RE: OT -- 90-day limits in the financial world for downloading your data.

2004-11-24 Thread Fred
On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 09:12, Tilly, Lawrence wrote: It could also be data access time. Not sure what software they're using, but while you're doing your search you're probably tying up web threads, worker threads in a JVM (assuming java-based application server), database connections and

Re: OT -- 90-day limits in the financial world for downloading your data.

2004-11-24 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 07:28:05AM -0500, Fred wrote: If there resources are so limited that they have to worry about 20K or 30K downloads, they really should seriously consider upgrading their computers LiveJournal.com hosts four racks of hardware, including 7 different database clusters

Re: OT -- 90-day limits in the financial world for downloading your data.

2004-11-24 Thread Fred
On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 07:37, Christopher Schmidt wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 07:28:05AM -0500, Fred wrote: If there resources are so limited that they have to worry about 20K or 30K downloads, they really should seriously consider upgrading their computers LiveJournal.com hosts

Re: OT -- 90-day limits in the financial world for downloading your data.

2004-11-24 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Nov 24, 2004, at 07:28, Fred wrote: If there resources are so limited that they have to worry about 20K or 30K downloads, they really should seriously consider upgrading their computers Ah, mergeritis. See, your local bank with 10,000 customers might be OK with keeping a meg of data online

Re: OT -- 90-day limits in the financial world for downloading your data.

2004-11-24 Thread Greg Rundlett
Systems are a major part of the equation on 'Wall St.'. The systems are immense, and viewed as a tool to control costs, and increase profits. There are many influencers in the equation: employees, regulators, customers, partners, competitors etc. If there was a positive cost/benefit

Re: OT -- 90-day limits in the financial world for downloading your data.

2004-11-24 Thread Fred
On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 10:57, Bill McGonigle wrote: ... See, your local bank with 10,000 customers might be OK with keeping a meg of data online for you and sifting through it for what you want to see. That's ten gigs of reliable online storage - not too bad. Then your bank gets bought by

RE: OT -- 90-day limits in the financial world for downloading your data.

2004-11-22 Thread Tilly, Lawrence
it and getting poor performance. -L -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Rundlett Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 10:08 PM To: Fred Cc: Bill Mullen; GNHLUG Subject: Re: OT -- 90-day limits in the financial world for downloading your data. Fred

Re: OT -- 90-day limits in the financial world for downloading your data.

2004-11-21 Thread L.B. MCCULLEY
I'm guessing this is the real reason... Original message Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 12:17:09 -0500 From: Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Years ago, before online banking existed, [...] We had the same policy then for the account history data that we made available to the tellers over the

Re: OT -- 90-day limits in the financial world for downloading your data.

2004-11-21 Thread Greg Rundlett
Fred wrote: On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 12:17, Bill Mullen wrote: I suspect that the real issue here is merely one of storage space; by setting a fixed period for which they will make data available (last 90 days, last 3 statement periods, whatever), they can move enough transactions out of the

Re: OT -- 90-day limits in the financial world for downloading your data.

2004-11-20 Thread Bill Mullen
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 23:56, Fred wrote: So, maybe some of you have had some banking experience. Is there some sort of obscure Federal regulation or similar that stipulates that financial institutions can only allow a max of 90 days of data at a time to the customer? And why would their be

Re: OT -- 90-day limits in the financial world for downloading your data.

2004-11-20 Thread Fred
On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 12:17, Bill Mullen wrote: I suspect that the real issue here is merely one of storage space; by setting a fixed period for which they will make data available (last 90 days, last 3 statement periods, whatever), they can move enough transactions out of the database to