Jul 29, 2005

More daylight-saving time means problems for developers

More daylight-saving time means problems for developers

Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 10.1.0.3 Readme Last updated: July 12, 2004
Daylight savings time is not supported for blackouts. Users need to manually adjust a blackout's schedule, as needed, to accommodate schedule changes due to daylight savings time.

Jul 28, 2005

Good to know cURL


[From cURL official website]
curl is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP. Curl supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other userfeul tricks.

Jul 27, 2005

Can we trust auto_sample_size in 9i dbms_stats?

Setting estimate percentage as DBMS_STATS.AUTO_SAMPLE_SIZE , Oracle determines the best sample size for good statistics (Recommended value 9i). Can we trust it? It depends on which version you use.
On 9.2.04(we experienced) and 9.2.05(Oracle confirmed), if you specify
estimate_percent=>dbms_stats.auto_sample_size, it can be extremely slow.
It is bug#
3150750, and has been fixed in 9.2.0.6 as Note:283897.1

Jul 12, 2005

Oracle and Open Source

Open Source Technologies and Related Areas

Tool or Application

Description and Online Sites

ACS

Ars Digita Community System, dynamic web-based solutions

http://www.arsdigita.com/pages/toolkit/

ActivePerl

Win32 Perl from ActiveState

http://www.activestate.com

http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/

http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/Download.html

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/

AIX

Unix freeware packages

http://ftp.univie.ac.at/aix/

Ant

Java-based build tool

http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html

Apache

The Apache web server

http://www.apache.org/, http://www.apache.org/httpd.html

http://www.refcards.com/, http://www.apache.org/dist/

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/windows.html

http://www.apache.org/ABOUT_APACHE.html

http://httpd.apache.org/dist/binaries/win32/

http://xml.apache.org

Apache JServ

Apache Java servlet web server

http://java.apache.org/jserv/index.html

http://java.apache.org/jserv/dist/

Apache mod_java

Apache Java module

http://java.apache.org

Apache mod_perl

Apache Perl module

http://perl.apache.org

http://perl.apache.org/#docs

Apache mod_php

Apache PHP module

http://www.php.net

Apache mod_plsql

Apache PL/SQL module

http://www.total-knowledge.com/downloads/mod_plsql/

Apache mod_ssl

Apache Secure Sockets Layer

http://www.apache.org/related_projects.html#apachessl

http://www.rsasecurity.com

http://www.covalent.net/raven/ssl/

http://www.c2.net/products/sh2/

http://www.int.c2.net/products/sh2/

Aquarium

Modular web development

http://aquarium.sourceforge.net

Big Brother

Integrated system administration monitoring

http://bb4.com

http://bb4.com/demo.html

BLT

Graphical charts for Tcl/Tk

http://www.tcltk.com/blt/

ftp://ftp.tcltk.com/pub/blt/

ftp://tcltk.sourceforge.net/pub/tcltk/blt/

http://tcltk.com/blt/

BSD-Unix

The Berkeley Software Distribution

http://www.bsdi.com

C++

Object-oriented extension to C programming

http://www.research.att.com/~bs/homepage.html

Cocoon

XML web content management

http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/

CORBA

Common Object Request Broker Architecture

http://www.omg.org

http://www.corba.org

CVS

Concurrent Versions System

http://www.cvshome.org

DB Prism

Java servlet Oracle application

http://www.plenix.com/dbprism/doc/Home.html

http://www.telecomrg.com/darylcollins/prism/

DB_Browser

Perl CGI database management

http://www.summersault.com/software/db_browser/

DBD-Chart

Perl DBI driver interface for rendering charts and graphs

http://home.earthlink.net/~darnold/dbdchart/

DBInspector

Java SQL tool

http://dbinspector.com

Dbitotcl

Perl DBI linkage to Tcl

http://www.xdobry.de/dbitotcl/

dbMan

Perl/Tk database tool

http://dbman.linux.cz

http://www.fi.muni.cz/~sorm/dbman/

DCOracle

Oracle connectivity package for Python

http://www.zope.org/Products/DCOracle/

http://www.python.org/topics/database/modules.html

DDL-Oracle

Perl package to reverse-engineer DDL from Oracle database components

http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-authors/id/R/RV/RVSUTHERL/

EmbPerl

Dynamic Perl embedded within HTML

http://perl.apache.org/embperl/

Epingle

GTK+ interface builder

http://www.epita.fr/~theber_s/epingle/epingle.html

Gaby

GTK+ notepad data-handling package

http://gaby.netpedia.net

gASQL

GTK+ relational modeling tool

http://malerba.linuxave.net

Ghostscript

Open source PostScript printing

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/

The GIMP

The GNU Image Manipulation Tool

http://www.gimp.org

http://www.gimp.org/download.html

http://manual.gimp.org/

http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/index.html

Glade

GTK+ Interface Builder

http://glade.pn.org

GNOME

GNU Network Object Model Environment, the Linux-based desktop GUI environment

http://www.gnome.org

http://www.helixcode.com/desktop/download.php3

http://www.gnome.org/start/source.html

Gnome Transcript

Generic database table management

http://gtranscript.sourceforge.net

GNOME-DB

GNOME-related database framework

http://www.gnome.org/gnome-db/

GNU gcc

The GNU C compiler

http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html

http://gcc.gnu.org

http://www.redhat.com/swr/i386/gcc-java-2.95.1-3.i386.html

http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/gcc.html

http://sunfreeware.com

http://ftp.univie.ac.at/aix/aix432/

http://jazz.external.hp.com/src/gnu/download2_95_2.html

GNU Project

Philosophy and aims of the GNU License

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html

GRAD

GTK+ Rapid Application Development

http://www.penguin.cz/~grad/

GTK- -

Object-oriented GTK+-based GUI wrapper

http://gtkmm.sourceforge.net

GTK+

The extension of the GIMP ToolKit for other Linux GUI programs

http://www.gtk.org

http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/

ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/

http://gtkada.eu.org

http://www.gtk.org/beos/

http://www.be.com

http://gwydiondylan.org/gui.phtml

http://www.netlabs.net/hp/richieb/gtk_eiffel.html

http://www.ping.de/sites/zagadka/guile-gtk/

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/gtk/

ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/objc-gtkkit/

http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~gnu-pascal/

http://www.rit.net/sporter/gtkplusperl/

http://www.daa.com.au/~james/pygtk/

http://user.sgic.fi/~tml/gimp/win32/

HP-UX Unix

Freeware packages

http://jazz.external.hp.com/src/index.html

iAS

Oracle Corporation Internet Application Server

http://www.oracle.com/ip/deploy/ias/index.html?web.html

http://www.oracle.com/ip/deploy/ias/

Jakarta

The central Apache collection of Java projects

http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html

http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/index.html

http://jakarta.apache.org/ecs/index.html

http://jakarta.apache.org/james/index.html

http://jakarta.apache.org/jetspeed/site/index.html

http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/index.html

http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/docs/index.html

http://jakarta.apache.org/oro/index.html

http://jakarta.apache.org/regexp/index.html

http://jakarta.apache.org/slide/index.html

http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/index.html

http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/index.html

http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/index.html

http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/index.html

http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/index.html

http://jakarta.apache.org/watchdog/index.html

Java

Platform-independent, object-oriented programming from Sun

http://www.javasoft.com

http://www.gamelan.com

http://technet.oracle.com/tech/java/

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/index.html

http://java.sun.com/jdc/

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/html/index.html

http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/guide/jar/jarGuide.html

Java Database Explorer

Java GUI SQL tool

http://www.geocities.com/RodeoDrive/1620/jexplorer.html

Java packages

Java for specific Unix flavors

http://www.ibm.com/java/jdk/download/

http://www.unixsolutions.hp.com/products/java/index.html

http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html

http://www.freebsd.org/java/

Java's JDBC

Java DataBase Connectivity

http://java.sun.com/products/jdbc/driverdesc.html

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/jdbc/getstart/bridge.doc.html

http://technet.oracle.com/software/utilities/software_index.htm

http://technet.oracle.com/software/tech/java/sqlj_jdbc/software_index.htm

http://download.oracle.com/otn/utilities_drivers/jdbc/817/

http://technet.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle8i/doc_library/817_doc/java.817/

http://download.oracle.com/otn/utilities_drivers/jdbc/817/

http://technet.oracle.com/tech/java/

http://technet.us.oracle.com/tech/java/sqlj_jdbc/htdocs/jdbc_faq.htm

http://technet.oracle.com/tech/java/jroadmap/jdbc/listing.htm#998321

http://technet.oracle.com/tech/java/info/jdbc_doc.htm

Java's JDK

Java Developers Kit, for producing applets, Swing GUIs, and more

http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/

http://java.sun.com/j2se/

Java's JSDK

Java Servlet Development Kit, for developing server-side Java web applications

http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/

http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/download-windows.html

http://java.sun.com/products/OV_jservProduct.html

http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/java/Servlet-Tutorial/

http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets

http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/download.html

http://www.servlets.com

Java Swing

Java's supplement to AWT (Abstract Windowing Toolkit) for building GUIs

http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/index.html

http://www.inprise.com/jbuilder/

http://www.webgain.com/Products/VisualCafe_Overview.html

http://www.sun.com/forte/

http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/data/document2590/

http://www.netbeans.org

Java XML

Linkage between Java, Oracle, and XML

http://www.jdom.org

http://www.openxml.org

http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/sgml-xml.html

http://technet.oracle.com/tech/xml

JBoss

Open Source EJB Server

http://www.jboss.org

jDBA

Java DataBase Administrator SQL tool

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jdba/

http://www.jdba.org

JSP

JavaServer Pages, embedded HTML content

http://www.sun.com/software/embeddedserver/index.html

http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp

http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/

Karma

Perl CGI web-based remote database monitoring

http://www.iheavy.com/karma/

KDE

Kool Desktop Environment

http://www.kde.org

Kora

Linux client for PL/SQL

http://members.nbci.com/uwagner/kora/

LGPL

Lesser GPL License

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html

Linux and Oracle

Oracle FAQs, installation and tuning

http://www.redhat.com/marketplace/oracle/

http://platforms.oracle.com/linux/

http://www.calderasystems.com/partners/industry/oracle.html

http://www.suse.com/us/solutions/partners/oracle/

http://www.doag.de/mirror/frank/faqunix.htm

http://jordan.fortwayne.com/oracle/

http://www.intrex.net/miket/SetupConfig.txt

http://linas.org/linux/raid.html

http://www.tomshardware.com

http://www.linux.org/info/index.html

Linux development

Alan Cox's Linux diary

http://www.linux.org.uk/diary/

Lonyx

Oracle information resource

http://www.lonyx.com

Lynx

Text-based HTML browsing

http://lynx.browser.org

MacPerl

An adaptation of Perl for the Macintosh

http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri/macintosh/perl.html

http://www.macperl.com

http://www.macinstruct.com/tutorials/macperl/index.shtml

Mason

Embedded scripting language

http://www.masonhq.com

MinML

Java XML configuration file processor

http://www.wilson.co.uk/xml/minml.htm

http://freshmeat.net/projects.minml/

MySQL

Open source database

http://www.mysql.com

Nexus

Freely available Java web server

http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/ak/java/nexus/

OCI

The Oracle Call Interface

http://technet.oracle.com/tech/oci/

http://technet.oracle.com/doc/server.815/a67846/toc.htm

Oddis

Tcl/Tk-based Oracle Data Dictionary tool

ftp://www-b.informatik.uni-hannover.de/ftp/software/oddis/oddis-2.11.html

Open source in general

Key books, project definition, and other related information

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cb/

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/index.html

http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition_plain.html

http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.html

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/perens.html

http://www.opensource.org

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/toc.html

Orac

Perl/Tk tool for DBAs

http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/authors/id/A/AN/ANDYDUNC/

http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/Tk/

http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/DBI/

http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/Shell/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/perldbadmin/

Oracletool

Perl CGI-based DBA tool for the Web

http://www.oracletool.com

http://www.oracletool.com/download.html

OraExplain

Perl/Tk SQL tuning tool available in DBD::Oracle download

http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/DBD

Oraperl

Original Perl extension for Oracle usage

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/2990/oraperl.html

OraSnap

Oracle performance monitoring

http://www.stewartmc.com/oracle/orasnap/

Orasoft

Linux-based Oracle tools

http://www.orasoft.org

http://www.advantio.com

Oratcl

Tcl's Oracle connectivity project

http://download.sourceforge.net/oratcl/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/oratcl/

http://oratcl.sourceforge.net

http://oratcl.sourceforge.net/pub/oratcl30_man.html

http://www.nyx.net/~tpoindex

http://www.nyx.net/~tpoindex/tcl.html#Oratcl

OTN

The Oracle Technology Network

http://technet.oracle.com

http://otnxchange.oracle.com

Perl

Major scripting language

http://www.perl.com

http://www.perl.org

http://www.perldoc.com

http://www.perl.com/pub/v/faqs/

http://www.perl.com/CPAN/

http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/src/

http://www.perl.org/press/history.html

http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html

http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/

Perl DBD::Oracle

The Oracle driver for Perl DBI

http://dbi.symbolstone.org/cgi/moduledump?module=DBD::Oracle

http://velocity.activestate.com/docs/ActivePerl/site/lib/DBD/Oracle.html

http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/DBD/

Perl DBI

The generic DataBase Interface for Perl

http://dbi.symbolstone.org

http://dbi.symbolstone.org/doc/faq.html

http://www.perl.com/reference/query.cgi?database

http://velocity.activestate.com/docs/ActivePerl/site/lib/
DBI.html

http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/DBI/

http://velocity.activestate.com/docs/ActivePerl/faq/ActivePerl-faq2.html

http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/status.html

Perlplus

The Perl/Tk Netscape plug-in

http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-authors/id/F/FH/FHOLTRY/

http://home.rmi.net/~fholtry/

Perl/Tk

The main GUI ToolKit for Perl

http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/ptk/

http://www.cpan.org/doc/FAQs/tk/ptkTOC.html

http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.lang.perl.tk/ptkFAQ.html

http://www.pconline.com/~erc/perltk.htm

http://mysite.directlink.net/gbarr/PerlTk/tk-modlist.html

http://www.egroups.com/group/Perl-Tk/

ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/modules/ by-module/Tk/

http://www.lehigh.edu/~sol0/ptk/ptk.html

http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/status.html

PHP

Major web scripting language

http://www.php.net

http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro_history.php

PHP and Oracle

Oracle connectivity for PHP

http://www.php.net/manual/ref.oracle.php

PhpMyAdmin

PHP database administration tool

http://www.phpwizard.net/projects/phpMyAdmin/index.html

PhpOracleAdmin

The Oracle port of PhpMyAdmin

http://www.phporacleadmin.org

PLNet and PL/SQL

The open source PL/SQL project

http://plnet.org

http://plnet.sourceforge.net

http://www.gt.ed.net/keith/plsql/

http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-OSD.html

http://www.revealnet.com/Pipelines/PLSQL/index.htm

http://www.revealnet.com

Python

Major object-oriented scripting language

http://www.python.org

http://www.python.org/topics/database/modules.html

http://www.python.org/ftp/

http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html#1.15

http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.0/

http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePython/Download.html

http://www.ActiveState.com/download/contrib/Microsoft/NT/

http://www.ActiveState.com/download/contrib/Microsoft/9x/

ftp://ftp.scriptics.com/pub/tcl/tcl8_3/

QPL

The Qt licenses

http://www.trolltech.com/products/download/freelicense/license.html

http://www.trolltech.com/products/purchase/pricing.html

RPMs

Red Hat Package Manager for code distribution

http://rpm.redhat.com/RPM-HOWTO/index.html

http://rpmfind.net

http://www.python.org/2.0/

Solaris Unix

Freeware packages

http://sunfreeware.com

http://sunfreeware.com/faq.html

Squid

Web caching

http://www.squid-cache.org

Tcl and Tcl/Tk

Major scripting language that innovated the original Tk GUI ToolKit

http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/

http://www.tcltk.com

http://sourceforge.net/foundry/tcl-foundry/

ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/

http://dev.scriptics.com

http://dev.scriptics.com/doc/tclHistory.html

http://dev.scriptics.com/software/tcltk/downloadnow84.tml

Tcl Expect

Automation extension for Tcl

http://expect.nist.gov

Tcl GroupKit

Groupware development for Tcl

http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/projects/grouplab/groupkit/

Tcl [incr Tcl]

Object-oriented Tcl

http://tcltk.com/itcl/

Tcl [incr Tk]

Object-oriented Tcl/Tk

http://tcltk.com/itk/

Tcl [incr Widgets]

Mega-widget set for Tcl/Tk

http://tcltk.com/iwidgets/index.html

Tcl Tix

The Tk Interface extension

http://tix.mne.com

TclX

An important Tcl extension

http://www.neosoft.com/TclX/

http://dev.scriptics.com/ftp/tclx/

Tomcat

Java-based web serving

http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/index.html

http://jakarta.apache.org/site/faqs.html

http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/jakarta-tomcat/src/doc/index.html

Turbine

A Java-based framework for web applications

http://java.apache.org/turbine/

utPLSQL

The unit testing framework for PL/SQL

http://www.extremeprogramming.org

http://oracle.oreilly.com/utplsql/

http://www.egroups.com/group/utPLSQL/

http://www.stevenfeuerstein.com

VDK

The Visual Development Kit for GTK+

http://www.guest.net/homepages/mmotta/VDKHome/vdkbuilder.html

VDKBuilder

Rapid Application Development for VDK

http://www.guest.net/homepages/mmotta/VDKHome/vdkbuilder.html

ViennaSQL

The Java SQL GUI tool

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vienna/

http://vienna.sourceforge.net

http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/techDocs/hi/repository/

World Wide Web

Information on the World Wide Web's founder

http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/

WWWdb

Text-based searching within databases

http://wwwdb.org

ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/

ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/

ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/G/GR/GRICHTER/

ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/R/RB/RBOW/

ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/M/MS/MSCHWERN/

ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/N/NW/NWALSH/

ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/S/ST/STBEY/

http://linux.twc.de/wwwdb/

wxPython

wxWindows for Python

http://wxPython.org

ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/python/

wxWindows

The C++ GUI framework for all operating systems

http://wxperl.sourceforge.net

http://www.roebling.de

http://www.wxwindows.org/

X Windows System

The GUI windowing system originally for Unix

http://www.x.org

http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/directory/X.html

Zend

The PHP scripting engine

http://www.zend.com

Jul 5, 2005

why does undo tablespace grow so fast?

-Check the datafiles of undo tablespace are autoextened or not. if they are set to auto extensible, it will not reuse the space for the new transaction. In such scenarios new transaction will allocate a space and your undo tablespace will start growing.

-
The value for undo_retention also has a role in growth of undo tablespace. Ex: when load data into tables immediately after each other, then the UNDO_RETENTION time was probably too long, which resulted in more space being used instead of reused.

-UNDO is using autoallocation option of LMT. As the number of the extents goes up, the extent size will be increased too. When the number of extent reaches hundreds, the size could be 8M to 64M+ each. As it reaches thousands, the extent size will be even bigger.

This algorithm is meant to fit most cases, but if you know the size of most of your transactions you can use UNIFORM rather than AUTO.

ELLISON TO GRADS: DIPLOMAS ARE FOR LOSERS

An email text circulating since June 2000 purports to contain a commencement address given by Oracle's flamboyant CEO, Larry Ellison, to Yale's Class of 2000. Before I read its Chinese version, I'm not sure if it is ture, but it is Ellison's style. See both of versions as follow.

Oracle CEO:有史以来最狂妄的演讲

耶鲁的毕业生们,我很抱歉——如果你们不喜欢这样的开场。我想请你们为我做一件事。请你---好好看一看周围,看一看站在你左边的同学,看一看站在你右边的同学。

请你设想这样的情况:从现在起5年之后,10年之后,或30年之后,今天站在你左边的这个人会是一个失败者;右边的这个人,同样,也是个失败者。而你,站在中间的家伙,你以为会怎样?一样是失败者。失败的经历。失败的优等生。

说 实话,今天我站在这里,并没有看到一千个毕业生的灿烂未来。我没有看到一千个行业的一千名卓越领导者,我只看到了一千个失败者。你们感到沮丧,这是可以理 解的。为什么,我,埃里森,一个退学生,竟然在美国最具声望的学府里这样厚颜地散布异端?我来告诉你原因。因为,我,埃里森,这个行星上第二富有的人,是 个退学生,而你不是。因为比尔-盖茨,这个行星上最富有的人——就目前而言---是个退学生,而你不是。因为艾伦,这个行星上第三富有的人,也退了学,而 你没有。再来一点证据吧,因为戴尔,这个行星上第九富有的人——他的排位还在不断上升,也是个退学生。而你,不是。

......你们非常沮丧,这是可以理解的。

你们将来需要这些有用的工作习惯。你将来需要这种'治疗'。你需要它们,因为你没辍学,所以你永远不会成为世界上最富有的人。哦,当然,你可以,也许,以你的方式进步到第10位,第11位,就像Steve。但,我没有告诉你他在为谁工作,是吧?

根据记载,他是研究生时辍的学,开化得稍晚了些。

现在,我猜想你们中间很多人,也许是绝大多数人,正在琢磨,'我能做什么? 我究竟有没有前途?'当然没有。太晚了,你们已经吸收了太多东西,以为自己懂得太多。你们再也不是19岁了。你们有了'内置'的帽子,哦,我指的可不是你们脑袋上的学位帽。

嗯......你们已经非常沮丧啦。这是可以理解的。所以,现在可能是讨论实质的时候啦——

绝 不是为了你们,2000年毕业生。你们已经被报销,不予考虑了。我想,你们就偷偷摸摸去干那年薪20万的可怜工作吧,在那里,工资单是由你两年前辍学的同 班同学签字开出来的。事实上,我是寄希望于眼下还没有毕业的同学。我要对他们说,离开这里。收拾好你的东西,带着你的点子,别再回来。退学吧,开始行动。

我要告诉你,一顶帽子一套学位服必然要让你沦落......就像这些保安马上要把我从这个讲台上撵走一样必然......(此时,Larry被带离了讲台)

ELLISON TO GRADS: DIPLOMAS ARE FOR LOSERS
Oracle CEO Urges Students to Drop out, Start up

NEW HAVEN, CONN. (SatireWire.com) — In one of the more controversial commencement addresses in memory, Oracle CEO and college dropout Larry Ellison told Yale's Class of 2000 they were "losers" whose hard-won diplomas would never propel them into the ranks of the super rich.

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The evangelical Ellison, noting that college dropouts Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Michael Dell were, like himself, on Forbes' recent top 10 list of billionaires, urged freshmen and sophomores at the ceremony to "drop out and start up," and added that the undereducated Yale security guards who ushered him off stage probably had a better shot at uber-wealth than graduating seniors.

What follows is a transcript of the speech delivered by Ellison at the Yale University last month:

"Graduates of Yale University, I apologize if you have endured this type of prologue before, but I want you to do something for me. Please, take a good look around you. Look at the classmate on your left. Look at the classmate on your right. Now, consider this: five years from now, 10 years from now, even 30 thirty years from now, odds are the person on your left is going to be a loser. The person on your right, meanwhile, will also be a loser. And you, in the middle? What can you expect? Loser. Loserhood. Loser Cum Laude.

"In fact, as I look out before me today, I don't see a thousand hopes for a bright tomorrow. I don't see a thousand future leaders in a thousand industries. I see a thousand losers.

"You're upset. That's understandable. After all, how can I, Lawrence 'Larry' Ellison, college dropout, have the audacity to spout such heresy to the graduating class of one of the nation's most prestigious institutions? I'll tell you why. Because I, Lawrence "Larry" Ellison, second richest man on the planet, am a college dropout, and you are not.

"Because Bill Gates, richest man on the planet -- for now, anyway -- is a college dropout, and you are not.

"Because Paul Allen, the third richest man on the planet, dropped out of college, and you did not.

"And for good measure, because Michael Dell, No. 9 on the list and moving up fast, is a college dropout, and you, yet again, are not.

"Hmm... you're very upset. That's understandable. So let me stroke your egos for a moment by pointing out, quite sincerely, that your diplomas were not attained in vain. Most of you, I imagine, have spent four to five years here, and in many ways what you've learned and endured will serve you well in the years ahead. You've established good work habits. You've established a network of people that will help you down the road. And you've established what will be lifelong relationships with the word 'therapy.' All that of is good. For in truth, you will need that network. You will need those strong work habits. You will need that therapy.

"You will need them because you didn't drop out, and so you will never be among the richest people in the world. Oh sure, you may, perhaps, work your way up to No. 10 or No. 11, like Steve Ballmer. But then, I don't have to tell you who he really works for, do I? And for the record, he dropped out of grad school. Bit of a late bloomer.

"Finally, I realize that many of you, and hopefully by now most of you, are wondering, 'Is there anything I can do? Is there any hope for me at all?' Actually, no. It's too late. You've absorbed too much, think you know too much. You're not 19 anymore. You have a built-in cap, and I'm not referring to the mortar boards on your heads.

"Hmm... you're really very upset. That's understandable. So perhaps this would be a good time to bring up the silver lining. Not for you, Class of '00. You are a write-off, so I'll let you slink off to your pathetic $200,000-a-year jobs, where your checks will be signed by former classmates who dropped out two years ago.

"Instead, I want to give hope to any underclassmen here today. I say to you, and I can't stress this enough: leave. Pack your things and your ideas and don't come back. Drop out. Start up.

"For I can tell you that a cap and gown will keep you down just as suredly as these security guards dragging me off this stage are keeping me dow..."


"Hero and Beauty"