I've worked with some OASIS spec'd XML before, and while it's not usually the most elegant solution, having *any* XML-based document markup become standard is good news. I would love to start doing text-extraction directly from Excel, Word and so forth without having to cut out text, drop it into another MS product, flatten it by hand, etc.
Quick example:
We do user requirements using Word. I wanted to extract them into a database so I can relate them
to functional specs, use cases, code, etc (yes, we're just figuring this out now).
To extract the requirements, I had to cut out each section of tables (Lord help you if they're nested,
or misaligned, or misnumbered) and plop it into Excel, scrub it repeatedly (scrub those nubs!), and
only then insert it into a database.
With XML-based documents, I just pull out all of the matching tags, form an INSERT around it, and off it goes into the db.
Put your cell phone next to your computer speakers. If it's transmitting you'll know it.
Plus-one for this, it's true. I keep my cell phone right next to the PC speakers, and each time it "reaches out" I can hear a patterned tone of low freq through the speakers.
For those of you new to the dual-CPU game, there's a little trick I use to keep things moving on my systems. I set processor affinity for my virus scanner/ firewall to one CPU (core) and now it cannot saturate my system when doing a scan (imagecfg.exe from MS Admin Tools sets this permanently).
With four cores, you can set one core for virus scanning, one for firewall. Note this doesn't exclude the use of those cores with other apps, merely limits the set-affinity apps to however many cores you decide.
Four cores, eight cores, doesn't matter because the game is the same: wait a year and get in cheaper. As for virtualization being the future, well maybe, but not the near future. Licensing restrictions will keep it hampered for another few years.
The point of pledging is that *any* amount should be accepted, not a multiple of the base price. The near-4000 benefactors of the triple-pledge is what most non-profits would consider exceptional pledges. Why wouldn't they accept, or at least make it easy to accept, $100 plus whatever else you want to give towards helping someone?
Even Verizon doesn't ask me to pay triple my bill to help some crack whore with the Lifeline bill.
But here's the real question: if you are a Sheepdog, what are YOU going to do about it?
I'm gonna shit on your lawn, bite your kids, roam free, contract rabies, and die in agony, alone.
It's true, I saw in on Lifetime. Meredith Baxter-Birney starred as the Vet with a Heart of Gold.
-BA
I haven't seen the obvious conclusion yet.
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What if the database replaced the filesystem, i.e. Oracle *is* the operating system? All of your files are just B/CLOBs, all apps are packages called by the Oracle db, and so forth. I don't think I'm reaching (much) on this. Although I do think Bluetooth support will kill it.
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I've worked with some OASIS spec'd XML before, and while it's not usually the most elegant solution, having *any* XML-based document markup become standard is good news. I would love to start doing text-extraction directly from Excel, Word and so forth without having to cut out text, drop it into another MS product, flatten it by hand, etc.
Quick example:
We do user requirements using Word. I wanted to extract them into a database so I can relate them
to functional specs, use cases, code, etc (yes, we're just figuring this out now).
To extract the requirements, I had to cut out each section of tables (Lord help you if they're nested,
or misaligned, or misnumbered) and plop it into Excel, scrub it repeatedly (scrub those nubs!), and
only then insert it into a database.
With XML-based documents, I just pull out all of the matching tags, form an INSERT around it, and off it goes into the db.
-BA
Plus-one for this, it's true. I keep my cell phone right next to the PC speakers, and each time it "reaches out" I can hear a patterned tone of low freq through the speakers.
-BA
Maybe we should create a communal top-ten?
1) His Oracle XE database of bugs crashed
2) He looked on Metalink and found them all listed under "fixed in 11g"
et al...
This is the Godwin's Law equivalent for this discussion topic. We're done here.
-BA
For those of you new to the dual-CPU game, there's a little trick I use to keep things moving on my systems. I set processor affinity for my virus scanner/ firewall to one CPU (core) and now it cannot saturate my system when doing a scan (imagecfg.exe from MS Admin Tools sets this permanently).
With four cores, you can set one core for virus scanning, one for firewall. Note this doesn't exclude the use of those cores with other apps, merely limits the set-affinity apps to however many cores you decide.
Four cores, eight cores, doesn't matter because the game is the same: wait a year and get in cheaper. As for virtualization being the future, well maybe, but not the near future. Licensing restrictions will keep it hampered for another few years.
-BA
The point of pledging is that *any* amount should be accepted, not a multiple of the base price. The near-4000 benefactors of the triple-pledge is what most non-profits would consider exceptional pledges. Why wouldn't they accept, or at least make it easy to accept, $100 plus whatever else you want to give towards helping someone?
Even Verizon doesn't ask me to pay triple my bill to help some crack whore with the Lifeline bill.
-BA
... where it can actually hang onto a connection for more than five minutes? Because, wow, do I really hate the disconnect/ reconnect cycle.
-BA
I'm gonna shit on your lawn, bite your kids, roam free, contract rabies, and die in agony, alone.
It's true, I saw in on Lifetime. Meredith Baxter-Birney starred as the Vet with a Heart of Gold.
-BA
What if the database replaced the filesystem, i.e. Oracle *is* the operating system? All of your files are just B/CLOBs, all apps are packages called by the Oracle db, and so forth. I don't think I'm reaching (much) on this. Although I do think Bluetooth support will kill it.
-BA
C'mon, this is easily a +5 Funny.