Hi Don,
I am opposed to taxing drinks at bars, please record me as a "no" for the
referendum, but very much a "yes" to catching up with you for a drink next
year. I am very close to the centre of Sydney, only a few kilometres out. I
would love the opportunity to show you around this great city so if you can
spare more time than just for a drink that would be great
But back to more immediate issues, a couple of things to be careful about.
First the physical security - flash drives are easy to nick... which then
gives rise to the 2nd issue about data security and privacy - even though you
can protect the application with a pssword etc, the data in the panel files is
not encrypted and can be easily read.. another thing to watch out for, is that
if someone disconnects the flash drive during a write you could easily corrupt
and lose the data, which in a referendum with a large number of alcohol infused
people could be nasty....
Oh yes, on last thing, make sure you have lots of space left on the drive to
fit any new records your people might create
Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: Don Friedman
To: Dataperfect Users Discussion Group
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 3:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Putting application on a flash drive
Brain, Rich - thanks for the reassurance. If I take on this project we'll
have multiple "teams" of people looking at names on a petition form and looking
through a list of registered voters to confirm that each signatory is qualified
to sign. If they are qualified then they have to post in a subrecord the page
and line number. When all the teams are done I'll take those subrecords and
find out how many signers signed more than once. This is a referendum vote
about taxing drinks at bars and I suspect that many qualified signers signed
more than once and that even a larger number aren't qualified to sign in the
first place. Distributing the DP app on cheap flash drives is efficient.
Thanks again.
Don
P.S. Brian - how far out of Sydney are you? I'm going to be passing through
early next year and would love to buy you a drink.
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Rich Bragonje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Don,
I am running Firefox and Eudora from a flash drive. The Firefox app is part
of a suite of apps provided by PortableApps. I installed Eudora on the flash
drive, as I needed to use it on PC's where I don't have anything other than
User rights.
You could install DP and the data on flash drives, and if you need to
incorporate updates from the flash data to a master db, then use the
transaction log to record any changes on the flash drives. You could set up
each flash drive with a unique transaction log filename for further tracking.
Rich
At 09:05 PM 7/16/2008, you wrote:
Does anyone have any experience working on an application from a flash
drive? I have a project come up very suddenly where my client might want to
distribute a database of about 900,000 items to multiple teams of people who
will be examining some related data and marking many of the items with a "yes"
or "no" mark. Does the flash drive serve the purpose of DP's temporary drive?
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PRS Data Systems
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Pittsburgh, PA 15215
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