It's not technical - it's just my experiences. For some reason, developers think that VB front ends magically make the Access DB perform better in multi-user environments - and then each one implements some kludged 'solution' to db corruption when the app invariably crashes.
As an erstwhile tech support person, it's been my experience that pure Access solutions tend to stand up to multi-user better than VB front ends.
A dorky low-end database with a really quick learning curve and good reporting capabilities.
Yes, Access sucks horribly - but walk into any mid-size office and I bet you'll find at least one 'mission critical' Access database or (worse yet), applications written with a VB frontend and Access backend. IMHO, this is what's missing to make it really competitive.
Ahh... cheap shit Tulip cards and RealTek 8139s... now those are the kinds of quality hardware you can depend on! And you wonder why you have networking problems.
Becker has spent a LOT of his time adding Linux support for poorly documented, mis-configured, total crap hardware - and you cheap assholes complain. You should read the kernel newsgroup archives - some developers suggested a few years back that they dump RTL81XX entirely because the firmware sucked so bad. You whiners should be thanking Scyld for their work.
Here in DC I do support work on the side for small law firms - at least 50% of the firms I have been to have some (legally licensed!) version of WP installed on workstations - usually next to a copy of MS Office.
There are lots of people who still use WP - their market share isn't great but the total number of users certainly isn't anything to sniff at - I bet IBM would kill to have the WP userbase to switch to SmartSuite...
Many of us are perfectly content to continue to use software we purchased legally years ago - and just because BSA members have tried to force upgrades on us and our software, well, it still just works, and we refuse to submit to planned obsolescence. I expect we are lumped in the 'pirate' category too.
Remember, Gates himself said the biggest threat to Win 98 was Win 95.
"Of course, there is always the small flickering of hope that a hot, intelligent, emotionally stable girl will see my site, recognize my value, email me, we'll fall in love, get married, raise a gaggle of children, and live happily ever after. "
Sorry to say it, chum, but any girl who fulfills requirement #2 will run in the opposite direction at top speed when they see your site.
The party in power has now purchased 24/7 favorable media coverage in the upcoming election - and didn't have to spend a dime. How about them apples, Senator McCain and Senator Feingold?
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'Icewine' or 'Eiswine' is a German thing, using Reisling grapes left on the vine past their prime (spatlesen or late picked) and through the first frost, then picked frozen. The ice is pressed from the frozen grapes, leaving behind a very high-solids, high-sugar must.
Executive summary: this stuff is going to be super super sweet . Consistency (and sugar content) of maple syrup. Not to be served with meat or fish. Most likely served in a small apertif glass after a meal.
Personally, I hate wines of this type - I'd much rather open a good Zin or Shiraz - but hey, to each his own.
...since I had to fsck with terminating resistors (10base2), vampire taps (10base5) or that crappy stiff ArcNet cable. I still have working setups of each packed away in my basement.
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Nah, it's a plot synopsis for "Saturday Night Fever".
Not true. They know perfectly well they can compete. They make pretty some good software (on alternate Thursdays) and they have a stellar marketing machine.
The problem is, it's just too much damn trouble and expense to compete - and it doesn't maximize ROI. Much easier and cheaper to legislate and litigate. Path of least resistance.
In the course of helping a small non-profit tighten up its mail server and web server, we inadvertently enabled open relaying on the mail server... the damn thing was relaying spam within minutes. Seriously, in the time it took to go to the bathroom and come back, the server was completely saturated with messages. The spammers found the open relay within a 10 minute period - and this isn't the first time I've seen/heard of this happening. Is the spammer software just too good now? Will FTC mailing to notoriously permanent open relays even help?
Install a GPS next to the recorder in the trunk - record GPS coordinates on the tape. Now how is officer A going to explain how his drive was on officer B's beat?
Jeez, this is too easy. 18-wheelers and rental cars are tracked by GPS. I can't believe they don't do this already in police cars!
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After reading everyone's suggestions on how a policeman who did something questionable might want to 'game the system'; i.e., get the disc to record over the problem moments...
I wonder what will happen when they put REALLY big drives in these things that record the whole shift. More police cars unfortunately running off the road and exploding in flames, I suppose (with the drivers miraculously saved.)
Another thing that came to mind - this device could be the equivalent of a 'black box' on an airplane - you could have BlueTooth enabled guns / batons, health montoring devices in the uniform... this could bring a whole new level of evidence to bear in a Rodney-King style event. What if the police could show from a EKG strip that the cop really was scared for his life? Interesting stuff...
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"One can be intelligent and lack wisdom."
In one sentence, you have summed up modern American society. Well done!
It's not technical - it's just my experiences. For some reason, developers think that VB front ends magically make the Access DB perform better in multi-user environments - and then each one implements some kludged 'solution' to db corruption when the app invariably crashes.
As an erstwhile tech support person, it's been my experience that pure Access solutions tend to stand up to multi-user better than VB front ends.
A dorky low-end database with a really quick learning curve and good reporting capabilities.
Yes, Access sucks horribly - but walk into any mid-size office and I bet you'll find at least one 'mission critical' Access database or (worse yet), applications written with a VB frontend and Access backend. IMHO, this is what's missing to make it really competitive.
Ahh... cheap shit Tulip cards and RealTek 8139s... now those are the kinds of quality hardware you can depend on! And you wonder why you have networking problems.
Becker has spent a LOT of his time adding Linux support for poorly documented, mis-configured, total crap hardware - and you cheap assholes complain. You should read the kernel newsgroup archives - some developers suggested a few years back that they dump RTL81XX entirely because the firmware sucked so bad. You whiners should be thanking Scyld for their work.
Or maybe buy a decent NIC instead.
DSL, like most everything else that travels over telco copper, is already subject to the Universal Service Fund charge, and has been for some time.
Here in DC I do support work on the side for small law firms - at least 50% of the firms I have been to have some (legally licensed!) version of WP installed on workstations - usually next to a copy of MS Office.
There are lots of people who still use WP - their market share isn't great but the total number of users certainly isn't anything to sniff at - I bet IBM would kill to have the WP userbase to switch to SmartSuite...
SCO purchased all the broadcast spectrum from Novell in '95.
Ari Fleischer (holding hands over ears): "What's that horrible noise?"
Server Tech : "I don't know, sir! It started about 3:15 pm - right after school got out..."
Webserver: "We're gonna ZOOM, ZOOM, ZOOMA, ZOOM..."
SCO!
...well, today, anyway.
Many of us are perfectly content to continue to use software we purchased legally years ago - and just because BSA members have tried to force upgrades on us and our software, well, it still just works, and we refuse to submit to planned obsolescence. I expect we are lumped in the 'pirate' category too.
Remember, Gates himself said the biggest threat to Win 98 was Win 95.
From Mr. Max's website:
"Of course, there is always the small flickering of hope that a hot, intelligent, emotionally stable girl will see my site, recognize my value, email me, we'll fall in love, get married, raise a gaggle of children, and live happily ever after. "
Sorry to say it, chum, but any girl who fulfills requirement #2 will run in the opposite direction at top speed when they see your site.
The party in power has now purchased 24/7 favorable media coverage in the upcoming election - and didn't have to spend a dime. How about them apples, Senator McCain and Senator Feingold?
Winter for Celeborn and Ents!
(with apologies to Mel Brooks)
"We're hoping to get a long-term lifespan out of Windows Server 2003 without having to do major upgrading."
These guys obviously aren't students of "Licensing 6.0".
'Icewine' or 'Eiswine' is a German thing, using Reisling grapes left on the vine past their prime (spatlesen or late picked) and through the first frost, then picked frozen. The ice is pressed from the frozen grapes, leaving behind a very high-solids, high-sugar must.
Executive summary: this stuff is going to be super super sweet . Consistency (and sugar content) of maple syrup. Not to be served with meat or fish. Most likely served in a small apertif glass after a meal.
Personally, I hate wines of this type - I'd much rather open a good Zin or Shiraz - but hey, to each his own.
...since I had to fsck with terminating resistors (10base2), vampire taps (10base5) or that crappy stiff ArcNet cable. I still have working setups of each packed away in my basement.
Nah, it's a plot synopsis for "Saturday Night Fever".
Hottie: Forget it!
Nerd: But wait! I have 128 MB of porn in my wristwatch! And a magnifying glass!
"they don't feel they can compete."
Not true. They know perfectly well they can compete. They make pretty some good software (on alternate Thursdays) and they have a stellar marketing machine.
The problem is, it's just too much damn trouble and expense to compete - and it doesn't maximize ROI. Much easier and cheaper to legislate and litigate. Path of least resistance.
In the course of helping a small non-profit tighten up its mail server and web server, we inadvertently enabled open relaying on the mail server... the damn thing was relaying spam within minutes. Seriously, in the time it took to go to the bathroom and come back, the server was completely saturated with messages. The spammers found the open relay within a 10 minute period - and this isn't the first time I've seen/heard of this happening. Is the spammer software just too good now? Will FTC mailing to notoriously permanent open relays even help?
It's... it's... wait, what is the difference?
Install a GPS next to the recorder in the trunk - record GPS coordinates on the tape. Now how is officer A going to explain how his drive was on officer B's beat?
Jeez, this is too easy. 18-wheelers and rental cars are tracked by GPS. I can't believe they don't do this already in police cars!
After reading everyone's suggestions on how a policeman who did something questionable might want to 'game the system'; i.e., get the disc to record over the problem moments...
I wonder what will happen when they put REALLY big drives in these things that record the whole shift. More police cars unfortunately running off the road and exploding in flames, I suppose (with the drivers miraculously saved.)
Another thing that came to mind - this device could be the equivalent of a 'black box' on an airplane - you could have BlueTooth enabled guns / batons, health montoring devices in the uniform... this could bring a whole new level of evidence to bear in a Rodney-King style event. What if the police could show from a EKG strip that the cop really was scared for his life? Interesting stuff...
Both have promised to show evidence of copying soon!
I think the comment right before the spam discussion gives everyone a good idea of the weighty matters taken up by the House of Lords:
Baroness Strange: My Lords, does the Minister agree that sardine tins and anchovy tins are also very difficult to open with their tin-openers?
At least they didn't flee to Oklahoma to avoid quorum!