I have two gyration mice, one at work and one at home. I've tried a lot of different mice, trackpads, trackballs, etc. but the gyration is, to my mind, the best solution out there, bar none.
Why tie yourself to two dimensions, and contort yourself endlessly trying to sit in a position where you're comfortable and you can reach your mouse? The gyration lets you sit back comfortably, slouch, lie down, stand on yer head and control the cursor by waving in the air.
If I'm doing detail work, like creating illustrations, I tend to leave the mouse on the desk. But if I'm just surfing, reading email, or monitoring RSS the gyration is perfect. If you haven't tried one I highly recommend it.
I'd put my money on it being Clustra any day. Why would Sun want to fool around with MySQL, or Postgres, or Ingres when they have their own HA DBMS and a truck load of developers.
Clustra was developed by Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Oystein Torbjornsen, and Svein Erik Bratsberg http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/h/Hvasshovd:Svein=Olaf.html. Looks like Svein-Olaf - Sophus - went back to Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. But Oystein and Svein-Erik still work for Sun at the Trondheim office.
If you want a career programming job find a big non-tech-vendor company with a world-class IT department - they do exist - and get in. These companies will often have a special career track for expert programmers so that your don't get into the situation where new college grads are hired on a salalery higer than yours. This also means you don't HAVE to move into low level management jobs just to maintain to standard of living - and then get fired durign the next reorg.
Once you're in one of these companies find a project that looks interesting and make yourself indispensible. Don't laugh. I used to work in IT and I new a lot of old programmers who were quite happilly working on stuff they thought was pretty cool. There's always the risk of mass layoffs if the company isn't doing so well but you can't avoid that anywhere.
In Silicon Valley look at companies that have moved their IT out to Pleasanton. Not too far to drive and it's a reverse commute.
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Why tie yourself to two dimensions, and contort yourself endlessly trying to sit in a position where you're comfortable and you can reach your mouse? The gyration lets you sit back comfortably, slouch, lie down, stand on yer head and control the cursor by waving in the air.
If I'm doing detail work, like creating illustrations, I tend to leave the mouse on the desk. But if I'm just surfing, reading email, or monitoring RSS the gyration is perfect. If you haven't tried one I highly recommend it.
I'd put my money on it being Clustra any day. Why would Sun want to fool around with MySQL, or Postgres, or Ingres when they have their own HA DBMS and a truck load of developers.
s /a-tree/h/Hvasshovd:Svein=Olaf.html. Looks like Svein-Olaf - Sophus - went back to Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. But Oystein and Svein-Erik still work for Sun at the Trondheim office.
a db.pdf - note location of Sun credits to this paper.
Clustra was developed by Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Oystein Torbjornsen, and Svein Erik Bratsberg http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indice
For extra credit read:
http://research.solidtech.com/publ/drake-isas04-h
If you want a career programming job find a big non-tech-vendor company with a world-class IT department - they do exist - and get in. These companies will often have a special career track for expert programmers so that your don't get into the situation where new college grads are hired on a salalery higer than yours. This also means you don't HAVE to move into low level management jobs just to maintain to standard of living - and then get fired durign the next reorg. Once you're in one of these companies find a project that looks interesting and make yourself indispensible. Don't laugh. I used to work in IT and I new a lot of old programmers who were quite happilly working on stuff they thought was pretty cool. There's always the risk of mass layoffs if the company isn't doing so well but you can't avoid that anywhere. In Silicon Valley look at companies that have moved their IT out to Pleasanton. Not too far to drive and it's a reverse commute.