Almost most of us wish Good Luck to each other whenever some need arises. All students appearing for the examinations get Good Luck wishes from well-wishers. Anybody appearing for an interview will get his/her share of good wishes. We wish those who are going for surgery. Good Luck wishes have become very common and they connect us with the cause of one who we are wishing. What we are saying is this - Please go ahead. I want you to get success and I am with you in this. My wishes are with you. I wish that you succeed.
Do wishes work? For example, if thousands of people wish that a person recovered from a serious disease, will that work? These wishes are like small prayers. Most of the religions believe that prayers are heard and answered. Recently, in a scientific study it was concluded that prayers might not be working. But how far is every scientific inquiry accurate? Don’t scientists change their opinions?
Wishes and prayers give a great strength to everyone. It is a method of telling - You are not alone. We all are also with you. The almighty is with you and will surely hear our prayers and help. Imagine a student appearing for an examination. He/she has received many Good Luck eCards and is feeling happy that so many people wish that he/she succeeded. Will that not help? Good Luck ecards help in many ways and at various mental levels. Please use them as frequently as possible. Whether, it is a friend, a neighbor or a business associate, send one. You will be helping them and making friends for life. You will also feel very good after sending the ecards. Whenever we give something without expecting any return, we feel good. Use Good Luck ecards and bring a cheer on some faces.

Once apon a time, there was a young lady who became lost while traveling. She decided to pull over at a rest stop and get online with her laptop to find directions. As she booted up her trusty laptop, she remembered her AntiVirus was about to expire. Well, she thought, I’ll just search online for something that will get me by for now. The search engine results offered a variety of results, all claiming to be the best…some even claimed to cure gout!
First she reviewed the freebies. FreeAntiVirus4u.com looked good, but wait, here’s a review about it that says it’s actually Spyware! That won’tdo. Ah, here’s one that’s only $ 12.95 and if I download it right now, Wow,I get a Ginsu knife set for free with it! They even cut pipe! But alas, she noticed that it had no online protection and the signatures had to be updated manually. This one won’t do either.
Goldilocks was beginning to wonder if this was worth all the trouble. After all she thought, I just need a quick look at WolfsMaps.com and I can be on my way to Grandmas, but just then she remembered the website she had been recommended to last week. What a cute dog the websites Company Mascot was! The site stated that a computer could be hacked very easily without proper protection. The thought of losing all of Grandmas recipes stored on her hard drive gave her a chill. The site also said, be it free, cheap or expensive, make sure it works for you! Read the agreement, read the manual, educate yourself in its use, also check reviews for customer satisfaction. Sounds like good advice she thought.
Goldilocks now felt purpose in her quest. She would insure her online safety, and then get directions over the hill and thru the woods. Wait a minute, That Website with the cute dog! She was sure it would have what she needed. It just felt….safe, like Grandmas house. After all, her Internet Security was paramount! She had heard horror stories about those wolves lurking online to take advantage of unsuspecting souls. Especially during full moons. (Opps, wrong story)As the site loaded, she gasped! Ah, this is just right! After just a few minutes she found an Anti Virus Product that ranked in the top 4! And it was not even expensive. Happily she downloaded and installed it. It only took her a few minutes to set it up. Before she rebooted to finish the install, she bookmarked the site so she could return later. She wanted information on Anti Spyware Products too. And there was a article titled “Facts about Firewalls” that looked interesting. A few minutes later at Wolfsmaps.com she found where she had made her wrong turn. The way she was going now led to “Wolfsburg” where the “Lil Red Riding Hood Memorial” was. As she pulled back onto the freeway she thought, this would have made a great story!
Goldilocks was one of the lucky ones. Many have no idea they are not adequately protected while online. Some suffer incidents of identity theft which is rising drastically. Insure your Online Safety.

Just as we were getting comfortable with our cozy, fuzzy version of MS Word, along comes Word XP. This article explains some of it’s important new features and how to make the most of them. Time to get your sneakers on and let’s get off to a running start with Word XP.
Multiple DocumentsIn older versions of Word, new documents took over the entire Word window. With Word XP, each new document opens in a separate window. It’s easy to switch between documents by simply choosing a document from the list on the ‘Window’ menu. The ‘Arrange All’ command from the ‘Window’ menu conveniently lets you view all open Word documents at the same time. You can also switch which document is currently active by pressing [Alt]+[Tab]. The Word XP Task PaneWith the XP version, Microsoft decided to change some of the screen layout. For example, the Word XP task panes display on the right hand side of the document you’re working on. The options that display in these panes vary depending on your most recent commands. In earlier versions of Word, a lot of these commands would have been displayed in dialog boxes.
Moving the ToolbarsIf you have a preference for where a toolbar should appear, you can easily move it by first clicking on the left edge of the toolbar. The mouse cursor will turn into a four-headed pointer. Then, to move the toolbar, simply drag it to where you want it to appear and click to place it there.
Finding What The Buttons On A Toolbar DoTo get the name of any button on a toolbar, simply hover the mouse cursor over it. You can also bring up additional details of what the buttons do by choosing “What’s This?” from the “Help” menu. The mouse cursor will turn into a “?” symbol. Move the cursor and click on any button (or other Word object) to bring up details on it.
Adding Buttons To A ToolbarIt’s a little complicated but you can add buttons to any toolbar. Start by picking “Toolbars” from the “View” menu. Then pick “Customize” and bring the “Commands” tab to the front. Next, select an item from “Categories” and an item from the list of “Commands”. Drag the command to a toolbar. This will create a new button. The new button will only have a text label. Once you’ve added the default button, right click on it and pick “Default Style”. The new button will become a plain square. Right click on the new button again but this time, pick “Change Button Image” and select an image of your choice. Finally, gasp, pant, close the “Customize” dialog box.
Thankfully, it’s a little easier to remove a button from a toolbar: Start as before by picking “Toolbars” from the “View” menu then select the “Customize” option. Finally, simply drag the button you want removed off from the toolbar.

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Whether you run anti-virus and anti-spyware or not, your computer can still be infected. This is due to the ever evolving nature of the internet allowing new innovations for good and bad. Now that your computer is infected, what can you do?
There are several things you can do. One of them would be to format your had drive. This is the most time consuming and costly method. You will lose all your files and it will take you a very long time to re-install all your programs. This path should only be taken if there is no other course of action available, and if there is a deep infection. If the infection is less severe there are several things you can do. You can clean up your hard drive with anti-virus and anti-spyware software. There are many free programs out there that will do the job.
Once you have these programs you need to run a scan to determine where the infection is. Once the infection is located there are one of two things you can do. You can either quarantine the infection, or you can delete it completely. Deleting it would be the more effective option as it ensures you don’t accidently use the file again. An important part of running these programs is keeping them upto-date. They need to be updated regularly to be able to combat the new viruses and spyware that pop-up on a daily basis. A boot-time scan is recommended as a good course of action to remove your infection. Should you continue to experience slower PC speeds, you could try using a virus scanner to not only scan your hard drive, but prevent your PC from getting more spyware. Usually with spyware, once you have even a few files infected, they spread like a virus and attempt to propogate themselves. It’s important you have a virus scanner to not only delete old spyware, but prevent new spyware from popping up. Avast is great for this.
Keeping your computer 100% free from viruses and spy-ware is difficult but following the procedures above you can continue to enjoy the use of your computer.

Statspack is a set of performance monitoring and reporting utilities provided by Oracle for Oracle8i and above. A user is automatically created by the installation script - this user, PERFSTAT, owns all objects needed by this package. For more information about Statspack, read the documentation in file $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/spdoc.txt.
Install StatspackTo install the package, either change to the ORACLE_HOME rdbms/admin directory, or fully specify the ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin directory when calling the installation script, SPCREATE.
To run the installation script, you must use SQL*Plus and connect as a user with SYSDBA privilege. For example, start SQL*Plus, then:On UNIX : SunOS/HP UX/LinuxSQL> CONNECT / AS SYSDBASQL> @?/rdbms/admin/spcreateOn Windows: XP/NT/2000/2003SQL> CONNECT / AS SYSDBASQL> @%ORACLE_HOME%rdbmsadminspcreateThe SPCREATE install script runs three other scripts. These scripts are called automatically, so you do not need to run them:
* SPCUSR: Creates the user and grants privileges
* SPCTAB: Creates the tables
* SPCPKG: Creates the packageConfiguring StatspackHow to locate the current Ststapack level?

- Look at table PERFSTST.STATS$SNAPSHOTor
- Run spreport.sql and you will notice it alongwith the snapids listedSTATS$SNAPSHOT will show level for each Snapshot recordedChange Levelexecute statspack.snap (i_snap_level=> 7, i_modify_parameter=>’true’);
Levels >= 0 General Performance StatisticsLevels >= 5 Additional Data: SQL StatementsLevels >= 6 Additional Data: SQL Plans and SQL Plan UsageLevels >= 10 Additional Statistics: Parent and Child LatchesUsing Statspack (gathering data)sqlplus perfstat
–
– Take a performance snapshot
–execute statspack.snap;

–
– Get a list of snapshots
–column snap_time format a21select snap_id,to_char(snap_time,’MON dd, yyyy hh24:mm:ss’) snap_timefrom sp$snapshot;

–Running a Performance report
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– Run the Statspack report:
–@?/rdbms/admin/spreport.sqlLocate Hard hitting SQL from Statpack Reposistory
1. Login as PERFSTAT user on database.
It won’t work unless U login as PERFSTAT user.

2. Find DBID using”select dbid from stats$sql_summary”
3. Locate MIN(SNAP_ID) pBgnSnap & MAX(SNAP_ID) pEndSnap fromselect min(snap_id),max(snap_id),min(snap_time),max(snap_time) from stats$snapshotwhere to_number(to_char(snap_time,’HH24′)) > 10 and to_number(to_char(snap_time,’HH24′)) < 13 and trunc(snap_time)=trunc(sysdate)Show All SQL Stmts ordered by Logical Readsselecte.hash_value "E.HASH_VALUE", e.module "Module", e.buffer_gets - nvl(b.buffer_gets,0) "Buffer Gets", e.executions - nvl(b.executions,0) "Executions", Round( decode ((e.executions - nvl(b.executions, 0)), 0, to_number(NULL), (e.buffer_gets - nvl(b.buffer_gets,0)) /(e.executions - nvl(b.executions,0))) ,3) "Gets / Execution", Round(100*(e.buffer_gets - nvl(b.buffer_gets,0))/sp920.getGets(:pDbID,:pInstNum,:pBgnSnap,:pEndSnap,'NO'),3) "Percent of Total", Round((e.cpu_time - nvl(b.cpu_time,0))/1000000,3) "CPU (s)", Round((e.elapsed_time - nvl(b.elapsed_time,0))/1000000,3) "Elapsed (s)", Round(e.fetches - nvl(b.fetches,0)) "Fetches", sp920.getSQLText ( e.hash_value , 400) "SQL Statement"from stats$sql_summary e, stats$sql_summary bwhere b.snap_id(+) = :pBgnSnapand b.dbid(+) = e.dbidand b.instance_number(+) = e.instance_numberand b.hash_value(+) = e.hash_valueand b.address(+) = e.addressand b.text_subset(+) = e.text_subsetand e.snap_id = :pEndSnapand e.dbid = :pDbIdand e.instance_number = :pInstNumorder by 3 descShow SQL Stmts where SQL_TEXT like '%'selecte.hash_value "E.HASH_VALUE", e.module "Module", e.buffer_gets - nvl(b.buffer_gets,0) "Buffer Gets", e.executions - nvl(b.executions,0) "Executions", Round( decode ((e.executions - nvl(b.executions, 0)), 0, to_number(NULL), (e.buffer_gets - nvl(b.buffer_gets,0)) /(e.executions - nvl(b.executions,0))) ,3) "Gets / Execution", Round(100*(e.buffer_gets - nvl(b.buffer_gets,0))/sp920.getGets(:pDbID,:pInstNum,:pBgnSnap,:pEndSnap,'NO'),3) "Percent of Total", Round((e.cpu_time - nvl(b.cpu_time,0))/1000000,3) "CPU (s)", Round((e.elapsed_time - nvl(b.elapsed_time,0))/1000000,3) "Elapsed (s)", Round(e.fetches - nvl(b.fetches,0)) "Fetches", sp920.getSQLText ( e.hash_value , 400) "SQL Statement"from stats$sql_summary e, stats$sql_summary bwhere b.snap_id(+) = :pBgnSnapand b.dbid(+) = e.dbidand b.instance_number(+) = e.instance_numberand b.hash_value(+) = e.hash_valueand b.address(+) = e.addressand b.text_subset(+) = e.text_subsetand e.snap_id = :pEndSnapand e.dbid = 2863128100and e.instance_number = :pInstNumand sp920.getSQLText ( e.hash_value , 400) like '%ZPV_DATA%'order by 3 descHow to retrieve entire SQL + Execution PLAN from Statspack for a tableTo retrieve SQL plan you need to have statspack working on level 7
1. sprepsql.sqlThe SQL report (sprepsql.sql) is a report for a specific SQL statement. The SQL report is usually run after examining the high-load SQL sections of the instance health report.The SQL report provides detailed statistics and data for a single SQL statement (as identified by the Hash Value in Statspack report).

2. Hash Value is known
- Select * from STATS$SQLTEXT where hash_value=’%from stats pack%’ order by piece;

- For an Object first locate the OBJECT_IDselect * from sys.obj$ where name=’TRANSACTION’select snap_timesnap_id,plan_hash_value,OBJECT# ,OBJECT_NAME ,OPERATION ,OPTIONS ,COST ,IO_COST ,CARDINALITY ,POSITION ,CPU_COST ,OPTIMIZER ,SEARCH_COLUMNS ,BYTES ,DISTRIBUTION ,TEMP_SPACE ,ACCESS_PREDICATES ,FILTER_PREDICATESfrom stats$SQL_PLAN a , STATS$SNAPSHOT b where object#=’&&OBJECT_ID’ and a.snap_id=b.snap_id;
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We all hear from time to time about transcribe music without knowing what exactly this means and what methods are used for completing it. This process refers at working with a recording of a piece and playing it in a slightly different way or writing some lyrics for it. In general, transcribe music is related to non-classical music but some musicians choose to work with classical music by playing a piece meant for a certain instrument on a different instrument. Even is the musician doesn’t work with a recording in this case, the process is also included in the transcribe music category.
To transcribe music takes a short time or a very long time, depending on the complexity of the song and on your experience. If you have a good ear, for example, this will be an easy task for you to do. Also, if the song is very simple, it will take no time for you to write the right lyrics and you can even write them while you are listening to the music. However, as mentioned above, if you have a complex piece, it will take long to work with each minute of the song. It is all about your talent and the piece itself. You might wonder why people would do such a thing as transcribe music. The main reason for doing this is that it makes it easy for you to play a song when you have just the recording and no dots. For many, even if they find the dots they will end up with a version they don’t like as much as they liked the recording of the song. More than that, some musicians can improve the song in more ways than the dots can show them. These are some of the cases when transcribe music is the best thing to do. Transcribe music is an important aspects for jazz musicians and they consider it a significant mean of education. This is not surprisingly, considering that jazz is mainly based on improvising. If you use this method as a jazz player you will get to improve your ear and to gain a lot of experience when it comes to music in general. In this particular area you will find some people who transformed the transcribe music in a professional occupations. Actually, lots of the popular pieces you are listening to are worked out by a professional hired by the one who published it. Transcribe music is very important for lots of musicians as this method can help you with greatly improve your skills. Practicing on different pieces will allow you to gain useful experience. If you combine it with some talent and you are very passionate about this you can get to a point when you transcribe music when you hear a recording of a piece for the first time. This method will allow you to get insight the song and to make it sound better. Once you get to perfectly hear every note of the song you will have the opportunity to make the piece sound in the right way.

It just amazes me how there are companies out there, claiming to be legitimate businesses, who are distributing what can only be known as spyware, adware, malware, badware, and viruses. These companies get away with it due to obscure clauses and legal double-speak in their terms of agreements, if they bother to have one at all.
Some websites will download unwanted spyware and badware on your computer without any consent from you at all. They claim that all of this information gathering has a legitimate purpose and that people are over-reacting.
Some people do not know what a virus is. It is simply a program. Just like any other program you download and use everyday. It must be installed onto your computer. The difference between a virus and a legitimate program lies in the purpose for which it was created.
A legitimate program was created to help you perform a task. A virus was created to harm your computer or steal information from you. The other difference is the first one is legal, the latter is not.
A virus is legitimately defined as an executable program, however, any script or macro should be included in that definition in my opinion. If they are written with the intent of causing harm to a user’s computer or they are written and installed on a user’s computer in order to gather information on that user, then they are no better and no different than a virus, and should fall under the same laws that apply to viruses. If these programs like GAIN, Gator, and WinFixer are so legitimate, why are the techniques they use to install it on a user’s computer so sly? Why are they using these sneaky tactics, such as downloading it onto someone’s computer without disclosing what it actually is to the user in a clear manner?
Why do they write their malware, badware, and adware in such a way as to have it resist your efforts to remove it from your computer? Your computer is something you bought and paid for. You have the right to decide what will be installed on your computer. Anyone who writes a program that resists your ability to choose to remove it is a violation of your rights.
Our elected officials don’t know how to surf the web for the most part, let alone actually understand what the definition of a virus is and how to legislate against spyware and malware. Software companies who write legitimate programs lobby them to make sure they do not pass any laws that regulate the sale of software.
Example: Name any other product or service where you must pay up front for it before you even see the contract you must sign and agree to before you can use it? Not only that, but large corporations support the use of malware, adware, spyware, badware, and viruses that gather information from users without their knowledge. They in turn buy that information to build their own consumer databases and use that information to sell you products. They pay to know what your habits are. As long as they are willing to pay for that information, companies like GAIN will continue to steal it from user’s and sell it to these companies.
If you want to know how many programs on your computer are gathering information about you, you will need to get some type of spyware detection software. There are several available, however, be careful, some of those advertising the removal of spyware are actually installing it on your computer themselves. Make sure you do a search in your favorite search engine to find out about the brand of software you are thinking of downloading.
If your computer is infected with Gator or GAIN, you may have to use anti-virus software to remove it. Many of the anti-virus companies have removal instructions on their website. If GAIN were a legitimate company and legitimate software, it’s highly doubtful it would have to be removed by an anti-virus program. I hope this article has been helpful to you. GAIN, WinFixer, and other programs that act in this unethical manner should be considered viruses and held accountable for the harm they do to your computer and liable for the time it takes to remove them. That’s my opinion.

A well known achronym, SAP stands for Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing. The company was founded in Germany, in a town called Walldorf next to Heidelberg and was started in 1972 by five IBM engineers. It was a great business idea, put in the service of other businesses and providing them with highly specialized services without which nobody could survive in today’s busy and highly specialized environment. Most people have heard about one of our best known services, SAP security. So, when people want to come to work for our company, they say they will want to become a SAP consultant for SAP security. However, the activities of our company are so widespread nowadays that you can be a SAP consultant in practically any field. While we do offer very specialized services, we are very specialized in many types of activities that no one else on the market can provide better than we can. If you are looking to become a SAP consultant with us, you would better look further than working in SAP security. Nowadays, we have more than 44,500 installations. We work in 120 countries and have about ten million users. Because our services are so varied, you have very many options when you join the SAP team: you can be an SAP consultant building up our services portfolio. You can be an SAP consultant offering active global support. Another option is to be an SAP consultant for education or financing. Many of our employees have the job of SAP consultant for process outsourcing or SAP consultant for tools, technologies and methodologies. Many of our most experienced people are employed as SAP consultant workers for ramp up, which means that they introduce new solutions for the market. There is also the posibility to become a SAP consultant for managed services and for custom development.
We have been in the business of providing high-tech solutions for more than 30 years now. We work in varied fields as defence, bancking, chemicals, mining, oil and gas, railways, roads, etc. Since we provide solutions for any type of business activity, if you are a SAP consultant you can end up working for that activity that is most interesting for you. You may start in a division that is of no particular interest to you and advance by becoming a SAP consultant in the field you are most passionate about. For example, you can start out as a SAP consultant for mail services and turn out to be a SAP consultant in the area of oil and gas. Indeed, most people come to SAP to work for SAP security. That is what they hear about, that we provide security for business services we offer and they want to be in the field of SAP security. But then we tell them that SAP security can mean any number of things. When we provide solutions in the domain of finance, we provide SAP security for that. When we provide solutions for companies that work with fossil energy, we provide security for our services there. Any service we provide for our companies, we also provide SAP security along with it. So when you come to our company ready to work in the field of SAP security, you would be better off knowing much more than that about what you really want to end up doing. Either way, what all this means is that there are many available jobs to work for SAP security. It’s just that you can be a provider of SAP security in any number of branches of our company. We do not want you to be shy. We think that anyone has a chance in our company, especially with a solid background in business or IT studies. If you are well trained, try to come and work for our company. We started small and ended up being the biggest business service provider. We are open to giving chances to beginners. We started in Walldorf and we are now on Wall Street. We want you to do the same, to use our company for growing personally. All that we ask of you is to have some idea about the activities of our company before you approach us. Don’t count just on rumours. Don’t just come and say that you want to be a SAP consultant and you prefer SAP security. It takes a little more than that to actually end up working in SAP security. It takes a little bit of effort to understand some of the huge array of activities our company has and it takes some knowledge of what you want to do inside the company. That is all you need. We will help you grow from there.

Its late. You’ve been scouring the web for that perfect present for your Aunt Bess in Idaho. You finally find it at presents4aunties.com. The site looks a little rough on the edges, weird colors and such. But they have that gift you know will make Aunt Bess add you to her will. You purchase the gift, log off and head to bed. Tired but happy.
The next day, coffee in hand, you turn on your computer. That’s strange you say, its awfully slow this morning. Finally its booted and ready to go. You open your browser to check the Cow Tipping Blog for the latest posts.
What’s this you say, My Homepage is now longer the Log , but a site trying to sell me a DVD of the Surfs vs the Terminator!
Oh well you say, not quite fully awake. You type in the URL for your Log and wait. And wait, and wait. Finally its up! You start to read the mornings postings. You’re into the second post about the upcoming Cow Tipping Championship in Vegas when a Popup appears and says you need to go to heartburn.com for the new revolutionary cure for heartburn. Click here now it says and receive a free gift, the secret cure for Baldness!
Weird you think, you click the X to close it.
You don’t realize by clicking the X that a small hidden piece of code has just been downloaded to your computer.
You finish the Log postings and decide to check your Bank Account. You type in the URL and wait, and wait. Finally the Bank Logon appears. You log in, completely unaware of the code, which is actually a Key logger, is recording your every keystroke. The Transaction is there for Aunties gift, you’re so happy. You log off and remember you forgot to email that document for your Boss. That’s ok you say, I can log in from here and send it! Technology is so great ! You log into your work portal and access your email program, find the document, attach it to the email form and send it. You vaguely remember it had something to do with the updated personal info list for all of the employees at your job. It includes their Addresses, email addresses and Direct Deposit Account numbers, also their Logon Names and Passwords to access the Computers at work. Darn you say as another Popup appears, what’s wrong with this computer?
Well at least you didn’t forget the Bosses Document. Wouldn’t want to get in trouble with the Boss. You’ve a great job, working for the Trans Global Bank after all. Offices all over the world don’t you know.
Well time to check your Anti-Virus program for updates. Hmm it says no updates kneed ed . You notice the Misspelling but what the heck, those things happen. Gee the computer is really slow! You decide to reboot, hoping that will fix it. Gripes, now it wont even boot! At least there’s a little extra money in the ole Bank Account to get it fixed.
The above is fiction. No animals were harmed. But its scary huh to think it could happen. Granted it’s a worse case scenario, but I wonder…
Be smart out there people, learn how to use your Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware programs. Keep em updated, and it they don’t work well for your surfing habits, find programs that will. Keep your computer protected, your well being may depend on it.