I've got a pug-dog that hangs around behind my computer! I don't tether her there, she just seems to like it. At least that's better than her hanging around the front of the computer where all of her shedding hair can get sucked in by the front fan and distributed across the motherboard...
What was the difference in development time like? and how experience was your team at using the packaged ETL tool?
If things work the way they're supposed to, development with the packaged tool should have been significantly shorter. Reducing development and maintenance time is really the only reason to buy a packaged app over developing your own. Of course you can build a better solution on your own because it will be taylored specifically for your situation.
Packaged applications have to be generalized enough so that people in dozens of different industries, using dozens of different data sources and target systems can build a solution quickly. The result of these compromises is a slower, but more generally marketable system.
I'm with you on using GNU tools to develop solutions internally, but if the company has already made an investment in a packaged solution, it's just all that much more difficult to convence them to throw that money away and spend a longer period of time just to build a solution that performs faster. If 20 hours were fast enough, why spend all the extra time building a solution that so significantly exceeds the requirements. Remember that you shouldn't necessarily do something just because you can.
The business world and it's rules suck... but they also are the one's who pay the electricity to keep that computer on.
Along this same line of thought, I was thinking that it would be better if there was some kind of financial blanket that covered the entire Open Source / Linux / Free Software (whatever) movement:
This of this as similar to government grants. Anyone can apply for a piece of the money, but they have to provide certain justifications and report on their spending. The governing body would review applications, solicit money from donors and distribute money to the grant winners. Presumably this body would be made up of reporesentatives from all aspects of the movement: the for-profit companies that provide Linux distros, non-profit groups like FSF, unassociated developers, and user groups.
I think that this would probably be a pretty successful way of organizing the direction of commercialized Open Source. Work could still go on independantly by avocational developers, but it would also help discourage duplication of effort and forking among larger commercial projects.
Does such a thing exist yet? Anyone wanna be the first Vice Chair??
Option 1
The most prevelant asset managment package I've seen is Computer Associates'Unicenter TNG. This package has an incredible number of features depending upon how much you want to spend. Here's the package you're most interested in.
The nice thing about Unicenter TNG is that it supports "DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, OS/2, Macintosh, UNIX, and VMS." I believe that CA is also porting many of its applications to Linux. Check with your local sales associate for more information...
Option 2:
Build your own utility to get exactly the information you want. If you limit the set of information that you want to something fairly small, it shouldn't be too dificult to write a little client-server that sends asset data from each workstation to a server. Then you could make it cross-platform and Open Source it for the rest of us.
Here's a web based tool, Tech Tracker, that will do the tracking for you, but not automatically.
I used to be really happy with my DSL. I'm supposed to be getting 1.5/384 ADSL, but the wiring in my apartment is aparently pretty shotty. The real speads tend to be 50% or worse! AND my connection goes out completely from time to time because of the wiring. Good thing I'm moving into a new house soon. Perhaps I'll try for Cable Modem through Charter?
[Note that I didn't mention what a major pain in the arse it was to get the DSL setup! My therapist and I have tried very hard to block out that memory. I get somewhat violent when thinking about the hassle of signing up for or transfering DSL service with Southwestern Bell.]
You're getting married in ONE WEEK and have yet to register!? I think my wife and I were registered for gifts about SIX MONTHS before the wedding. But then again, perhaps my wedding was a little bit more traditional that a geek-wedding. After all, my wife is an English major -- but that helps keep me from reading nothing but O'Reilly "In a Nutshell" books.
This doesn't solve the ethical problems with those big publishing companies, but it might allow you to satisfy your need to get the word out plus still publish a physical book.
Since you have no agreement with a publishing company yet, go ahead and publish the draft online (or after a couple of friends help work things out). Do those things that others have mentioned, like sending it out to various SciFi sites for review or comment.
Then start looking for a publisher to print the book. At this point, there's no way they can just pull your book off the web. (Sure they can try, but it won't be effective.) After another year of fine tuning with an editor, then the book will be ready for retail sale.
It'll probably be pretty different from the web-release draft, and that provides a couple of good results:
(1) You already have a small fan base that is eager to read your polished work. More buyers equals more money, which is good even if it isn't your motivation.
(2) If you can work it so that the next book can publish the same way, that'll make all of your readers happier. Readers HATE to wait so darned long for the next books to go through editorial and review before being published; and when the polished version of the sequel comes out in paper, they'll still buy it. It'll be a little different and many people read the same book more than one.
(3) The pervasive online presence your draft books have will be admired by people who support the freedom of information.
I think this idea sounds pretty slick. Any comments on it?
Let's hope that it doesn't come to this! I've thought about this question before, and it's one that you would just hate to have to consider. (Like trying imagine what it means for time to be infinite.)
If it ever does come to that, I don't think I want to be around. Having NO technology remaining would make it horribly difficult to begin again. There could certainly be some better design decisions made with no need for legacy support, but imagine all of the prerequisites to building even the simplest TTL package! Egads.
It seems to make some sense that people in support of the Free Software and Open Source movements should also be in support of a user-based ad distribution system -- it promotes a certain freedom of choice.
I don't mind seeing adds. There are some adds that I see and make me aware of something I've never seen or heard of before. But then there are other ads that just piss me off. Popup adds are especially bad, in my opinion, because I hate those extra windows just flying up without my permission. Some people hate banner ads because the sit there and flash their obnoxious message on the page you're trying to read.
So, what should a customizable, user-based ad system provide:
Obviously there have to be ads involved, or the advertisers won't be very accepting. Perhaps users shouldn't even be given the option to completely turn off ads.
Users should be able to select what kind of ads they want to see. If I only want to see Linux hardware ads, that's what I should be able to see! Advertisers should be mostly OK with this - it's the most targeted advertising system you can have. The disadvantage is that there's less cross-selling going on for the advertisers.
The user should be able to customize how those adds appear.
Location inline on the page,
In a new window,
All adds in one separate window,
Text based,
No animation
What else? Maybe we should have an opensource project to develop a better advertising system. Then there can be a nice little backdoor that will spam the advertsing company employees with thousands of ads every day.
Personally, I would hate working at a startup with all that snow! How are you supposed to wear baggy shorts and a hawaiian shirt when there's two feet of snow on the ground. And what about getting the 30 minutes required contact with the sun-light? Isn't it dark for six months straight up there?;-)
Well, I'm working on a project right now, actually, that involved high volume document imaging. The company is looking at imaging several thousand pages per day on an ongoing basis, but then again, they're also buying $15,000 Kodak department document imaging scanners.
There are a couple of problems.
(1) Very high speed scanners that are used in document imaging are often only b/w. So, you loose all of the nice pretty advertisements.
(2) You obviously have to cut apart all of your magazines on the spine to get them to go through an auto feeder.
(3) The paper is likely to get jammed because its glossy and so thin.
(4) You'll spend better than $5,000 on any scanner that will do better than 10 ppm. And then you probably can't get duplex scanning.
But, if you want a solution that works great, look at a software package called Ascent Capture from Kofax (http://www.kofax.com ), and throw in a Kodak 3500 document scanner or better.
Or if you want a solution that is affordable, invite all of your friends to bring their scanners over and give them beer and pizza while
you all have a scanning party. It should only take about two hours to get through a years worth of Linux Journal.
Isn't that pretty dangerous, though. I'm sure that the engineers have thought of lots of horrible scenarios and worked through them. But, what if something happens to the power in the aircraft (hit by lightning, say) and that device looses power. The plane's system can't reboot then? The pilot is dead in the air?
I suppose that the pilot just ejects and the plane is totalled on the account of a faulty power supply. Sounds about right. 1 billion dollar plane lost to a couple thousand dollar part.
You'll have to excuse the troll / off topic message, but I followed the link and got an error message stating "Unable to Connect to SQL Server!"
Let's just hope that this is a generic "Unable to connect to a database server that uses SQL as its query language" as opposed to "Unable to connect to that one database that will only run on that one operating system that crashes way too often (as supported by this error message)".
Actually, I'm pretty open minded. If there's some reason they need SQL Server, more power to them for working to integrate with a quick and dirty OS.
Aparently some of us aren't die hard trekies. It took me forever to figure out what this goofy post was about... How about a little help from our dear friendly authors who post these stories!
ST:TMP = Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Eureka!
By the way, Star Trek X is in production. That's "Star Trek Ten", as in the tenth in a series of movies.
http://www.startrek.com/production/startrekx/art ic les/111700.html
Here's an interesting extension on the fact that.NET is probably going to be a big resource hog.
What about all of the other languages that are being used with the.NET platform? I'll give in to my C#, platform independent code performing slowly; but does this mean that even my high performance C++ code will run horribly when I move to.NET?
The whole platform is supposed to be "language independant" right? In what way can that be good? Don't I choose a language for it's technical characteristics, rather than which one I think looks prettier when indented and syntax highlighted? Hmmm...
I'm not sure exactly what you're using Access for that you can't do with mySQL and PHP. There are really only two tasks:
(1) Write the SQL
(2) Format the report
If writing the SQL for your queries is the problem area then the best recommendation I'd have is to learn SQL better. Access sure provides a cute interface for graphically creating queries, but sometimes it writes pretty bad SQL to do that. I'd search Freshmeat and Source Forge for graphical SQL tools, but that doesn't excempt the need to learn SQL.
If the formating of SQL results is the issue, I'd suggest just using the tool you already have - PHP. Why not output the data in HTML and print your reports from the web? Isn't that what everyone wants now-a-days anyway -- web based reporting tools.
How many people heard Bush talking about "protecting" our youth during the debate last night! He mentioned everything from VChips in the TV to installing poorly designed censorware in Libraries and Schools and other "places that receive federal funding".
** ranting... **
I thought that Bush was supposed to be the candidate that "trusts Americans to do the right thing". Aparently we're only smart enough to spend our money wisely -- not smart enough to raise our children well. We need the help of government officials who know next to nothing about how poorly censorship really works to protect our children.
** ok done... **
I'm definately against any candidate that says outright that he's going to push to have sorely ineffective and counterproductive "protection" software as a mandatory install in areas that are some people's ONLY connection to the Internet. More of the same old "only those with enough money will be allowed access to all of the information" policy.
I think that most of what there is out there has already been said in these few posts --
Your only real option is to use Java technologies like Java Server Pages and Enterprise Java Beans. The nice thing about this option is that many of the Java middle-tiers are cross platform. So if you ever felt the urge to host any tier of your application on a less reliable operating system, you'd be able to do that.
That's exactly what I used to do with my Apple IIgs with a utility called FlashBoot. I could create a disk image with the software I needed (the OS and AppleWorksGS) and load it into a RAM disk. I think the RAM disk took up about 3M of my total 5M (which cost me about $300 by the way!). As long as the computer stayed on, things ran pretty fast! (at least for a 4MHz processor)
Personally, when it comes to non-mechanical pencils, I much prefer REAL wood to any of the new uber-substances they might be using. There's just something satisfying about the way real wood pencils crunch in the pencil sharpener... and the smell of real wood and graphite when they're freshly sharpened.
Now, if only they could invent a wooden pencil that would remain sharp all of the time! Because despite loving wooden pencils, I can't stand the pencil not being sharp... back to good old mechanical pencils.
For those who are curious about what the question-asker-himself has found: the only package that I've found with the specific option to shade a region between two lines is jsplot. It takes input for it's XY plots in a four column format (X, Y, upper, lower) and then is able to plot X versus Y as a line, plus shade the region between upper and lower. Exactly what I was looking for! Unfortunately, the interface leaves something to be desired.
Thanks for all of the input... time to go add some functionality to gnu plot I think!
Personally, I don't mind documentation so much -- call me a nut. But I KNOW that most people don't enjoy doing lots of documentation; at most, a section of code will be documentation just enough that the author knows what's going on.
Since most OSS is developed in people's "free time" -- not all of us are lucky enough to be paid for developing OSs -- it makes the most sense to maximize the "fun" and minimize the "work". Documentation = "work". Code = "fun"...
They sent some bacteria into space to see how it would be altered by the solar radiation. The satellite crashed to some remote part of the US, and MacGyver was sent to retreive the sample from the woods in a bio-suite. All of the animals around him had died suddenly with the symptoms of "old age". The transmit on his suite gets broken and he almost ends up being napalmed.
Back in the labratory, an over zealous scientist tries to save the bacteria before they're destroyed by Peter and MacGyver. She and her dog get exposed to the bacteria and die. MacGyver gets out just in time to have the whole laboratory incinerated right behind him.
... Then MacGyver puts the building back together with duct tape and his trusty pocket knife! Oh, how sweet were the days when each week's MacGyver was NEW!!!
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I've got a pug-dog that hangs around behind my computer! I don't tether her there, she just seems to like it. At least that's better than her hanging around the front of the computer where all of her shedding hair can get sucked in by the front fan and distributed across the motherboard...
I wonder if dog hair conducts electricity? Hmm...
What was the difference in development time like? and how experience was your team at using the packaged ETL tool?
If things work the way they're supposed to, development with the packaged tool should have been significantly shorter. Reducing development and maintenance time is really the only reason to buy a packaged app over developing your own. Of course you can build a better solution on your own because it will be taylored specifically for your situation.
Packaged applications have to be generalized enough so that people in dozens of different industries, using dozens of different data sources and target systems can build a solution quickly. The result of these compromises is a slower, but more generally marketable system.
I'm with you on using GNU tools to develop solutions internally, but if the company has already made an investment in a packaged solution, it's just all that much more difficult to convence them to throw that money away and spend a longer period of time just to build a solution that performs faster. If 20 hours were fast enough, why spend all the extra time building a solution that so significantly exceeds the requirements. Remember that you shouldn't necessarily do something just because you can.
The business world and it's rules suck... but they also are the one's who pay the electricity to keep that computer on.
Maybe in general, but my Dell Latitude is pretty noisy. Granted that's probably because of the airflow requirements of it's PIII 650.
Along this same line of thought, I was thinking that it would be better if there was some kind of financial blanket that covered the entire Open Source / Linux / Free Software (whatever) movement:
This of this as similar to government grants. Anyone can apply for a piece of the money, but they have to provide certain justifications and report on their spending. The governing body would review applications, solicit money from donors and distribute money to the grant winners. Presumably this body would be made up of reporesentatives from all aspects of the movement: the for-profit companies that provide Linux distros, non-profit groups like FSF, unassociated developers, and user groups.
I think that this would probably be a pretty successful way of organizing the direction of commercialized Open Source. Work could still go on independantly by avocational developers, but it would also help discourage duplication of effort and forking among larger commercial projects.
Does such a thing exist yet? Anyone wanna be the first Vice Chair??
1 + 1 = 11
And this one is actually right!
The most prevelant asset managment package I've seen is Computer Associates' Unicenter TNG. This package has an incredible number of features depending upon how much you want to spend. Here's the package you're most interested in.
"Asset Managment Option"
The nice thing about Unicenter TNG is that it supports "DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, OS/2, Macintosh, UNIX, and VMS." I believe that CA is also porting many of its applications to Linux. Check with your local sales associate for more information...
Option 2:
Build your own utility to get exactly the information you want. If you limit the set of information that you want to something fairly small, it shouldn't be too dificult to write a little client-server that sends asset data from each workstation to a server. Then you could make it cross-platform and Open Source it for the rest of us.
Here's a web based tool, Tech Tracker, that will do the tracking for you, but not automatically.
I used to be really happy with my DSL. I'm supposed to be getting 1.5/384 ADSL, but the wiring in my apartment is aparently pretty shotty. The real speads tend to be 50% or worse! AND my connection goes out completely from time to time because of the wiring. Good thing I'm moving into a new house soon. Perhaps I'll try for Cable Modem through Charter?
[Note that I didn't mention what a major pain in the arse it was to get the DSL setup! My therapist and I have tried very hard to block out that memory. I get somewhat violent when thinking about the hassle of signing up for or transfering DSL service with Southwestern Bell.]
"Getting married in a week..."
You're getting married in ONE WEEK and have yet to register!? I think my wife and I were registered for gifts about SIX MONTHS before the wedding. But then again, perhaps my wedding was a little bit more traditional that a geek-wedding. After all, my wife is an English major -- but that helps keep me from reading nothing but O'Reilly "In a Nutshell" books.
This doesn't solve the ethical problems with those big publishing companies, but it might allow you to satisfy your need to get the word out plus still publish a physical book.
Since you have no agreement with a publishing company yet, go ahead and publish the draft online (or after a couple of friends help work things out). Do those things that others have mentioned, like sending it out to various SciFi sites for review or comment.
Then start looking for a publisher to print the book. At this point, there's no way they can just pull your book off the web. (Sure they can try, but it won't be effective.) After another year of fine tuning with an editor, then the book will be ready for retail sale.
It'll probably be pretty different from the web-release draft, and that provides a couple of good results:
(1) You already have a small fan base that is eager to read your polished work. More buyers equals more money, which is good even if it isn't your motivation.
(2) If you can work it so that the next book can publish the same way, that'll make all of your readers happier. Readers HATE to wait so darned long for the next books to go through editorial and review before being published; and when the polished version of the sequel comes out in paper, they'll still buy it. It'll be a little different and many people read the same book more than one.
(3) The pervasive online presence your draft books have will be admired by people who support the freedom of information.
I think this idea sounds pretty slick. Any comments on it?
Let's hope that it doesn't come to this! I've thought about this question before, and it's one that you would just hate to have to consider. (Like trying imagine what it means for time to be infinite.)
If it ever does come to that, I don't think I want to be around. Having NO technology remaining would make it horribly difficult to begin again. There could certainly be some better design decisions made with no need for legacy support, but imagine all of the prerequisites to building even the simplest TTL package! Egads.
I don't mind seeing adds. There are some adds that I see and make me aware of something I've never seen or heard of before. But then there are other ads that just piss me off. Popup adds are especially bad, in my opinion, because I hate those extra windows just flying up without my permission. Some people hate banner ads because the sit there and flash their obnoxious message on the page you're trying to read.
So, what should a customizable, user-based ad system provide:
Location inline on the page,
In a new window,
All adds in one separate window,
Text based,
No animation
What else? Maybe we should have an opensource project to develop a better advertising system. Then there can be a nice little backdoor that will spam the advertsing company employees with thousands of ads every day.
I don't know if I'd be interested in working for a startup in MI, but there is at least one such company in Michigan right now.
;-)
www.optate.com
Personally, I would hate working at a startup with all that snow! How are you supposed to wear baggy shorts and a hawaiian shirt when there's two feet of snow on the ground. And what about getting the 30 minutes required contact with the sun-light? Isn't it dark for six months straight up there?
Well, I'm working on a project right now, actually, that involved high volume document imaging. The company is looking at imaging several thousand pages per day on an ongoing basis, but then again, they're also buying $15,000 Kodak department document imaging scanners.
There are a couple of problems.
(1) Very high speed scanners that are used in document imaging are often only b/w. So, you loose all of the nice pretty advertisements.
(2) You obviously have to cut apart all of your magazines on the spine to get them to go through an auto feeder.
(3) The paper is likely to get jammed because its glossy and so thin.
(4) You'll spend better than $5,000 on any scanner that will do better than 10 ppm. And then you probably can't get duplex scanning.
But, if you want a solution that works great, look at a software package called Ascent Capture from Kofax (http://www.kofax.com ), and throw in a Kodak 3500 document scanner or better.
Or if you want a solution that is affordable, invite all of your friends to bring their scanners over and give them beer and pizza while
you all have a scanning party. It should only take about two hours to get through a years worth of Linux Journal.
Isn't that pretty dangerous, though. I'm sure that the engineers have thought of lots of horrible scenarios and worked through them. But, what if something happens to the power in the aircraft (hit by lightning, say) and that device looses power. The plane's system can't reboot then? The pilot is dead in the air?
I suppose that the pilot just ejects and the plane is totalled on the account of a faulty power supply. Sounds about right. 1 billion dollar plane lost to a couple thousand dollar part.
You'll have to excuse the troll / off topic message, but I followed the link and got an error message stating "Unable to Connect to SQL Server!"
Let's just hope that this is a generic "Unable to connect to a database server that uses SQL as its query language" as opposed to "Unable to connect to that one database that will only run on that one operating system that crashes way too often (as supported by this error message)".
Actually, I'm pretty open minded. If there's some reason they need SQL Server, more power to them for working to integrate with a quick and dirty OS.
Aparently some of us aren't die hard trekies. It took me forever to figure out what this goofy post was about... How about a little help from our dear friendly authors who post these stories!
t ic les/111700.html
ST:TMP = Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Eureka!
By the way, Star Trek X is in production. That's "Star Trek Ten", as in the tenth in a series of movies.
http://www.startrek.com/production/startrekx/ar
Here's an interesting extension on the fact that .NET is probably going to be a big resource hog.
.NET platform? I'll give in to my C#, platform independent code performing slowly; but does this mean that even my high performance C++ code will run horribly when I move to .NET?
What about all of the other languages that are being used with the
The whole platform is supposed to be "language independant" right? In what way can that be good? Don't I choose a language for it's technical characteristics, rather than which one I think looks prettier when indented and syntax highlighted? Hmmm...
Something to chew on...
I'm not sure exactly what you're using Access for that you can't do with mySQL and PHP. There are really only two tasks:
(1) Write the SQL
(2) Format the report
If writing the SQL for your queries is the problem area then the best recommendation I'd have is to learn SQL better. Access sure provides a cute interface for graphically creating queries, but sometimes it writes pretty bad SQL to do that. I'd search Freshmeat and Source Forge for graphical SQL tools, but that doesn't excempt the need to learn SQL.
If the formating of SQL results is the issue, I'd suggest just using the tool you already have - PHP. Why not output the data in HTML and print your reports from the web? Isn't that what everyone wants now-a-days anyway -- web based reporting tools.
How many people heard Bush talking about "protecting" our youth during the debate last night! He mentioned everything from VChips in the TV to installing poorly designed censorware in Libraries and Schools and other "places that receive federal funding".
** ranting... **
I thought that Bush was supposed to be the candidate that "trusts Americans to do the right thing". Aparently we're only smart enough to spend our money wisely -- not smart enough to raise our children well. We need the help of government officials who know next to nothing about how poorly censorship really works to protect our children.
** ok done... **
I'm definately against any candidate that says outright that he's going to push to have sorely ineffective and counterproductive "protection" software as a mandatory install in areas that are some people's ONLY connection to the Internet. More of the same old "only those with enough money will be allowed access to all of the information" policy.
(Vote Gore!)
I think that most of what there is out there has already been said in these few posts --
Your only real option is to use Java technologies like Java Server Pages and Enterprise Java Beans. The nice thing about this option is that many of the Java middle-tiers are cross platform. So if you ever felt the urge to host any tier of your application on a less reliable operating system, you'd be able to do that.
That's exactly what I used to do with my Apple IIgs with a utility called FlashBoot. I could create a disk image with the software I needed (the OS and AppleWorksGS) and load it into a RAM disk. I think the RAM disk took up about 3M of my total 5M (which cost me about $300 by the way!). As long as the computer stayed on, things ran pretty fast! (at least for a 4MHz processor)
Personally, when it comes to non-mechanical pencils, I much prefer REAL wood to any of the new uber-substances they might be using. There's just something satisfying about the way real wood pencils crunch in the pencil sharpener... and the smell of real wood and graphite when they're freshly sharpened.
Now, if only they could invent a wooden pencil that would remain sharp all of the time! Because despite loving wooden pencils, I can't stand the pencil not being sharp... back to good old mechanical pencils.
For those who are curious about what the question-asker-himself has found: the only package that I've found with the specific option to shade a region between two lines is jsplot. It takes input for it's XY plots in a four column format (X, Y, upper, lower) and then is able to plot X versus Y as a line, plus shade the region between upper and lower. Exactly what I was looking for! Unfortunately, the interface leaves something to be desired.
Thanks for all of the input... time to go add some functionality to gnu plot I think!
Personally, I don't mind documentation so much -- call me a nut. But I KNOW that most people don't enjoy doing lots of documentation; at most, a section of code will be documentation just enough that the author knows what's going on.
Since most OSS is developed in people's "free time" -- not all of us are lucky enough to be paid for developing OSs -- it makes the most sense to maximize the "fun" and minimize the "work". Documentation = "work". Code = "fun"...
do the math...
Wasn't this also a MacGyver episode:
S hows/Action_and_Adventure/MacGyver/
They sent some bacteria into space to see how it would be altered by the solar radiation. The satellite crashed to some remote part of the US, and MacGyver was sent to retreive the sample from the woods in a bio-suite. All of the animals around him had died suddenly with the symptoms of "old age". The transmit on his suite gets broken and he almost ends up being napalmed.
Back in the labratory, an over zealous scientist tries to save the bacteria before they're destroyed by Peter and MacGyver. She and her dog get exposed to the bacteria and die. MacGyver gets out just in time to have the whole laboratory incinerated right behind him.
... Then MacGyver puts the building back together with duct tape and his trusty pocket knife! Oh, how sweet were the days when each week's MacGyver was NEW!!!
http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/Television/