Re: monitor btu/hr

2000-06-22 Thread Richard Soule
Chris, I don't know off the top of my head, but I remember that the flat panel folks once said that the amount of money saved on extra AC for one year for all your 'regular' monitors would more than pay for the extra cost of a flat panel. You might try checking out one of the flat panel vendors

WARNING: Advertisement for Oracle Education Class to be held in Tyngsboro

2000-06-01 Thread Richard Soule
the meetings... or was it the beer? Rich -- Richard Soule Principal Product Manager, Portal Development 650.506.4563 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Oracle Corporation Oracle University and the Oracle Linux Products Division present: "Red Hat Linux" Programming and System Administratio

Re: Congratualtions to Mission Critical Linux!

2000-06-28 Thread Richard Soule
nna happen!!! Rich -- Richard Soule Principal Product Manager, Portal Development 650.506.4563 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oracle Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kenny Lussier asks: OK, so. We're giving away our software, so when is VA going to start giving away their hardware ;-)

If you're into Linux, Java and Oracle...

2000-07-07 Thread Richard Soule
...you should check out these links. Oracle has a component technology called Business Components for Java. It automatically handles the construction of object oriented Java code that talks to a relational database. If any of you are Java developers, you know that this code can often be very

Re: Force joystick mouse opinions please

2000-08-17 Thread Richard Soule
of keyboards, I use the one called 'The Essential'. (The one on the left at http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/). Rich -- Richard Soule Principal Product Manager, Portal Development 650.506.4563 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oracle Corp Bill Freeman wrote: I've grown to hate the touch pad mouse on my laptop

Re: The GNHLUG meeting Tonight CANCELED

2000-08-31 Thread Richard Soule
happen to be in the area because my sister is getting married this weekend... :) Rich -- Richard Soule Principal Product Manager, Portal Development 650.506.4563 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thomas Charron wrote: Perhaps if we had a list of 'backup' speakers, who could basically 'pull something

Re: User interfaces (was Re: Help me push Linux)

2000-10-13 Thread Richard Soule
Niall Kavanagh wrote: On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Cole Tuininga wrote: snip I've always wondered about the WPS. I've seen a lot of folks laud it as a fantastic interface, yet relatively little is done to bring it to a linux desktop. Why is this? Has anyone with WPS experience any horror stories or

Re: oracle for intel-linux

2000-11-13 Thread Richard Soule
are 'my' products, which is why I gave them plugs here.] Good Luck! Rich -- Richard Soule Principal Product Manager, Portal Development 650.506.4563 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rob Yelle wrote: I have installed Oracle (8.0.5) for linux on a red hat 5.2 machine today. (scott tiger ) Can I get

Re: Huh ? (Was RE: Sendmail Training)

2001-02-14 Thread Richard Soule
Not in the dictionary (or at least the mw one: http://www.m-w.com/) Rich sherlock wrote: On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Ray Bowles wrote: Today, Derek Martin gleaned this insight: [snip] Not to mention I wanted to use Anangrous in a LUG message. I'll bite, what's Anangrous ? -- There's no

Re: Max Vision to get 18 Month

2001-05-23 Thread Richard Soule
Derek Martin wrote: [SNIP] Reality: Companies are almost always less interested in security than in productivity. [SNIP] It sounds to me like a case should be made that good security = good productivity. How 'unproductive' is the WHOLE company when the network goes down because of

Re: Max Vision to get 18 Month

2001-05-23 Thread Richard Soule
Benjamin Scott wrote: Except it isn't the managers that get fired. The admins tell the PHBs they need time to work on security (or backups, or fault tolerance, or...). The PHBs say no, work on something else. They get hacked. The admins are fired for not doing their job. The

Oracle Open Source

2001-06-04 Thread Richard Soule
New book from Oreilly: Oracle Open Source http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oracleopen/ Have not read it, but I thought it might be topical. Rich ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in

Re: first LAN

2001-03-16 Thread Richard Soule
Tom, I ran across this site the other day. I do not accept responsibility for anyone who may be offended by the content. I will however say that the technical content is very good. The site is the Coffee Cup Club: http://www.c-cup.com. They have supermodels explain how to set up and

Re: Good article

2001-03-13 Thread Richard Soule
Wish I could figure out how... Didn't MS try something like this? They embedded stuff into their code that reported back to MS your configuration and system information. They didn't tell anyone about it and it caused an uproar when it was found. We *could* do something in an open source way

Microsoft Declares War on 'Free Software'

2001-05-04 Thread Richard Soule
Man the ramparts! http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2715210,00.html Rich -- Richard Soule Principal Product Manager, Portal Development 650.506.4563 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oracle Corporation ** To unsubscribe from this list

Re: Open Formats (was ZD on Linux)

2001-06-19 Thread Richard Soule
Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: Personally, I never understood PDF. What is so wrong with HTML and embeded images? I have yet to see any real need for PDF's. There is no real benefit to it. PDF allows for precise control of both on screen viewing AND printing. HTML does not. That said, *MOST*

MSFT's Linux memo...

2001-11-12 Thread Richard Soule
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22770.html Anyone know anybody in the user groups that might be near these mentioned accounts? Sounds like somebody should go in there and 'fight' for the 'business'. Rich * To unsubscribe

Re: Linux power saving (was: Linux on Dell Inspiron 8100)

2001-10-16 Thread Richard Soule
checked the bios, but there is nothing in there that relates to screen blanking. With Winblows I could set it so the screen did not blank. Any ideas? Rich -- Richard Soule Principal Product Manager, Portal Development 650.506.4563 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oracle Corporation Todd Littlefield wrote

Ellison says Oracle's 'whole business' to run on Linux

2002-02-01 Thread Richard Soule
http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO67867,00.html H I seem to remember a (much younger) guy standing up in a user group meeting many, many years ago and saying something like 'Oracle just doesn't understand Linux'... :) Rich -- Richard Soule Principal Product Manager

Re: Ellison says Oracle's 'whole business' to run on Linux

2002-02-01 Thread Richard Soule
The danger of the web is that it's so easy to get lost and lose track of time. The cool thing is you run across little gems like this during your wanderings... http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/sharktank/0,1130,NAV47_STO67213,00.html Richard Soule wrote: http://www.computerworld.com/storyba

Re: [OT] Star Wars: ASCII Edition

2002-02-15 Thread Richard Soule
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/ To watch it in a browser (Also has a link to another short called 'The Death of Jar Jar', in which he gets sucked into a pod racer engine which is really too humane of a way to kill him.) http://www.asciimation.co.nz/ascii_faq.html -- To get some of the story.

Re: linux article

2002-03-05 Thread Richard Soule
It would be irresponsible to entrust the work of Parliament to closed-source software. Jorg Tauss, Deputy for the Social Democrats, when asked about switching the Parliments MS servers to Linux Nice quote! Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I love it when this type of thing shows up on

Re: Java resources

2002-03-28 Thread Richard Soule
Oracle JDeveloper recently got an award from Javaworld readers as the best Java IDE (not exactly sure of the actual name of the award, and I might have the name of the mag wrong). It's written in Java and can be downloaded from otn.oracle.com for free for personal use (like learning Java). If

Re: Internet Shutdown

2002-03-29 Thread Richard Soule
OK! Now you have all done it! My bit bucket is so full of dark matter that I had to send an intern out to empty it. He still hasn't come back yet. Please close down this thread before the entire Internet is filled up. If you all keep this up I am sure they will have to shut the internet down

Re: Fun GNOME Eye candy..

2002-04-10 Thread Richard Soule
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ayup! Me too! It's painful to go to work in the morning, knowing I'm stuck with a sucky monitor there. Hmmm, maybe I'll make that a stipulation when the economy picks up. I want 4 weeks vacation AND an SGI 1600SW monitor :) One of the guys here at work just got a

Re: Job opening

2002-05-17 Thread Richard Soule
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With Spacedisk solutions, customers will see increased revenues, reduced costs, improved performance and accelerated time to market. Wow! That has to be the most unique set of product benefits I have ever seen! This sounds amazing! Marketing...

Re: Microsoft admits their products are fatally flawed

2002-05-21 Thread Richard Soule
Benjamin Scott wrote: Oh, this is just too good. http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp Two things here: First, remember the letter from the Brazilian politician? It seems like a case could be made that using closed source is NOT the way to go. How about

Re: Load Balancing

2002-05-22 Thread Richard Soule
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I actually represent a company that is considering bringing a low cost hardware SSL accelarator into the US market, we're just trying to determine how much demand there might be for the product. It integrates with any load balancing tool seamlessly. I see requests

Article on the Oregonian on schools moving to Linux

2002-05-22 Thread Richard Soule
Aggressive 'random audits' during the sales process may be leading schools away from MS. :) http://makeashorterlink.com/?G1F5469E * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug'

Re: Completely OT

2002-06-03 Thread Richard Soule
http://www.photo.net - THE true resource for anyone doing anything with photos. Includes both digital and film cameras. Also done with open source software. Also has links to online books on how to build good web sites based on open source software. VERY highly recommended

Re: Message Boards

2002-06-03 Thread Richard Soule
Also check out phpbb at www.phpbb.com which is open source. :) Rich Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: Hi All, Does anyone out there have any experience with building/running message boards? I was asked to find something that was Like the Message Boards on AOL. This, of course, is difficult for

Oracle Linux 'Unbreakable' Event

2002-06-04 Thread Richard Soule
http://www.oracle.com/ebusinessnetwork/ For those with good network connections there will be a live streaming presentation tomorrow at 10:30 a.m PDT/17:30 GMT. Larry Ellison (Chairman and CEO of Oracle), Russ Holt (VP of Dell) and Matthew Szulik (CEO of Red Hat) will all 'be there'. Three

Dell, Oracle join Red Hat for enterprise Linux

2002-06-06 Thread Richard Soule
Dell, Oracle join Red Hat for enterprise Linux Red Hat Inc, Oracle Corp and Dell Computer Corp have teamed up to provide packaged support and services for Red Hat's Linux Advanced Server operating system and Oracle's 9i Release 2 database management system. more...

Re: MS Makes Donation to Peru

2002-07-18 Thread Richard Soule
Money: 50 cents cash Consulting Services: 60 minutes on the phone with a MSCE * Software: $549,999.50 worth of MS DOS 3.0. :) * No monetary value Rich Ben Boulanger wrote: http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/020715/microsoft_peru_1.html Monday July 15, 7:54 pm Eastern Time Associated Press

Re: automated installation

2002-07-24 Thread Richard Soule
Michael, I'm not sure what your software is/or does, so this comment might be totally off the wall, but have you considered using the web to 'distribute' your application? If you are building software that accesses a centralized store of information and it can be done within the relatively