shortname, the prefix can actually be anything you like however it is recommended that the custom application shortname is used, in this example we would specify the default package as  xxcust.oracle.apps.pa.project.server 

Fig 4

Click “Next” 

Ensure that the “Use repository for design time” box is not selected and click “Next”. 

Select your DBC file, enter your applications username and password, enter ICX as the responsibility application shortname and responsibility key. For more information regarding this setup step including obtaining your DBC file and setting up your user account please refer to the Apps Tech Blog post “OAF – Downloading and Configuring JDeveloper”. 

Fig 5

Click “Next” 

Click “Finish” 

Next we need to copy the existing VO component from the apps server and import it into our local file system. In order to do this we must setup a file structure on our local machine in our project folder so we can copy the VO into it. Log onto the applications server and navigate to $JAVA_TOP, change into the oracle/apps/pa/ directory (Or which ever product top you are working with) 

Fig 6

Zip the project application directory and save it to a directory that you can ftp from. i.e. zip -r $HOME/pa.zip pa 

FTP the pa.zip file in binary mode back to your local machine and extract it to your user JDev Home under myprojects/oracle/apps/ (You will have to create the directory structure manually if it does not exist), you should also extract the contents to your myclasses folder in the same way i.e. myclasses/oracle/apps/ 

You should now have the following file structure in your local file system under the oracle.apps directory in myprojects and myclasses 

Fig 7

Click the “Refresh” button on the Applications Navigator tab of JDeveloper, you should notice that a new business components package under oracle.apps.pa has now appeared. 

Fig 8

 Now that we have the existing projects business components in our environment we need to create our new VO object that will be used in place of the existing one. Remember we do not customise existing components in OA Framework we extend the existing ones which means creating a new object that extends the original and we notify the framework that we want to use the new object rather than the seeded one. 

We now need to test that the VO we want to substitute does not contain any java errors following the download. Navigate to the VO in the applications navigator window i.e. Application Sources > oracle.apps.pa > project > server > ProjectListGenVO, right click the VO and click edit (If you have not already done so you will now need to configure your database connection, for more details on how to do this see the apps tech blog article “OAF – Downloading and Configuring JDeveloper”). If the VO opens without error then we are ready to move onto the next step. If you get an error message saying that java errors exist in either the voNameImpl.java file or the voNameRowImpl.java file then you will need to obtain the original source files for the files listed as being in error and add them to your myprojects folder in the relevant directory and recompile the project, unfortunately Oracle do not allow you to obtain the source files and you may need to employee the services of an Oracle consultant who would have access to the files. 

Before closing the base VO window take a look at the “Java” settings and make a note of the boxes that are checked/unchecked, we will need this for later. 

If you havn’t already done so Close the Edit VO window. 

Right click on the project node and select “New”. Select “View Object” under Business Tier > ADF Business Components and click “OK” 

The View Object Wizard has been launched, click “Next”. 

Specify the package as xxcust.oracle.apps.pa.project.server (This component package will hold our extended object so we need the custom application prefix). Specify the VO name as the name of the custom application concatenated with the orginal VO name i.e. XxcustProjectListGenVO. Select the original VO in the “extends” box using the browse button and select the original VO i.e. oracle.apps.pa.project.ProjectListGenVO 

Fig 9

Click “Next” 

On step 2 of the VO wizard you can see the SQL statement that we first saw when we were analysing the page. For this example we are simply going to wrap the SQL as follows and add an additional where clause statement: 

SELECT * FROM (ORIGINAL_QUERY) WHERE trunc(sysdate) between project_start_date and nvl(project_end_date,sysdate) 

Click the “Test” button to validate that your modified SQL is valid. 

Click “Next” until you reach the end of the wizard, If you encounter the following error at step 4 “Each row in the query results column msut be mapped to a unique query attribute in the mapped entity columns” then their is something wrong with the base VO, in this example I did experience this error and found that the original VO SQL had 3 missing aliases that the view object attributes were referencing, In order to correct the error you must make the change to the base VO by editing the SQL, I successfully added the missing aliases and then re-ran the create new VO instructions above and it worked correctly. 

Once we have clicked through to the end of the wizard the final step is to create the relevant java files. When a VO is implemented we always generate a voNameImpl.java file but we dont always have a voNameRowImpl.java file, the best way to tell which files to implement is to look at the java screen for the seeded VO and ensure that our new VO has the same settings. 

In this case we need both so our final wizard screen would look like this 

Fig 10

Now click “Finish” and the new business components package will be created containing our new extended VO. 

Fig 11

Right click on the custom business components package and select “Make”, this will compile the Impl and RowImpl java files. 

Now that we have our newly extended VO we need to create a substitution file. This substitution file will be an xml based file that will contain a mapping from the old VO to the new VO, we will use this file to tell Oracle Application to use our newly extended VO rather than the old one by uploading it to the MDS repository using the JPX Import tool. 

Right click on your project node (XXCUST_projects_list) and select “Project Properties”, click “Substitutions” under the “Business Components” menu. In the “Available” pane select the original VO i.e. oracle.apps.pa.project.server.ProjectListGenVO, and in the right hand “Substitute” pane select the new VO i.e. xxcust.oracle.apps.pa.project.server.XxcustProjectListGenVO. Once you have done this click the “Add” button and select “OK”. 

Fig 12

In your JDev home in the myprojects folder you will see a file called projectName.jpx in my case it would be called XXCUST_projects_list.jpx, this is your substitution file and we will use this later when we deploy the substitution.

Deployment

 

In order to deploy our solution to the actual ebusiness suite instance we need to copy the relevant java and xml files to java top and also upload our substituion file to the MDS repository. You can do this just by simply transfering the files using an FTP tool however I find it is best to create an archive file that will retain the folder hierarchy and allow you to issue a single transfer and unpack command. For a large OAF project we may have files that have to be transfered to different locations and because of this I tend to create 3 types of jar files called BC4J, MDS and SRC. These three files will contain the BC4J files like class files and VO’s, the MDS files such as pages and regions and the java source files. 

Following the transfer we can issue a java call from the command line on the apps server to perform the MDS upload. 

For this example a VO substitution only involves BC4J objects and java source files, the solution does not require that we package up our source code so for the sake of simplicity I will just create one archive file called BC4J.jar 

Right click on the project node and select “New”, select “Jar File” under the General > Deployment Profiles menu. Name the profile as something meaningful, in this example I will stick to convention and call it  ”XXCUST_PROJECTS_LIST_BC4J” . Leave the directory set as the default myprojects folder and click “OK”. 

In the deployment profile properties deselect the “Include Manifest File” option. On the filters menu deselect the root folder and navigate to the xxcust.oracle.apps.pa.project.server directory, select all the files in this directory and click “OK” 

Fig 13

You will see in JDeveloper that you now have a deployment profile listed under you application sources node, right click the .deploy file and select “Deploy to JAR file”, You will see a deploy tab appear next to the compile log and this will confirm that the deployment was successfull. If you experience issues with compilation i.e. there are issues with some of the files in your project that are not connected to your custom files then simply remove them from the project by selecting the top level component package i.e. oracle.app.pa and click the “Exclude Project Content” button (Little file symbol with a red cross on it) and re-try the deployment. 

Fig 14

Inspect your myprojects folder and you will see you now have a “Deploy” directory, in this directory will be your jar file ready for deployment to the apps server. 

Now that we have both our BC4J objects for java_top and our substituion file for the MDS we need to transfer them both to the apps server, FTP both the files (remember to send the jar file in binary format and the jpx file in ascii) to a convienient directory on the apps server. 

Now extract the jar file to java_top i.e.

cp home/kturley/*.jar $JAVA_TOP 

jar -xvf /$JAVA_TOP/XXCUST_PROJECTS_LIST_BC4J.jar 

Now upload the substitution file to the  MDS using the following command: 

java oracle.jrad.tools.xml.importer.JPXImporter $HOME/kturley/XXCUST_projects_list.jpx -username apps -password xxxx -dbconnection “(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=hostname.oracle.co.uk)(PORT=1551))(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=XXXXX)))” 

Make sure you specify the correct values for 

1. Path of you jpx file 

2. apps password 

3. host name 

4. port 

5. database SID 

Finally restart the webserver so that you can see your changes in the application 

For R11: 

$COMMON_TOP/admin/scripts/$TWO_TASK*/adapcctl.sh stop
$COMMON_TOP/admin/scripts/$TWO_TASK*/adapcctl.sh start 

For R12: 

$INST_TOP/admin/scripts/adoacorectl.sh stop
$INST_TOP/admin/scripts/adoacorectl.sh start  

A poorly managed Hospital and personnel is still always rightfully unacceptable even if it is McGill.

 I also here really could not help but notice that the aspiring, ambitious doctors in training work much harder over those who have graduated and who now tend to sit back on their laurels. 

Friday evening the RVH ombudsman finally returns my call and  now passed my file to someone else.. I will see what the results next are here too.

 An  administrative doctor from McGill next had called me and  had falsely tried to justify the RVH receptionist  sending almost all of the patients to see the very same doctors at a private clinic where they will be charged more for the same service by saying all Hospital are overcrowded.. he must have thought I was really stupid.. for I have been employed as an engineering contract manager and if the fabrication shop gave the same false excuses for their late product deliveries in reality they next went out of business, because rightfully in the private sector clients did not accept such lame excuses. The same clearly stupid, pretentious Doctor had asked if my problem that I  have now had for over 6 months had cured itself since last week when I saw the RVH doctor? Hoping naively he would not have to work? or just dumb? If miracles mow here were so common why would we need the doctors  ehh?Nice to be in the public service where you can take it easy and blame another department for your own lack of real, viable productivity. And now how stupid do they really think we are? Fire rightfully very bad persons that I have dealt with so far too here. MEANWHILE I AM STILL WAITING HERE FOR POSTIVE RESULTS TOO.

Quebec and other provinces have no such adequate program and why?

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Patrus: Brasil deve alcançar meta do milênio de erradicar a fome até 2015

Ministro Patrus Ananias

O ministro do Desenvolvimento Social e Combate à Fome, Patrus Ananias, disse que está confiante que o país vai atingir, até 2015, a meta do milênio de erradicar a fome. Ele lembrou que 19 milhões de brasileiros já saíram da linha da pobreza extrema e que programas sociais como o Bolsa Família funcionam como referência internacional – sobretudo na América Latina.

“Os programas sociais estão efetivamente dando resultado, porque o governo optou por compatibilizar a estabilidade econômica com forte políticas de inclusão e justiça social”, disse ao participar do programa Bom Dia, Ministro.

O ministro do Desenvolvimento Agrário, Guilherme Cassel, que também participou da entrevista ressaltou que a preocupação do governo não deve ser somente a de quem recebe o benefício de forma indevida, mas quem ainda está fora do programa. “É razoável, em um programa deste tamanho, que uma ou outra pessoa receba indevidamente.”

Sobre as críticas de que o Bolsa Família – lançado pelo governo federal em caráter emergencial – permaneça em execução sete anos depois, Cassel lembrou que o direito à alimentação é uma questão moral. Para ele, o período de implementação do programa ainda é curto. “A gente não consegue compensar em cinco ou sete anos um processo de exclusão que durou 500 anos”, disse.

Patrus destacou também que denúncias sobre irregularidades no Bolsa Família podem ser feitas pro meio do telefone 0800 707 2003 ou por meio do site do ministério www.mds.gov.br. As pessoas podem procurar ainda secretarias de assistência social nas prefeituras.

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A Advocacia-Geral da União – AGU manteve a multa aplicada pelo Ibama na Operação Boi Pirata II e a apreensão de 700 bois do pecuarista Sílvio Adriano Gonçalves Queirós, que ocupa área de preservação ambiental da Floresta Nacional do Jamanxim, no município de Novo Progresso (PA).

A operação foi realizada para coibir a criação de gado em áreas desmatadas e as queimadas ilegais na Amazônia, sobretudo na Floresta Nacional do Jamanxim. O gado apreendido, doado ao Ministério do Desenvolvimento Social, será efetivamente destinado aos programas sociais do governo.

A Procuradoria Federal Especializada junto ao Ibama – PFE/Ibama conseguiu, no Tribunal Regional Federal da 1ª Região – TRF1, suspender a decisão da Justiça Federal de Santarém, favorável ao pecuarista, que suspendia a multa e permitia a continuidade da exploração da área de preservação ambiental.

A PFE/Ibama recorreu contra a liminar de primeira instância no TRF, que acolheu os argumentos de que a multa e a Operação Boi Pirata buscam coibir o desmatamento de áreas de preservação na Amazônia, considerado crime ambiental.

Lauren Meader has some amazing ideas. This is one that is not only cute but useful too! My friend is having a baby boy in December, so I turned these cute onesies into a poinsettia bouquet!

I used My Digital Studio to print the images on iron-on paper. (MDS is by FAR my most favorite scrappin/stampin tool EVER! It is SO worth the price! I keep finding more and more fun things on there!)

Most people are good about making backup copies of their configuration before changes, but everyone makes mistakes eventually. To me the risk is not worth it, so this will be dedicated to automating Cisco TFTP backups of configurations. Most server administrators have automated tasks using either Cron (Linux/Unix) or Windows Scheduler. Cisco IOS also has the ability to schedule tasks.

I am very picky when it comes to my Cisco devices. A lot of information I read on this had the schedule execute “copy running-config startup” and would only backup one configuration. This is not a good thing, especially when there are multiple device managers. Below will go through setting up two jobs that backup both the running and saved configurations to different files daily.

Note: This assumes that you already have a TFTP server running on the network.

After logging into the switch, move into configuration mode

FiberSw01# config terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line.  End with CNTL/Z.

Enable the scheduler

FiberSw01(config)# scheduler enable

Crate a job named “backup_running”

FiberSw01(config)# scheduler job name backup_running

Enter the syntax used to copy the running configuration to your TFTP server

FiberSw01(config-job)# copy running-config tftp://172.0.0.22:69/config/FiberSw01_running

Exit configuration mode

FiberSw01(config-job)# end

Now that we have a job defined, make sure it is listed with the scheduler

FiberSw01# show scheduler job
Job Name: backup_running
------------------------
   copy running-config tftp://172.0.0.22:69/config/FiberSw01_running
==============================================================================

With the job defined, we can go back in and set when we want it executed

FiberSw01# config terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line.  End with CNTL/Z.

Define a new schedule name and set execution time(s)

FiberSw01(config)# scheduler schedule name Backup_Running
FiberSw01(config-schedule)# time daily 23:00
FiberSw01(config-schedule)# job name backup_running
FiberSw01(config-schedule)# end

Now the schedule(s) can be listed with names, execution times, and status

FiberSw01# show scheduler schedule
Schedule Name       : Backup_Running
------------------------------------
User Name           : user
Schedule Type       : Run every day at 23 Hrs 0 Mins
Last Execution Time : Yet to be executed
-----------------------------------------------
     Job Name            Last Execution Status
-----------------------------------------------
    backup_running                        -NA-
==============================================================================

Since the running configuration was backed up previously, we can go in configure the startup configuration backup. All commands are close to above except the tftp file name

FiberSw01# config terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line.  End with CNTL/Z.
FiberSw01(config)# scheduler job name backup_startup
FiberSw01(config-job)# copy startup-config tftp://172.0.0.22:69/config/FiberSw01_startup
FiberSw01(config-job)# end

FiberSw01# config t
Enter configuration commands, one per line.  End with CNTL/Z.
FiberSw01(config)# scheduler schedule name Backup_Startup
FiberSw01(config-schedule)# time daily 23:05
FiberSw01(config-schedule)# job name backup_startup
FiberSw01(config-schedule)# end

Check the schedule once more and both jobs show up

FiberSw01# show scheduler schedule
Schedule Name       : Backup_Running
------------------------------------
User Name           : user
Schedule Type       : Run every day at 23 Hrs 0 Mins
Last Execution Time : Yet to be executed
-----------------------------------------------
     Job Name            Last Execution Status
-----------------------------------------------
    backup_running                        -NA-
==============================================================================
Schedule Name       : Backup_Startup
------------------------------------
User Name           : user
Schedule Type       : Run every day at 23 Hrs 5 Mins
Last Execution Time : Yet to be executed
-----------------------------------------------
     Job Name            Last Execution Status
-----------------------------------------------
    backup_startup                        -NA-
==============================================================================
Now that the configuration is done, save the current (running) configuration so the schedules will not be lost on reboot
FiberSw01# copy running-config startup-config
[########################################] 100%
Notes: The above was done on Cisco MDS Switches but should work on most other Ciso IOS versions.  Also, the Execution Status will change after the job is executed.

It’s gonna be a good night of stand-up comedy. James Drapper’s opening the show. Spencer is bringing his A set. Pippin Griff is blessing us with comedy gifts, and JAMES NGHIEM is gonna rock it, yeah.

NO COVER! 21 to Enter!

It’s just West of the corner of North Western & NW 51st Street in OKC! COME DRINK LAUGH!

Again, informative, but not terribly funny – sooo… Rejected Laffy Taffy Joke, the 2.

What kind of secrets do vaginas keep?        I cunt say.

Jimmy Ho, Technical Marketing Engineer chez Cisco, démontre commentmonitorer les performances VMWARE en utilisant le Fabric Manager de Cisco.

C’est en anglais mais c’est clair et didactique …..

No doubt if you follow things on GestaltIT, you will know that the first Tech Field Day has been confirmed.  Vendors baked in to present their products are (in no particular order): 3Par, Data Robotics Inc, MDS, Nirvanix, Ocarina Networks and Xsigo Systems.

There are a select number of bloggers from the IT community attending (myself included), with interests covering Storage, Networks, Virtualisation and more. The reason the blogging community are interested I think is pretty obvious.  The question is, why would vendors want to do this?

It’s worth taking a step back to look at what the bloggers in question (who also write for GestaltIT) bring to the table.  No doubt there’s the insight and unbiased commentary but probably more important is the ability to access potential customers via a route which traditional marketing can’t deliver.  After all, the bloggers are independent, not paid by the vendors and have built their reputations and followings on this level of impartiality.  Clearly the vendors choosing to present their wares next month both believe in their products and believe that the blogging phenomenon is a better way to get the message out on their products in an impartial manner.

For me personally, I’ll be interested in looking at some technologies I’ve not really seen in detail (Ocarina, Xsigo) plus others I already know. Expect pictures (perhaps some video) and lots of commentary over the course of the two days (November 12/13).