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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736270 More actions · Answer 1

GilaMonster (12/20/2011)
SQLRNNR (12/20/2011)
Anybody else notice that the Headline article today has the "Editorial" pic? Is it an editorial or an article?:-D:-D
It's an artitorial (similar to an artichoke, but not as tasty)

Doh! Fixed.

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 2

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/20/2011)
GilaMonster (12/20/2011)
SQLRNNR (12/20/2011)
Anybody else notice that the Headline article today has the "Editorial" pic? Is it an editorial or an article?:-D:-D
It's an artitorial (similar to an artichoke, but not as tasty)
Doh! Fixed.

Should have screen captured it buahahaha

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WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95460 More actions · Answer 3

Greg Edwards-268690 (12/20/2011)
WayneS (12/19/2011)
bitbucket-25253 (12/19/2011)
Another quirk - those old machines when shut down were restarted by reading a series of commands from a roll of punched paper tape. Doubt if many or even anyone remembers that medium.
5-hole or 8-hole?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_tape
You might be interested in this history of data storage media: http://www.pcworld.com/article/188661/from_paper_tape_to_data_sticks_the_evolution_of_removable_storage.html (In my old college programming classes, I used punched card and cassette tapes. In my first job, they used "disk packs"; a later job used mag tape reels. I've also used tape cartridges, ROM cartridges (games), floppys, opticals, MO, Zip (remember the "click-of-death"?), flopticals, SparQ, various flash formats, and now USB.)
... now that I've suitably aged myself...
8 hole is all I remember.
Golf on a Honeywell mainframe.
What were the fast modems back then - 300 baud?

I seem to remember 110 baud. Acoustic coupled. You could read the UseNet groups on your monitor as the data scrolled in... no need for those new-fangled buffers.

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Ninja's_RGR'us SSC Guru Points: 294069 More actions · Answer 4

GSquared (12/20/2011)
Dev (12/20/2011)
Sorry for hiccup. I Google-d something today (after a long long time, using Bing now days) and didn’t find a single sponsored links there. No promotions from Google.
Any idea?
Maybe you Googled something nobody in their right mind would want to link ads to, and nobody crazy enough has the money?
Edit: Yep, just Googled "cannibalism", and there were no ads. Googled "Ford Fusion" and got lots of ads. Anybody got the money to buy "cannibalism" as a Google ad-word? Want your product/service associated with it?

Geo-localisation is also a big factors. Many marketers don't want / need to advertise in some countries.

Just do a search in US (you can test that if you have an account), and then redo it for Canada, just that can get you 80% less ads.

Revenant SSC-Forever Points: 42467 More actions · Answer 5

GSquared (12/20/2011)
Dev (12/20/2011)
Sorry for hiccup. I Google-d something today (after a long long time, using Bing now days) and didn’t find a single sponsored links there. No promotions from Google.
Any idea?
Maybe you Googled something nobody in their right mind would want to link ads to, and nobody crazy enough has the money?
Edit: Yep, just Googled "cannibalism", and there were no ads. Googled "Ford Fusion" and got lots of ads. Anybody got the money to buy "cannibalism" as a Google ad-word? Want your product/service associated with it?

Maybe, if you are National Geographic or The History Channel.

TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 6

Jan Van der Eecken (12/20/2011)
Greg Edwards-268690 (12/20/2011)
8 hole is all I remember.
Golf on a Honeywell mainframe.
What were the fast modems back then - 300 baud?
You mean those acoustic couplers you'd attach to the phone? I think they were about that speed. That was early to mid eighties, about the time when my career in IT started.

The last time something operating at 300baud would have been called a fast modem was certainly more than a decade earlier than the early eighties. I can remember working with 2400 bps (800baud with 3 bits per signal element) for international phone lines in the mid 70s, and received the UK Post Office's announcement of availability or its first 2400 bps modem for voice lines (which operated at 1200 baud, 2 bit signal elements, if I recall correctly) in the early 70s (when I was running a comms processor projects group for ICL, so got such announcements as a matter of course). Acoustic couplers (at least in the UK) were still typically 110 bps, 200 bps, or 300 bps as late as 1980, but fast acoustic couplers delivered 600bps and 1200bps.

Tom

TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 7

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/20/2011)
If you haven't tried it, google "let it snow" and check out the Easter egg

I liked that in 1986 (very different delivery method - you had to install something that included bits you didn't know about - but that probably wasn't the first version) and the 1996 version was even more fun (delivered via www, but only if you were really silly).

But it's getting a bit old now. ("a bit old"??? Don't I mean "contemporaneous with the deluge" or something equally redolent of ancientness?)

It's nice to see the old stuff turning up again, though. 🙂

Tom

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004363 More actions · Answer 8

L' Eomot Inversé (12/20/2011)
It's nice to see the old stuff turning up again, though. 🙂

That's why I'm here... ummm... wait... you weren't talking about me, were you? 😛

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 9

Dev (12/20/2011)
... the psychologist use ink blot cards (Rorschach test) to read the minds.

I'm not locked in here with you! You're locked in here with me!

Ahem...

10 bonus points for who got the reference 🙂

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Devendrakumar SSC-Forever Points: 42493 More actions · Answer 10

Koen Verbeeck (12/20/2011)
Dev (12/20/2011)
... the psychologist use ink blot cards (Rorschach test) to read the minds.
I'm not locked in here with you! You're locked in here with me!
Ahem...
10 bonus points for who got the reference 🙂

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9UF1HsP0K0 😛

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 11

Koen Verbeeck (12/20/2011)
Dev (12/20/2011)
... the psychologist use ink blot cards (Rorschach test) to read the minds.
I'm not locked in here with you! You're locked in here with me!
Ahem...
10 bonus points for who got the reference 🙂

Ummmm...ClockMen or something like that :crazy:

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 12

Dev (12/20/2011)
Koen Verbeeck (12/20/2011)
Dev (12/20/2011)
... the psychologist use ink blot cards (Rorschach test) to read the minds.
I'm not locked in here with you! You're locked in here with me!
Ahem...
10 bonus points for who got the reference 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9UF1HsP0K0 😛

That's right! Collect your points at the desk please.

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Devendrakumar SSC-Forever Points: 42493 More actions · Answer 13

Koen Verbeeck (12/20/2011)
Dev (12/20/2011)
Koen Verbeeck (12/20/2011)
Dev (12/20/2011)
... the psychologist use ink blot cards (Rorschach test) to read the minds.
I'm not locked in here with you! You're locked in here with me!
Ahem...
10 bonus points for who got the reference 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9UF1HsP0K0 😛
That's right! Collect your points at the desk please.

Please deposit it in my SSC account.

Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 14

Can anyone of the DBA guru's (I'm certainly not one) take a look at this thread:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1224893-391-1.aspx

It's about SharePoint databases administration. I suggested the OP - Divine Flame - that there is an awful white paper floating in the web that gives all sorts of bad advice, such as shrinking databases and such.

Can anyone confirm that the link to the PDF provided in the thread is actually that very bad white paper?

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 15

Koen Verbeeck (12/21/2011)
Can anyone confirm that the link to the PDF provided in the thread is actually that very bad white paper?

Not a DBA, but...

That's the previous version of the very bad paper (which was the 2010 sharepoint admin guide). The 2007 one (which is that link) was terrible too.

http://sqlskills.com/BLOGS/PAUL/post/SharePoint-2010-database-maintenance-whitepaper.aspx

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