Saturday, August 28, 2010

Steamed Orange for Cough

This method had been tested by many people. One of the best methods to stop cough.

Cut off the top part of the orange, put some salt into the orange, and put back the top part. Steam it 10 minutes and eat all the fresh including the juice at the bottom of the bowl. Taste not very nice but cures your prolonged cough in days.

More about the Blackberry

Those in the market for the latest Blackberry Phone should do their preliminary research on the Internet to save time and money. Several resources exist on the Internet to give consumers the latest news on the new Blackberry phones hitting the consumer market. The Blackberry phone is one of the most innovative smart phones in the market today. They are also a very stylish and fashionable phone that can also act as your personal digital assistant while you are on the move.

Let's begin with the Blackberry Curve 8350i. This beautifully designed smartphone has a full keyboard, 2 megapixel camera, and microSD expansion cards. The push to talk phone also has Wifi, GPS, and Bluetooth. The Blackberry Curve also features and improved OS and advanced multi-media functions.

The Blackberry Pearl Flip 8230. This phone features a full keyboard and 2 megapixel camera. The clamshell design is very modern and up-to-date. A design sure to be appreciated by many Blackberry users. The new Blackberry Pearl features GPS, an updated interface, and improved camera functions. The Blackberry Pearl Flip 8230 does not offer Wifi but it is a great smart phone to own.

The Blackberry Bold 9700. This smartphone has a 3.2 megapixel camera and supports memory expansion cards. This smartphone features and improved and updated design, a brighter display. The new phone is 3G capable and offers Wifi, Bluetooth, and GPS. The new and improved phone is perfect for those who are on the go and want the best offered in smartphone's currently on the market.

Gadget news

The 4 Coolest Gadgets of 2010


There are some cool products out there. There are cool promotional items and cool innovations. But gadgets are the epitome of cool. So cool that many would sell their own mothers to get what they've been waiting for. Almost everyday a new gadget comes along, and the one you have is then kind of old already, even if you bought it a couple of weeks ago. However, truly cool gadgets, those that you would really die for (like, say, the iPhone) are rarer. 2010 will be a great year for technology. Once the crisis is -we hope- somewhat over, tech companies will strive to get new customers, and will compete like never before with cutting edge design and technology. So get ready: here's the top 5 list of cool gadgets for 2010:

1. Ford's MyKey: If you give your car to your kids frequently, you might find that it sometimes gets hard to sleep well when they're out, as you're worried about what could happen to them. That's why next year Ford's releasing MyKey, which uses a chip in the car's ignition key so that the driver cannot exceed 80 mph. It can also be programmed to limit the car's audio levels and to sound loud alerts if the driver's not wearing a seatbelt.

2. Dual Touch Screen Laptop: We've already witnessed top-notch laptops with touch screens. But what about dual touch screens? Apparently, the Italian firm V12 Designs will launch its new version of Canova, a dual LCD laptop. This time, both will be touch screens.

3. 4G Phones. The real download speed of most 3G phones is not more than 384 Kbps, and sometimes a lot less. That's because it might have a 3 Mbps announced download speed, but the real one is a lot less. The 4G phones promise data transfers of 100 Mbps, and could reach up to 1 gigabit per second when static. That could mean downloading a full length DVD movie in about a minute.

4. Hydrogen Rulz! Hydrogen powered phones might be the next big thing. French researchers will probably announce by next year that a hydrogen fuel could be used as backup power source for mobile communications, letting users have some independence from electricity supplies to charge up their phones.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

A Comparison of Oracle and MySQL

This is an excellent overview for the Oracle DBA who wants to understand how the ubiquitous MySQL database compares to Oracle databases. Petri outlines the basic differences between Oracle’s and the MySQL implementation of the relational model, including table, index, data types, tables, triggers, and many, many more. In this comprehensive comparison we see many interesting conclusions:

Data Types
– MySQL only supports primitive data types, DATE, NUMBER and STRING and TIME.

Tables
– MySQL supports more types of tables than Oracle, including MyISAM, MERGE, ISAM, innoDB, BDB and HEAP.

Indexes
– MySQL only supports one index type, but implements different access paths using the various table types.

View and Inline Views
– MySQL is planning to offer these features soon in a new release of MySQL.

Sequences
– MySQL uses an AUTO-INCREMENT attribute assigned to a column when creating a table. . . The ability to start and increment sequence numbers values at the initial value within a group is a useful feature provided by MySQL that is not available in Oracle 9i database.

SQL Inserts
– Unlike Oracle 9i database, MySQL allows INSERT statements with a VALUES clause to specify multiple sets of data to insert.

Procedural code
– MySQL does not have a language such as PL/SQL, but instead allows C++ to be used for functions, stored procedures and triggers.
Overall, this is a good high-level comparison of MySQL and Oracle