Well that may work for you thought it sounds like a reporting solution is what you really want. I'm a little less familiar with those. I used Crystal Reports years ago- but that isn't a free solution.
It does sound like what you want would not be too hard to write but of course I know very little about the problem and there may be a lot more to it.
I know OpenOffice.org has a reporting tool built in for Base - but I have no idea if it is capable of doing what you want. I've never used it. I don't own any apple computers either - so I don't know what other options you have there.
I was an MS SQL Server guy before I moved over to Oracle. We had a lot of Access DBs floating around in the company I worked for back then. I don't miss Access at all. We were running 98 - maybe it is better now as far as stability and such, but I just hated all the weirdness.
I'm not sure what "card layout power" means - I'm kind of guessing you might be talking about the forms in MS Access. Sorry if I'm wrong there.
One option for you may be an ide. Some of those - like netbeans for example - provide gui design functionality that will allow you to bind widgets to database fields, which is basically what the Access forms is about. It may sound like a bit of overkill, but I don't think it would be too hard to set up. The other option of course is writing a little app.
Either will involve a little work - but give you a much more powerful back-end, and move your data out of a closed format and into something easy to move from one format to another. (Though to be honest, it's not that hard to get stuff out of Access, even if you don't have access. You do need Windows though.)
This is true - though many who would need Oracle, even if they use Postgres as a replacement will probably be purchasing support for whatever rdbms they use. Same thing if they are running it on Linux - they will be paying someone to support that OS - even though they don't 'have' to.
apparently he didn't call any of us from the P.V.H.S. computer/role playing club (the membership for both was the same people - so they are kind of interchangeable) to ask us about the crpg we wrote for the apple IIs in the computer lab in '86. which is a shame when one takes into account the oppressive conditions we worked under. mr. cornell would rip a floppy right out of the drive and staple it to the wall if he caught someone playing a game.
You went from being a woman to being a man (It could have been the other way around I guess, but your nick does start with Mister so I'm assuming you are a man now.) and I'm confused?
Definitely don't. Just my opinion. It's a good book and took a lot more work than writing a review. I have the utmost respect for anyone who can complete a book, let alone a good one.
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Not to me. I type all my book reviews in docs, I use calendar and gmail a lot. I use groups to coordinate a couple projects - I think of google as a great provider of services that I need. Sorry if it sounded like an advert- but it's how I feel. I don't work for and am not related to (in any fashion) anyone who works for google.
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Well - the thing is, the book calls them hacks - and I didn't really know what else to call them - even though they aren't hacks. Probably, the closest thing that is common lately would have been 'recipes' but I couldn't use that language without being even more confusing.
So I figured making it clear that they aren't hacks right up front would cover that. And it sounds like you got it. It is a useful book. I think the hacks thing is really more of a marketing thing since this is associated with Make and they go much more for that image of experimenting, hacking, etc.
As someone formerly involved in naval aviation, let me just say that the headline had me thoroughly confused for a few seconds. I thought the current fresnel lens optical systems were just fine.
Maybe instead of being a great disapointment it has been so successful that we realized it was in our best interest to blend in and not let our presence be known.
Yeah- I got emails from my party (I'm not really into politics - but I guess that is accurate) and it gets old really fast. I just got off the mailing list because it was so obvious what they were doing. Maybe I just haven't bought into the propaganda enough to look forward to that kind of stuff, but for me it was just more advertising though slightly more targeted than some of the other spam I get.
I've never used twitter. But I keep seeing so much about it - a comic at Penny Arcade, articles, political events and such. So I thought I'd check it out. Went over to sign up and was told that it was under heavy load and to come back later. (Twitter is over capacity. Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again.) I've tried a few times in the last week or two. Looks like that thing is suffocating under its own weight.
I've read the linked article a few times and I'm not sure where there is anything to indicate he is mad. Nice use of alliteration though. I did find this article about the difference in growth between the two sites and it has a lot more information about the situation in general, though nothing about Murdoch's reaction. I couldn't find anything more about that - like where and when he said the things they say he said, what the tone was, etc.
It is all comic - graphic novel is what they are calling it. It's a bit short for the term novel, in my mind, but there are no pages with just text - it is all animated.
It is a bit preachy at times, not as bad as it could be though. I don't think the vocab would be a big problem for younger kids, though I think the primary target is probably younger teens. In fact my 8 year old daughter thought it was awesome, but didn't really understand all that was going on I think.
I'm a fan of Doctorow and have read most of his stuff - working through the overclocked stories right now, and have not read big brother.
This one does have some over the top 'action' but only in one spot that I can think of off the top of my head - a politician type guy being arrested at gun-point. At a press conference. But knowing Doctorow, Hacker Teen is probably a lot more family friendly in the US. (Not judging either way - just observing.)
It would be interesting to see if the hackerteen stuff ever went the same direction as Doctorow- putting their money where their mouth is so to speak and allowing free distribution, etc. With O'Reilly involved I'm not sure what the odds are in that regard.
They have to get an introduction somewhere. I'm so immersed in all this stuff - that I forget how many people have no idea. I had a college student this week-end ask me what Linux is.
My concern is that people like that wont know about O'Reilly either. But maybe stuff like this will help bridge that gap earlier on. I would really love it if schools, libraries, etc. picked up on this book.
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Well that may work for you thought it sounds like a reporting solution is what you really want. I'm a little less familiar with those. I used Crystal Reports years ago- but that isn't a free solution.
It does sound like what you want would not be too hard to write but of course I know very little about the problem and there may be a lot more to it.
I know OpenOffice.org has a reporting tool built in for Base - but I have no idea if it is capable of doing what you want. I've never used it. I don't own any apple computers either - so I don't know what other options you have there.
I was an MS SQL Server guy before I moved over to Oracle. We had a lot of Access DBs floating around in the company I worked for back then. I don't miss Access at all. We were running 98 - maybe it is better now as far as stability and such, but I just hated all the weirdness.
I'm not sure what "card layout power" means - I'm kind of guessing you might be talking about the forms in MS Access. Sorry if I'm wrong there.
One option for you may be an ide. Some of those - like netbeans for example - provide gui design functionality that will allow you to bind widgets to database fields, which is basically what the Access forms is about. It may sound like a bit of overkill, but I don't think it would be too hard to set up. The other option of course is writing a little app.
Either will involve a little work - but give you a much more powerful back-end, and move your data out of a closed format and into something easy to move from one format to another. (Though to be honest, it's not that hard to get stuff out of Access, even if you don't have access. You do need Windows though.)
This is true - though many who would need Oracle, even if they use Postgres as a replacement will probably be purchasing support for whatever rdbms they use. Same thing if they are running it on Linux - they will be paying someone to support that OS - even though they don't 'have' to.
and imagine all those cores in a box running a bunch of virtual machines. every dba team will need an accountant.
- and - oh my God - it's full of cores!
apparently he didn't call any of us from the P.V.H.S. computer/role playing club (the membership for both was the same people - so they are kind of interchangeable) to ask us about the crpg we wrote for the apple IIs in the computer lab in '86. which is a shame when one takes into account the oppressive conditions we worked under. mr. cornell would rip a floppy right out of the drive and staple it to the wall if he caught someone playing a game.
You went from being a woman to being a man (It could have been the other way around I guess, but your nick does start with Mister so I'm assuming you are a man now.) and I'm confused?
Definitely don't. Just my opinion. It's a good book and took a lot more work than writing a review. I have the utmost respect for anyone who can complete a book, let alone a good one.
Not to me. I type all my book reviews in docs, I use calendar and gmail a lot. I use groups to coordinate a couple projects - I think of google as a great provider of services that I need. Sorry if it sounded like an advert- but it's how I feel. I don't work for and am not related to (in any fashion) anyone who works for google.
Well - the thing is, the book calls them hacks - and I didn't really know what else to call them - even though they aren't hacks. Probably, the closest thing that is common lately would have been 'recipes' but I couldn't use that language without being even more confusing.
So I figured making it clear that they aren't hacks right up front would cover that. And it sounds like you got it. It is a useful book. I think the hacks thing is really more of a marketing thing since this is associated with Make and they go much more for that image of experimenting, hacking, etc.
If you weren't a troll - that would have hurt my feelings. Maybe.
definitely not the kind that has been doing all that warrantless wire-tapping. Make sure it is the kind that makes your car go really fast.
As someone formerly involved in naval aviation, let me just say that the headline had me thoroughly confused for a few seconds. I thought the current fresnel lens optical systems were just fine.
The Grolar and Prizzly are endangered due to over hunting for their magical powers. Only the Liger has a more tenuous situation in that regard.
It's a sad site, watching Grolar hunters heading out, shot-guns in hand, trained wolverines at their side.
make sure it doesn't wear off after a little while
They probably spent more than you gave, sending you mail. Nice.
Maybe instead of being a great disapointment it has been so successful that we realized it was in our best interest to blend in and not let our presence be known.
Do they make any money? If not - simple hardware improvements are not simple.
Yeah- I got emails from my party (I'm not really into politics - but I guess that is accurate) and it gets old really fast. I just got off the mailing list because it was so obvious what they were doing. Maybe I just haven't bought into the propaganda enough to look forward to that kind of stuff, but for me it was just more advertising though slightly more targeted than some of the other spam I get.
I've never used twitter. But I keep seeing so much about it - a comic at Penny Arcade, articles, political events and such. So I thought I'd check it out. Went over to sign up and was told that it was under heavy load and to come back later. (Twitter is over capacity. Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again.) I've tried a few times in the last week or two. Looks like that thing is suffocating under its own weight.
I've read the linked article a few times and I'm not sure where there is anything to indicate he is mad. Nice use of alliteration though. I did find this article about the difference in growth between the two sites and it has a lot more information about the situation in general, though nothing about Murdoch's reaction. I couldn't find anything more about that - like where and when he said the things they say he said, what the tone was, etc.
I read the same 4 - along with Perry Bible Fellowship, though I don't check that as often and it never takes long to catch up.
I usually read xkcd and ctrl alt del first - they are the most consistent on being updated on time.
PA is usually later, but they are on the west coast and pvp is so erratic, I just check it whenever.
It is all comic - graphic novel is what they are calling it. It's a bit short for the term novel, in my mind, but there are no pages with just text - it is all animated.
It is a bit preachy at times, not as bad as it could be though. I don't think the vocab would be a big problem for younger kids, though I think the primary target is probably younger teens. In fact my 8 year old daughter thought it was awesome, but didn't really understand all that was going on I think.
I'm a fan of Doctorow and have read most of his stuff - working through the overclocked stories right now, and have not read big brother.
This one does have some over the top 'action' but only in one spot that I can think of off the top of my head - a politician type guy being arrested at gun-point. At a press conference. But knowing Doctorow, Hacker Teen is probably a lot more family friendly in the US. (Not judging either way - just observing.)
It would be interesting to see if the hackerteen stuff ever went the same direction as Doctorow- putting their money where their mouth is so to speak and allowing free distribution, etc. With O'Reilly involved I'm not sure what the odds are in that regard.
They have to get an introduction somewhere. I'm so immersed in all this stuff - that I forget how many people have no idea. I had a college student this week-end ask me what Linux is.
My concern is that people like that wont know about O'Reilly either. But maybe stuff like this will help bridge that gap earlier on. I would really love it if schools, libraries, etc. picked up on this book.