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Microsoft updates its operating system about once a year. Features are added every time. This unfortunately means it gets bigger and slower every time. One may wonder if it is really necessary to always upgrade. Even not so recent versions provide you with most funcionality. Essential applications like MSIE mostly can be upgraded for free. Always ask yourself if you need the added features, or if they're just fluff.


Most of the Oracle database server installations traditionally come with a sample schema named Scott and Scott/Tiger as the user name and password to access the default schema. Did you ever wonder why the default username and password in Oracle is Scott/Tiger? Who is that Scott?Bruce Scott was one of the first employees at Oracle. He is also the co-founder of Gupta Technology (now known as Centura Software) in 1984 with Umang Gupta, and later became CEO and founder of PointBase, Inc.


Bruce was co-author and co-architect of Oracle V1, V2 and V3. The SCOTT schema (EMP and DEPT tables), with password TIGER, was created by him. Tiger was the name of his cat. Just wanted to warn you people not to buy those packs of ear buds you get at the roadside. It's made from cotton that has already been used in hospitals.


They take all the dirty, blood and pus filled cotton, wash it, bleach it and use it to make ear buds. So, unless you want to become the first person in the world to get Herpes Zoster Oticus (a viral infection of the inner, middle, and external ear) of the ear and that too from a cotton bud, DON'T BUY THEM!