Mac OS X Lion (10.7)

Apple have made the OS X Lion (10.7) installation process is so cool. You can either buy the software from Mac Store for 29.99 using your iTunes account or USB which is 69.99. Apple have made the software distribution in the direction of cloud and Macbook Air. 

The installation took close to 1 hour for me including downloading the software. It is a good practice to make a OS X Lion DVD before you actually proceed to run the program. The downloaded software is cleaned up after the Lion installation.

Launchpad, Mission Control, Auto Save and Full Screen application window are the features that you will notice immediately. One feature which I loved with Lion is that upon restart, Lion opens up the windows that were left open at the time of shutting down.

Leopard was awesome with no# of features, Snow leopard was all about tweaking and tuning Leopard, Lion is all about exploring new dimension towards user interface.

Automated script to start and stop OBIEE 11g (11.1.1.3.0 and higher)

Below are the two links that can help you have your own script to start and stop OBIEE from command line. Both the script works for 11.1.1.3.0 and 11.1.1.5.0.

1) https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=4546010 and

2) https://forums.oracle.com/forums/message.jspa?messageID=9383047#9383047 

Metalink Notes for starting and stopping BI process:
a. How To Start / Stop An OBIEE 11g (11.1.1.x) Unix / Linux Environment Via Command-line [ID 1240964.1]
b. Cannot start the BI Managed Server using the weblogic account [ID 1311425.1]