Let's just say my patience for religious rhetoric is only surpassed by my patience for cold weather. That and it somehow feels morally wrong to go trolling for women in a church of a faith I do not have.
* go outside, I do this every time I go to my car, oh. (Actually, I plan on going swimming Sunday.) *take a shower.
I do. *switch to diet coke
I drink milk, I can't stand sodas. *get the artificial cheese dust out of your facial hair
I hate facial hair. Shave regularly. *get a real, living girlfriend. I'm still working on the "how" part. Intentionally neglected this skill in highschool. Skipped college. Hate bars.
Then again, I'm not modding my mouse either.
Oh well.
IMarv
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I just tried "Select # from table" in Oracle and that gave me an error. Where does one use the pound symbol for SQL? (Except date delimiters in Access SQL.)
I can't help you on the col*r thing. IMarv
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That's great until. "Oh, you have last year's car. I can't service that broken part. We only have this year's car's part that you broke. Buy this year's car. That'll fix it, and then when you break that part, we can fix it. (But only for this year.)
Just how long would it take you to tell them to shove it if they told you that?
I think the hardest part is trying to have people work with data and not understand what it is. When the programmers don't know, you're pages/program won't do what you want it to until about the 30th try. If the DBA's don't know, and assuming the programmers have a clue, they'll go nuts trying to pull it out. If neither of them have a hint, it'll take forever. Either that, or your spec will be so damned clear that you may as well take it the next three inches and program it yourself. I've seen what ignorance between requirements and product can result in. Very compentently designed incorrect systems.
I love people's pictures of systems that are static. My project that I work on is constantly evolving. Needs are being found all the time that no ammount of forethought would have found. And if we could, we wouldn't use the means for making a database. (Think lottery or earthquake warning system, etc.)
Anyway, I'm in the strange situation of being both the DBA and the developer at the same time, and I try to do both well. I constantly think I could do better, but others seem pretty happy with things.
For each user that needs the pass phrase, use their password (or some password related token) as a key and store that version of the pass phrase with their user. Then, when that user logs in, you can decode the pass phrase with their password and when they change their password, update the encoded pass key.
That's your best bet (with my limited knowledge of security). And add in some obscurity and call the field something like GUID or something.
Could you move their job to another server and share the data through the network?
Driving or walking, I try to watch all important vehicles when trying to move about. If I see a nice big car, I assume it will fail to yeild until I have some sense of certainty it will yeild. I may or may not be paranoid, and they may not be out to get me; but it doesn't mean they can't screw up. I guess not everybody considers cars as weapons.
I once did an emergency stop at a regular light when it went red (I had no idea how long the yellow was going to be.) And I stopped. Then I looked in my rear view mirror to see a semi-truck smoking up its breaks and going to the emergency lane to my left. I had stopped, but decided to go anyway before traffic resumed. I DID NOT NEED THAT MUCH GASOLINE IN MY TRUNK! I have since added making sure the person BEHIND me can safely stop as part of deciding to run a yellow or stop for a yellow.
I wish all lights had a 6 second yellow, then I could know how much time I have to both decide and stop.
I'll add it to the list of things to do when I take over the world.
Known to date: A road will have one name, and one name only. No other roads within 20 miles shall have the same name. All roads will be continuous with one name. If there's a gap, it gets a new name. (Except when there are irrivokable funded schedules to connect them within 2 years. And if those plans fail, one of the roads will be significantly renamed.) East, West, North, South, and other ordinal names will not be valid road names. These are for directional headings ON roads.
Highways will have multiple speed limits, the traditional slow lane will remain so, and each lane farther from it will be 10MH faster than its neighbor. In the US that would mean an 8 lane highway with a speed limit of 55 would be, 55, 65, 75, 85, 85, 75, 65, 55. (4 each way) This would allow people to find the flow they like and stick with it and stay out of the way of those who feel otherwise.
Lanes will have symbols identifying the lanes. Exit signs that traditionally point with arrows at lanes will have those arrows replaced with the symbols. The same symbol will be used with the same lane continuously. (Arrows frequently point at the stripes or are too hard to line up due to the curve of the road.)
Israel and Palestine will be quarenteened and people evacuated from the area. Abuse it, loose it. Archeological permits will be required to enter.
All laws will expire after 10 years and require a new vote to reinstate.
Step 1, bury all burned CDs Step 2, download distro of choice. Step 3, burn that onto CD. Step 4, format HD and install it. Step 5, laugh when you show them the freeware license.
Alternatively, Step 1, transfer to another school. Step 2, feel bad for your friends.
I thought that too, but fortunately, it only effects monowalled nano-tubes. Other varieties don't go boom. Which means they shouldn't buy monowalled ones for the space elevator.
I hate the automatic copying thing. I frequently will in Windows do: Select, copy Select, paste. The effect is to overwrite a block of text. Needless to say, I get a little annoyed and surprised when I see nothing changed. (Especially if the first move was a cut.)
Is there a way to TURN THAT FEATURE OFF?
(Basically, I have a mental copy of my clip board and having something change it without me clicking something first irks me and creates a human-computer consistency error.)
Set Rant_mode = on I like consistency and I hate Winamp and all the other skinnable crap that people put out. I cannot find a "Windows 98 Standard" skin for Trillian and the ones I can find annoy me. I successfully chose a good time to say "no" to upgrading MSN Messenger to avoid their migration away from the normal windows standard. I expect things to work specific ways and these do not! (BTW Alt+Backspace is the same as Ctrl+Z which is Undo, but not many 3rd party programs seem to remember this.) Scroll bars should SCROLL, not jump to the point you clicked. That drives me nuts in WinAMP. (I think one of the newer versions fixes that, but I don't know.)
Anyway, Skins are cool, but please have a choice for normal. Otherwise, it's about as bad as a website that blinks because it keeps submitting the page via javascript to pretend that it is a non-web application. set rant_mode = off
I think I have to second that. But I started programming around 8. All I remember is that every time I tried to have a social life, I got burned severely and decided that it could not possibly be worth the trouble.
Oh well. All I can say is Tuition re-imbursement beats the hell out of college loans.:P
The first trick is to retire at 35. You do this by putting as much into your 401k and any other retirement/investment vehicles as you can. Buy a home as quickly as you can so you can take the interest off your taxes. Then, if you want to make some money afterwards, you go teach.
IMarvinTPA
How do we call home and call away?
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How do we call home on our cell phone to the computer and then have the computer call an international number and let you talk through that?
Undercover cop: I'll give you a blow job for a penny. The John: Hmm, If you make it free, you have a deal, but I'm not comfortable with the paying thing...
This is off topic but,
Arlington isn't DC. It used to be a long time ago, but Virginia decided to take it's part of the district back. National and the Pentagon are in Arlington too.
The reason why you never get quite the right present is because Santa uses the "bad news" propulsion drive. As the Late Great Douglas Adams has shown, bad news is faster than anything else.
Slashdot Mirror
Simple James Bond is a Timelord!
IMarv
The kind you bolt down on other mobile things like ships and cars.
Portable means hand held.
IMarv
Let's just say my patience for religious rhetoric is only surpassed by my patience for cold weather. That and it somehow feels morally wrong to go trolling for women in a church of a faith I do not have.
* go outside,
I do this every time I go to my car, oh. (Actually, I plan on going swimming Sunday.)
*take a shower.
I do.
*switch to diet coke
I drink milk, I can't stand sodas.
*get the artificial cheese dust out of your facial hair
I hate facial hair. Shave regularly.
*get a real, living girlfriend.
I'm still working on the "how" part. Intentionally neglected this skill in highschool. Skipped college. Hate bars.
Then again, I'm not modding my mouse either.
Oh well.
IMarv
I just tried "Select # from table" in Oracle and that gave me an error.
Where does one use the pound symbol for SQL? (Except date delimiters in Access SQL.)
I can't help you on the col*r thing.
IMarv
That's great until.
"Oh, you have last year's car. I can't service that broken part. We only have this year's car's part that you broke. Buy this year's car. That'll fix it, and then when you break that part, we can fix it. (But only for this year.)
Just how long would it take you to tell them to shove it if they told you that?
IMarv
It's designed well enough that it is mostly new fields or new tables to handle new ideas.
Would it help if I said it is a NAVY database?
Andy
I think the hardest part is trying to have people work with data and not understand what it is. When the programmers don't know, you're pages/program won't do what you want it to until about the 30th try. If the DBA's don't know, and assuming the programmers have a clue, they'll go nuts trying to pull it out. If neither of them have a hint, it'll take forever. Either that, or your spec will be so damned clear that you may as well take it the next three inches and program it yourself.
I've seen what ignorance between requirements and product can result in. Very compentently designed incorrect systems.
I love people's pictures of systems that are static. My project that I work on is constantly evolving. Needs are being found all the time that no ammount of forethought would have found. And if we could, we wouldn't use the means for making a database. (Think lottery or earthquake warning system, etc.)
Anyway, I'm in the strange situation of being both the DBA and the developer at the same time, and I try to do both well. I constantly think I could do better, but others seem pretty happy with things.
Andy
INTP that likes to pretend he's an INTJ.
Maybe they're investing in those flash-bulb sensitive explosive nano-tubes?
Andy
For each user that needs the pass phrase, use their password (or some password related token) as a key and store that version of the pass phrase with their user. Then, when that user logs in, you can decode the pass phrase with their password and when they change their password, update the encoded pass key.
That's your best bet (with my limited knowledge of security). And add in some obscurity and call the field something like GUID or something.
Could you move their job to another server and share the data through the network?
Good luck,
IMarvinTPA
Driving or walking, I try to watch all important vehicles when trying to move about. If I see a nice big car, I assume it will fail to yeild until I have some sense of certainty it will yeild. I may or may not be paranoid, and they may not be out to get me; but it doesn't mean they can't screw up. I guess not everybody considers cars as weapons.
I once did an emergency stop at a regular light when it went red (I had no idea how long the yellow was going to be.) And I stopped. Then I looked in my rear view mirror to see a semi-truck smoking up its breaks and going to the emergency lane to my left. I had stopped, but decided to go anyway before traffic resumed. I DID NOT NEED THAT MUCH GASOLINE IN MY TRUNK! I have since added making sure the person BEHIND me can safely stop as part of deciding to run a yellow or stop for a yellow.
I wish all lights had a 6 second yellow, then I could know how much time I have to both decide and stop.
I'll add it to the list of things to do when I take over the world.
Known to date:
A road will have one name, and one name only.
No other roads within 20 miles shall have the same name.
All roads will be continuous with one name. If there's a gap, it gets a new name. (Except when there are irrivokable funded schedules to connect them within 2 years. And if those plans fail, one of the roads will be significantly renamed.)
East, West, North, South, and other ordinal names will not be valid road names. These are for directional headings ON roads.
Highways will have multiple speed limits, the traditional slow lane will remain so, and each lane farther from it will be 10MH faster than its neighbor. In the US that would mean an 8 lane highway with a speed limit of 55 would be, 55, 65, 75, 85, 85, 75, 65, 55. (4 each way) This would allow people to find the flow they like and stick with it and stay out of the way of those who feel otherwise.
Lanes will have symbols identifying the lanes. Exit signs that traditionally point with arrows at lanes will have those arrows replaced with the symbols. The same symbol will be used with the same lane continuously. (Arrows frequently point at the stripes or are too hard to line up due to the curve of the road.)
Israel and Palestine will be quarenteened and people evacuated from the area. Abuse it, loose it. Archeological permits will be required to enter.
All laws will expire after 10 years and require a new vote to reinstate.
Hmm, more rant then expected.
Andy
I was one of the first to say it wasn't a problem. Please check your times before modding redundant.
Grr.
I was trying to link straight to the adventure on his site but I couldn't find it. I had to guess. I bow to your superior knowledge.
IMarv
How long until somebody releases the "The Ogre and the pie" adventure?
IMarvinTPA
Step 1, bury all burned CDs
Step 2, download distro of choice.
Step 3, burn that onto CD.
Step 4, format HD and install it.
Step 5, laugh when you show them the freeware license.
Alternatively,
Step 1, transfer to another school.
Step 2, feel bad for your friends.
IMarvinTPA
I thought that too, but fortunately, it only effects monowalled nano-tubes. Other varieties don't go boom. Which means they shouldn't buy monowalled ones for the space elevator.
IMarvinTPA
I hate the automatic copying thing.
I frequently will in Windows do:
Select, copy
Select, paste.
The effect is to overwrite a block of text. Needless to say, I get a little annoyed and surprised when I see nothing changed. (Especially if the first move was a cut.)
Is there a way to TURN THAT FEATURE OFF?
(Basically, I have a mental copy of my clip board and having something change it without me clicking something first irks me and creates a human-computer consistency error.)
Thanks,
IMarvinTPA
Set Rant_mode = on
I like consistency and I hate Winamp and all the other skinnable crap that people put out. I cannot find a "Windows 98 Standard" skin for Trillian and the ones I can find annoy me. I successfully chose a good time to say "no" to upgrading MSN Messenger to avoid their migration away from the normal windows standard. I expect things to work specific ways and these do not!
(BTW Alt+Backspace is the same as Ctrl+Z which is Undo, but not many 3rd party programs seem to remember this.) Scroll bars should SCROLL, not jump to the point you clicked. That drives me nuts in WinAMP. (I think one of the newer versions fixes that, but I don't know.)
Anyway, Skins are cool, but please have a choice for normal. Otherwise, it's about as bad as a website that blinks because it keeps submitting the page via javascript to pretend that it is a non-web application.
set rant_mode = off
IMarvinTPA
I think I have to second that.
:P
But I started programming around 8. All I remember is that every time I tried to have a social life, I got burned severely and decided that it could not possibly be worth the trouble.
Oh well. All I can say is Tuition re-imbursement beats the hell out of college loans.
IMarv
The first trick is to retire at 35. You do this by putting as much into your 401k and any other retirement/investment vehicles as you can. Buy a home as quickly as you can so you can take the interest off your taxes. Then, if you want to make some money afterwards, you go teach.
IMarvinTPA
How do we call home on our cell phone to the computer and then have the computer call an international number and let you talk through that?
Sounds like some fun.
IMarv
Undercover cop: I'll give you a blow job for a penny.
The John: Hmm, If you make it free, you have a deal, but I'm not comfortable with the paying thing...
This is off topic but,
Arlington isn't DC. It used to be a long time ago, but Virginia decided to take it's part of the district back. National and the Pentagon are in Arlington too.
IMarvinTPA
Just pray they are not Gungans!
Andy
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The reason why you never get quite the right present is because Santa uses the "bad news" propulsion drive. As the Late Great Douglas Adams has shown, bad news is faster than anything else.
Andy