Friday, December 31, 2010

My true companion Ticket America

If you are an american then you are definitely aware of what exactly ticket america is because it is the only site that made a tremendous growth in last few years in providing best services to its users in the field of entertainment. If you want to know what latest is happening in your town then you can simply visit their site and get to know about all the facilities that they provide in the form of concerts,city guides,sports or any other useful information that you need for your entertainment. In this post I am mainly going to concentrate on all the stadiums where you can get the tickets from here.The biggest point for Ticketamerica is that they are far from unique in applying these extra costs, and it is symptomatic of the ticketing industry in general, rather than this one individual supplier. With ticket america can get a chance to visit all the best stadiums across whole america which includes Bank of America Stadium,Lucas Oil Stadium,Lambeau Field,FedEx Field,Invesco Field and may more in the same list.

Assuming there are tickets remaining to your show, the tickets you have selected will be presented to you. Once they are in your 'basket', you have a limited amount of time to complete the transaction before the tickets are released for other people to buy. This is normally a few minutes worth, but it's often best to have all of your card details at hand to avoid any wasted time. Another alternative is to create an account on the site, whereby all of your personal information is stored, thus making the checkout process a lot quicker.

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Review on Ticket America 4

If you are a real fun loving person and fond of visiting different different stadiums and even not getting chance to look on all these then here is a place for you where you can complete any of your game dream. Now here is a great news for american people because with Ticket america you can get a chance see matches in all those stadiums and enjoy matches their. But sometimes it is very difficult to get these tickets because a lot of people want to see the same matches in all those lovely stadiums like Bank of America Stadium,Lucas Oil Stadium,Lambeau Field,FedEx Field,Invesco Field and many more in the same list.

Here I am going to give you some more detail about Yankee Stadium,in Yankee stadium their are two sections at Yankee Stadium that offer fans with a more economical way to see a game, The Tier Reserved outfield and the Bleachers. The Tier Reserved outfield consists of sections 26-36 and 25-35. These sections are nosebleed seats and they are far down the line, but they get you into the park at a cheap price. The Bleacher sections are better in that they are not elevated as high but as with many bleacher sections in most MLB parks a birds eye view is hard to come by. Bleacher sections are numbered as 37 to 59. If your fortunate enough to sit in the lower rows of the Bleachers, you will be able to get a nice view of the bullpens. Again, these two sections get you in and allow you to indulge in few extra brews.

Friday, November 5, 2010

Review on Ticket America 3

If you plan to attend any kind of ticketed event on your travels to the USA, then I can give a big thumbs up to Ticketmaster.com, the biggest provider around, and in my experience, also the best. I've used this service several times when attending sporting events in the USA, and it works quite smoothly, so I have no real complaints at all about the service. The biggest negative for Ticketmaster is their hefty service and transaction charges that are applied to each order, but they are far from unique in applying these extra costs, and it is symptomatic of the ticketing industry in general, rather than this one individual supplier. You can book the tickets for any of your favorite matches,it may be kentucky basket ball match tickets,george town hoyas basket ball group, tennessee vols mens basketball group or kansas state wildcats mens basketball match.

Assuming there are tickets remaining to your show, the tickets you have selected will be presented to you. Once they are in your 'basket', you have a limited amount of time to complete the transaction before the tickets are released for other people to buy. This is normally a few minutes worth, but it's often best to have all of your card details at hand to avoid any wasted time. Another alternative is to create an account on the site, whereby all of your personal information is stored, thus making the checkout process a lot quicker.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Review on Ticket America 2

If you enjoy going to see live music then you should check out TicketAmerica.com. They have a huge list of arenas and stadiums all over the country. For example, they offer tickets to events at Green Bay Packers,Philadelphia,New York Yankees,Detroit Lions,San Fransisco Giants, Arco Arena, Chicago Bears,Staples Center, Texas rangers,Carolina Panthers and many, many others.

The website is easy to navigate and contains all of the information you need to choose the perfect seat and area. They also have phone numbers, layouts and maps. The maps open up into a Google Map page so you can see the entire area (in case you need driving directions or just want to see if there's a restaurant or hotel nearby.)

They're touted as having the most comprehensive inventory of tickets online, and tickets are sent via FedEx. Some of the current list of shows are Kelly Clarkson, John Mayer, Leonard Cohen, No Doubt, and Neil Diamond (yes, he's still performing!) There are many, many other tickets available for other shows as well. And you can order from the comfort of your own home.

Review on Ticket Amercia

If you enjoy going to see live music then you should check out TicketAmerica.com. They have a huge list of arenas and stadiums all over the country. For example, they offer tickets to events at Philadelphia, New York Yankees,San Fransisco Giants, Arco Arena, Staples Center, Texas rangers, and many, many others.

The website is easy to navigate and contains all of the information you need to choose the perfect seat and area. They also have phone numbers, layouts and maps. The maps open up into a Google Map page so you can see the entire area (in case you need driving directions or just want to see if there's a restaurant or hotel nearby.)

They're touted as having the most comprehensive inventory of tickets online, and tickets are sent via FedEx. Some of the current list of shows are Kelly Clarkson, John Mayer, Leonard Cohen, No Doubt, and Neil Diamond (yes, he's still performing!) There are many, many other tickets available for other shows as well. And you can order from the comfort of your own home.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Get rid of aging problem

Antioxidants are intimately involved in the prevention of cellular damage -- the common pathway for cancer, aging, and a variety of diseases. The scientific community has begun to unveil some of the mysteries surrounding this topic, and the media has begun whetting our thirst for knowledge. Athletes have a keen interest because of health concerns and the prospect of enhanced performance and/or recovery from exercise. The purpose of this article is to serve as a beginners guide to what antioxidants are and to briefly review their role in exercise and general health. What follows is only the tip of the iceberg in this dynamic and interesting subject.

Endurance exercise can increase oxygen utilization from 10 to 20 times over the resting state. This greatly increases the generation of free radicals, prompting concern about enhanced damage to muscles and other tissues. The question that arises is, how effectively can athletes defend against the increased free radicals resulting from exercise? Do athletes need to take extra antioxidants?

Because it is not possible to directly measure free radicals in the body, scientists have approached this question by measuring the by-products that result from free radical reactions. If the generation of free radicals exceeds the antioxidant defenses then one would expect to see more of these by-products. These measurements have been performed in athletes under a variety of conditions.

Glutathione (gamma-glutamyl-cysteinyl-glycine; GSH) is the most abundant low-molecular-weight thiol, and GSH/glutathione disulfide is the major redox couple in animal cells. The synthesis of GSH from glutamate, cysteine, and glycine is catalyzed sequentially by two cytosolic enzymes, gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase and GSH synthetase. Compelling evidence shows that GSH synthesis is regulated primarily by gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase activity, cysteine availability, and GSH feedback inhibition. Animal and human studies demonstrate that adequate protein nutrition is crucial for the maintenance of GSH homeostasis. In addition, enteral or parenteral cystine, methionine, N-acetyl-cysteine, and L-2-oxothiazolidine-4-carboxylate are effective precursors of cysteine for tissue GSH synthesis.

These initial products position OXIS for a feasible entry into the wellness market with a lot of room for expansion. This paves the way for solid partnerships with leaders in the industry with an established customer base or those with the capacity to build one. The ultimate goal is to be regarded as a health partner. For now, it may be penny stocks for OXIS, but with more nutraceutical products lined up (including functional foods like nutrition bars and energy beverages sold over the Internet and through multi-level marketing, infomercials, direct mail, and retail outlets), the future of OXIS is secure and will benefit people all over, allowing them to be healthy and young.

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Thursday, June 17, 2010

Firmware

Fixed software programs that internally control various electronic devices or individual hardware parts of these devices (such as mobile phones). They involved very basic low-level operations of the device, without which the device would be completely non-functional.More simple firmwares are usually stored on ROM or OTP/PROM, while more complex firmwares occupy flash memory to allow for updates. Common reasons for updating firmware include fixing bugs or adding features to the device.Doing so usually involves loading a binary image file provided by the manufacturer into the device, according to a specific procedure. More often than not this is meant to be done by the end user.

Friday, May 14, 2010

FM Radio??? A big question for me.....

The built-in FM radio tuner is now considered a basic feature. It allows the user to listen to most of the live-broadcasted FM radio stations. Almost all phones with FM radio tuner require a wired headset to be connected to the unit as it’s used as an antenna.Most FM radio tuners can receive basic radio station info over RDS. The use of FM radio does not interfere with the network carrier and it’s free.Nokia enhance their FM radio interfaces with the Visual Radio enhancement that adds visuals and text as an additional info layer to normal radio broadcasts.A presentation of graphics and text, synchronized to the audio programming, gets downloaded to the phone over a data connection; the FM transmission chain is unaffected by the addition of Visual Radio.


Here's the type of content that Visual Radio can offer:

* Information on the song and artist currently playing on air
* View images related to presenters or news stories
* A weather map during the weather broadcast
* News, weather and traffic alerts while songs are playing
* Listen in to a talk show and see what has been discussed so far
* Join in audience votes, Big Brother style
* Participate in on-air competitions

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Cluster Computing

In computers, clustering is the use of multiple computers, typically PCs or UNIX workstations, multiple storage devices, and redundant interconnections, to form what appears to users as a single highly available system. Cluster computing can be used for load balancing as well as for high availability. Advocates of clustering suggest that the approach can help an enterprise achieve 99.999 availability in some cases. One of the main ideas of cluster computing is that, to the outside world, the cluster appears to be a single system.

A common use of cluster computing is to load balance traffic on high-traffic Web sites. A Web page request is sent to a "manager" server, which then determines which of several identical or very similar Web servers to forward the request to for handling. Having a Web farm (as such a configuration is sometimes called) allows traffic to be handled more quickly.Clustering has been available since the 1980s when it was used in DEC's VMS systems. IBM's sysplex is a cluster approach for a mainframe system. Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and other leading hardware and software companies offer clustering packages that are said to offer scalability as well as availability. As traffic or availability assurance increases, all or some parts of the cluster can be increased in size or number.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Understand what daemon is???

A demon (also see daemon which has a somewhat similar meaning) is a program or process, part of a larger program or process, that is dormant until a certain condition occurs and then is initiated to do its processing. Eric Raymond cites an artificial intelligence ( artificial intelligence ) application as an example. An AI program might include a number of demons, one or more of which might become active when a new piece of knowledge was acquired by the AI program. If the new knowledge affected a particular demon's own sphere of knowledge, it would spring into action and create new pieces of knowledge based on its particular inference rules. Each of these new pieces of knowledge might in turn activate additional demons that would continue to filter through and refine the entire AI knowledge base.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Understand what are .ini files

INI is a file name extension used in Microsoft Windows. The letters stand for initialization. As this term implies, INI files are used to initialize, or set parameters for, the operating system and certain programs.

In Windows, two common INI files are SYSTEM.INI and WIN.INI. It is possible to get some idea of what these files do by opening them in a plain-text (ASCII) word processor or in a DOS editor. The files contain statements that set various parameters for the mouse, keyboard, peripherals, screen colors, passwords, and so on. Under ordinary circumstances, no changes should be made to these files in the text editor. (If the text editor presents the option to "Save changes" upon closing, click on "No.")

In Windows 95, 98, NT, and later versions, much of the configuration is done through values in the registry, rather than through INI files. Certain programs contain their own INI files. The contents of these files are normally modified by changing the characteristics of a program through the user interface for that program, not by editing the files themselves.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Difference between Table and View in Oracle

A table is where you store your data. The table actually occupies space on disk. A sample table might be the EMPLOYEE table which has the columns EMPID, EMP_NAME, and SALARY.

A view is a stored query. A sample view might look like the following:

CREATE VIEW emp_view AS SELECT empid,emp_name FROM employee;

Notice that in the view, I have omitted the SALARY column. You can then query the view similar to the following:

SELECT * FROM emp_view;

Oracle will know this is a view and automatically rewrite the query to return only the EMPID and EMP_NAME columns from the EMPLOYEE table.

Views are used primarily to store a common query in the database. Without the view, you might have the same complex query stored in multiple locations in your application code. If you need to make a change, you would have to change the query in all locations. However, if that query were in a view, you would only have to change it in one location.

The other common reason for a view is for security purposes. If I grant a user the ability to query EMP_VIEW and they do not have permissions to query the EMPLOYEE table, then they could never see the SALARY column.

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Understand Deadlock

A deadlock is a situation in which two computer programs sharing the same resource are effectively preventing each other from accessing the resource, resulting in both programs ceasing to function.

The earliest computer operating systems ran only one program at a time. All of the resources of the system were available to this one program. Later, operating systems ran multiple programs at once, interleaving them. Programs were required to specify in advance what resources they needed so that they could avoid conflicts with other programs running at the same time. Eventually some operating systems offered dynamic allocation of resources. Programs could request further allocations of resources after they had begun running. This led to the problem of the deadlock. Here is the simplest example:

Program 1 requests resource A and receives it.
Program 2 requests resource B and receives it.
Program 1 requests resource B and is queued up, pending the release of B.
Program 2 requests resource A and is queued up, pending the release of A.

Now neither program can proceed until the other program releases a resource. The operating system cannot know what action to take. At this point the only alternative is to abort (stop) one of the programs.

Learning to deal with deadlocks had a major impact on the development of operating systems and the structure of databases. Data was structured and the order of requests was constrained in order to avoid creating deadlocks.


Below is a funny example of car deadlock.
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

What is Cygwin

Cygwin is an open source collection of tools that allows Unix or Linux applications to be compiled and run on a Windows operating system from within a Linux-like interface. This capability helps developers to migrate applications from Unix or Linux to Windows-based systems, and makes it easier to support their applications running on the Windows platform. Cygwin includes a dynamic link library (DLL) and a collection of tools. The DLL serves as a Linux emulator, and the tool set provides the Linux-like development environment.

Using Cygwin, developers can more easily provide remote support for applications running on Windows platforms. Because Unix and Linux are open to public input, administrators have contributed a great number of management scripts for these systems over the years, helping to assemble a large collection of available administrative tools. Cygwin makes it possible to use these scripts on computers running Windows, as well. An administrator can log in to a Windows-based computer and fix user problems within a Unix or Linux shell, and can also incorporate Windows command line interface tools into the shell script environment.

The name Cygwin was created from a combination of Cygnus and Windows

Know more about Cron Script

A CRON script is a list of one or more commands to a computer operating system or application server that are to be executed at a specified time. Each command is executed when its triggering time arrives. In Unix-based operating systems, the crontab command is a user interface command that creates or changes a file (called a crontab file). This file contains a list of UNIX shell commands, each with a specified time of execution. A CRON script is similar.

Friday, March 26, 2010

Oracle revenue up

Fueled by growth in new software licenses, Oracle revenue for its fiscal third quarter, ended Feb. 28, increased 17% from the same period last year, hitting $6.4 billion, though earnings declined due in part to restructuring charges incurred by the company's purchase of Sun Microsystems.Oracle reported third-quarter earnings of $1.2 billion, a drop of 10% compared to the same period last year.

Excluding special charges, earnings per share grew 9% to $1.9 billion or $0.38 per share, with $6.5 billion in revenue. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had on average predicted earnings per share of $0.38 and $6.35 billion in revenue.
New software license revenues, which are considered a key indicator of growth and market temperament, grew 13% to $1.7 billion.Software license updates and product support revenue continued to be key for Oracle's performance, rising 13% to $3.3 billion, or just over half of all revenue.

Total hardware systems revenue was $458 million, but the figure does not represent a full quarter, as the Sun deal closed in January.Oracle's work on integrating Sun is going well, and Sun products will make "a significant contribution" to Oracle's fourth-quarter earnings, co-President Safra Catz said in a statement.

Oracle's Exadata data warehousing machine is "the fastest-growing product" in company history, with nearly $400 million in the sales pipeline, co-President Charles Phillips said in a separate statement.It's become a tradition for Oracle executives to bash applications rival SAP during earnings calls, but Thursday's call featured an especially large dose of trash talk.

CEO Larry Ellison bashed SAP's technology, particularly its ABAP programming language. Oracle's Java-based Fusion Applications -- set for release in the second half of this year after a long delay -- will give his company a major edge, Ellison said.Fusion Applications will be sold as on-premises software, integrated appliances, and in on-demand form.

"We're going to go compete with SAP's 25-year-old technology. Once we deliver Fusion, we're going to be well-positioned to challenge for the number-one slot [in applications]," Ellison said.He neglected to mention that SAP developers nowadays also have the option to program in Java.Ellison acknowledged that Fusion Applications have been a long time coming but said it was for the best.

"We did not make the mistake of trying to rush this out early. Were we late with Fusion? Yes, we were late." But that is preferable to releasing a poor product, he said.With the Sun deal complete, Oracle's broader strategy involves selling customers integrated systems spanning hardware, storage, middleware and applications.

To this end, "there will be other clusters like Exadata ... coming out pretty much for all of the software we sell," Ellison said.

Oracle partnered with Hewlett-Packard on the original Exadata machine, but jumped to Sun technology for the second version, which is aimed at transaction processing as well as data warehousing.Oracle wants to compete with IBM's "biggest, best box," Ellison said. "We're going to get better and better at large-scale transaction processing."

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Review on Addiction Treatment

Entering Addiction treatment to try to get my alcohol and cocaine abuse under control I thought that my only problem was substance abuse. It wasn’t long into my addiction treatment that I learned that the reason why I had been abusing substances since my teenage years was to avoid dealing with the death of my brother. The treatment facility quickly recognized this and put together a treatment plan for me that would help me mourn my brothers passing as well as address my addiction. The staff at the addiction recovery program provided me with support and understanding. I did not feel like I was “less then” because of my dependency to drugs and alcohol.

As my drug treatment experience went on I could literally feel myself changing. For the first time I was able to talk about my brother and more importantly cry without having to put drugs or alcohol into my body to self medicate. I was learning that it was okay to feel sad and vulnerable. I also started to feel remorse for all of the emotional harm that I caused my family and friends during my active addiction. I never realized that I was not only just hurting myself but everyone that cared about me. During my drug addiction I was not capable of helping, caring, or loving others. How could I? I didn’t know how to love and respect myself.

Addiction treatment got my recovery off on the right foot. It built the foundation for a long lasting recovery contingent that I continue to take suggestions. If it wasn’t for my drug abuse and addiction treatment I don’t think that I would be becoming the man I am today. Someone that I can look in the mirror at an be happy with. Now I am able to treat people with care and understanding and not make selfish decisions that will only benefit my cause.

The need to find a drug rehab program in Florida that treats dual diagnosis is an important step in stopping the destructive lifestyle of drug abuse and addiction. Drug abuse and addiction not only affects the addict but also the family, friends, co-workers and loved ones who are intimately connected with him or her.