Re: [OCLUG-Tech] [Fwd: How to buy a Laptop Best Practices]

2010-11-13 Thread Woogie
Once upon a time, MySQL wrote developer docs and manuals telling people how they didn't want or need triggers. Or foreign keys. Or views. Or data integrity. That made MySQL the easy database to work with, so therefore postgres had to be hard. Times have changed, MySQL has spent a lot of time

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] [Fwd: How to buy a Laptop Best Practices]

2010-11-12 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:48:49PM -0400, Prof. John C Nash wrote: One thing I don't know about is whether there is any open software that can mimic MS Access. It may be that a few of us could do a MS Access is two things: it is a database, and an extendable gui/reportwriter. For the

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] [Fwd: How to buy a Laptop Best Practices]

2010-11-11 Thread Bruce Harding
On August 22, 2009 10:27:20 am Robert Radziwilowicz wrote: BTW. I our dep (Elec. Eng / SITE) some MS spoft is provided for free to grads. It is the same strategy used by drug dealers trying to get new clients. Free has the effect of limitings questions. I.e. why look a gift horse in the

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] [Fwd: How to buy a Laptop Best Practices]

2010-11-11 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 09-08-24 09:32 AM, Bruce Harding wrote: On August 22, 2009 10:27:20 am Robert Radziwilowicz wrote: BTW. I our dep (Elec. Eng / SITE) some MS spoft is provided for free to grads. It is the same strategy used by drug dealers trying to get new clients. Free has the effect of limitings