Useful List of Math Books
February 27, 2011
Search and its sister disciplines are essentially applied math. We like to keep our eyes open for useful math books. Some of search’s mysteries are partially revealed in the discussion of certain interesting problems.
Math(blog) has collected “30 great Math Books as Recommended by our Readers.”
Math(blog)’s readers answered the call to endorse their favorite math tomes:
“Now that the results are in, we must say that while some titles were expected, there are quite a few surprises as well. Quite frankly we were blown away by the great list of math books we compiled with your input.”
The listing also includes quotations from the submitters, and the titles are linked to their Amazon pages. See the comments section for even more suggestions.
Cynthia Murrell, February 27, 2011
Deinstalling Oracle Text
January 5, 2011
We received an email from one of our two or three readers asking about this link to Oracle’s own documentation for deinstalling Oracle Text. The link is to Oracle’s Help Web site, but when you click the link to the deinstallation information, you are greeted with a log in screen.
What does one do if the engineer working on the deinstallation does not have a user name and password. Clients have been known to lose track of these items in our experience. Trial and error is not a recommended approach. Oracle Text works its way into the “Oracle environment” and can become irritated if tasks are not undertaken in the prescribed order. Fooling around can create quite a bit of excitement. Data corruption, anyone?
If you need deinstallation information, you may want to navigate to Net Cry. There is a non password protected guide to walk you the process: “Manual installation, deinstallation of Oracle Text 10gR1 and 10gR2.” We can’t guarantee that it is congruent with Oracle’s method, but you will find a step-by-step description without any frills and if you read carefully, it should answer all your questions.
Whitney Grace, January 5, 2011
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Facebook Productivity Tip
December 31, 2010
Listen up, Facebook users. Bogged down by the number of links shared by your Facebook friends? Well fret no more, TheLikeWall is here in an effort to save you time. Simply visit the website and login with the same details used for your Facebook account. The Like Wall will take tally of all the links your Facebook friends are sharing and rank them by the reactions other people have already recorded. So the most popular links are seated at the top of the list, allowing the less important ones to fall to the fray, thus saving you countless hours by knowing what isn’t worth looking at. There is not much to this… literally. Visit the website for yourself and see.
This service sounds useful enough. I’m afraid I cannot report I have conducted any tests or offer a proper review; I don’t have a Facebook account. My personal solution to wasting less time on Facebook is to never visit Facebook, but that’s just me.
Sarah Rogers, December 31, 2010
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Webinar Finder from Peelon
December 20, 2010
We’ve recently stumbled upon a promising new resource at Peelon.com. To put it in their own words, Peelon.com “is a webinar directory and can be used as a webinar search engine” AND it is absolutely free of charge, not to mention free of advertising. Peelon vows to do just two things: help find a webinar, or help promote a webinar. After only having investigated the site for minutes, the straightforward, no frills functionality was easily harnessed.
The querying capability is there, allowing the user to sort all available records by date or time, industry and type of webinar. It wouldn’t be surprising to see these initial option categories expanding with increased traffic. But for now, if those options are not sufficient to pinpoint the e-lecture of choice, there is a search box to enter any relevant words or phrase. The results can be filtered by date, comments or even popularity.
Click on any webinar and one will find all the pertinent details spelled out: date, time, description etc. Curiosity led me to check out the “Add new webinar” link which prompted a page of empty webinar details waiting for user input. By the looks of it, the process to post a webinar can’t take longer than five minutes and even that includes one coffee break.
All in all, this site is free of clutter, hassle and just plain free. You won’t hear any complaining here!
Sarah Rogers, December 20, 2010
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