Re: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i'

2001-08-18 Thread Jared Still
On Friday 17 August 2001 07:36, Kevin Lange wrote: I have been collecting commodores and Apples for a while to keep in my own PC museum. I have been looking for a good working TRS-80. Too bad I divested myself of most of my Radio Shack computers. Model 16 running Xenix Model 3 with 48k

RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i'

2001-08-17 Thread Guy Hammond
It's not actually too difficult to do this, if you have some hardware with lots of CPUs. With Solaris 8, you can create processor sets, grouping a number of CPUs together, then running processes on those CPUs, they will not get any cycles scheduled on other CPUs in the system. This is different

RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i'

2001-08-17 Thread tday6
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RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i'

2001-08-17 Thread Kevin Lange
recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i' A friend of mine has an IBM XT with a 3 digit serial number. He has been saving it for it to be bought from him for big money for a musuem "Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, tha

Re: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i'

2001-08-17 Thread Ray Stell
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 06:36:42AM -0800, Kevin Lange wrote: I have been collecting commodores and Apples for a while to keep in my own PC museum. I have been looking for a good working TRS-80. -- Speaking of museums, I took my daughter to the National Museum of American History a few

RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i'

2001-08-17 Thread Gogala, Mladen
ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i' On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 06:36:42AM -0800, Kevin Lange wrote: I have been collecting commodores and Apples for a while to keep in my own PC museum. I have been looking for a good working TRS-80. -- Speaking of museums, I took

RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i'

2001-08-16 Thread Gogala, Mladen
-Original Message- From: Christopher Spence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 1:16 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i' Well, I just got this book, and just started reading through it. Looks good so

Re: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i'

2001-08-16 Thread Jonathan Lewis
I don't know how bookpool does it - it's been at deep discounts since publication, whereas Amazon managed to cut it by 10% for about two weeks in 9 months. A comment like yours came up on the comp.databases.oracle.server newsgroup very soon after the book came out. The convenient weasel word is

RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i'

2001-08-16 Thread Christopher Spence
Before I reply, so far at page 100 I think the book is great. I plan on finishing it this weekend. Anyway, I agree entirely. I think it really depends. But there are strong reasons in both directions. One thing that would make that test very difficult is MHz to MHz isn't the same. For

RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i'

2001-08-16 Thread Gogala, Mladen
-Original Message- From: Christopher Spence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 1:52 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i' For example. 100MHz Pentium is no where near 1/15 the speed of the 1.5GHz AMD

RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i'

2001-08-16 Thread JOE TESTA
i got a 75Mhz pentium sitting in my desk drawer :) joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/16/01 03:45PM -Original Message- From: Christopher Spence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 1:52 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Comment on 'Practical

RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i'

2001-08-16 Thread Christopher Spence
(978) 322-5744 Fax: (707) 885-2275 Fuelspot 73 Princeton Street North, Chelmsford 01863 -Original Message-From: JOE TESTA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 4:06 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8

RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i'

2001-08-16 Thread Adams, Matthew (GEA, 088130)
Title: RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i' What wrong with a 100MHz Pentium? I still do a lot of LaTex work (and other stuff) on a 386-25. As long as the machine serves your needs and works, use it. For example. 100MHz Pentium is no where near 1/15 the speed of the 1.5GHz AMD. So

RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i'

2001-08-16 Thread DBarbour
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Antique Processors [RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i']

2001-08-16 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
I still have my 486 / 33MHz PC with 220 MB SCSI drive for a few odd things :) - Kirti -Original Message- From: JOE TESTA [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 3:06 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i

OT - RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i'

2001-08-16 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
Title: RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i' I agree. Irecently upgraded my Eye Doctor's office server from a 386-25 with 4M of RAM and 300M of disk to an NT server. I think she liked the older system better, to no surprise. I ran 5 terminals from that machine with the Pick O/S and it worked

RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i'

2001-08-16 Thread Kathy Duret
Bet you say that to all the girls ;) Kathy -Original Message-From: JOE TESTA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 1:06 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i' i got a 75Mhz pentium sitting in my desk

RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i'

2001-08-16 Thread Glenn Travis
: RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i' I just sold 5 166Mhz pentiums chips and heat sinksfor $18 at show 2 weeks ago :) "Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes." Chr

OT RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i'

2001-08-16 Thread Mohan, Ross
ROFL -Original Message-From: Kathy Duret [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 4:45 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i' Bet you say that to all the girls ;) Kathy -Original

RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i'

2001-08-16 Thread Stephen Andert
-Original Message- From: Christopher Spence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 1:52 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i' For example. 100MHz Pentium is no where near 1/15 the speed of the 1.5GHz AMD. So