Re: [U2] [SPAM?]Re: silly company names

2011-02-19 Thread Kevin King
Ah how I miss the caveman days when you could name your kids "awk", "grep", and "sed" and people wouldn't stare... ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [U2] [SPAM?]Re: silly company names

2011-02-19 Thread Robert Houben
>>> Then what about biff? Named after the writer's dog. Anyone remember Seattle Lab? It was named for the owner's black lab. My first computer company that I worked for was called Toga Computer Services. Named after the owners, "To"ny and "Ga"ry. We actually got calls from people who thought

Re: [U2] silly company names

2011-02-19 Thread FFT2001
In a message dated 2/19/2011 3:00:43 PM Pacific Standard Time, 3xk547...@sneakemail.com writes: > like Nebbletto. ;) > You have to pick a name that cannot be mispelled. Otherwise you're going to get squatters at Nebleto, Nebletto, Nablettoes and so on Selling male enhancement pills _

Re: [U2] silly company names

2011-02-19 Thread Wols Lists
On 19/02/11 02:24, Tony Gravagno wrote: >> From Charlie Noah: Totally OT, and I'm just musing here - Rocket, Raining Data then TigerLogic. Does anyone besides me see a trend here? > >> Tony Gravagno wrote: >>> Uh, I don't get it. How are those related? What trend? > >> From: Ch

Re: [U2] silly company names

2011-02-19 Thread Tony Gravagno
[ OT from U2, just some weekened chatter ] Of course all names have some raison d'ĂȘtre. Debian is a combination of the names of the author of the distro, Ian, and his wife (GF?) Deb. The problem is when the rest of the world then needs to use these names in daily conversation. Raining Data was

Re: [U2] Friendfeed and U2 EDA similarities

2011-02-19 Thread DavidJMurray (mvdbs.com)
Is anyone using the EDA features of U2? I assume that at least one VAR must have wanted the ability to use another DBMS besides the U2 one as the amount of effort in implementing EDA is no small task. I was just interested in the applications and purpose of EDA. Cheers, djm DavidJMurray (mvd

Re: [U2] silly company names

2011-02-19 Thread Allen Egerton
The name Brian Kernighan rang a distant bell, and from my bookshelf comes "The Bell System Technical Journal", July/August 1978, Vol 57, No. 6, Part 2; which includes: "The C Programming Language" by D. M. Ritchie, S. C. Johnson, M. E. Lesk and B. W. Kernighan -and- "Document Preparation" by B. W.

Re: [U2] Frustrated with Rocket / Unidata 7.2 ..?

2011-02-19 Thread Symeon Breen
Ahh you see i left all that far behind - i only write web apps now, so i only need to check that it works in ie5, ie7, ie8, ie9, chrome, safari, firefox erm oh maybe i have not left it far behind ;) From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.

Re: [U2] silly company names

2011-02-19 Thread Jeff Schasny
from my infinite storehouse of useless facts: grep and sed and really acronyms for global regular expression parser and stream editor. Awk was named for the 3 people who developed the language: Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan Tony Gravagno wrote: I stopped thinking anyth

Re: [U2] [UV] UODOTNET.DLL and 64bit windows.

2011-02-19 Thread Brian Leach
Jacques, I use UO.Net with Win7x64 all the time, without any problems. Can't speak for 2003, but I have a 2003 x64 box running the old COM version of UO. The only gotcha I'm found with UO on x64 is that if you are using the old COM version of UniObjects with Windows scripting (cscript or wscript)

Re: [U2] Frustrated with Rocket / Unidata 7.2 ..?

2011-02-19 Thread Brian Leach
Almost all my frustrations are with Microsoft. Over half the development I did last year was simply handling differences between Win7x64 and previous versions.. which in turn meant upgrading my development platforms (Delphi and .Net) and dealing with THEIR backward incompatibilities, spending stup