Note to self and others!
When importing large oracle dumps (size in GB’s):

• start early
• always disable ARCHIVELOG….always
• set UNDO retention to a small value, let’s say 5 seconds
• get coffee…
• wait
• remember to enable ARCHIVELOG… when in production

“It’s not a 9-5 job. It’s an every moment you’re awake job because you actually enjoy the work that you’re doing.” – Jeffrey Kalmikoff

Somebody stopped me on the street this morning. I was just walking, wearing jeans, a t-shirt, my backpack on, headphones and a gray woolly hat… a coffee in one hand, a smoke in the other…
I guess I was also kind off dancing, you know when you walk shaking your head because you’re listening to something nice…

This guy just stopped me and he said “Hey, what are you listening too?“, I tell him. He says “Are you going to work?“… I’m already thinking “maybe I know him”.

He says “Dude, you must really have a nice job, and you must really like it. You look so relaxed, it’s 10 AM, you’re not in a hurry and you look happy… Anyway, have a beautiful day“. Then he just left.

He is absolutely right, although lately it’s been really crappy(cotton picking, sugar-cane cutting crappy), I still really like my job…

I get to work. I plugin the lappy. Windows Update says “hey dude, there are some updates for you”, I’m like “Bring them on”. Bad mistake.

One of the updates was IE8, and this is the update story(unfinished):
• Windows Update downloads the “IE8 Update”
• The “IE8 Update” starts up, decompresses something in c:\<random string> and says “I have to restart your computer. It will update some stuff and then restart again. During this time you won’t be able to use screen readers, because the update will run before any user services start up”. I say “Ok, do it”
• The computer restarts, Windows boots up
• IE8 Update appears, decompressing some other stuff in c:\<random string> and then it displays a nice window saying “Dude, I will start downloading updates”
• The following window appears:

Some aspects of this window:
- it has nice colors in a modern gradient like mix-up
- it has no buttons whatsoever
- it says Downloading
- YOU CANT BLOODY CLOSE IT WITHOUT KILLING THE DAMN PROCESS, WHICH I DON’T WANT TO DO

30 minutes have passed since it begun downloading and I think it’s downloading the bloody Internet. 30 minutes is forever when you are keeping a user staring at a window that never does anything.

I’ll update this post once it finishes (or not).

UPDATE: Only took 40 minutes, restarted again and now it works