Ha! I use to bang rocks together in sea water so that the sand could be used to make the first silicon chip 1,000,000 years later.
Of course that was in my younger days......
Jerry Whittle
ACIFICS DBA
NCI Information Systems Inc.
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618-622-4145
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From: kkennedy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Who's got time for an abacus? It takes a lot of effort to chisel those bits into the stone tablets. Used to take a lot longer before I got my electric chisel 8-)
Kevin Kennedy
First Point Energy Corporation
If you take RAC out of Oracle you get OLE! What can this mean?
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Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 12:46 PM
<GROAN> Here we go again. So who's gonna be the first one with the abacus
joke this time?
--Walt (who makes Rachel look like a spring chicken) Weaver
Bozeman, Montana
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Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 1:20 PM
Hex editor? geez you youngsters have it soft, in MY day we ran magnets
over the disks to encode the "ones" and "zeros" :)
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> No, I use a hex editor and directly write the bits to disk.
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> Isn't that the way everyone here does it?
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> Jared
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> "Straub, Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>
> > >
> > > ...hardcore DBAs might never use GUI tools.
> > >
> >
> > I fit that category. :)
> >
> What about the OUI? Don't you use that? :)
> Dan.
