May 1, 2011 at 10:24 am
george sibbald (5/1/2011)
Thanks for the replies on the browser. Chrome seems to just about get the nod and firefox seems to have the most technical issues so Chrome it is. I don't need to translate to Gaidhlig (whats that?) Tom, so that shouldn't be a problem for me!It will just be a backup, I will continue to use IE as first option.
cheers
george
Scottish Gaelic (Scottish Gaelic: Gàidhlig) is a Celtic language native to Scotland.
May 1, 2011 at 10:25 am
george sibbald (5/1/2011)
I don't need to translate to Gaidhlig (whats that?) Tom, so that shouldn't be a problem for me!
It used to be the main language of Scotland, but now English has mostly taken over. It's still the main lanuage of the Outer Hebrides, is spoken quite a lot in the inner Hebrides, and survives in a few pockets on the mainland, and it's sometimes used in the Scottish parliament. You can see a samle in my sig.
Tom
May 1, 2011 at 1:21 pm
Tom.Thomson (5/1/2011)
george sibbald (5/1/2011)
I don't need to translate to Gaidhlig (whats that?) Tom, so that shouldn't be a problem for me!It used to be the main language of Scotland, but now English has mostly taken over. It's still the main lanuage of the Outer Hebrides, is spoken quite a lot in the inner Hebrides, and survives in a few pockets on the mainland, and it's sometimes used in the Scottish parliament. You can see a samle in my sig.
and here's me with scottish ancestry! :blush:
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May 1, 2011 at 1:50 pm
So I've gotten more than a few complaints about posts like this from Syed Jahanzaib Bin hassan.
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1101142-146-1.aspx#bm1101269
I can certainly appreciate he/she is annoying, and not often right, but I'm not going to start making the judgment calls to delete posts or censor someone for being wrong. I've certainly made more than a few mistakes and been corrected by Gail, Jeff, Craig, and others.
What I would suggest is that one person, or at most two, respond to a post that shows incorrect advice and give what you think is better advice. I am guessing that if this person gets shown to be wrong multiple times, they will either learn or stop posting.
May 1, 2011 at 9:11 pm
After a horror week in which half my mirrors crashed, a royal wedding saturated the TV, radio, newspapers (as well as my dreams after a derriere walked up the aisle) and I got waaay behind on reading The Thread, I thought I'd do a bit of gardening - and dug up a dead body.
Yes indeed. Finding an old packet of carrots on Sunday I grabbed my daughters, chose a spot in the yard for a vege patch and got digging. About 5cm under the daisies I hit a rock. "No worries," I thinks to meself. "I'll just grub it out." As I levered it out of the ground I noticed writing on it, and realised I'd just found someone's poor Rover.
Steve.
May 1, 2011 at 11:29 pm
ChrisM@home (4/30/2011)
LutzM (4/30/2011)
Slightly different over here in Germany: if a holiday falls on a Sunday (as it happens with May 1st this year), we won't get a public holiday during the week (e.g. following Monday or previous Friday).This year is particulary "bad" in terms of holidays falling on Sunday: May 1st, Christmas Day, Jan 1st 2012, and one or two more I can't remember right now.
But I won't complain either: unlike in other countries we have quite a few days available for paid vacation...
You also have arguably the best little microbreweries in the world 🙂
Aside from Belgium, that is 😉
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May 2, 2011 at 1:57 am
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Slightly different over here in Germany: if a holiday falls on a Sunday (as it happens with May 1st this year), we won't get a public holiday during the week (e.g. following Monday or previous Friday).This year is particulary "bad" in terms of holidays falling on Sunday: May 1st, Christmas Day, Jan 1st 2012, and one or two more I can't remember right now.
But I won't complain either: unlike in other countries we have quite a few days available for paid vacation...
You also have arguably the best little microbreweries in the world 🙂
Aside from Belgium, that is 😉
<<Sucks air through teeth>> Close call, Koen.
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May 2, 2011 at 4:06 am
ChrisM@home (5/2/2011)
Koen Verbeeck (5/1/2011)
ChrisM@home (4/30/2011)
LutzM (4/30/2011)
Slightly different over here in Germany: if a holiday falls on a Sunday (as it happens with May 1st this year), we won't get a public holiday during the week (e.g. following Monday or previous Friday).This year is particulary "bad" in terms of holidays falling on Sunday: May 1st, Christmas Day, Jan 1st 2012, and one or two more I can't remember right now.
But I won't complain either: unlike in other countries we have quite a few days available for paid vacation...
You also have arguably the best little microbreweries in the world 🙂
Aside from Belgium, that is 😉
<<Sucks air through teeth>> Close call, Koen.
Well, you two can argue which of those two countries comes third and which fourth.
Of course most people on this list would probably think they were in heaven drinking good Dutch or German beer (or even bad Dutch or German beer), because they are used to the u/s products of the USA. I used to fly back to Europe from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle or Boston quite often and every time even the most disgusting fizzy third rate hellesbier tasted wonderful after tasting the product of California's, Washington's, or Massachussets' microbreweries (vouched for as the nation's best beers by the inhabitants of those states).
But both Dutch and German beers are outclassed by craft microbreweries like Beartown (English) and Williams Brothers (Scottish). Williams has grown a lot since it started up in 1988 , and Beartown has grown since its beginnings in 1994, but last time I looked each was still a long way way below the limit in the USA legal (for tax purposes) definition of a microbrewery, which is, frankly, a gross misuse of the prefix "micro". The USA definition is reputed to have been set that high for protectionist reasons - use tax to enable medium to fairly large breweries in Washington State and the New England states to undercut the price of beers from similar sized breweries in Canada, where the tax relief for microbreweries cuts off at 30% of the annual output limit specified for USA microbreweries, but no doubt the representatives from those states can refute that charge (they will certainly deny it, and as for refute - well, pigs are not altogether unable to fly, Jeff does make bits of them fly now and again).
Tom
May 2, 2011 at 5:33 am
Fal (5/1/2011)
After a horror week in which half my mirrors crashed, a royal wedding saturated the TV, radio, newspapers (as well as my dreams after a derriere walked up the aisle) and I got waaay behind on reading The Thread, I thought I'd do a bit of gardening - and dug up a dead body.Yes indeed. Finding an old packet of carrots on Sunday I grabbed my daughters, chose a spot in the yard for a vege patch and got digging. About 5cm under the daisies I hit a rock. "No worries," I thinks to meself. "I'll just grub it out." As I levered it out of the ground I noticed writing on it, and realised I'd just found someone's poor Rover.
You poor thing.
Suddenly I'm getting images of "Pet Cemetery" in my head. Run, Steve!!!
May 2, 2011 at 5:48 am
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/1/2011)
So I've gotten more than a few complaints about posts like this from Syed Jahanzaib Bin hassan.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1101142-146-1.aspx#bm1101269
I can certainly appreciate he/she is annoying, and not often right, but I'm not going to start making the judgment calls to delete posts or censor someone for being wrong. I've certainly made more than a few mistakes and been corrected by Gail, Jeff, Craig, and others.
What I would suggest is that one person, or at most two, respond to a post that shows incorrect advice and give what you think is better advice. I am guessing that if this person gets shown to be wrong multiple times, they will either learn or stop posting.
For the number of times that Gail & Paul have been forced to correct my stupid posts, I'm sure not going to complain that someone else is slightly behind where I was on the learning curve. It's another education opportunity folks.
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May 2, 2011 at 6:37 am
Fal (5/1/2011)
After a horror week in which half my mirrors crashed, a royal wedding saturated the TV, radio, newspapers (as well as my dreams after a derriere walked up the aisle) and I got waaay behind on reading The Thread, I thought I'd do a bit of gardening - and dug up a dead body.Yes indeed. Finding an old packet of carrots on Sunday I grabbed my daughters, chose a spot in the yard for a vege patch and got digging. About 5cm under the daisies I hit a rock. "No worries," I thinks to meself. "I'll just grub it out." As I levered it out of the ground I noticed writing on it, and realised I'd just found someone's poor Rover.
Steve.
How long gone? Was it a "ah, some old bones" moment or an "oh no, what is that smell, girls don't look" moment?
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May 2, 2011 at 6:52 am
Grant Fritchey (5/2/2011)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/1/2011)
So I've gotten more than a few complaints about posts like this from Syed Jahanzaib Bin hassan.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1101142-146-1.aspx#bm1101269
I can certainly appreciate he/she is annoying, and not often right, but I'm not going to start making the judgment calls to delete posts or censor someone for being wrong. I've certainly made more than a few mistakes and been corrected by Gail, Jeff, Craig, and others.
What I would suggest is that one person, or at most two, respond to a post that shows incorrect advice and give what you think is better advice. I am guessing that if this person gets shown to be wrong multiple times, they will either learn or stop posting.
For the number of times that Gail & Paul have been forced to correct my stupid posts, I'm sure not going to complain that someone else is slightly behind where I was on the learning curve. It's another education opportunity folks.
I personnally don't care (too much) about wrong answers. God knows I'm probably the leader in those around here. But the fact is that I deeply care about the people I help and all the other people that get here through google in the decades to come. Which I just cannot say about him.
Check out is linked in profile, he's a SENIOR and both oracle, IBM, and SQL 2005 / 2008 after only 3 YEARS. Now add his endless stream of certs in almost as many products which I can't believe he actually has when I see his replies.
Moreover if you actually have 20 minutes to waste you can checkout his blog, which is basically copy / paste booksonline and white papers.
As I previously said he clearly knows stuff about sql and admin but he has no understanding of the products and his advice are wrong most of the time, when they are not simply destructive to the server.
Even worse than that he doesn't read the questions, nor the replies and doesn't admin when he's wrong.
The only good news about him is that it puts CELKO in perspective and CELKO now looks like a little cuddly white bunny with good advice.
I appreciate your free press approach Steve, but we collectively need to have a look out for him from now on if we want to keep our standards around here.
May 2, 2011 at 7:54 am
Ninja's_RGR'us (5/2/2011)
Even worse than that he doesn't read the questions, nor the replies ...
Ninja, I can hardly throw stones on that particular point. Being a speed reader tends to work against me on the online forums.
May 2, 2011 at 7:59 am
My problem is that he doesn't accept corrections, but will argue (often just repeating himself) forever.
He'll learn or leave, not the first one we've had.
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May 2, 2011 at 8:02 am
Brandie(5/2/2011)
Ninja, I can hardly throw stones on that particular point. Being a speed reader tends to work against me on the online forums.
Same here... hence #1 for amount of wrong answers. I just had to give it up and "waste" the few extra seconds to get the question right. You know what? I usually give better answers for that.
In his case it seems that he just doesn't understand english, doesn't read the question beyond the first 10 words or just doesn't care about the OP and SSC.
Bottom line is we need to watch him, very closely, if we want to keep the HQ community we have here.
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