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  • RE: Bucket List Data

    I guess homemade financial tracking is common in our business. Been doing it for years, now the wife does the work.

    As a radio operator and SWL listener...

  • RE: Double Up During Trips

    My favorite story of efficiency was the the old AppleWriter that worked in 16k memory (kilobytes for you youngin's ) and could still handle documents that were a megabyte or...

  • RE: Double Up During Trips

    I realize that many managers are loathe to invest in developers' knowledge when those developers might leave your company for another position, but imagine that a manager elsewhere is investing...

  • RE: The 2014 PASS Summit Report - Day 1

    Thanks Steve!

    I heard the keynote was very weak.

    I'll probably never go to PASS, as a Jack-of-All-Trades, there are too many conferences opportunities both commercial and OSS, so priorities are in...

  • RE: Normalizing Performance

    The company and clients I work for don't run SQL Server on massive hardware, mainly due to the SQL Server licensing costs for large numbers of cores. Even much of...

  • RE: A Fundamental Security Mistake

    Did anyone ever set up a request on MS Connect?

    Like that does any good. :angry:

  • RE: Have You Been Hacked?

    Americans have many positive qualities, but a sense of irony doesn't seem to be amongst them.

    Can't afford irony, only the top .01 in 'Merica can and they have hidden...

  • RE: Have You Been Hacked?

    If I could relocate from the MetroMess here in North Texas to the mountains, I would. Unfortunately my spouse has a better job than I...

  • RE: Have You Been Hacked?

    However, even 'more secure' operating systems such as Linux have exploitable vulnerabilities. We are engaged in a constant evolutionary 'predator/prey' race, in which there is no finish line.

    I disagree....

  • RE: Have You Been Hacked?

    I'm not sure there is ample evidence here. Plenty of people use drugs that manage their finances and function at a high level in society.

    Says the guy that lives...

  • RE: Have You Been Hacked?

    As IT professionals, we shall do our best, of course, but we are essentially in a reactive position.

    We could use programming languages to build our operating systems that are not...

  • RE: Have You Been Hacked?

    If senior management were held accountable to data loss/theft then they would be prepared to do two things; firstly invest in security and secondly delegate responsibility (as opposed to deny...

  • RE: Stuck in a Rut

    I'm stuck in a rut, but not bored. I have too many projects for the resources allotted.

  • RE: Why Would You Move?

    Also, I have read a couple of worrying articles that automation is increasing so fast that in 5 years many administration tasks may be replaced by automated procedures. I guess...

  • RE: Why Would You Move?

    Of course our end users don't care where or how we store the data as long as they continue to get the information that they need.

    We could store data...

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