When trying to import an Oracle database export, backup or dump, you may encounter the error IMP-00016 where the import terminate prematurely and not allow you to continue the import to the destination Oracle database. The error has the following message:

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FTP or File Transfer Protocol is a useful utility that allows you to transfer several files between a workstation or client with the FTP server. Although nowadays GUI FTP client programs such as WS-Ftp and FileZilla are very common, but DOS or command-line FTP interface comes in useful and handy as it’s free and especially when you don’t have Internet connection to download the advance FTP clients, as basic FTP functionalities are built-in into most operating system including Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2003, Linux, Unix, FreeBSD and so on.

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If you’re a publisher for ValueClick Media advertising network or 24/7 Real Media ads management software in your ads campaigns, you may notice the keyword “Cache Busting” when you’re presented with your ad codes in code generator. Fro ValueClick Media, the cache busting ad code is offered when you select 160/120 SkyScraper or 728/468 Banner creative ads format.

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Microsoft adCenter Labs has released Demographics Prediction tool that predict a user’s age, gender, and other demographic information, based on his or her online behavior. Demographics Predition is designed to help advertisers to find out more about the demographics about a certain product or a website, as customer profile data can provide important hints for targeted advertising. However, webmaster can use the prediction tool to know the visitors to their websites or any sites too, especially if they don’t ask users to register their profiles.

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NBC is teaming up with viral video Web site YouTube to promote its fall season. Under the agreement, announced Tuesday, YouTube will create a dedicated NBC channel on its Web site. In exchange, NBC will hype YouTube through on-air promos.

The deal is noteworthy, considering NBC’s legal turmoils with YouTube. A popular Saturday Night Live skit called “Lazy Sunday” was uploaded to YouTube in December 2005 without NBC’s consent. The video — which poked fun at Disney’s The Chronicles of Narnia movie — made YouTube an instant Internet sensation. Lazy Sunday was viewed more than five million times on YouTube before NBC Universal forced the site to remove it, along with several other copyrighted NBC video clips in February 2006. NBC later placed the skit on its SNL web page as well as in the iTunes Store. Coincidently, YouTube.com won’t be able to post the Lazy Sunday video as part of the new deal, NBC spokesman Joe Libonati said Tuesday.

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Apparently toys are off the menu when it comes to promoting Disney movies in McDonald’s Happy Meals. The two companies are ending their 10-year, $1.3 billion cross-promotional deal at the end of the 2006 summer movie season.

What ended the relationship? Disney board member Steve Jobs doesn’t care much for the food at McDonald’s and wants to stop using it to promote Disney/Pixar films like Finding Nemo and Cars to kids. According to the LA Times, Steve Jobs expressed his uncertainty about using Happy Meals to help promote films in a conference call last year. Jobs, Apple CEO and Pixar Animation Studios chief, is now Disney’s largest shareholder after Disney’s recent purchase of Pixar.

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Vonage USB SoftPhone kit or V-Phone is a USB key-chain device that can be plugged into any USB port on any Windows-based computer to provide instant Internet calling from your VoIP number or receive call on the number at the same low price across the world. The Vonage USB SoftPhone kit consists of a USB key that preloaded with Vonage software with your account ID and its own jack for standard cell-phone earphones plus a headset. Once the USB Key VoIP phone been plugged into any PC, the software will run and let you make and receive the call with your Internet telephone service.

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CRN has reviewed and compared several notebooks and laptops that runs on Microsoft Windows XP Media Center edition. The powerhouse notebook computers been reviewed are Toshiba America Qosmio G35-AV600, Acer TravelMate8200, Sony VAIO SZ160PC and Hewlett-Packard Pavilion dv8000t, all are from leading top-tier laptop manufacturers, and packed with a lot of integrated options and peripherals such as speakers, cameras and widescreens with integrated Dolby speakers, plus bigger hard disks and more RAM to ensure they’re optimized for playback of digital media and the presentation of rich business applications.

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