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• Win7 Hangs During App Install/Upgrade/Uninstall

  - by JadeMason

  I have a custom built PC that intermittently hangs when installing, uninstalling, or upgrading applications. Technical Specs ASUS P5E w/ WiFi Motherboard Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 Processor 4x 2GB G.Skill DDR2 800 SDRAM ASUS EAH2900XT / Radeon HD 2900XT 512MB Video Card Under normal operation the machine runs reliably, even under heavy load, such as video transcoding. The temperature never gets anywhere near where I would worry about it. However, the machine regularly hangs (complete lockup, no response to keyboard or mouse, no activity on-screen) when either installing a new application, uninstalling an existing application, or applying patches to existing applications or the OS. This is extremely frustrating as this machine is primarily used as a HTPC. Several apps are configured for automatic updates, and these updates sometimes cause the machine to lockup while we are watching content on the PC. In previously investigating this issue, I found one likely problem could be my Logitech Webcam. The Logitech software has a bug that leaves an entry in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\ Control\SessionManager\PendingFileRenameOperations Which references the Temp directory. My registry contained this error, so I uninstalled the webcam software and deleted this registry key value. Unfortunately, the machine will still intermittently hang. I've noticed that the hangs always happen when an install/upgrade/uninstall requires elevated privileges (presumably to modify the registry). I can typically get at least one install/upgrade/uninstall to complete after a reboot, but after that it is a game of russian roulette to see if the operation will succeed or hang the machine. The event log is not helpful, as log messages end at the time of the hang, with no record of a warning or error. My only recourse when the machine hangs in this way is to perform a hard reset/power cycle. Any tips on how to further debug this issue are greatly appreciated.

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• Outlook 2007 message formatting - pasted images

  - by Jack

  When you cut and past an image into a message window when composing a new email, the image will display as you would expect and formatting the image appears straight forward, However the pain happens when you click send. The recipient notices that the image will resize with the size of there outlook window. The original image size is ignored and no scrollbars appear. Howe do you stop this behaviour. When said image is pasted, say you want to place a graphic on top of the image such as an arrow. By using the ribbon, selecting the insert tab and choosing shapes, you go ahead and select the arrow shape and plonk it on to of the image, just where you want it, give it a nice colour and then send the email. As the recipient resizes there outlook message window, the image resizes but the shape remains where it was, now who wants that micros*a*ft! So, how do you A) make the shape resize with the image, so the shape stays where I put it in relation to the image, and b) stop the image resizing in the first place.

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• Do I really need Microsoft Updates?

  - by Tony Wong

  When I install a fresh copy of XP home (bought it from the store.. not a copy) my pc rocks like lightening speed. But when I start installing all the updates, patches & less .NET 4.0 client (As the .NET 4.0 Client seems to bring machine to slow crawl). The pc starts to slow down.. like there is more resources to watch or something in the background is happening. So could I not get away with a awesome virus protector & awesome firewall set-up and avoid all the patches? The machine I have is a quad 4, 4gb ram and 2.3 GHZ process. Tons of room and the machine can run several apps at one time.. but when the updates happen.. its s-l-o-w!

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• How to open pdf in Chrome's integrated viewer without downloading it

  - by pdeva

  So I was really excited about the new integrated pdf viewer in chrome. However when I click on a pdf file link, chrome offers to download it instead of opening it inside its viewer. How do i get it to open pdfs inside its viewer? Edit: I have found that it behaves kinda randomly. Sometimes it does open it inside its viewer and sometimes it asks to download it. In gmail though it always asks to download it. Note: I already have the 'ask where to save each file before downloading' option unchecked.

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• Change Windows 7 Explorer's Details Pane limits

  - by Paul

  For some reason, MS decided to completely kill the status bar's functionality in Win7 (and maybe Vista, but I don't know for sure). I have tried all possible options such as Classic Shell and so on. Basically, the one thing I miss most is seeing at a glance the total size of my selected files. I know I can press Alt+Enter or whatever, but that's not the point. The point is that the so-called 'details' pane stops providing details if more than 15 files are selected! WTH? Cannot understand the reason behind such a stupid arbitrary limit, that doesn't seem to be user-configurable at all. Anyway, what I'm looking for is a way to change that limit, either via the registry or otherwise. If changing the limit isn't possible, would it be possible for some programming genius to create a very small optimized light-weight non resource-hungry (you get the idea!) program whose sole purpose will be to automatically click the "Show more details..." link in the details pane after every file selection? For bonus points, the program should wait for a second or two after file selection is complete to do this, so that selecting multiple files in quick succession doesn't hit the HDD repeatedly. Any takers for the challenge? :)

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• Prevent Outlook 2010 Insert Picture resizing image

  - by Rup

  When I "Insert Picture" a JPEG in Outlook 2010 it automatically resizes the image and, I think, recompresses it too. I realise this would be useful for photographs or for people who try to email 1MB BMPs but I would like to email around an image at the original pixel size without recompression. Is there a way to turn this off, or better still choose settings for each image insert? I found this page in the Office help. It's for Word, PowerPoint and Excel not Outlook but points you at File, Options, Advanced, Image Settings. There's no equivalent section in Outlook. I know Outlook uses Word as its editor so I've looked at Word's settings but there isn't an 'original size' here: there's only 'turn off image recompression' and pick target DPI from 96, 150, 220. I guess Office is finding a DPI value in the JPEG file and scaling it up or down to match this setting. I can't find an equivalent option in Outlook's options menu but there's so many settings and pop-up dialogs I may have missed something. Picture Format, Reset image size resets the image to the rescaled version, not the original. I can't see a way to edit a pixel value into size values in the image properties after insert. Thanks! I realise I can probably achieve this by editing the image metadata in PhotoShop elements or similar but there ought to be a way without editing the file? This is new behaviour in Outlook 2010; 2007 didn't do this.

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• How do I install a different OS on a Compaq Presario cq56 with preinstalled SuSE 11?

  - by McCoy

  Thing is, I don't have a clue of Linux systems, I usually use WinXP. Bought a notebook with SuSE 11 on it, because I have my XP licence and thought I could install that if I found the chipset drivers for the hardware (which I'm not completely sure I have the right versions of). Then I thought I'd give it a shot with the SuSE, looked nice enough. But I can't get my external hd to work (tried force mount) and the banshee doesn't do anything like playing video. Since that is one of the two main purposes of this notebook, I need to get that to work. Tried downloading VLC player, but that only works with SuSE 11.1 upwards. So I downloaded a SuSE 11.3 and burned the iso. But surprise, no way the notebook would boot from cd. Same with the XP cd (considered setting up a dual boot). And no, I can't get to BIOS to reset to default, either. So I can basically do nothing else than going online with this thing and that's not enough for me (gamer in withdrawal, yikes!). I need at least to get to my firefox profile on the external hd and be able to watch video. Can somebody please help me? I think at this point I'd prefer to install XP and MAYBE the SuSE 11.3 after that. I'm not a native speaker, so please speak plainly, thanks. :) Edit: if this is impossible, could someone please help me with the external hd mount and video playback? Edit: Found out how to boot from cd by now. But still no XP, because I get bluescreen after bluescreen while setup is loading files. I guess it's the missing SATA drivers...

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• Way to wake up win-xp pc, without hibernate or network?

  - by crosenblum

  I have no need to wake up a remote pc, just the pc I use at work. I want to wake it up, by itself, without having to use hibernate, which I am not comfortable with, or have ever used. Then I can have the "System Scheduler" freeware that I use, to automatically do anti-virus updates, anti-malware updates, ccleaner /auto of course... It just would make my day's easier if it was already on by the time I arrived, I usually always turn my pc off when I am done with work, or if I didn't, I have a scheduled task to auto-shutdown pc 1 hour after my normal work hours... Without using hibernate, can i get my pc to wake up on it's own at a certain time each weekday?

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• Re-partitioning a harddrive without wiping the OS

  - by Johnny W

  Hello. I have a friend who's put himself in that age-old position: His OS partition has turned out to be too small for his needs. He'd really like to be able to repartition his harddrive without formatting it. In the past Partition Magic would have leapt to mind, but apparently Symantec bought that in 2003 and never updated it (and then officially discontinued it). Is there a "modern day" Partition Magic that every uses for desperate situations like this, that also works under Windows 7? Thanks

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• Are these components compatible and are there any significant bottlenecks?

  - by Tom Gullen

  I'm trying to buy a new pc, for software dev and a bit of gaming. I already have a 500gb HDD , and a PCI sound card I want to use as well. Is all this stuff compatible, and will it all work together and are there any significant bottlenecks? Case, Mobo and PSU "Primo Motion" AMD 880G DDR3 Ready Barebones (Socket AM3) http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-268-OK&groupid=43&catid=1817&subcat= SSD 64GB Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-007-CR&groupid=1657&catid=1660&subcat=1668 CPU AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core 1090T Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-266-AM&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=1944 RAM 8GB Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-292-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1387 Graphics XFX ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-149-XF

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• PNG Compression

  - by T Pops

  At work, on certain projects I have to manage a lot of images. Most of the time PNG files work the best for what I'm doing. With such a huge amount of images, I've tried using PNG compression with PNG Gauntlet but sometimes the file doesn't really change and sometimes PNG Gauntlet reports it would've made the filesize bigger! Am I just maxing out the compression or is there something more I can do?

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• Outlook error-'Can't open e-mail folders.You must connect to Exchange w/ current profile before you can sync folders w/ your Outlook data file'

  - by Emilio

  Note that the error message I put in the title of this question is abbreviated. The actual error message is below. I have an Exchange account and using Outlook 2010 as the client. I run in Cached Exchange Mode and have an .OST file locally. Recently I uninstalled and reinstalled office. I set up a new mail profile when prompted by Outlook 2010 upon first execution of the program. In my initial attempt, I pointed the data file at my existing OST file. In my second attempt, I had Outlook create a fresh empty file. In both cases I'm getting the error 'Cannot open your default e-mail folders. You must connect to Microsoft Exchange with the current profile before you can synchronize your folders with your Outlook data file (.ost).', also shown in this screenshot -- http://drop.io/4rc9v9o/asset/outlook-error-png. I don't know how to connect with the current profile - that's what I thought I did when I created a new .OST file? I've had this problem for several days so my OST file is now out of date. Once I get things running I obviously want my active mailbox to update the OST, not the other way around.

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• WizMouse Enables Mouse Over Scrolling on Any Window

  - by ETC

  WizMouse is a free and lightweight Windows application that enables a simple but effective trick: the ability to scroll the contents of a window that is under your mouse cursor without shifting the focus to that window. It may not seem like much, at first glance, but the ability to scroll a window without having to click on it and shift the focus of your current window is a huge time saver. Once WizMouse is installed simply mousing over any open window and engage your scroll wheel for instant scroll with no additional click or shift in focus necessary. You’ll get so used to it you’ll forget that it wasn’t built into Windows from the start. Hit up the link below to grab a copy of WizMouse, a free and Windows only application. WizMouse [Antibody Software] Latest Features How-To Geek ETC Should You Delete Windows 7 Service Pack Backup Files to Save Space? What Can Super Mario Teach Us About Graphics Technology? Windows 7 Service Pack 1 is Released: But Should You Install It? How To Make Hundreds of Complex Photo Edits in Seconds With Photoshop Actions How to Enable User-Specific Wireless Networks in Windows 7 How to Use Google Chrome as Your Default PDF Reader (the Easy Way) WizMouse Enables Mouse Over Scrolling on Any Window Enhance GIMP’s Image Editing Power with Gimp Paint Studio Reclaim Vertical UI Space by Moving Your Tabs to the Side in Firefox Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles – An Awesome Game for Linux and Windows How Star Wars Changed the World [Infographic] Tabs Visual Manager Adds Thumbnailed Tab Switching to Chrome

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• Friday Fun: Sydney Shark

  - by Asian Angel

  Another long week is finally coming to an end, so why not have a little fun to finish the week out before going home? In today’s game you become a powerful shark determined to turn the Sydney coastline into one long smorgasbord while causing as much mayhem and destruction as possible along the way. Note: You will most likely encounter a small video ad as the game is loading and then again when your final score is displayed. Both come with a small clickable link for skipping the ads. Latest Features How-To Geek ETC Should You Delete Windows 7 Service Pack Backup Files to Save Space? What Can Super Mario Teach Us About Graphics Technology? Windows 7 Service Pack 1 is Released: But Should You Install It? How To Make Hundreds of Complex Photo Edits in Seconds With Photoshop Actions How to Enable User-Specific Wireless Networks in Windows 7 How to Use Google Chrome as Your Default PDF Reader (the Easy Way) WizMouse Enables Mouse Over Scrolling on Any Window Enhance GIMP’s Image Editing Power with Gimp Paint Studio Reclaim Vertical UI Space by Moving Your Tabs to the Side in Firefox Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles – An Awesome Game for Linux and Windows How Star Wars Changed the World [Infographic] Tabs Visual Manager Adds Thumbnailed Tab Switching to Chrome

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• HTG Explains: How Do Noise Reducing Headphones Work?

  - by YatriTrivedi

  Passive noise reduction, active noise cancellation, sound isolation… The world of headphones has become quite advanced in giving you your own private sound bubble. Here’s how these different technologies work. Latest Features How-To Geek ETC Should You Delete Windows 7 Service Pack Backup Files to Save Space? What Can Super Mario Teach Us About Graphics Technology? Windows 7 Service Pack 1 is Released: But Should You Install It? How To Make Hundreds of Complex Photo Edits in Seconds With Photoshop Actions How to Enable User-Specific Wireless Networks in Windows 7 How to Use Google Chrome as Your Default PDF Reader (the Easy Way) WizMouse Enables Mouse Over Scrolling on Any Window Enhance GIMP’s Image Editing Power with Gimp Paint Studio Reclaim Vertical UI Space by Moving Your Tabs to the Side in Firefox Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles – An Awesome Game for Linux and Windows How Star Wars Changed the World [Infographic] Tabs Visual Manager Adds Thumbnailed Tab Switching to Chrome

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• Microsoft augmente l'interopérabilité entre ses ERP et son CRM et sort un assistant de migration des données d'Oracle vers SQL Server

  Microsoft augmente l'interopérabilité entre ses ERP et son CRM Et sort un assistant de migration des données d'Oracle vers SQL Server Mercredi dernier, Microsoft Dynamics a annoncé la mise à disposition mondiale de nouvelles ressources à destination des entreprises équipées de son progiciel de gestion intégré Microsoft Dynamics (ERP). Ces nouvelles ressources incluent d'une part un connecteur entre Microsoft Dynamics CRM et Microsoft Dynamics AX, ainsi que d'autre part un assistant de migration de données pour les clients Microsoft Dynamics AX qui souhaitent faire migrer leurs bases de données Oracle vers Microsoft SQL Server. Ce nouveau connecteur facilite l

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• Apple publie la beta de Mac OS X Lion, une version pour les développeurs inspirée d'iOS

  Apple publie la beta Mac OS X Lion Une version de son OS pour les développeurs inspirée d'iOS Apple vient de mettre à la disposition des développeurs la première beta de son nouveau système d'exploitation Mac OS X Lion. Cette version s'inspire considérablement des idées qui ont donné naissance à l'iPad .« l'iPad a inspiré une nouvelle génération de fonctionnalités innovantes de Lion » affirme Philip Schiller, Vice président Marketing Produit. Au menu de ce nouveau système d'exploitation, on note l'arrivée du nouvel écran pour lancer les applications « Launchpad » qui permet d'accéder instantanément d'un simple clic à toutes les applications installées à la façon de l...

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• Firefox 4 : pas de 13ème beta, le problème lié à Hotmail est résolu

  Firefox 4 : pas de 13ème beta Le problème lié à Hotmail est résolu Mise à jour du 25/02/11 Contrairement à ce que l'équipe de développement de Firefox avait laissé entendre, il n'y aura pas de 13ème beta pour Firefox 4. Christian Legnitto (Release Manager de Firefox), vient de publier une précision importante : « La beta 12 de Firefox 4 est la dernière prévue. Le fait que les nightly builds (NDR : versions de développement les plus récentes compiléee chaque soir) après la 12ème beta soit nommées 2.0b13 peut être source de confusion. Mais le nom des versions est automatisé. Cela ne signifie PAS que nous sortirons une 13ème bêta ». ...

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• Le W3C valide une spécification sur la confidentialité des internautes proposée par Microsoft, la normalisation du standard commence

  Le W3C valide une nouvelle spécification proposée par Microsoft Pour lutter contre le traçage des internautes Un nouveau standard Web, fondé sur la fonctionnalité « Tracking protection » d'Internet Explorer 9 pour aider les utilisateurs à mieux contrôler le traçage de leur activité en ligne, avait été proposée par Microsoft au W3C. Elle vient d'être validée. Dans un billet, Microsoft affirme que l'organisme de normalisation responsable de la définition des standards du Web a récemment porté son attention sur la protection de la vie privée en ligne et a trouvé sa proposition « opportune et en phase avec ses propres objectifs et priorités ». Pour Dean Hachamovitch, vic...

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• SAP dévoile Business Object 4.0, la nouvelle version de sa solution BI intègre la mobilité, les réseaux sociaux et le « in-memory »

  SAP dévoile Business Object 4.0 La nouvelle version de sa solution BI intègre la mobilité, les réseaux sociaux et le « in-memory » SAP vient de dévoiler Business Object 4.0, la prochaine version de sa plate-forme de nouvelle génération de Business Intelligence et de Gestion d'Information d'Entreprise (EIM). [IMG]http://ftp-developpez.com/gordon-fowler/SAP/Slide-5-SAP-BusinessObjects-4.0-Event-Insight2.jpg[/IMG] Après SAP ByDesign 2.6, sa suite ERP en mode SaaS (qui arrive avec un tout nouveau SDK), Business Object 4.0 est la deuxième très grosse annonce de cette année 2011 que Nicolas Sekkaki, Direc...

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• Google veut favoriser les sites « de qualité » et modifie son algorithme de recherche pour évaluer cette « qualité »

  Google veut favoriser les sites « de qualité » Et modifie son algorithme de recherche en conséquence Google vient d'annoncer officiellement une mise à jour de son algorithme de recherche. Cette mise à jour vise à mieux référencer les sites produisant du contenu de bonne qualité au détriment de ceux de qualité médiocre (fermes de contenus, Spams). D'après Google « cette mise à jour vise à faire baisser le classement des sites de qualité médiocre, sans valeur ajoutée ou sans utilité véritable. [...]Dans le même temps, il fournira un meilleur classement pour les sites de haute qualité avec un contenu original ». Sans préciser plus avant ce qu'il entend par « qualité...

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• SAP conteste l'amende de 1,3 milliards à verser à Oracle dans le cadre de l'affaire TomorrowNow

  SAP conteste l'amende de 1,3 milliards à verser à Oracle Dans le cadre de l'affaire TomorrowNow Mise à jour du 25/02/11s SAP vient d'annoncer ? comme prévu ? qu'il allait contester la décision qui le condamne à verser plus d'un milliard de dollars (1,3 milliards précisément) de dommages et intérêts à Oracle dans l'affaire TommorowNow (lire ci-avant). SAP ne fera pas appel de sa condamnation en tant que telle puisque l'éditeur Allemand a reconnu sa culpabilité. Il contestera le montant, qu'il juge « disproportionné », de la somme à verser au regard du préjudice réel subi par Oracle. SAP a déjà versé 120 millions de dollar...

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• Conférence Flex & OSGi : Interview de François Fornaciari présentation de développement d'applications modulaires combinant OSGi et Flex

  Bonjour à tous, C'est à l'occasion d'une conférence donnée dans les locaux de Zenika que l'équipe de rédaction Web a eu l'occasion de poser quelques questions à François Fornaciari, consultant Zenika et surtout un membre actif de la communauté OSGi. Durant cette conférence, François nous a présenté une solution intéressante pour développer des applications modulaires OSGi avec du Flex pour la partie cliente.

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• Oracle Delivers Special Recognition for Specialized Partners

  - by michaela.seika(at)oracle.com

  Since announcing Oracle PartnerNetwork Specialized (OPN Specialized) in October 2009, Oracle has been focused on building a program that first enables solution providers to become highly skilled Oracle partners who deliver value to customers and that then recognizes and rewards their achievements in a meaningful way. Today the company unveiled new benefits reserved for partners who have achieved one or more of the over 50 specializations currently available. The benefits demonstrate Oracle's commitment to showcase these valued partners to three key audiences: customers, other partners, and Oracle employees.With today's launch of www.oracle.com/specialized Oracle has taken what IDC believes is a first of its kind approach to putting top partners front and center with customers and prospects. While most vendors offer a business partner finder tool on their website none has gone as far as Oracle with the creation of this new site dedicated to the promotion of Specialized Partners. The tag lines - "Recognized by Oracle, Preferred by Customers" and "Specialized. Recognized. Preferred." gets right to the point - these are the solution providers with which customers should choose to engage. The contents of the page offer multiple proof points to justify the marketing phrases.One of the benefits Oracle offers its Specialized Partners is video creation and placement. While Oracle works with partners to create informal or "guerilla" videos which often are placed on YouTube to generate awareness and buzz, the company also produces professional videos for its partners. The greatest value the partner receives from this benefit isn't the non-trivial production costs that Oracle covers but instead the prominent exposure Oracle gives the finished product. Partner videos are featured on www.oracle.com/specialized, used as part of monthly OPN Specialized Partners monthly webcasts, placed on a customer facing website, the Oracle Media Network, which includes several partner sites such as PartnerCast. A solution provider gains a great deal of credibility when they can send a prospect to an Oracle website where they are featured. Read the full article here.

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• Oracle Exadata Resource Kit available

  - by javier.puerta(at)oracle.com

  To learn more about how easy it is to achieve extreme database application performance, we now invite you to access the Oracle Exadata Resource Kit, featuring: The Oracle Exadata Launch Webcast with Mark Hurd, President, Oracle IDC's report on how Oracle Exadata exceeds expectations A technical overview of Oracle Exadata Database Machine Customer case studies, videos, podcasts, and more Don't miss this chance to learn how Oracle Exadata provides extreme performance by combining data warehousing and online transaction processing applications in a single machine. Access the Oracle Exadata Resource Kit today.

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