Re: [Scottish] hard drives

2003-01-28 Thread Cameron Logie
Neil, Touch wood, I've never had any trouble with the 12 Maxtors that I've either bought for myself or specified for my customers. Just don't buy a Fujitsu for god sake ! :) You never know how many other skeletons may lurk in that closet. Regards, Cammy. Neil Sinclair said: > Hi - > > I'm just

RE: [Scottish] hard drives

2003-01-28 Thread Chris Dickson
I've been using the 80Gb Western Digital drive you mentioned for at least 8 months, if not more and have had no problems with it. In my experience WD Cavair are reliable drives that do what they say on the tin basically. Cheers, Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EM

[Scottish] hard drives

2003-01-28 Thread Neil Sinclair
Hi - I'm just about to buy a new hard drive, and I've been hearing horrible stories about Maxtor (cheap but icky) and IBM (just flaky for 2 drive models, other more recent models seem ok). I'm tempted by Western Digital (WD800JB - 80Gb, 8Mb buffer, 7200rpm) who I've alway found reliable, and b

Re: [Scottish] OT : web design

2003-01-28 Thread Colin Fraser
Before spending any money I'd recommend a look at http://htmlgoodies.earthweb.com/ Tutorials on there cover HTML, style sheets, javscript, etc. with downloadable examples. Colin (Fraser) Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Scottish] OT

RE: [Scottish] sql

2003-01-28 Thread Gary Campbell
Try this -- SELECT COUNT(name) FROM table WHERE name = "name"; Gary > On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 15:16:27 + Tam McLaughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote : > > > i am trying something in mysql but can't remember any sql. > > Say i have a field called name in table 1 and i want to se

RE: [Scottish] sql

2003-01-28 Thread Colin . Speirs
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Re: [Scottish] MoBo

2003-01-28 Thread willie fleming
On Tuesday 28 Jan 2003 14:40, Mark Robinson rearranged the photons emitted from my display, giving the following impression: > Hello S.L.U.G, > > Has anyone seen/used an ARock G-Pro motherboard with Linux? Is there > anywhere I can look up info on Linux compatible MoBo's? The SuSE support databas

Re: [Scottish] sql

2003-01-28 Thread Colin McKinnon
Tam McLaughlin wrote: i am trying something in mysql but can't remember any sql. Say i have a field called name in table 1 and i want to select the name and the number of times that name appears in the table, how would i do it? If u can tell me, i can find the equiv syntax in mysql thanks. Ign

RE: [Scottish] sql

2003-01-28 Thread Huard, Elise - D C&W Consultant
select , count(*) from group by ; -- From: Tam McLaughlin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 28 January 2003 15:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Scottish] sql i am trying something in mysql but can't remember any sql. Say i have

Re: [Scottish] sql

2003-01-28 Thread Tam McLaughlin
appologies (and feeling really silly right now) this trivial question was not meant for this group. I was just looking for a quick and lazy answer from a work mate whos an informix 4gl answer so I could quickly test something. On Tuesday 28 January 2003 3:16 pm, Tam McLaughlin wrote: > i am tryi

Re: [Scottish] sql

2003-01-28 Thread Kenny Duffus
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 15:16:27 + Tam McLaughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > i am trying something in mysql but can't remember any sql. > Say i have a field called name in table 1 and i want to select the > name and the number of times that name appears in the table, > how would i do it? > If u

[Scottish] sql

2003-01-28 Thread Tam McLaughlin
i am trying something in mysql but can't remember any sql. Say i have a field called name in table 1 and i want to select the name and the number of times that name appears in the table, how would i do it? If u can tell me, i can find the equiv syntax in mysql thanks. -- --

[Scottish] MoBo

2003-01-28 Thread Mark Robinson
Hello S.L.U.G, Has anyone seen/used an ARock G-Pro motherboard with Linux? Is there anywhere I can look up info on Linux compatible MoBo's? Mark ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] OT : web design

2003-01-28 Thread ray
Jakob Nielsens articles/rantings on useability are generally usefull. http://useit.com/ Jakob Nielsen's Website There's a lot of good reading at: http://www.w3.org/The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) e.g. Guidelines for authoring on http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ -- ray

RE: [Scottish] OT : web design

2003-01-28 Thread Huard, Elise - D C&W Consultant
Thank you Ben and Daniel ... i'll transmit the information. -- From: Daniel J. Owens [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 27 January 2003 17:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Scottish] OT : web design Try webmonkey. http://hotwir