Bill McGonigle wrote: > It's also connected naked to the Internet for remote monitoring. > > For some strange reason, you'd just accept this. > Venturing even further off-topic, I have two different labs that wrote code without really consulting anyone else. One thought it would save a lot of time if their fat client application connected directly to Oracle from anywhere on the Internet. The other thought it would be a good idea to do the same with MySQL. The Oracle group we didn't have much luck with and they're stuck using SSH port forwarding. The MySQL group seems to be a bit more receptive and they may change their application to go through a web service instead.
I keep hoping that bioinformatics courses include even a week or two on 'sane coding practices', but I doubt it will happen... -Mark _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
