Re: [ILUG-BOM] Installfest

2007-04-18 Thread Vihan Pandey
What are you talking about? Let's compare Firebird and PostgreSQL. We all know that MySQL sucks! And your reason for saying that is - technical or ethical or business or what ? Regards, - vihan -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Installfest

2007-04-18 Thread Roshan
For newbies like me, I found a link on details of an installfest. http://www.installfest.org -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in S K Somaiya College of ASC - http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc Send a FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger. Get it now at

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Installfest

2007-04-18 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Wednesday 18 Apr 2007 12:53:16 Vihan Pandey wrote: What are you talking about? Let's compare Firebird and PostgreSQL. We all know that MySQL sucks! And your reason for saying that is - technical or ethical or business or what ? Neither. I'm just learning sarcasm. And I don't think

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Installfest

2007-04-18 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 18-Apr-07, at 12:53 PM, Vihan Pandey wrote: What are you talking about? Let's compare Firebird and PostgreSQL. We all know that MySQL sucks! And your reason for saying that is - technical or ethical or business or what ? does one need a reason for speaking the truth? -- regards

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Installfest

2007-04-18 Thread Vihan Pandey
And your reason for saying that is - technical or ethical or business or what ? does one need a reason for speaking the truth? Does one need a reason to know the opinion of a fellow glugger? Regards, - vihan -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Installfest

2007-04-18 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 18-Apr-07, at 3:06 PM, Vihan Pandey wrote: does one need a reason for speaking the truth? Does one need a reason to know the opinion of a fellow glugger? old, but imho, still valid: http://lawgon.livejournal.com/10240.html -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Installfest

2007-04-18 Thread Vihan Pandey
old, but imho, still valid: http://lawgon.livejournal.com/10240.html Interesting read :-) Of course the statement ``writing huge amounts of extra code to do by myself what the rdbms is supposed to do is quite extreme because of a simple reason - we do NEED databases and relational databases.

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Installfest

2007-04-18 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 18-Apr-07, at 5:20 PM, Vihan Pandey wrote: Of course the statement ``writing huge amounts of extra code to do by myself what the rdbms is supposed to do is quite extreme because of a simple reason - we do NEED databases and relational databases. remember - i am a layman. In fact

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Installfest

2007-04-18 Thread Vihan Pandey
product agnostic is fine - as long as you avoid a product that accepts 2007-2-30 into a date field in the database :D Regards, - vihan -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Installfest

2007-04-18 Thread ranjeet walunj
Hi group. i've been using mysql for almost 8 years now ... and pg for 5 years. Each DB has their own advantages ... if the person has learnt his database skills on mSQL/MySQL, (Remember MySQL came as faster db compared to that time popular msql) and has not updated himself with the advent of

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Installfest

2007-04-18 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 18-Apr-07, at 8:08 PM, ranjeet walunj wrote: But with the time they have added all the necessary supports and it also satisfies ACID rules. (Tested it with InnoDB Engine) this is what irritates me. I wish i had kept copies of the old documentation where they were actively campaigning

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Installfest

2007-04-17 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Monday 16 Apr 2007 11:44:16 mehul wrote: On 4/15/07, Roshan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Include a session on GCC as well, along with the install fest. For some odd reasons, I have developed a disklike for the Turbo C++ 3.0 compiler. I am also interested in having a session on GCC, I am

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Installfest

2007-04-17 Thread Roshan
--- Mrugesh Karnik wrote: What are you talking about? Let's compare Firebird and PostgreSQL. We all know that MySQL sucks! Eh? -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in S K Somaiya College of ASC - http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc Send a FREE SMS to your friend's mobile

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Installfest

2007-04-16 Thread mehul
On 4/15/07, Roshan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Include a session on GCC as well, along with the install fest. For some odd reasons, I have developed a disklike for the Turbo C++ 3.0 compiler. I am also interested in having a session on GCC, I am sure I will learn quite a few things from you

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Installfest

2007-04-16 Thread mehul
On 4/15/07, Pradeepto Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And that reminds, Debarshi had recently posted a screencast[1] on gcc. I think that will be a good starter. [1] http://glug-nith.org/~rishi/download/gcc.ogg [Note: its a slow college connection, it will take some time

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Installfest

2007-04-15 Thread Pradeepto Bhattacharya
Hi, On 4/15/07, Roshan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Vihan Pandey wrote: Include a session on GCC as well, along with the install fest. For some odd reasons, I have developed a disklike for the Turbo C++ 3.0 compiler. Oh boy! Another convert! /me does the welcome dance! You

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Installfest

2007-04-15 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 15-Apr-07, at 11:51 AM, Roshan wrote: In fact if people want to get laptops, let's enchourage that as well. Include a session on GCC as well, along with the install fest. For some odd reasons, I have developed a disklike for the Turbo C++ 3.0 compiler. why? dont forget borland pascal

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Installfest

2007-04-15 Thread Roshan
--- Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On 15-Apr-07, at 11:51 AM, Roshan wrote: In fact if people want to get laptops, let's enchourage that as well. Include a session on GCC as well, along with the install fest. For some odd reasons, I have developed a disklike for the Turbo C++ 3.0

[ILUG-BOM] Installfest

2007-04-14 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Hi Luggers, I think its about time we held an installfest. I know a couple of college students who want to use Linux but are unable to install it. Let's host it somewhere and announce to the masses. -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Installfest

2007-04-14 Thread Roshan
--- Mrugesh Karnik wrote: Hi Luggers, I think its about time we held an installfest. I know a couple of college students who want to use Linux but are unable to install it. Let's host it somewhere and announce to the masses. Great idea! The current time seems to be ideal for such

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Installfest

2007-04-14 Thread Vihan Pandey
I think its about time we held an installfest. I know a couple of college students who want to use Linux but are unable to install it. Let's host it somewhere and announce to the masses. i'm in. Let's do this. In fact if people want to get laptops, let's enchourage that as well. Regards, -