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> > Jeez Phil you must be over 40! I bow to your superior sufferings
>
> Or my superior dementia? Sadly 43 is approaching fast. Maybe too many
> brain cells h
> Jeez Phil you must be over 40! I bow to your superior sufferings
Or my superior dementia? Sadly 43 is approaching fast. Maybe too many
brain cells have died to do programming much longer and its time to get into
management. (Its just that these whippersnappers code so slow)
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Sent: Thursday, 13 July 2000 14:56
Subject: Re: [DUG]: Midas again
> > What is huge about 96bits? in storage it is shorter than your name
>
> Well multiply it by 12 million records and a 32bit key looks a lot more
> attactive
>
> > Now Sonny I remember
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Subject: RE: [DUG]: Midas again
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, James Sugrue wrote:
> Luxury. In my day, had to sleep in cardboard box. Walk ten miles in
driving
> snow to get to school, where teacher would beat us
Aye... stoop ya winging lad, 'least ye
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, James Sugrue wrote:
> Luxury. In my day, had to sleep in cardboard box. Walk ten miles in driving
> snow to get to school, where teacher would beat us
Aye... stoop ya winging lad, 'least ye 'ad a sckool... in my day...
--
Inspired by the taste of horror, proud to be i
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Subject: Re: [DUG]: Midas again
> What is huge about 96bits? in storage it is shorter than your name
Well multiply it by 12 million records and a 32bit key looks a lot more
attactive
> Now Sonny I remember in '85 I wrote a whole control system in Turbo Pascal
>
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Phil Scadden wrote:
> HP in something like Basic in 1980. (And then there was the finite
> element modeller in Algol on the old Burroughs in 1978 before
> that...). I come over and teach you but my walking stick is broke.
Ahhh the joy and humor senility (sp?) brings is astou
> What is huge about 96bits? in storage it is shorter than your name
Well multiply it by 12 million records and a 32bit key looks a lot more
attactive
> Now Sonny I remember in '85 I wrote a whole control system in Turbo Pascal
> that ran in a 48K TPAwhats a TPA!!.. I think my hearin aids
> Suggestion - Put Ethenet Cards in the laptops and use the unique ID as part of
> your key no setup, no poss of collision
True enough but then the main application on the server has these huge
96bit keys. Can use a simplier no. but think you have to still have to convert
the ID in Applyupdate/
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 5:07 PM
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> Subject: [DUG]: Midas again
>
> We are (yet again) considering Midas - for a system that has to run
> immediate
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> We are (yet again) considering Midas - for a system that has to run
> immediately following major disaster (especially earthquake) where
> networks, telecoms and power are unlikely to be immediately availab
pendencies.
>From: "Phil Scadden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: [DUG]: Midas again
>Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 17:07:14 +1200
>
>We are (yet again) considering Midas - for
> We are (yet again) considering Midas - for a system that has to run
> immediately following major disaster (especially earthquake) where
> networks, telecoms and power are unlikely to be immediately available.
>
> The attraction of Midas this time is that independent laptops could be used
>
y 2000 17:07
Subject: [DUG]: Midas again
> We are (yet again) considering Midas - for a system that has to run
> immediately following major disaster (especially earthquake) where
> networks, telecoms and power are unlikely to be immediately available.
>
> The attraction of Midas th
We are (yet again) considering Midas - for a system that has to run
immediately following major disaster (especially earthquake) where
networks, telecoms and power are unlikely to be immediately available.
The attraction of Midas this time is that independent laptops could be used
for dataentr
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