Re: [OT] System Idle Process Running at 98% and I cant use my PC

2010-11-23 Thread Mark Hurd
Interesting. I thought my computer's blank moments (normally during late startup i.e. during userinit) were 16-bit hardware drivers not allowing co-processing. Perhaps it is just imminent hardware failure for me too. (In my case I think it is the DVD-ROM drive -- I don't use it very much and it

Azure DB performance

2010-11-23 Thread Greg Keogh
Folks, after an hour of suffering weird errors I managed to create my first Azure database and a small console app to copy rows from a local table into the Azure one. I got a bit of a fright when it took about 5 minutes to insert the 1177 rows into the Azure table. Luckily however, it only takes

RE: Azure DB performance

2010-11-23 Thread Ian Thomas
Assuming you have plain ADSL+ and not something less asymmetric such as Annexe M or Bonded DSL, or better - you would expect perhaps 20 times worse performance on upload just because of the internet connection. 5mins to 2 secs = 30 times. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia

Re: Azure DB performance

2010-11-23 Thread David Connors
Best adsl2+ would be 24mbps / 1mbps 24 / 1 for annex A, 24 / ~2-3 for annex M. Is 4 am too early for a nit pick?

Re: Azure DB performance

2010-11-23 Thread David Connors
On 24 November 2010 04:12, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: Best adsl2+ would be 24mbps / 1mbps 24 / 1 for annex A, 24 / ~2-3 for annex M. Is 4 am too early for a nit pick? Doh! Missed your early post on this thread - sorry (grumbles about iPhone threading being backwards :) --

RE: Azure DB performance

2010-11-23 Thread Greg Keogh
I claim my estimates of 5 minutes for insert of 1177 rows vs 2 seconds the select * is in the correct range. I have ADSL2 via Exetel. The insert calls were inside a DataReader loop and I had prepared the DataCommand parameters outside of the loop, setting the values inside the loop. I’m sure

Re: [OT] System Idle Process Running at 98% and I cant use my PC

2010-11-23 Thread Mark Hurd
On 23 November 2010 19:57, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On 23 November 2010 19:20, Mark Hurd markeh...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting. I thought my computer's blank moments (normally during late startup i.e. during userinit) were 16-bit hardware drivers not allowing co-processing.

RE: Tertiary education

2010-11-23 Thread Clint Colefax
Hi Dylan, It Masters offers .net tertiary course, but they are by correspondence only I think. www.itmasters.com.au Thanks From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Dylan Tusler Sent: Wednesday, 24 November 2010 1:48 PM To: 'ozDotNet'

RE: Tertiary education

2010-11-23 Thread Maddin, Peter
I did the Masters in Systems Development (Charles Sturt Uni), as an external student (Distance Education). Half the courseware is Microsoft based and the other half are Uni units (12 units in all). The Microsoft units are the standard Microsoft training courses. Those that come with standard

RE: Tertiary education

2010-11-23 Thread Dylan Tusler
Looks interesting, but it seems to have a bent towards postgrad study. Our staffer is undergrad, and I just had a look at CSU's undergrad offerings and they are all Java or C++. I doubt he has sufficient work experience to qualify for a masters, but I will take a closer look. Dylan.

RE: Tertiary education

2010-11-23 Thread Clint Colefax
http://www.itmasters.edu.au/WhichQualification/GraduateCertificates/Grad CertinSystemsDevelopment/MicrosoftNet35.aspx From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Dylan Tusler Sent: Wednesday, 24 November 2010 2:50 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: