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Its better than letting user have access to SQL, running several queries at once which deadlock and lock and wonder why the Information Something department is yelling at them to stop it.
What? Like when they decide to just cobble up some forms in Access and point them to live RDBMS via ODBC resulting in some interesting locking in target RDBMS?
Access should be burnt on a stake. No wait. Probably better and more satisfying to just do that to the users...
I would just like to respond to you words of departure that I think you have certainly achieved what you aimed for in your reporting. You have indeed (in my opinion anyway) been non-craniorectal and I have enjoyed your articles and will miss your reporting. I also think you hit the nail on the head with the analogy.
He was quick to point out today that Maplin is working to build the online portion of its business, as many old world retailers have belatedly done.
They've had it for years. And its been one of the most painful sites to use. Not to mention the prices are not competitive at alll. Far from it.
Ability to pop over on saturday morning to pick up something you urgently need is something of value of course.
As for buying electronics components I find CPC and RS much better choice. They have decent selelction and actually have stuff in stock.
Advert is all about voice commands and ends with "XBoxOne- Now £349" ...which would be the kinectless version ...and you need Kinect for voice commands.
No, I didn't pay enough attention to the advert to notice if there was small print to point out that fact.
Granted it's all a bit of a storm in a teacup, but with so many dick heads saying there is nothing wrong with it. Well that just perpetuates the myth that IT is run mainly by men that live with their mum and can't get a girlfriend. Whilst we shouldn't hang him for the stupid slide we shouldn't applaud him either.
General consensus in this thread seems to suggest more that the only people getting really offended probably (just a guess of course) are ones that are NOT in a relationship and perhaps have trouble getting into one.
I agree with the numerous comments that this is really PC gone totally overboard. In all the decades I've been working (both in IT and in other sectors) these kind of mild jokes never offended anyone. It's getting to the point where one can't really say anything without _someone_ getting offended. Even the passing Vogons are starting to look tempting, their poetry is more palatable than the PC in overdrive.
And thank you both for confirming that men think that attractiveness is a good reasons for getting married, above love, affection, dedication, devotion, etc., etc. ... it is YOUR problem, and it is sad that women are having to suffer the results of this crap.
Erm, where did either one say anything about attractiveness being good (or any for that matter) reason for getting married over anything?
They are without doubt the worst company I have ever dealt with for sending junk to ex customers.
Not to mention calling you trying to get you to re-subscribe. Repeatedly. At all hours.
Still not convinced they're the worst. I think first place goes to VM with existing customers. Seriously they waste so much money on direct (and in the indirect "To household...") marketing at existing customers that it must hit their bottom line.
No framerate issues with i5-4570K (even at stock 3.4GHz) , 8GB RAM and GTX760 at 1920x1080.
The release notes on latest drivers do mentioned performance improvements on this game in higher resolutions, so updating nVidia drivers might be worthwhile.
I do agree about controls. Definitely needs to be played with controller. Xbox360 controller does the job very nicely.
Parcel tracking has come a long way for sure. The last mile is still the tricky part. Drivers claiming "no one was in" (in some extreme cases putting a card through the door claiming that when they haven't rang the door bell/knocked on door ...which makes no sense), leaving at the doorstep, throwing over fence in the garden, delivering to a neighbour.
Now I get along with neighbours fine and it is not a major issue, but the principal really annoys me. The delivery company is paid to deliver to specific address, not to any address that might be near by. If someone does not get along with their neighbours then the recipient is in an awkward position trying to recover the package.
IMHO the delivery to alternate address (for example neighbour) should only happen if it is explicitly agreed upon. Admittedly on on-line ordering the delivery contract is between the retailer and delivery company rather than the customer of the retailer.
Yes the small print says "series of Oracle DBA workshop articles in association with Dell Software." but if they're allegedly workshops rather than adverts then really it would be prudent to mention other alternatives. If it hurts too much to mention competition (whether free or paid for) then why not at least mention that Oracle's own OEM could be used for all the instances of "..such as Toad" was used.
As it is the whole series just stinks of desperate attempts by Dell to (re-)sell Toad. Which devalues the series which does contain valid pointers for less experienced Oracle DBAs.
I agree that these are two of the three most affected industries, but you forget the third: Pharmaceutical companies. They are loosing out big-time on NRT products.
Quite. NRT is just as, if not more, expensive than smoking.
E-cigs on the other hand appeal also to people who (initially) might just be after saving some money.
After initial period most are likely to notice difference in not inhaling all the tar etc and quite likely to stay on e-cigs or even quit altogether.
I wouldn't say "One of mankind's most famous spacecraft" is pushing it at all. It was the first one to orbit at L1. Likewise in its ICE disguise it was first one to fly through a comet's tail.
Kudos indeed for the effort to recover the craft and return it to its original purpose. I'm sure Smithsonian won't mind.
Requirement for additional licensing was mentioned for Oracle Label Security. There was no mention of licensing for Oracle Database Vault. I'll leave iit for the reader to guess what feature Database Vault depends on...
Same for encryption of traffic which requires Oracle Advance Security Option.
Chris above has a valid point....
Assuming we're talking about recent enough Oracle version it is worth looking into Flashback which allows to do simple point in time queries (useful for recovering from a mistake when information is still in redo logs. For a small performance hit you can run in full flashback mode which uses flashback logs which enable further functionality including restore points.
I remember having fun with X.25 in the days before there was a public internet. X.121 was rather error prone. Mistyping the NTN could end up connecting to unexpected places.
Unless I am missing something rather obvious it wouldn't really change anything. Your traffic would still most likely travere multiple networks. It still wouldn't be point to point. And the PADs would without doubt be compromised (at least in the US they would most likely fall under CALEA).
If they can't do the time they shouldn't do the crime. After all, its really the criminal that chose to hamper the rest of their life when they chose to commit a crime. Their victims certainly didn't choose to have their lives hampered, but that is what happens regardless.
What? Like filling their bin bit too full so the lid doesn't close. Yeah I bet the victims are really hampered.
If there hadn't been illegal (according to the story) agreements in place there would not be a lawsuit. Since there is, it does not seem to me unreasonable for the settlement to be at least in the right ballpark for the "damages" (assuming his stated less than 1% for the affected period statement is true).
Should the case reach court does in no way guarantee bigger (or any) payout either. Obviously lawyers are taking the easy way out to get their wad of cash.
It is any wonder tht in the SME space that more and more people are looking at MySQL which is owned by Oracle where the software can be had for free and support does not cost an arm and a leg.
Granted that compared to Oracle, MySQL is lacking a lot of features but for a good % of users is is more than adequate enough.
I would expect the choice in that situation to be PostgreSQL rather than MySQL if looking at the free alternatives.
Then again for a fairly affordable license you can get EnterpriseDB (based on PostgreSQL) which claims to be Oracle compatible.
Well, I guess they're damned if they do and damned if they don't.
Taken at face value it sounds a good thing. Leaving the aquired company as an independent subsidiary would be sensible. So at face value its a good thing and in benefit of the customer.
The other side of the coin is will GE just effectively stifle/bury it regardless of "independent subsidiary" promise. One would hope not.
What about offering some guidance to folks that have to live with SQL Server or Sybase instead?
Have to? On the contrary are lucky enough to (well, perhaps not SQL server as it runs on Windows). Be happy you're not running something clearly designed to keep DBAs in jobs.
Anyway, the basic principles are the same with any RDBMS. You monitor the logs. You keep tabs on metrics (details of which vary between RDBMS somewhat) on the RDBMS and the host.
It will never be a one size fits all anyway, as every application will be different and thus its impact on the database (and hence how it affects various metrics) will be different. Tuning and critical metrics will vary depending on the workload. So the thresholds at which to start worrying can be quite different with different applications. (I know, I'm stating the bleeding obvious here...)
There is a distinct pattern here: Use toad, use toad, use toad.
Ok I get the picture. Small print says about workshops by Dell. Ah, I see Dell is re-selling Toad now...
Don't get me wrong, toad was (to some extent still is) was very good and miles ahead of anything provided by Oracle. However, these days Oracle Enterprise Manager is actually very capable for monitoring and to an extent managing Oracle database. It allows very configurable thresholds and actions on thresholds. You can write your own plugins if a suitable one does not exist. On the management side I have to give credit that you can preview what SQL it would run and either then run it or cut & paste and modify to suit.
Disclaimer: I don't personally like it as I'm old school and prefer various homegrown scripts running from cron. Not to mention, although it has improved over versions, its navigation is rather horrendous.
Concrete filled steel bollards are common here in the US, but usually only around perineal robbery favorites like convenience stores, liquor stores, jewelry stores, abortion clinics and government buildings.
Why would you rob an abortion clinic? Or government building for that matter.
Both could of course be targets for vandalism or protest.
I suppose with hindsight, it would be plausible that clinic's might get paid more in cash rather than card if customers would rather not be identifiable in which case they could have reasonable amounts of cash on premises but surely even that would be deposited into bank each evening.
Sorry, but after using cabs in places like Eurpoe and the US, it is a relief to come back to the massively better service provided by the London Hackney cabbies. As a cabbie might put it, Uber can go shove their cut-price offering where the sun don't shine, sunshine.
So, regardless of the new competition you would welcome the current cabbies. So what is wrong with having the competition? Let the paying punters choose which service they want.
If the current cabbies are providing such excellent service and value for money then surely they should have nothing to fear from the upstart?
I have used Amazon Instant but found the whole service terrible. The Amazon player is awful; sometimes it was hit or miss for content availability. Once it decided I wasn't a subscriber right in the middle of a show and just stopped playing.Oh and it wouldn't play on my PC becuase my monitor wasn't compatible!
When it was Lovefilm it was great. Now the new Amazon branded Prime Instant crap is truly awful. The new UI is painful to use. The way stuff for separate purhcase is embedded in with what is included in the subscription is terrible. Trying to get you to accidentally buy stuff I guess.
About the only still usable part is the disks by post for content that is not yet available for streaming.
As for Netflix they've been brilliant and their customer service (that I needed to use once) was faultless.
Unfortunately, the permission system is so piss-poorly conceived that most of the time there really is no way not to ask for, well, basically everything assuming one wants to provide all the functionality modern "connected" apps all tend to want to.
For bog standard Android that is true. And possibly my biggest gripe. Obviously you can get all the goodness of choosing what apps can do if you root the phone. However if you're not (for whatever reason) willing to do that your out of luck.
It wouldn't take much to fix the issue. Instead of yes/no to list of permissions, permissions should be individually selectable with No/Yes/Just-this-once.
Obviously it would be nice to be able drill down further than just the basic category, but just having the ability to Yes/No/Once on the basic categories, on bog standard Anrdoid without needing to root and install app firewalls, would be nice.
All this C is crap and should be burned on the stake, C++ is the holy grail, best thing since sliced bread ...is pointless (and IMHO incorrect) and rather irritating.
Problem is not the language.
Only bad workmen blame the tools.
As for programmers, bad ones can (and will) write bad code regardless of the language. If there is a way to do it wrong they will find it. Equally good programmers will be able to write good code regardless of the language.
None of these bugs were because it they wouldn't have been avoidable in C. Just that the programmers chose (inadvertently most likely) to be bit sloppy.
I don't agree that online banking and process control with SCADA are comparable. That's comparing apples to oranges.
Of course remote monitoring an managing are useful and some cases pretty much mandatory. That doesn't mean they should be connected to the 'internet'. They should be on tightly controlled private network. If access from the public network is required then surely a decent VPN solution would be better than exposing some vendor interface to the public.
Why do you need all the extra processing capability? With all the articles on here about apps leeching data from users concerning their whereabouts, contact lists etc, surely any security aware user will eschew these?
Well, you would hope that phone that is marketed to be secure would also be running pretty decent firewall to stop any third party apps leaking anything anywhere.
As for processing capability, you'd want plenty of grunt for all the encryption given that the target market would probably want to use decent key lengths as well.
Really? Hmm, I have tons of drives that are on 24/7 (and don't spin down) and they have been working for years (some well in double digits). And yes that includes consumer drives (actually probably more consumer than enterprise drives). Guess what, not a single drive has cooked, in fact all the ones that are new enogh to have internal temperature sensors seem to indicate them running ~30 degrees C if not lower. Considering that for example WD Blue 3.5" (to pick a random consumer drive) is rated 0-60 degrees operational temperature, I don't think they're anywhere close to cooking either.
Never realised that running hard disks as intended made anyone a real twat. Must be nice sitting on that high horse Mr AC.
You are entitled to your opinion of my opinion and I would defend your right to an opinion, regardless of how little value I might put in your opinion. But it seems far too many liberals will only support your right to an opinion if it agrees with theirs, regardless of the merit of any supporting argument. Disagreement is healthy, socially evolutionary and democratic, whereas suppression of dissent is none of the above.
Quite. Unfortunately, whereas you have had posts with supporting arguments (whether I or anyone else agrees with those arguments is beside the point), you undermine it all by childish derogatory comments.
This of course is just my opinion and as such no doubt no value to you.
"Hammond, together with a Brazilian hacker using the nickname Havittaja, broke into..."
Perhaps. That nickname (assuming three letters are missing their umlauts) would however suggest a certain nordic country. Of course there is no reason a brazilian couldn't borrow a foreign word to use as a nickname.
I attended a notebook repair course a couple years ago. They had a pile of notebooks taller than my standing self (at 173 cm), all of them were HP with borked, crispy-fried nvidia graphics cards, all mysteriously from the same model.
Wasn't limited to few select models either despite what HP claimed. They had list of few notebook lines where they admitted to the issue and fixed/replaced accordingly. I was less lucky. I had two I had bought, both of which fried their nvidia GPUs despite being used on a notebook cooler with fan.
HP denied there was an issue and refused to do anything about it. IIRC they later released firmware update to underclock the GPU. Considering there are similar tales of nvidia equipped notebooks from other manufacturers as well, I bought replacements with AMD GPUs and they're still working good as new (and yes they are HP as they still offered the best deal for the specs I wanted). Other than HP crapware nagging to ahem update firmware they're fine and serve their purpose without fault.
... because some of it it actually quite good: Latitude D630 here: solid machine, never had an issue despite some on the road abuse (being dropped , flooded with coffee, etc.) Daily use for 7-8 years and will only be replaced when absolutely necessary. (Experience of Inspiron laptop for a client quite the reverse; caveat emptor, etc.)
Couldn't agree more about the D630. Especially the one with intel graphics and high(er)-res screen. Utterly solid. Wifi, bluetooth, mobile data (just slot in SIM card), proper keyboard unlike the new chicklet crap and very importantly a real serial port at the back. The versions with nvidia graphics allegedly aren't quite as reliable.
As for replacing, there are still some fairly solid ones appearing occasionally on eBay. Keep meaning to stock up an a spare one or two.
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