There are existing tools (VB Scripts) for MS Access to export data to MySQL.. a couple are listed on the MySQL home page. Plus I'm sure it would be a trivial hack to customize the VB to your purposes (IE generate exactly the field types you need or special insert statements you need.) So at least you are down to using MS tools just to transfer data.
FYI: The choice I have made for my company for end-to-end web based ordering is Linux, Apache, mod_ssl, PHP, MySQL, Cybercash. PHP allows you to link right against the Cybercash MCK and even comes with some nice pre-written interface functions.
Good luck. Moving away from Access (even toward MS-SQL server or otherwise_ will help you A TON. Win NT ODBC drivers are really really poor. --- Don Rude - AKA - RudeDude
I read in a previous interview (some gaming mag) that you believe 3D in games will be moving to Voxel based rendering. While I love this idea because it's a more 'pure' 3D solution I imagine there are some major difficulties in moving to this type of setup. I'm curious, what are your thoughts on possible problems? and some solutions? (For example how do you create/paint/manipulate a 3D voxel model?) --- Don Rude - AKA - RudeDude
After reading some comments it sounds like this deal wouldn't happen... which pleases me. The whole tech industry is very merger happy lately and yet every merger/acquisition I've been (informationally) close too has always gone poorly for the tech side.
It's always very difficult to merge networks but that's only the beginnig. Try getting disperate tech departments to take responsiblity for the others work and assign responsibilities and do all this in an environment where everyone has begun to fear that they will be cut from the new company due to redundancy. It's a very difficult and hostile environment.
I guess I'm saying... @Home has a huge network and I'm pretty happy with it's management so far. Every network could be managed better, @Home is (IMO) no worse than other large scale networks. I would hate to see the network upkeep enter a downward spiral of reorginization and restructuring due to a merger. --- Don Rude - AKA - RudeDude
I don't recall ever being considered a freak about my privacy or touchy about government based paranoia here in the US. BUT, the FCC is certainly beginning to scare me a lot.
They don't want to give us wireless bandwidth for data, they never have been willing to "open up the air waves" (or any other communications tool) very much. But they seem VERY willing to allow themselves back into OUR data.
I guess it's time to teach my non-tech parents about using that little PGP icon in the tray. As much as I dread explaining and using tech to some of my "e-mail pals" (Well, who would consider e-mail a serious communication tool!?!?) I think it's time. --- Don Rude - AKA - RudeDude
Yes BIND 8 works VERY nicely under Linux for me as well. I haven't used all of the new features, like having other hosts besides official secondary hosts getting updates, but even that is much nicer and MORE SECURE than previous versions of bind. --- Don Rude - AKA - RudeDude
A co-worker of mine has the Casio e-100 and although I loathe WinCE (my gosh! wince!) it does some cool things like the ability to play MP3's and movies. He even created a web site with e-100 optimized versions of movie trailers. (PalmSizeMedia.com.) He also did a bunch of MP3 player skins.
Once they get Linux driving that display I think I'll need to look at buying one. Linux in my hand would rool, although my Palm V pretty much kicks arse as it is!! --- Don Rude - AKA - RudeDude
I was having the same thing occur. The circumstances were quite strange since I had two nearly identical boxes configured and the (dev machine) one on the local LAN didn't exhibit the behaviour. AND I did get it to occur with other browsers. I used tcpdump to sniff the HTTP headers and everything... the server was simply doing TCP RST on certain connections.
But I digress. The problem mysteriously fixed itself after I upgraded to a newer kernel. I am currently running 2.2.10 without the problem surfacing. I had previously tried upgrading and downgrading every other piece of software (Apache, PHP, mod_ssl, etc) involved with no changes in behavior. I'm still not sure why the kernel was only doing it to these particular connections, but it got fixed *shrug*.
The site that is currently running with no problems (among a couple others) is Vantage Games. Which is currently running: MySQL 3.22.23b Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) PHP/3.0.11 mod_ssl/2.3.5 OpenSSL/0.9.3a And the kernel is self compiled 2.2.10 SMP --- Don Rude - AKA - RudeDude
Domain Surfer is in trouble. And heck, so am *I*... my DNS resolver (caching only) has some of this copyrighted info that it "reproduces".. am I going to be sued!!!??? --- Don Rude - AKA - RudeDude
And AppleTalk (netatalk etc) as well. Our Linux box basically holds the network together, as it it doing masquerading as well. Samba is great, I'm sure glad it's available for dummy users who don't wanna FTP. --- Don Rude - AKA - RudeDude
I would assume the FAT32 was fixed.. I'm compiling now. LinuxHQ, (since edge.linuxhq.com is lagging) has a nice patch browser so you can at least see where things were changed. --- Don Rude - AKA - RudeDude
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FYI: The choice I have made for my company for end-to-end web based ordering is Linux, Apache, mod_ssl, PHP, MySQL, Cybercash. PHP allows you to link right against the Cybercash MCK and even comes with some nice pre-written interface functions.
Good luck. Moving away from Access (even toward MS-SQL server or otherwise_ will help you A TON. Win NT ODBC drivers are really really poor.
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Don Rude - AKA - RudeDude
TYOPS suck! damn my fingers... damn them.
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Don Rude - AKA - RudeDude
OOps, heh. I think I just started a flame war Coke Vs. Pepsi... POLL TIME!
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Don Rude - AKA - RudeDude
I read in a previous interview (some gaming mag) that you believe 3D in games will be moving to Voxel based rendering. While I love this idea because it's a more 'pure' 3D solution I imagine there are some major difficulties in moving to this type of setup. I'm curious, what are your thoughts on possible problems? and some solutions? (For example how do you create/paint/manipulate a 3D voxel model?)
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Don Rude - AKA - RudeDude
It's always very difficult to merge networks but that's only the beginnig. Try getting disperate tech departments to take responsiblity for the others work and assign responsibilities and do all this in an environment where everyone has begun to fear that they will be cut from the new company due to redundancy. It's a very difficult and hostile environment.
I guess I'm saying... @Home has a huge network and I'm pretty happy with it's management so far. Every network could be managed better, @Home is (IMO) no worse than other large scale networks. I would hate to see the network upkeep enter a downward spiral of reorginization and restructuring due to a merger.
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Don Rude - AKA - RudeDude
They don't want to give us wireless bandwidth for data, they never have been willing to "open up the air waves" (or any other communications tool) very much. But they seem VERY willing to allow themselves back into OUR data.
I guess it's time to teach my non-tech parents about using that little PGP icon in the tray. As much as I dread explaining and using tech to some of my "e-mail pals" (Well, who would consider e-mail a serious communication tool!?!?) I think it's time.
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Don Rude - AKA - RudeDude
Yes BIND 8 works VERY nicely under Linux for me as well. I haven't used all of the new features, like having other hosts besides official secondary hosts getting updates, but even that is much nicer and MORE SECURE than previous versions of bind.
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Don Rude - AKA - RudeDude
A co-worker of mine has the Casio e-100 and although I loathe WinCE (my gosh! wince!) it does some cool things like the ability to play MP3's and movies. He even created a web site with e-100 optimized versions of movie trailers. (PalmSizeMedia.com.) He also did a bunch of MP3 player skins.
Once they get Linux driving that display I think I'll need to look at buying one. Linux in my hand would rool, although my Palm V pretty much kicks arse as it is!!
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Don Rude - AKA - RudeDude
But I digress. The problem mysteriously fixed itself after I upgraded to a newer kernel. I am currently running 2.2.10 without the problem surfacing. I had previously tried upgrading and downgrading every other piece of software (Apache, PHP, mod_ssl, etc) involved with no changes in behavior. I'm still not sure why the kernel was only doing it to these particular connections, but it got fixed *shrug*.
The site that is currently running with no problems (among a couple others) is Vantage Games. Which is currently running:
MySQL 3.22.23b
Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) PHP/3.0.11 mod_ssl/2.3.5 OpenSSL/0.9.3a
And the kernel is self compiled 2.2.10 SMP
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Don Rude - AKA - RudeDude
Domain Surfer is in trouble. And heck, so am *I*... my DNS resolver (caching only) has some of this copyrighted info that it "reproduces".. am I going to be sued!!!???
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Don Rude - AKA - RudeDude
And AppleTalk (netatalk etc) as well. Our Linux box basically holds the network together, as it it doing masquerading as well. Samba is great, I'm sure glad it's available for dummy users who don't wanna FTP.
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Don Rude - AKA - RudeDude
I would assume the FAT32 was fixed.. I'm compiling now. LinuxHQ, (since edge.linuxhq.com is lagging) has a nice patch browser so you can at least see where things were changed.
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Don Rude - AKA - RudeDude