[AccessD] BartPE

ROTFL.

Please expound on 13 (yes I do mean 13). 


John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com 
-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bruce Bruen
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 8:13 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] BartPE

On Thursday 06 December 2007 12:23, Arthur Fuller wrote:
> So does that mean that given my experiment, I could entirely fill an 
> R/W DVD then erase it all and fill it with something else, just like a 
> hard disk or (remember when) floppy? If so, then I'd better invest in 
> a dozen or so R/Ws, and fast!
>
> Arthur
>
> On 12/5/07, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:
> > It is a different chemistry at the write layer.

Basically, yes they are rewriteable.

..but...

the more often they are used the more they degrade, usually this is seen as
a decrease in the "available space" on the disk (cough).  The technology
used on rewriteables is now about 8+ years old and is not improving.  Why?  

Because the "new" solid memory chip technology:
1) offers approx 20x capacity per production buck.
2) does not (sorry JC) suffer from age degredation as much as hdd and CD/DVD
technology  ( in short, its currently better to start moving your kids
pictures onto Ipod tech because it will last longer than CD - and by that I
mean that the CD dyes are starting to degrade now. (!) ) So much for
promises!
3) when the hdd manufacturers have finished dumping their capital investment
on the market and move to the solid state manufacturing line they are now
building under licence from Intel, then (hohoho) you will start to see some
"amazing" advertising from them (the current hdd manufacturers) about the
BRAND NEW TEKNOKOLOGY THAT YOU (repeat) YOU, MUST HAVE (BUY) BECAUSE ....

...
...
  given the current capital investment in hdd manufacturing process, I'd say
about 3 years, but I may be wrong... :-)


It's always a good idea to keep a sly eye on the Intel research and devel 
website.  Usually, they tend to be 2-3 years ahead of the market and, for 
some strange reason they usually co-incide with a "moore doom" prediction 
from one Mr Moore ... hmmmm?


....

meanwhile

....


erstwhile

...

Yes, Vista sucks.
Yes, Office 2007 sucks


Having now run an entire dev site entirely M$ free for coming up to 3 years:
1) No, Virginia there is no Linux based Access97-de-Claus, but ...
2) PostgreSQL is the best kept secret on the planet
3) Yes, MySQL sucks
4) Yes, MS-SQL aint all its cracked (sic) up to be
5) Yes, motherboard embedded RAID is about as good an idea as Intel onboard 
sound chips.
6) Linux is ... H A R D .. to learn. Or perhaps that's "Windows is hard to 
unlearn"?
7) .NET is a huge executable overhead.  No, no, .NET is an unsurmountable 
execution time overhead..... mono ... not yet awhile, abigwhile
8) ASP, hahahahahahaha, IE2 hohohohohoho
9) PHP is about as secure as Windows
10) DAO actually worked, ADO doesn't
11) Yes, you can run ODBC within Linux, ... but you do need to find the 
drivers.. 
12) Yes, JC, There is a linux distro that "just works"  check out PCLinuxOS
13) and I do mean 13) Software firewalls are about as much use as a
chocolate 
teapot.


on the 14th day of Christmas my true love sent to me

... an end to oligolopies ....


ymmv

best wishes for a great yule and a safe season of festivities.

regards
bruce
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