Re: How many names and addresses can you have for ID card
- From: Alex Heney <me8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 14:46:03 +0100
On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 10:03:47 GMT, Dan Holdsworth
<dan1701usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 09:23:43 +0100, MM
<kylix_is@xxxxxxxxxxx>
was popularly supposed to have said:
On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 21:07:03 GMT, Dan Holdsworth
<dan1701usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The other downside is that Oracle is written for serious experts in
mind. Think command line only (except when you're installing, where it
insists on having a display so it can play adverts at you) and cryptic
commands, plus very cryptic textbooks on the topic. If you're serious
about Oracle, go on a course about it and be prepared to practice a lot
at home on a test machine to make sure you know the syntax correctly.
No, you've frightened me away! I was only interested in perhaps seeing
how it did things compared to the Microsoft products that have worked
for me over many years. But, command lines? Crikey! We are not talking
Linux here, are we?
No, it gets worse. Solaris and a default of ksh for operating
environment, when you're not using sh. For some reason they don't use
bash all that often, which is unsettling to we Linux users.
This is NOTHING to do with Oracle though.
The Oracle database will run quite happily on most versions of Windows
(95 onwards), or most varieties of Linux, or HP/UK, or Solaris, or DEC
Alpha, or indeed most other moderately popular operating systems.
And most Oracle administration can be done using GUI tools. Only the
geeks need to delve into command lines, or those running Oracle on
systems that don't *have* a GUI.
On balance, I prefer MySQL for small to middling systems, although
having heard a so-called expert wittering away about the new MySQL big
clustering "solution", I would definitely go running to the Oracle rep
when a really big job came along.
Oh, we are! Don't get me wrong. I love the concept of open source
(though remain perplexed as to how a *small* one-man-band outfit is
supposed to make any money if it basically gives away its products for
free), but Linux is still not what I would call "user friendly". It is
still an OS for geeks, isn't it?
You'd be surprised with the modern distributions, I think. Most now ship
and install in a safe manner, and have a lot of graphical tools to make
things easier when you're installing. Things like Debian also tend to
fail safe and make installing and de-installing software a very great
deal easier and safer than it is on Windows.
Agreed.
The biggest problem I find is dependencies. It seems to be rare to
install anything major without also having to go off and find and
install several things that it depends on.
But as you say, in most varieties of Linux, this can al be done quite
easily, using GUI tools.
--
Alex Heney, Global Villager
I've got Parkinson's disease. And he's got mine.
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