On 11/8/05, Brandon Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Low quality HT is a sub $500 screen, sub $3000 projector, sub $800 audio
system. In my experience this is mid-range for a HT. Once you double
or tripple these prices you're starting to get into higher end, and a HT
costing over $20k for
Thanks for the various responses concerning multilingual text input. We are
pursuing them.
Now another question concerning the possible use of a bootable Linux CD on the
client side:
We have a locked down version of Knoppix Linux that goes straight to Firefox
when you boot from CD and then
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Alan K Melby wrote:
We have a locked down version of Knoppix Linux that goes straight to
Firefox when you boot from CD and then you can't get out of Firefox and
Firefox can only access one webpage. A Linux shop created it for us.
Would it also be feasible to create a
The certification test will usually be given at a university computer lab where
we do not have much control over the computers and probably are not allowed to
touch the router. Can we accomplish pretty much the same thing with a
customized version of a bootable Knoppix Linux image without
My day job is programming in PHP with MySQL databases, and with the
release of MySQL 5, I'd like to get familiar with Good Design for a
system that has views, stored procs, foreign-key constraints, and the like.
Are there any good websites for this information, that take you through
practical
On 11/8/05, Matthew Ross Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm a bit leary of dropping
$50+ on a book that I'll only use for a while, but I'm willing to do it
if it comes highly reccomended.
This I guess suggestion a course at the local college or university is
out of the question?
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PLUG:
Grant Shipley wrote:
On 11/8/05, Matthew Ross Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm a bit leary of dropping
$50+ on a book that I'll only use for a while, but I'm willing to do it
if it comes highly reccomended.
This I guess suggestion a course at the local college or university is
out of
Tomorrow (Wednesday) night is time for the Plug meeting again. This
month, Roberto Mello will be giving us an introduction to Lisp. Come learn:
- tiny bit of history
- (lack of) syntax
- why people like it
- why people dislike it
- tools to write lisp
- how to run your lisp programs
-
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Matthew Ross Walker wrote:
Grant Shipley wrote:
On 11/8/05, Matthew Ross Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This I guess suggestion a course at the local college or university is
out of the question?
Plus, I historically do poorly in rigidly structured class. But I guess
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Matthew Ross Walker wrote:
My day job is programming in PHP with MySQL databases, and with the
release of MySQL 5, I'd like to get familiar with Good Design for a
system that has views, stored procs, foreign-key constraints, and the like.
Are there any good websites for
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:38:13 -0700 (MST), Dan Hanks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
- Avoid nulls as much as possible
Good advice for most peoples' definition of as much as possible, but
since you mentioned dbdebunk, it's worth pointing out that Fabian Pascal
takes this far beyond sane limits.
-Jonathan
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Jonathan Ellis wrote:
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:38:13 -0700 (MST), Dan Hanks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
- Avoid nulls as much as possible
Good advice for most peoples' definition of as much as possible, but
since you mentioned dbdebunk, it's worth pointing out that Fabian Pascal
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Dan Hanks wrote:
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Jonathan Ellis wrote:
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:38:13 -0700 (MST), Dan Hanks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
- Avoid nulls as much as possible
I'll clarify even further:
In my own databases I strive for null-free as much as possible. About
Matthew:
My first suggestion is to relax. Second is to remember that theory exists to
serve the practice, not the other way around. With that in mind, when designing
databases, do not think third normal form, referential integrity, stored
procedures, objects, managers, managers talking to
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Ross Werner wrote:
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Levi Pearson wrote:
I'd say the general technique to follow is thus:
Exhaustively catalog the entities that you wish to model and their
relationships to one another
Draw up an ER or UML diagram of the entities and relationships
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Ross Werner wrote:
they can turn off whatever customizations you have created. In the security
world, having physical access to a computer basically means that there is no
way to completely secure that computer.
Well, it depends on what you mean by console access. The
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 07:30:04PM -0800, Jonathan Ellis wrote:
I tried to use PG inheritance in a project earlier this year. It
quickly became clear that it's not very useful except for toys. Which
is unfortunate, because it has the potential to make life a lot easier
in some situations.
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 21:41 -0800, Jonathan Ellis wrote:
PG inheritance is completely unsuited for any production use
What? It didn't work for you so now it's completely unsuited for any
production use? Wow, thats kinda strong wording. I guess I've got
some databases to rework.
Gabe
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Can you set up [Knoppix] Linux so that it is impossible, or at least difficult,
for a user to switch to a virtual terminaln without re-booting?
AKM
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Ross Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Jason Holt wrote:
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Ross Werner wrote:
they can turn off
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Alan K Melby wrote:
Can you set up [Knoppix] Linux so that it is impossible, or at least
difficult, for a user to switch to a virtual terminaln without re-booting?
Thanks for keeping us on-task; it's easy to get distracted into abstract
security discussions.
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