Re: ot - laptop for dba

I think I might be the only one who does this and it works well for me, but 
other techies are kind of surprised when they hear me describe my mobile work 
solution-  
 
I like to have access via a laptop at a moments notice, but I don't want to 
even carry my Sony laptop at 5lbs. My solution is a netbook.  I currently have 
two-  One stays in my travel trailer for weekends where I need to get away, but 
am still on call, (Wi-fil campgrounds, what a world we live in...LOL)  I carry 
the other one around with me just about everywhere and they are only two pounds 
with a 10 inch screen, so it's easy to have in a small padded sleeve in any 
bag.  I log in via wireless connection, (surprising how much wi-fi is available 
or if in a crunch, I can login in using my blackberry as a modem.)  I remote 
desktop into either my pc at work or a server so the work machines takes the 
brunt of the resource requirements.  Netbooks are cheap enough that if anything 
happened to one of them-  not a big issue.  My Acer has a 1yr warranty and as 
harsh as I am on keyboards-  I sent it in a month back and had it back in one 
week with a
 brand new keyboard.  It had to be the easiest warranty support transaction 
I've been through. 
I did wipe the machine and load my own OS installs, doubled the memory on both 
of them, (so I'm on Windows 7 with the bizarre limit on memory for XP, which I 
do prefer...) and I have quite small hands, so the smaller keyboard isn't an 
issue for me at all.   When I had to send it in, I just backed up my OS load, 
etc. re-installed the factory installation, (it fits on a 16GB jump drive!) and 
then there was no concern of vulnerability...
 
I work well this way and I find I'm one of the few professionals that has a 
solid use for a netbook that doesn't involve simple "web surfing and email"... 
:)

Kellyn Pedersen
Sr. Database Administrator
I-Behavior Inc.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kellynpedersen
www.dbakevlar.blogspot.com
 
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--- On Mon, 5/31/10, Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


From: Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: ot - laptop for dba
To: andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: girlgeek@xxxxxxxx, oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, May 31, 2010, 12:05 PM


Mac is for designers... graphic designers at that. Every other use of
Mac is a waste of money.

(this is my opinion and not a flame war igniter).

Anyway, as a multiplatform DBA, I've found windows XP works very good.
A good linux, well configured would work as well. I don't like MacOSX
and I never will like Apple products, It's the incompatibility of
linux with the closedness of windows... the worst of two worlds.
Specially for savvy users.

hth
Alan.-



On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I do pretty good on Windows 7, 64 bit, 8G RAM on a Dell XPS laptop.
>
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Claudia Zeiler <girlgeek@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Time for a new laptop.  Shall I switch to a Mac?  I have seen DBA's using
>> Macs, but I wonder, do any have a toy database on the Mac?  How?  There is
>> no Oracle certified for Mac that I know of.
>>
>> Thanks for any tips.
>>
>> -Claudia
>>
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