Learning from Scratch!

Hello Forum Mates
I want to learn Oracle Dba, I have installed Oracle 10g(10.2.0) on OEL5.
Can anyone let me know the Concepts in a Sequence wise.
i followed couple of documents and Sam Alapati too but they are confusing,
please take your time and let me know in a sequence way and small topics too...
i will be thankful too you guys...
Thank You
Varun

EdStevens wrote:
Justin Mungal wrote:
Although I have to admit... not a single person I suggested these things to has even cracked open Oracle Database Concepts... :(
I'm not surprised, and I feel that is just a further indictment of the average person in IT today. They want to be 'experts' but they don't want to put in the hard work of actually studying and learning fundamental concepts. You see it all the time in this forum. They expect everything to be handled for them by some GUI and think 'learning' means learning which pretty icon to click on. The idea that part of their job might mean spending some time doing deep thinking with a pencil and notepad in hand is totally foreign to them . They are at a total loss when presented with a command prompt -- I've even seen people here who, when asked to do something at a command prompt and copy and paste the results, respond by asking how to get a command prompt. Almost every week someone comes here wanting to know how to recover a database when they never took a backup -- beyond not knowing the technique of backup and recovery, their thought process doesn't seem to grasp the fundamental concept that without a backup there can be no recovery. I seriously worry that these are the people that are, or will be, managing the systems that mange my retirement funds or my health care ....
<rant off>
I don't feel like my approach is wrong though; anything worth learning should be taken seriously.Absolutely.Thank you for the detailed response Ed. It sounds like we see eye-to-eye on this. There are a lot of IT folks who don't want to put the hard work, but there are also a lot of amazingly talented, hard-working people in this field. I certainly hope that the average IT person isn't the former! It's hard to say though. It seems like in many places, the real talent compensates for the "dead weight."

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I have found some wiki pages on how to install pacman from scratch and make it work on LFS but it doesn't really say how to upgrade packages allready installed. The arch creator, Judd Vinet, made archlinux kind off like this. I guess it would be a very good experience to know the ins and outs of a linux system.

Let's see here, how to explain this.
The way Arch, or any distro for that matter, started off was as an LFS system. This system, we'll call it the bootstrap system since that's basically what it is, serves as an environment in which packages for an entire new system can be created as packages. Once the packages are all built, they can be installed as a new distro and the bootstrap system gets dumped. In other words the bootstrap system ends up being an entirely separate system from the eventual distro, and just a way to get the distro itself on its legs and running.
As I understand it, what you want to do is create something like a bootstrap system and sort of install it in/on top of itself. It seems to me that while it's possible to do, it's incredibly difficult, and PITA to say the least. As an alternative idea, what you might want to do is compile pacman from source, then compile all of BASE using pacman, and take the resulting packages and install them to another partition and in that sense make your own Arch from scratch

Making a Menu from Scratch

As far as I can tell, there is absolutely no way to create a menu from scratch.
Allowing you to make your own back ground, music and links to videos. You think that we this "advanced" software, they would also have the option to make your own menu from scratch. Sometimes those are the most meaningful DVDs.
Also, The "Old Themes" aren't available, so when I click on them, I agree to download the extra features, expecting for them to become available. But after the installation is done, there is no difference. The reason I wanted some of the Older themes is because some of them seemed to have simpler features where it is almost as though you made it from scratch with a simple picture as the background.

Good info already posted above. Allow me to add. Question: Are you looking to make a static menu or one with full motion like that found on the Revolution theme?
If it's the latter, then iDvd is fairly useless when straying from stock themes. DVDSP combined with apps like Motion will allow you to approach and perhaps even surpass the motion menus as seen in iDvd. But the learning curve for DVDSP and Motion is rather large (not to mention expensive). So unless you have plenty of cash and time to invest then I'd highly recommend simply modifying an existing theme. Suggest you also take a look at a few of Karsten's prior posts on this subject because he has this down to a rather fine art in terms of iDvd modifications to existing themes.
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