I am pretty sure you can't use the rule system to intercept and rework queries coming from a client. Rule system is awesomely powerful but it's not designed to do that.
How hard could it be to write a new collation anyway? I remember people asking for this during the open source database conference way back five or six years ago.
Nonsense. There are many databases which treat where clauses in a case insensitive manner. Postgres already has different collation code for each language so why not just make another one? POstgres is able to sort and search for greek, turkish, crylic, korean etc are they breaking some SQL standard because they can satisfy a where clause with umlauts in them? Of course not.
As for inconsistancy perhaps they can take a clue from firebird and set the collation on a per column basis. That way you can use case sensitive collation for your scientific columns and case insensitive collation for names of your employees. After all do you really want to return an empty recordset because you searched for McNab instead of mcnab or Mcnab?
Why doesn't postgres deal with this issue as a localization problem? Just create a language called "case insensitive english" and be done with it.
It's fine to write queries like where lower(colum_name) but if you have already witten a hundred queries that say where column_name =searchstring then what do you do?
" In fact the law is NOT needed at all, it's already a crime to reveal the existance of classified programs, and revealing a undercover operation by the police is also a crime."
So why are republicans pushing for this law? It's because it goes much further then you have stated.
""Domestic Spying" which is 100% LEGAL,"
Lie
"as it does NOT target calls within the USA to another USA destination, and for those calls that are point-to-point in the USA the callers are "persons of interest in a Federal Criminal Investigation" which is also quite legal. "
Lie
"Getting a judge to sign off is really a formality as when they see the evidence they usually will sign off. "
Since the FISA court is nothing but a rubber stamp for the president why bypass them in the first place?
"If you read the law, they are NOT breaking it"
Lie
" and by the way every President INCLUDING BlowJob Bill used the provision in the law."
Lie.
" Write this down, UNLESS you are a terrorist or are plotting terrorist acts with another citizen (and someone turned your name in) the Gov't is NOT listening to your calls."
Lie
"Congress knew all about this program for a long time, they got regular briefs,"
Lie
" They (the liberals) really don't give as damn about National Security"
Lie
"they just want to try to find SOMETHING to criticize GWB about."
A couple of days ago there was a topic about a bill that would criminlize critizing the presidents survaillance program. Many people said something to the effect "this will never get through the courts".
I invite those people to carefully observe how far backwards the courts can bend to appease the federal govt.
Even with backwards compatibility moving from 2K to XP took training especially with the firewall.
I don't know how stupid your employees are (our are not too bad) but as I said if a high school dropout can learn a POS your employees can learn open office.
You are going to have to train 70 users on office 12. It's going to be easier to train them on open office because it looks and acts more like office 2003 then office 12.
Did you think that by staying with windows you were never going to train your employees?
Unfortunately lots of people have painted themselves into a corner with vendor lock. These people will never be able to switch to anything else. For all practical purposes their IT decisions are now being made by vendors for the benefit of the vendors and not by the CIO for the benefit of the business.
For companies in your situation all there is left to do is to pray that your competition has also made stupid decisions and is locked into a vendor they can't drop. Otherwise they might be more agile and adopt new technologies and new ways of doing business and kick your ass in the marketplace.
sucks to be you I guess but you are right. Your company and companies like you will never be able to switch to Linux, Mac, or anything else that might be coming up in the future.
You do realize that this article is about the corporate desktop and not retail right?
Corporate adoption is the first step. The machines get imaged by professionals in the IT staff. The hardware is controlled by buying from a single vendor. The fact that you can't willy nilly install software you got from the web is a plus. The fact that you can't play your games is a plus.
I suspect most will be run as xterms anyway which will save the corporation millions of dollars in support costs.
Once linux is on the corporate desktop then the hardware manufacturers will write drivers and staples will carry it because people will want to run it home so they can take work home. That's what happened with windows and that's what will happen with linux.
Most people will have learn something new when vista and office12 come out anyway. Have you seen those screenshots? They look nothing like windows XP. For most users it's easier to switch to open office from office 2003 then to switch to office12. Open office actually tries to look similar to office 2003.
Having said all that this is the corporation we are talking about. Either your employees learn what you want them to use or they get replaced. WHere I work there are a dozen goofy programs an employee has to learn all written by different people, and most of them with goofy interfaces because they were written for a vertical market. If an employee refused to learn them then they would be canned because you need to use them to do your job.
Hell if a high school dropout can master a POS terminal in a retail store your office workers ought to be able open office right?
Why did the floors fell on top of each other in the buildings that were not hit by an airplane. Why didn't the floors fall on top of each other in other buildings where there were fires which burned much longer?
At some point your rationalizations start looking a lot more forced then the conspiracy theory.
1) $0.00: Oracle 10g express edition. Limited to 4G databases, will only use 1G ram, only uses one processor. 2) $5,000 pre processor: Oracle standard edition one. Up to two processors. 3) $15,000 per processor: Oracle standard edition. Up to four processors. 4) $40,000 per processor: Oracle enterprise edition. No limits.
These prices are just below what MS charges for SQL server of similar capabilites except for enterprise edition which has features SQL server does not have.
The prices are also a little less then what IBM is charging for DB/2.
why would anybody pay these prices? Well if you have to ask....
I know there is going to a ton of OMG oracle costs 40,000 posts here so I wanted to put the actual prices before the FUDsters got any further.
When the open source databases get replication and clustering capabilities of oracle I expect the prices to drop even more. Right now there is no reliable, asyncronous, multi master, shared nothing, merge replication over unreliable links in the open source world. Maybe slony2 will pull it off.
Has anybody messed with replication on ingres? How is that?
Airplanes crash all the time. Go look at some airplane crash pictures, then look at the pictures of both the pentagon and the PA airplane crash.
Airplanes have crashed into skyscrapers in the past. They have crashed into older, weaker skyscrapers. None of those buildings fell.
Go look at some videos of controlled demolition. Then go look at how the building 'collapsed' on 9/11. While you are looking also take a look at how the buildings which the airplanes hit collapsed and how the buildings which the airplanes didn't hit collapsed. If you notice a similarity then try to find a rational reason for that.
"Another Disclaimer - I let my print subscription to The Economist lapse during the early part of President GW Bush's first term as US President as I thought they had lost sight of this, and their USA coverage was offering fawning paeans to the White House, rather than the [wry] analysis I was paying for."
My sig says "evil is as evil does". I don't care what the economists says they are about, I don't care they profess to believe in, I don't care what they see when look in the mirror. I only care about what they say and do. From where I sit the economist has been the biggest cheerleader for this war in the world. To me advocating a war and making excuses for GW is not about free trade. If anything it's the opposite of free trade, it's waging war to invade and occupy a nation and taking control of their natural resources.
Everybody has a distorted perception of themselves. GW thinks he is a god loving man who is obeying gods will, I think I handsome and debonair, the economist thinks it's an independent voice which cares about free trade. None of those things are true though.
There have been numerous crashes of commercial aircraft both into buildings and into the ground. You can take a look around the internet and see pictures of them. In all the ones I have seen huge chunks of the airplane are left around. Also most of the bodies are recovered too.
Sorry something is really fishy about 9/11. It stinks to high heaven. I don't normally go for the tinfoil hat but there are a lot of things about 9/11 that just don't add up.
Apache does much more then IIS so of course the configuration is easier.
The best thing about apache configuration is that you can put comments in your configuration file. Also you can email your configuration file to a friend or a newsgroup for help.
I'll take apache over IIS any day thank you.
By the way if you sysadmin is too confused by text files perhaps you should think about getting a new one.
I followed your links, there is nothing in there that shows pictures of airplane wreckage around pentagon. There is a story about an f-4 and a c-130 both of which are TINY compared to a 767.
Sshhhhh. You are not supposed to notice things like the building collapsing all alike. You are also not supposed to notice the complete lack of airplane parts in and around the pentagon.
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I am pretty sure you can't use the rule system to intercept and rework queries coming from a client. Rule system is awesomely powerful but it's not designed to do that.
How hard could it be to write a new collation anyway? I remember people asking for this during the open source database conference way back five or six years ago.
Nonsense. There are many databases which treat where clauses in a case insensitive manner. Postgres already has different collation code for each language so why not just make another one? POstgres is able to sort and search for greek, turkish, crylic, korean etc are they breaking some SQL standard because they can satisfy a where clause with umlauts in them? Of course not.
As for inconsistancy perhaps they can take a clue from firebird and set the collation on a per column basis. That way you can use case sensitive collation for your scientific columns and case insensitive collation for names of your employees. After all do you really want to return an empty recordset because you searched for McNab instead of mcnab or Mcnab?
Why doesn't postgres deal with this issue as a localization problem? Just create a language called "case insensitive english" and be done with it.
It's fine to write queries like where lower(colum_name) but if you have already witten a hundred queries that say where column_name =searchstring then what do you do?
Would you rather the postgres team spent time and money on marketing or making a better database?
Me I prefer the latter.
How about....
Firebird, ingres, SAPDb?
" In fact the law is NOT needed at all, it's already a crime to reveal the existance of classified programs, and revealing a undercover operation by the police is also a crime."
So why are republicans pushing for this law? It's because it goes much further then you have stated.
""Domestic Spying" which is 100% LEGAL,"
Lie
"as it does NOT target calls within the USA to another USA destination, and for those calls that are point-to-point in the USA the callers are "persons of interest in a Federal Criminal Investigation" which is also quite legal. "
Lie
"Getting a judge to sign off is really a formality as when they see the evidence they usually will sign off. "
Since the FISA court is nothing but a rubber stamp for the president why bypass them in the first place?
"If you read the law, they are NOT breaking it"
Lie
" and by the way every President INCLUDING BlowJob Bill used the provision in the law."
Lie.
" Write this down, UNLESS you are a terrorist or are plotting terrorist acts with another citizen (and someone turned your name in) the Gov't is NOT listening to your calls."
Lie
"Congress knew all about this program for a long time, they got regular briefs,"
Lie
" They (the liberals) really don't give as damn about National Security"
Lie
"they just want to try to find SOMETHING to criticize GWB about."
Lie.
So are you pants on fire yet?
LOL. Bill Clinton was called the "first black president" now he is the "the first republican from the democratic party president".
I would take him over our current clown in chief any day.
A couple of days ago there was a topic about a bill that would criminlize critizing the presidents survaillance program. Many people said something to the effect "this will never get through the courts".
I invite those people to carefully observe how far backwards the courts can bend to appease the federal govt.
Even with backwards compatibility moving from 2K to XP took training especially with the firewall.
I don't know how stupid your employees are (our are not too bad) but as I said if a high school dropout can learn a POS your employees can learn open office.
You are going to have to train 70 users on office 12. It's going to be easier to train them on open office because it looks and acts more like office 2003 then office 12.
Did you think that by staying with windows you were never going to train your employees?
Unfortunately lots of people have painted themselves into a corner with vendor lock. These people will never be able to switch to anything else. For all practical purposes their IT decisions are now being made by vendors for the benefit of the vendors and not by the CIO for the benefit of the business.
For companies in your situation all there is left to do is to pray that your competition has also made stupid decisions and is locked into a vendor they can't drop. Otherwise they might be more agile and adopt new technologies and new ways of doing business and kick your ass in the marketplace.
sucks to be you I guess but you are right. Your company and companies like you will never be able to switch to Linux, Mac, or anything else that might be coming up in the future.
You do realize that this article is about the corporate desktop and not retail right?
Corporate adoption is the first step. The machines get imaged by professionals in the IT staff. The hardware is controlled by buying from a single vendor. The fact that you can't willy nilly install software you got from the web is a plus. The fact that you can't play your games is a plus.
I suspect most will be run as xterms anyway which will save the corporation millions of dollars in support costs.
Once linux is on the corporate desktop then the hardware manufacturers will write drivers and staples will carry it because people will want to run it home so they can take work home. That's what happened with windows and that's what will happen with linux.
Most people will have learn something new when vista and office12 come out anyway. Have you seen those screenshots? They look nothing like windows XP. For most users it's easier to switch to open office from office 2003 then to switch to office12. Open office actually tries to look similar to office 2003.
Having said all that this is the corporation we are talking about. Either your employees learn what you want them to use or they get replaced. WHere I work there are a dozen goofy programs an employee has to learn all written by different people, and most of them with goofy interfaces because they were written for a vertical market. If an employee refused to learn them then they would be canned because you need to use them to do your job.
Hell if a high school dropout can master a POS terminal in a retail store your office workers ought to be able open office right?
Most people who run Oracle run it on solaris or some other Nix. There is no reason to limit yourself to intel chips dual core or otherwise.
Also the prices listed on their web site are list prices. Anybody who has bought oracle can tell you there is much room to negotiate in those prices.
Why did the floors fell on top of each other in the buildings that were not hit by an airplane. Why didn't the floors fall on top of each other in other buildings where there were fires which burned much longer?
At some point your rationalizations start looking a lot more forced then the conspiracy theory.
Oracle price list from www.oracle.com.
1) $0.00: Oracle 10g express edition. Limited to 4G databases, will only use 1G ram, only uses one processor.
2) $5,000 pre processor: Oracle standard edition one. Up to two processors.
3) $15,000 per processor: Oracle standard edition. Up to four processors.
4) $40,000 per processor: Oracle enterprise edition. No limits.
These prices are just below what MS charges for SQL server of similar capabilites except for enterprise edition which has features SQL server does not have.
The prices are also a little less then what IBM is charging for DB/2.
why would anybody pay these prices? Well if you have to ask....
I know there is going to a ton of OMG oracle costs 40,000 posts here so I wanted to put the actual prices before the FUDsters got any further.
When the open source databases get replication and clustering capabilities of oracle I expect the prices to drop even more. Right now there is no reliable, asyncronous, multi master, shared nothing, merge replication over unreliable links in the open source world. Maybe slony2 will pull it off.
Has anybody messed with replication on ingres? How is that?
Airplanes crash all the time. Go look at some airplane crash pictures, then look at the pictures of both the pentagon and the PA airplane crash.
Airplanes have crashed into skyscrapers in the past. They have crashed into older, weaker skyscrapers. None of those buildings fell.
Go look at some videos of controlled demolition. Then go look at how the building 'collapsed' on 9/11. While you are looking also take a look at how the buildings which the airplanes hit collapsed and how the buildings which the airplanes didn't hit collapsed. If you notice a similarity then try to find a rational reason for that.
"Another Disclaimer - I let my print subscription to The Economist lapse during the early part of President GW Bush's first term as US President as I thought they had lost sight of this, and their USA coverage was offering fawning paeans to the White House, rather than the [wry] analysis I was paying for."
My sig says "evil is as evil does". I don't care what the economists says they are about, I don't care they profess to believe in, I don't care what they see when look in the mirror. I only care about what they say and do. From where I sit the economist has been the biggest cheerleader for this war in the world. To me advocating a war and making excuses for GW is not about free trade. If anything it's the opposite of free trade, it's waging war to invade and occupy a nation and taking control of their natural resources.
Everybody has a distorted perception of themselves. GW thinks he is a god loving man who is obeying gods will, I think I handsome and debonair, the economist thinks it's an independent voice which cares about free trade. None of those things are true though.
I spent four years in the air force. I have ridden in c-130s. If you think that a c-130 and a 757 are similar in size you are a moron.
There have been numerous crashes of commercial aircraft both into buildings and into the ground. You can take a look around the internet and see pictures of them. In all the ones I have seen huge chunks of the airplane are left around. Also most of the bodies are recovered too.
Sorry something is really fishy about 9/11. It stinks to high heaven. I don't normally go for the tinfoil hat but there are a lot of things about 9/11 that just don't add up.
"That's what Linux is lacking. Does anyone realize this?"
No because you are lying both about how easy things are in windows and how hard things are in linux.
Apache does much more then IIS so of course the configuration is easier.
The best thing about apache configuration is that you can put comments in your configuration file. Also you can email your configuration file to a friend or a newsgroup for help.
I'll take apache over IIS any day thank you.
By the way if you sysadmin is too confused by text files perhaps you should think about getting a new one.
I followed your links, there is nothing in there that shows pictures of airplane wreckage around pentagon. There is a story about an f-4 and a c-130 both of which are TINY compared to a 767.
Sshhhhh. You are not supposed to notice things like the building collapsing all alike. You are also not supposed to notice the complete lack of airplane parts in and around the pentagon.
Ha Ha. That's so cute. I guess the children still think congresspeople read the bills they are voting for.