How about making a thread for each affected state, for easier use by people looking for info?
I'll start the Iowa thread.
Iowa City, now Mediacom as of about 4 months ago, appears to be up as of 4:30 central time. I think that's 23:30 GMT 1/1/01, but I may be off an hour.
We had DNS problems this morning, but I added the university's dns servers and got back up immediately. Seems to be working now just fine, although a little slow.
Nah, this example is pretty simple. You don't even have to use a join or bridge table, which is what I've heard them called. Those are only needed when you have two objects that have a many to many relationship. For example, if you were doing a database of computer repairs, you might have a table of customers and a table of techs. Since there would be a many to many relationship here, you'd have a work order table or something, to show that tech1 worked with cust1, cust2, cust1, cust3, cust3, and that cust1 had service calls by tech1, tech2, tech2, tech1, etc.
In this case, unless you had a table of phone number data that contained information about the number (like who paid for it, the day it was installed, the type of service available, the type of line, etc) you could get by with just one employee/number table, like this:
bobid phone1
bobid phone2
bobid phone3
which is pretty simple, with a combinatio key of employid/phonenumb. You could still have a separate table with the phone number info, with the phone number as the primary key if you wanted to track the other data.
Most people overthink relational databases and don't really break things down like they should and make well formed tables. Of course, you can chang ethe table structure based on how the database is going to be used. Sometimes is is better to denormalize the table for search efficiency.
What I think is most interesting are the OODBMS, but it seems to me that they would have an increased overhead on their searches.
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That's easy: --responsible for learning propriety legacy systems in preparation for migration onto standards based, open programming languages (or whatever it was you actually had to do)
If questioned about it, tell the truth. Point out that while you came into the job knowing a smattering of standard modern languages, c, c++, java, and yes, basic, you had to quickly learn other languages in order to understand the code in the legacy application in order to port it to newer open languages. Or whatever the hell you did. What ever you do, tell the truth.
This isn't at all uncommon, btw. If something is working and you've built your whole company around it, it is a royal pita to switch. Most companies only switch when the cost/benefit analysis shows it's profitable or when the old crud becomes useless. And if it works, there are only a few reasons to change.
Don't believe MS about multiple dll's for w2k. If you put the version of the dll that you need in the directory with the executable, the program will use that dll, not the one in the system directory. The only real change is that in 9x, if the dll is already loaded from any location, that version stays in memory and is used.
Ahh, but Nupedia actually has editors and peer reviewers. Hopefully they will be able to sort out the wheat from the chaff. Finding a random page on the web is akin to asking a random person on the street about something.
In other words, I could put instructions for building a perpetual motion machine on my website. So what if Google links to my page? It still doesn't mean the information will be correct. Hopefully, because of the way Nupedia is setting up experts and peer reviewers, the information in it will be more accurate than information found on general web sites.
Gotta be Hal. Kyle's good, but let's face it: Hal all the way.
BTW, Aquagirl is still dead. (As of 11/15/00 anyway.)
Just repeat to yourself: Hal is Green Lantern, Jim Corrigan is the Spectre, and all of the JSA members are alive.
Troll? Not on your life. OT? You bet.
Read the reports. When some people did ask for help, the polling staff told them "no." Or, "I don't know." I don't care who you voted for, but if a polling place must be staffed with knowledgeable and helpful people.
There's a science fiction story, can't remember if it's a short story, novella, or novel, that also deals with the web. Damn if I can remember the name of it though. I want to say its a name+number combination, but I don't know. It was from the 30's or 40's too.
Can someone provide a title and author? I'll know it when I see it.
Umm. None of the polls on IDG or CNN's website are at all useless because they make no attempt to get a good sample. The IDG/CNN/ZDNET/click-a-button polls rely on people to opt in with no regard to demographics and no attempt to make sure that the sample represents the population as a whole. Real polls make an attempt to get an accurate sample of the population.
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How about making a thread for each affected state, for easier use by people looking for info?
I'll start the Iowa thread.
Iowa City, now Mediacom as of about 4 months ago, appears to be up as of 4:30 central time. I think that's 23:30 GMT 1/1/01, but I may be off an hour.
We had DNS problems this morning, but I added the university's dns servers and got back up immediately. Seems to be working now just fine, although a little slow.
Nah, this example is pretty simple. You don't even have to use a join or bridge table, which is what I've heard them called. Those are only needed when you have two objects that have a many to many relationship. For example, if you were doing a database of computer repairs, you might have a table of customers and a table of techs. Since there would be a many to many relationship here, you'd have a work order table or something, to show that tech1 worked with cust1, cust2, cust1, cust3, cust3, and that cust1 had service calls by tech1, tech2, tech2, tech1, etc.
In this case, unless you had a table of phone number data that contained information about the number (like who paid for it, the day it was installed, the type of service available, the type of line, etc) you could get by with just one employee/number table, like this:
bobid phone1
bobid phone2
bobid phone3
which is pretty simple, with a combinatio key of employid/phonenumb. You could still have a separate table with the phone number info, with the phone number as the primary key if you wanted to track the other data.
Most people overthink relational databases and don't really break things down like they should and make well formed tables. Of course, you can chang ethe table structure based on how the database is going to be used. Sometimes is is better to denormalize the table for search efficiency.
What I think is most interesting are the OODBMS, but it seems to me that they would have an increased overhead on their searches.
bob
That's easy: --responsible for learning propriety legacy systems in preparation for migration onto standards based, open programming languages (or whatever it was you actually had to do)
If questioned about it, tell the truth. Point out that while you came into the job knowing a smattering of standard modern languages, c, c++, java, and yes, basic, you had to quickly learn other languages in order to understand the code in the legacy application in order to port it to newer open languages. Or whatever the hell you did. What ever you do, tell the truth.
This isn't at all uncommon, btw. If something is working and you've built your whole company around it, it is a royal pita to switch. Most companies only switch when the cost/benefit analysis shows it's profitable or when the old crud becomes useless. And if it works, there are only a few reasons to change.
Don't believe MS about multiple dll's for w2k. If you put the version of the dll that you need in the directory with the executable, the program will use that dll, not the one in the system directory. The only real change is that in 9x, if the dll is already loaded from any location, that version stays in memory and is used.
Ahh, but Nupedia actually has editors and peer reviewers. Hopefully they will be able to sort out the wheat from the chaff. Finding a random page on the web is akin to asking a random person on the street about something.
In other words, I could put instructions for building a perpetual motion machine on my website. So what if Google links to my page? It still doesn't mean the information will be correct. Hopefully, because of the way Nupedia is setting up experts and peer reviewers, the information in it will be more accurate than information found on general web sites.
Gotta be Hal. Kyle's good, but let's face it: Hal all the way. BTW, Aquagirl is still dead. (As of 11/15/00 anyway.) Just repeat to yourself: Hal is Green Lantern, Jim Corrigan is the Spectre, and all of the JSA members are alive. Troll? Not on your life. OT? You bet.
Read the reports. When some people did ask for help, the polling staff told them "no." Or, "I don't know." I don't care who you voted for, but if a polling place must be staffed with knowledgeable and helpful people.
Can someone provide a title and author? I'll know it when I see it.
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At least in 5.0 that's the location. I'll assume, since there's so much of that going on here, that it is the same in 4 and 5.5.
Umm. None of the polls on IDG or CNN's website are at all useless because they make no attempt to get a good sample. The IDG/CNN/ZDNET/click-a-button polls rely on people to opt in with no regard to demographics and no attempt to make sure that the sample represents the population as a whole. Real polls make an attempt to get an accurate sample of the population.
There's a less sensational article on the BBC's website.