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Canadian Hoser – Olympic Theme

eric — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:12:54 +0000

I recorded some tracks on hose playing the piece well known as the olympic theme music/fanfare. I’d have to say that Vancouver 2010 is starting to show it’s face, and this is not a positive or negative comment… it was just a fun project for an afternoon with some garden hose.

I was really really bored… this is a concept which I’ll probably re-record more seriously. I’m also thinking other pieces, like O’Canada, perhaps the John Williams olympic fanfare and theme.

Yes, I realize the last two posts are a tad off beat; I’ll be back on the IT craze soon… it’s been holiday season for me.

I really hope you enjoy! If you do, please comment/rate/spread the word. It’s just plain funny!

Thoughts about future video projects

eric — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:56:19 +0000

I would like to do the following as time permits:

Demonstrate installation of Solaris Cluster (formerlly Sun Cluster) 3.2 using VMWare and iSCSI
Demonstrate Solaris Cluster + Oracle CRS Clusterware for RAC
Demonstrate Solaris Cluster + Zone Clusters + Oracle RAC
Demonstrate ADVM + ACFS to give applications high availability (I think MySQL would be a fitting example)
Demonstrate the configuration of Oracle RAC Guard (RAC to RAC Dataguard)
Demonstrate the configuration of Oracle Dataguard (non-RAC)
Demonstrate the concepts and basic administration of ASM, ADVM and ACFS
Demonstrate the concepts and basic administration ZFS
Demonstrate basic systems administration of RedHat Enterprise Linux (and derivatives) for the DBA

Document all the aforementioned… =)

Let me know what you think… I have this habit of biting off more than I can chew, but at least I manage to eat some of it… and to date, people seem to feel I’ve eaten a lot.

Completely new to blogging

eric — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:28:22 +0000

This represents my first blog entry on my site, masterschema.com. As a a complete newbie to both reading and writing blogs, hopefully my writing and publishing skills improve with time. In the meantime the purpose of this blog is to serve as a dumping zone for ideas, concepts, and ultimately whitepapers and tutorials that are targeted at the IT professional. As I get older, I find I’m forgetting details more and more, and documenting them in a way I can find later is essential. I figure I might as well make it public too. =)

Hope you enjoy reading. I hope to keep this place flame-free… if it’s useful then I’m glad I could help!