Check http://www.clicktv.com/. It told me my local station (in Dartmouth, NS) is WGBH, and with a little digging through http://www.wgbh.org I found out that the station I see is GBH/2, and Code Rush is only ever going to be shown on GBH/44. Sucks to be me.
"Do you think that the Y2K bug already has made a few troubles, but the media just don't want to put an end to your parties?"
We were talking about that a bit last night whilst drunk, and I think we figured they'd tell us, because keeping quiet about it wouldn't gain them anything, except for government-run stations. Then I fell over.
Export the Access tables to a comment-delimited format and import it into your favourite unix sql server. In MySQL you'd use a statement like:
load data local infile '/home/me/table1.txt' into table table1 fields terminated by ',' optionally enclosed by "'" escaped by '\\' ignore 1 lines (col1, col2, col3, col4);
But check the docs to see if you need anything else. sed and awk are good if you need/want to sanitize the table a bit first.
Then use an ODBC driver on the client machines to allow updates. MyODBC works well with Access 97 but I've heard of some problems with Access 2000 (I think someone at Microsoft is working on a patch for the next service pack?). Make sure all of the tables you want to update have a primary key defined.
Read your SQL server's docs for access control - with MySQL, I added a user name, password and IP address triplet to the mysql.user table with 'N' for all of the global perms, and added a line to the mysql.db table allowing the user select, insert, update and delete privs to the given database from their IP address. I'm sure there are other, better ways of doing it though.
I prefer PHP (http://www.php.net/) for the WWW frontend, but that's just me.
Nice April Fool's joke, but I like this part - pretty good reason why this kind of software should be free software:
What especially concerns privacy watchdogs like Heilman is the possibility that Rupert Tollefsen's TR operating system, if such a thing can be created, might contain not only the ability to pick up signals to the brain, but to feed them to the user's brain as well. Researchers who have worked on proto-TR projects say this capability--known alternately as "complete-loop functioning," or "reciprocity"--is the Holy Grail of 21st century information technology.
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Check http://www.clicktv.com/. It told me my local station (in Dartmouth, NS) is WGBH, and with a little digging through http://www.wgbh.org I found out that the station I see is GBH/2, and Code Rush is only ever going to be shown on GBH/44. Sucks to be me.
"Do you think that the Y2K bug already has made a
few troubles, but the media just don't want to put an end to your parties?"
We were talking about that a bit last night whilst drunk, and I think we figured they'd tell us, because keeping quiet about it wouldn't gain them anything, except for government-run stations. Then I fell over.
Export the Access tables to a comment-delimited format and import it into your favourite unix sql server. In MySQL you'd use a statement like:
load data local infile '/home/me/table1.txt' into table table1 fields terminated by ',' optionally enclosed by "'" escaped by '\\' ignore 1 lines (col1, col2, col3, col4);
But check the docs to see if you need anything else. sed and awk are good if you need/want to sanitize the table a bit first.
Then use an ODBC driver on the client machines to allow updates. MyODBC works well with Access 97 but I've heard of some problems with Access 2000 (I think someone at Microsoft is working on a patch for the next service pack?). Make sure all of the tables you want to update have a primary key defined.
Read your SQL server's docs for access control - with MySQL, I added a user name, password and IP address triplet to the mysql.user table with 'N' for all of the global perms, and added a line to the mysql.db table allowing the user select, insert, update and delete privs to the given database from their IP address. I'm sure there are other, better ways of doing it though.
I prefer PHP (http://www.php.net/) for the WWW frontend, but that's just me.
How reliable is this going to be? I know spread-spectrum has worked in cloudy places before, but...
Anyone know if they're willing to license the technology to other ISPs yet?
Nice April Fool's joke, but I like this part - pretty good reason why this kind of software should be free software:
What especially concerns privacy watchdogs like Heilman is the possibility that Rupert Tollefsen's TR operating system, if such a thing can be created, might contain not only the ability to pick up signals to the brain, but to feed them to
the user's brain as well. Researchers who have worked on proto-TR projects say this capability--known alternately as "complete-loop functioning," or "reciprocity"--is the Holy Grail of 21st century information technology.