So if it's not a Personal Computer, is a box running Linux, BSD, or Solaris impersonal? That would explain alot about the high dependancy on command line interfaces.
I don't know about other 30-somethings, but I've been stuck working for various baby-boomers who don't understand the technologies they are trying to manage or overly aggressive gen-Xers who don't know how to manage.
Personally, I don't have much confidence in consumer confidence reports as it is. If they want to use speculative results from blogs, they are going to probably make it worse. It's bad enough that they talk about consumer confidence on the news so much as it is.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the uranium ore radioactive to begin with when it's dug out of the ground? The difference is it has been concentrated for use as nuclear fuel in the reactor. Why can't they find a way to re-dilute the end products?
Lenovo told her to run the entire diagnostic regimen (takes over 12 hours). No errors
This is pretty common from Lenovo. If you have a question the support person doesn't know the answer to off the top of their head they make you run this. (although when I ran it it only took 3.5 hours)
Of course if they do find water up there, we'll be exploiting it. Reminds me of the song from the Moon theme park in Futurama:
We're whalers on the Moon! We carry a harpoon! But there ain't no whales, so we tell tall tales, and sing our whaling tune!
If you did this recently, I'm suprised you tried Oracle 8i. Some of the enhancements that have gone into 9 and 10 were to make tasks like administration, setup, and maintenance easier.
I think every Oracle DBA who has worked with 8.0 or higher realizes that the only way to really configure TCP/IP connections on it is manually editing the TNSNAMES.ORA file. I suppose this is less of a problem in more modern setups where the clients are using Active Directory or something to find the Oracle Server.
I haven't had a chance to use 2005 yet, anyone know if Microsoft has changed their trigger behavior so that you can actually do trigger processing at row level or statement level, instead of forcing everything to be statement level like in SQL Server 2000?
Actually, those controls over how the information is organized and who's allowed to post content where is exactly the point. I've used Microsoft's Sharepoint and Content Management before, which are integrated with Active Directory so they don't require another login. When a company moves toward collaboration software, especially something like content management, it is explicitly to control things. The Content Management provides an approval heirarchy, and even Sharepoint defines who can contribute where. Wiki's tend to get too scatterbrained because people aren't making an effort to keep the information put into them organized in a consistant way.
play a cat and mouse game with "tentative" responses
I very frequently reply to meetings as tentative because so many people tend to send out meeting requests that don't even have a hint of an agenda on them. Reguardless of tools, I think there is a desperate need for people in the business world to learn how to have meetings.
The problem with using China as an example, is that they have used currency manipulation to subvert market forces, in addition to a large labor pool that will work for comparatively less than western workers, to ensure their products will be cheaper to the consumer. The fact that some products from China do infringe on intelectual property rights is not the driving force of their economy.
Oops, guess I forgot the tag in the subject line. Notes is an intriguing concept of storing information in hierarchical "documents" but a number of things make it difficult to use. I spent months at my last company converting Lotus Notes applications that someone had written into an Oracle database with a web front end. One thing interesting though about Notes, when we sent an e-mail to Australia from the U.S. asking for a read receipt, the receipt gladly told us that our message "was read tomorrow".
I'm suprised that as of 2 years ago, that 3.3 million people were still using Netware. It's funny to reflect on that, because in the early to mid 90's my thinking was: 'Sure, Windows is OK for the desktop, but who would want to run that on their servers?'
Firebird is a very good little open source database, I've used it for a few projects. In general it has the same problems as PostgreSQL though, when it comes to scaling up more than a couple hundred users, poor SMP scaling, etc. They both have their use. PostgreSQL is best if you actually have a DBA willing to plan the physical database as much as is needed for an Oracle database implementation, Firebird if you want a smaller footprint program that's simpler to implement a database in but just as powerful for stored procs, triggers, and maybe even a bit speedier.
Sounds like you have a very old-school DBA. Oracle 9i and 10g have features that allow things like adding tablespace happen automatically, and I don't mean by using the old PCTINCREASE functionality in the STORAGE clause. All the DBA should have to do is specify where the tablespace will grow, and the system will take care of it instead of having to have a jrDBA hovering over the system taking care of reactionary things like that.
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So if it's not a Personal Computer, is a box running Linux, BSD, or Solaris impersonal? That would explain alot about the high dependancy on command line interfaces.
Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and I get stuck doing all the boring jobs.
unfortunately, the article is really a little thin on what those skills are
Obviously the most important skill to have is the skill to determine what skills companies look for in potential employees.
yeah, but I'd probably just use that extra minute to surf slashdot
Their net loss was due to acquisition costs, not poor sales.
I don't know about other 30-somethings, but I've been stuck working for various baby-boomers who don't understand the technologies they are trying to manage or overly aggressive gen-Xers who don't know how to manage.
Personally, I don't have much confidence in consumer confidence reports as it is. If they want to use speculative results from blogs, they are going to probably make it worse. It's bad enough that they talk about consumer confidence on the news so much as it is.
Wait... there's a NEW Mexico???
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the uranium ore radioactive to begin with when it's dug out of the ground? The difference is it has been concentrated for use as nuclear fuel in the reactor. Why can't they find a way to re-dilute the end products?
Lenovo told her to run the entire diagnostic regimen (takes over 12 hours). No errors
This is pretty common from Lenovo. If you have a question the support person doesn't know the answer to off the top of their head they make you run this. (although when I ran it it only took 3.5 hours)
Of course if they do find water up there, we'll be exploiting it. Reminds me of the song from the Moon theme park in Futurama: We're whalers on the Moon! We carry a harpoon! But there ain't no whales, so we tell tall tales, and sing our whaling tune!
If you did this recently, I'm suprised you tried Oracle 8i. Some of the enhancements that have gone into 9 and 10 were to make tasks like administration, setup, and maintenance easier.
I think every Oracle DBA who has worked with 8.0 or higher realizes that the only way to really configure TCP/IP connections on it is manually editing the TNSNAMES.ORA file. I suppose this is less of a problem in more modern setups where the clients are using Active Directory or something to find the Oracle Server.
the only real contender is SQL Server
I haven't had a chance to use 2005 yet, anyone know if Microsoft has changed their trigger behavior so that you can actually do trigger processing at row level or statement level, instead of forcing everything to be statement level like in SQL Server 2000?
But then we would have to rewrite all of our code to allow for parallel processing. Can't we find one really big and smart cockroach instead?
Haven't you ever seen Joe's Appartment? Of course roaches can vocalize, they just usually choose not to!
or maybe they forgot to put NOSMOKE.EXE in their startup script.
Actually, those controls over how the information is organized and who's allowed to post content where is exactly the point. I've used Microsoft's Sharepoint and Content Management before, which are integrated with Active Directory so they don't require another login. When a company moves toward collaboration software, especially something like content management, it is explicitly to control things. The Content Management provides an approval heirarchy, and even Sharepoint defines who can contribute where. Wiki's tend to get too scatterbrained because people aren't making an effort to keep the information put into them organized in a consistant way.
play a cat and mouse game with "tentative" responses
I very frequently reply to meetings as tentative because so many people tend to send out meeting requests that don't even have a hint of an agenda on them. Reguardless of tools, I think there is a desperate need for people in the business world to learn how to have meetings.
See "China, present day"
The problem with using China as an example, is that they have used currency manipulation to subvert market forces, in addition to a large labor pool that will work for comparatively less than western workers, to ensure their products will be cheaper to the consumer. The fact that some products from China do infringe on intelectual property rights is not the driving force of their economy.
Oops, guess I forgot the tag in the subject line. Notes is an intriguing concept of storing information in hierarchical "documents" but a number of things make it difficult to use. I spent months at my last company converting Lotus Notes applications that someone had written into an Oracle database with a web front end. One thing interesting though about Notes, when we sent an e-mail to Australia from the U.S. asking for a read receipt, the receipt gladly told us that our message "was read tomorrow".
cool... looks like I have my Lotto numbers for this week!
I'm suprised that as of 2 years ago, that 3.3 million people were still using Netware. It's funny to reflect on that, because in the early to mid 90's my thinking was: 'Sure, Windows is OK for the desktop, but who would want to run that on their servers?'
Firebird is a very good little open source database, I've used it for a few projects. In general it has the same problems as PostgreSQL though, when it comes to scaling up more than a couple hundred users, poor SMP scaling, etc. They both have their use. PostgreSQL is best if you actually have a DBA willing to plan the physical database as much as is needed for an Oracle database implementation, Firebird if you want a smaller footprint program that's simpler to implement a database in but just as powerful for stored procs, triggers, and maybe even a bit speedier.
Sounds like you have a very old-school DBA. Oracle 9i and 10g have features that allow things like adding tablespace happen automatically, and I don't mean by using the old PCTINCREASE functionality in the STORAGE clause. All the DBA should have to do is specify where the tablespace will grow, and the system will take care of it instead of having to have a jrDBA hovering over the system taking care of reactionary things like that.