Post #74,621
1/15/03 1:25:52 PM
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Woohoo! New webserver on the way
Dual 1.8 Xeon, 1GB DDR, 36GB 10K SCSI.
Just sharin' the joy. This will replace our Dual PII-450(!)/640M SDRAM/18G SCSI.
Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance -
Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation.
BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10
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Post #74,645
1/15/03 2:31:32 PM
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Droolworthy.
Any deity worthy of a graven image can cobble up a working universe complete with fake fossils in under a week - hey, if you're not omnipotent, there's no real point in being a god. But to start with a big ball of elementary particles and end up with the duckbill platypus without constant twiddling requires a degree of subtlety and the ability to Think Things Through: exactly the qualities I'm looking for when I'm shopping for a Supreme Being.
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Post #74,659
1/15/03 3:21:25 PM
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I'd take the old one...
..and I'm sure Karsten wouldn't mind it, either.
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Steve
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Post #74,661
1/15/03 3:22:57 PM
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I know a place where that old one can be...
...used...
Bob, e-mail me... please...
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Post #74,671
1/15/03 4:18:39 PM
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Sorry, Steve, Greg, we have other uses in mind...
Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance -
Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation.
BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10
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Post #74,678
1/15/03 4:55:13 PM
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Well... please e-mail me anyway...
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These [link|http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/cyberstrategy-draft.html|Civilian General Orders], please memorize them.
"Questions" will be asked at safety checkpoints. |
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Post #74,703
1/15/03 6:31:48 PM
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HP?
That is one option for workstations that a few of my group has picked up recently. The other option is a 2.4 P4 (not Xeon) Compact.
I'm sorta watching how they work before putting in for one.
Is your SCSI 4 9GB disks or one 36GB?
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Post #74,898
1/16/03 11:56:06 AM
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*cough* *hack* Dell
With apologies to those who have been Let Go...but I wouldn't buy an HP if *they* paid *me*.
(1) 2.4G woulda been about the same price; I opted for (2) 1.8's because it'll run a *ton* of small, fast executables.
SCSI is (1) 36G. I've got a spare 18G I'll be adding in for sapdb logfile spaces, et al.
Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance -
Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation.
BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10
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Post #74,909
1/16/03 1:24:48 PM
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IME
Dell's service department Kicks Much Ass. We're slowly moving to an all-Dell shop here, and I'm not sure if we got some kind of service contract, but generally when we have a problem with their hardware, we get it back fixed in about three days total.
Verra nice.
Any deity worthy of a graven image can cobble up a working universe complete with fake fossils in under a week - hey, if you're not omnipotent, there's no real point in being a god. But to start with a big ball of elementary particles and end up with the duckbill platypus without constant twiddling requires a degree of subtlety and the ability to Think Things Through: exactly the qualities I'm looking for when I'm shopping for a Supreme Being.
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Post #74,912
1/16/03 2:04:36 PM
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So...
You actually *DID* use sapdb then... Why that *IS* good news...
BTW, that is why I wanted you to e-mail me... the second time... How goes the project then? Does it DO what it says it can do?
Is it really the thing we have been looking for?
Can it jump a frightful cartesean join in a single bound?
Have we seen the last of NO Stored Procedures in the OSS world?
| [link|mailto:curley95@attbi.com|greg] - Grand-Master Artist in IT | | [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry/|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] [link|http://pascal.rockford.com:8888/SSK@kQMsmc74S0Tw3KHQiRQmDem0gAIPAgM/edcurry/1//|ED'S GHOST SPEAKS!] | Heimatland Geheime Staatspolizei reminds:
These [link|http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/cyberstrategy-draft.html|Civilian General Orders], please memorize them.
"Questions" will be asked at safety checkpoints. |
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Post #75,146
1/17/03 1:01:44 PM
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Sent you an email reply but wth
Might as well post it here too:
IMO it's basically an Oracle-killer; what I mean is that it operates at about that level of functionality/maintainability. I'm still doing testing (haven't even got around to real benchmarking yet) but so far I've done two installs, one on a testbed and one on a production server, and dropped in a couple databases for fun; played around. There's a *wonderful* app called SQLStudio which catalogs all the objects (including system ones) and gives you direct design and edit modes, plus an SQL command executor. It's got a simple, reasonable user/group model, but I don't need much depth there; almost all my access will be through a proxy webserver-"user".
What else? Hmmm. It's hard to crow, since one of the reasons SAP released it in the first place is, in their words, that the DataBase as a system object IS/should be a commodity; i.e. - there aren't too many bells and whistles. Haven't run into any serious problems yet. I need to find out how stable the JDBC driver is.
It will do remote calls (TCP/IP, pipes, you name it), but not very quickly.
More as I think of it. Any specific questions? Until I get burnt I'm just going whole-hog with it, since in my mind *anything* is better than using MS Access, which I/we have been doing since I started here, oh, five years ago. :)
Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance -
Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation.
BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10
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Post #77,454
1/27/03 11:47:43 PM
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Mmm. Just arrived.
This case is *big*. Love the hot-swap drive cage. :)
Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance -
Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation.
BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10
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