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  • RE: Squeezing the DBA

    The real problem, IMO, isn't the movie plot threat. It's the legal tangle that we all live in which is so complex that you're breaking a law right now just...

  • RE: Protection Close To Home

    GilaMonster (8/21/2009)


    David Reed (8/21/2009)


    There is also more and cooler stuff for WHS that's being worked on right now. A buddy of mine in WHS told me that this week is...

  • RE: Protection Close To Home

    My WHS box has been backing up the family PCs for over a year. It's actually come in handy twice when I had to recover files that got corrupted or...

  • RE: Good for the Goose

    Other than as a billable consultant, I haven't worked anyplace where this was formalized and normal work hours were counted like beans in 20 years, nor would I ever want...

  • RE: Loyalty Cards

    jpowers (8/6/2009)


    I don't mind having my shopping habits tracked when it means they send me targeted special discounts for the things I shop for regularly .. which my grocery store...

  • RE: Be a Craftsman

    Just left a large team meeting which discussed lots of prioprietary Office 15 planning things, but one part of the perspective that the O15 planning team tries to keep fixed...

  • RE: Be a Craftsman

    rboggess (8/3/2009)


    Although I'm willing to whole-heartedly agree with many of the arguments in the article, I'm afraid I have to come to a very different conclusion.

    [snip]

    But instead, I find the...

  • RE: Be a Craftsman

    roger.plowman (8/3/2009)


    There's a *reason* geeks like us are seen as loners and iconoclasts...

    Is it because we use $20 words like "iconoclast"? Or did you just mean the pervasive, undiagnosed autism...

  • RE: Be a Craftsman

    Welcome to modernity, Tom. I've always learned a lot from your books, especially Slack. Glad you've finally turned the corner, too.

    :hehe:

    Software engineering can't be dead, since it was always a...

  • RE: Does Maturity Make a DBA?

    Whycome I always have to be the contrarian? (Warning: falling sarcasm ahead...)

    :hehe:

    If I were hiring a DBA, I would want a highly skilled social misfit with no life, no friends,...

  • RE: Basically Available, Soft State, Eventually Consistent

    Is somebody keeping track of the individuals, projects and companies who're buying into this? I'm going to be on vacation this week and there's not much good on during summer...

  • RE: Trusting Online

    Trust came up in another (not-SQL-related) conversation this morning... Do you consciously trust everyone? Or just implicitly do so without thinking about it? Such as vaccine manufactuters? Somebody else doesn't.

    http://www.naturalnews.com/026503_pandemic_swine_flu_bioterrorism.html

  • RE: Trusting Online

    Steve Jones - Editor (6/25/2009)


    Ha!, you spar for real. I'm just an old geezer going through the motions.

    Nah. I'll even wear the big, fat 16oz pillows on my mitts for...

  • RE: Trusting Online

    Steve Jones - Editor (6/25/2009)


    David Reed (6/25/2009)


    So... what're you sayin', Steve? You don't trust me? :hehe:

    Sure, far as I can throw you, which come to think about it, might be...

  • RE: Trusting Online

    So... what're you sayin', Steve? You don't trust me? :hehe:

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