I agree - Amazon's offering is the first thing I thought of when I read this story.
FYI, though, Amazon's program is called "Lumberyard", not "Lumberjack".
I have used the ETL functions of both Pentaho and Talend, as well as Informatica (and MS SSIS a smidgen). Right now, I am using Talend Open Studio for several production integration worfklows. It works well. The only issue I have with it is that you need to know some Java syntax, at least, to create calculations and expressions. Since I am not very fluent in Java, that makes Talend a little tougher for me to use.
The BIRT suite has always sounded impressive. If I become better skilled at Java in the future, I will certainly check it out.
I have never used Jaspersoft, so I cannot comment on it.
Last night, I spent literally an hour going through the images they had available to choose from, for the "SiteKey" image for my account. The site only shows you 8 or 10 images at a time, and it randomly repeats some previously-viewed images in each subsequent set of images, so it will take a long time to see every image. The images are organized into at least 5 different categories - I only looked at the images in the "Business and Technology" section.
I paged through at least 1500 sets of images, before choosing my image. I'm sure there were more images, but I finally stopped paging through them when I found an image I liked. Yes, I apparently have too much time on my hands.:)
The images themselves (at least in the section I selected) are an interesting mix of old and new technology images - lots of old and new desk phones, music recording equipment (e.g., reel-to-reel tape decks and '80's keyboards), ancient and modern computers and peripherals, electronic components and parts (circuit boards, CPUs, etc.), automobiles and trucks, farm equipment, tools, and lots of other things.
Has anyone else who has signed up for BoA web account access scrolled through these SiteKey images like I did?
Pete
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I agree - Amazon's offering is the first thing I thought of when I read this story. FYI, though, Amazon's program is called "Lumberyard", not "Lumberjack".
A quick Google search revealed that the grandparent post is referring to the Union Station railway station in Toronto, Canada.
The "TTR" reference is to "Toronto Terminals Railway".
Please take a look at this Wikipedia article for more details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You meant Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword, right?
Pete
Hi. When I Googled for "ironspread", Google came back with "DataNitro". Apparently, the company changed their name to DataNitro at some point in 2012.
I looked at the DataNitro website and the tool looks interesting. Thanks for mentioning this.
(I have no mod points currently, or I would mod your post up)
Blast - the link should be Talend.
Sorry about that.
Pete
Hi.
I think you meant Talend, right?
I have used the ETL functions of both Pentaho and Talend, as well as Informatica (and MS SSIS a smidgen). Right now, I am using Talend Open Studio for several production integration worfklows. It works well. The only issue I have with it is that you need to know some Java syntax, at least, to create calculations and expressions. Since I am not very fluent in Java, that makes Talend a little tougher for me to use.
The BIRT suite has always sounded impressive. If I become better skilled at Java in the future, I will certainly check it out.
I have never used Jaspersoft, so I cannot comment on it.
Pete
Another option for retro-gaming hardware is Andre LaMothe's XGameStation line of DIY kits.
Looks like they now have a "Chameleon" line of kits, in both 8- and 16-bit flavors, which are similar to Arduino or BASIC Stamp systems.
I have not personally used these, but they appear to be pretty cool.
Enjoy.
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Pete
At http://www.vh1classic.com/browse/video/17278/featured-playlists/index.jhtml, you can play lots of videos.
These have been available on the VH1 Classic site for quite some time now, I believe.
Since MTV and VH1/VH1 Classic share the same corporate parent, maybe they've just now added the VH1 Classic video content to MTV's site.
Pete
Looks like you can download V2.0 here:
http://creators.xna.com/Education/GettingStarted.aspx
Yesfan001
I found one that refutes that thought, unfortunately:
Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon
Last night, I spent literally an hour going through the images they had available to choose from, for the "SiteKey" image for my account. The site only shows you 8 or 10 images at a time, and it randomly repeats some previously-viewed images in each subsequent set of images, so it will take a long time to see every image. The images are organized into at least 5 different categories - I only looked at the images in the "Business and Technology" section.
:)
I paged through at least 1500 sets of images, before choosing my image. I'm sure there were more images, but I finally stopped paging through them when I found an image I liked. Yes, I apparently have too much time on my hands.
The images themselves (at least in the section I selected) are an interesting mix of old and new technology images - lots of old and new desk phones, music recording equipment (e.g., reel-to-reel tape decks and '80's keyboards), ancient and modern computers and peripherals, electronic components and parts (circuit boards, CPUs, etc.), automobiles and trucks, farm equipment, tools, and lots of other things.
Has anyone else who has signed up for BoA web account access scrolled through these SiteKey images like I did?
Pete
P.S. This is my first ever Slashdot post, after many years of lurking. Hello!