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Now building my own wishe’s list for 2009 Christmas and Birthday:

• NetPC … now sure now if eeePC from Asus, or Samsung
• Some people want to pay a flight with me as pilot in command
• A trip in Zanzibar or Maldive or Mexico or another exotic place (first time in my life)
• A sorround system for my home
• An HiFi stereo system – Philips MCD716/12
• CANON EOS 500d kit
• Salt and Pepper Shakers (designer David Shrigley)
• Abercrombie&Fitch topwear

After some days (I think few months) of abscoding I’m back again to write something here in my blog. As far as I remember this a technical blog but during last years technical posts were been strictly reduced maybe due to economy crisis
Now what’s new? I became a pilot, Private Pilot, with license CH-52405, english radiotelephony and english language proficency check passed. While I’ve no more money in this period, I’m sure I’ll not be able to go on with my study already planned to get ATPL license in 2010.
I’m also moving to a new home nearby Como, in a place called Lomazzo. Hope to post here as soon as possibile home photos.
I’ve been just qualified as Oracle 11g Pre Sales Champion and I hope the upcoming Oracle 11g Administration I certification will arrive quickly. I’ve to study again and pass the relative exam.
My knowledge in BMC Bladelogic is going on. Now I’ve been elected for a Bladelogic installation in a customer environment and this is really great for me.
Other? A special friend of mine let me to be in a train cockpit and now I hope I’ll be able to drive a train for a small trip… I can’t say more as this is not properly legal

And now? Simply, as I like to fly, I’m looking for passengers as I can divide with them the cost for a flight. Contact me for more infos…

C’è poco da dire. Ho vinto. Ancora una volta. Nunzio Vobis Magnium Gaudio che i vigili sono 4 teste di minchia. Ora che fare? una interrogazione in consiglio comunale chiedendo il licenziamento in tronco del capo dei vigili urbani di Monza per avere non solo cercato di ‘truffare’ un cittadino predisponendo controlli senza rispettare le leggi a riguardo ma avendo anche reiterato la sua presunzione di superiorità presentando un fumoso ricorso dopo la mia prima vincità davanti al giudice di pace appellandosi a futili cavilli legali stile azzeccagarbugli che gli hanno una seconda batosta. Sarebbe opportuno che delle sue scelte ne rendesse conto davanti al comune e davanti ai cittadini che gli foraggiano lo stipendio, sicuramente non da operaio. Invece, come è doveroso che sia in Italia, continuerà a stare lì, a scaldare la sua sedia di pelle, con la vigilessa segretaria, a fare finta di gestire il comando dei vigili urbani, con un diploma preso per corrispondenza a scuola radio elettra in semaforologia applicata e una laurea al CEPU in malgestione del traffico con specializzazione in dossi e rotatorie. Semplicemente un inetto intrufolato nel sistema grazie a qualche solita raccomandazione. Ci hai provato? Ti ho fregato.

Alea iacta est.

This post can be longer indeed, but let’s from scratch. First, identify from v$session_waits if there’re buffer busy waits with this query:

select
   p1 "File ID",
   p2 "Block ID",
   p3 "Reason ID"
from
   v$session_wait
where
   event = 'buffer busy waits';

Now, you can find file id and block id of buffer busy. Using the following statement you can find the object belonging to waits:

select
   owner,
   segment_name,
   segment_type
from
   dba_extents
where
   file_id = &P1
and
  &P2 between block_id and block_id + blocks -1;

Now you have to find which session is using the object incriminated.

I’m really interested in this as PS3 has many resources but I’m locked only about RAM. It’s possibile to add more RAM to PS3? 512 mb are really low, growing it can be usefull. I’ve read around some peoples used fast SD cards as swap devices but this solution is not a real alternative to hardware RAM.

From few days I’ve an RMAN backup that apparently fails with this error:

RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of sql command at 03/12/2009 05:32:40
RMAN-06004: ORACLE error from recovery catalog database: ORA-01023: Cursor context not found (Invalid cursor number)

I’m trying to debug it, also looking into Metalink withot success. Metalink refers the problem in document 452946.1 to a wrong use of RMAN command release. Channel release is no more mandatory as it’s done automatically after backup. I’ve commented release command without solving the problem. Looking deeper to solve it. Maybe I’ll change Oracle TDP…