Robert's Db2

JULY 16, 2014

A couple of weeks ago, I got a question from a mainframe DB2 DBA about the impact of DB2 buffer pool enlargement on application and system performance. This individual had requested an increase in the size of a buffer pool on his system, and the system administration team had agreed to implement the change; however, one of the system administrators told the DBA that while the larger buffer pool would improve elapsed times for application processes accessing objects assigned to the pool, no CPU e

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JKevinParker

JULY 18, 2014

After upgrading my OS X a few times on my MacBook Pro and because I had Parallels and Windows installed, I had a lot of extra options when right-clicking and going to "Open With >" Some of these don't exist anymore (the Windows apps in particular) and some were duplicates of different versions of apps like TextWrangler. I wanted to clean this up.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 16, 2014

On July 15, 2014, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) released its Annual Report for 2013/14 (the “Report”). Entitled Effective, Efficient – and Busier than Ever, the Report illustrates the rapid growth of data protection and freedom of information issues in the UK in the past year. It highlights the fact that the ICO has received increasing numbers of questions and complaints from members of the public, processed record numbers of cases, and issued its highest ever level of f

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 15, 2014

On July 10, 2014, the UK government announced plans to introduce emergency data retention rules, publishing the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill (the “Bill”) along with explanatory notes and draft regulations. The publication of the Bill follows the European Court of Justice’s April 2014 declaration that the EU Data Retention Directive (the “Directive”) is invalid.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 14, 2014

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