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I burst out laughing the other day when an IT professional didn't know how to solve Schrodinger's wave equation for a finite square well potential. Actually, I didn't, but I think you get my point. 
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I used to work at a software publishing firm (Micro Lab) where we sold a flat file database program called "Data Factory". The owner was hoping the the Amper routines (if you are an Olde Tyme Apple II programmer you'll know what that is) I was writing to access the DOS that bypassed the slow command interpreter would speed up the database program to "DMA the data" between the floppy disk and memory.
One notable bit of miss-communication was that underneath the built-in Basic language (depending on the generation, either Integer or Floating Point) was the Assembly Monitor program. When you (for another misuse of a term) GPF'd, the Monitor would give you a hex display of the CPU registers. All the programmers referred to it as "Crashing into the Monitor." It took us a while to realize we were confusing all the non-technical people when we said that. They thought somehow the code was crashing into the glass on the CRT screens.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
modified 21-Mar-14 9:42am.
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Technically any kind of file IS a database because a database is something that stores information that can be retrieved later. Though, I don't think most people would consider a movie to be a database even though in the broad sense, it is one.
We in the industry tend to think of databases as something tied to a program that organizes data in a well defined manner. So WORD or NOTEPAD don't create what we call databases. We think of SQL Server or Access to be code that produces databases. Some don't think the JET engine produces a database even though you can use the same data organization methods and query structure to retrieve the data from it.
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I guess that I am showing my age...
For years I had trouble convincing my wife that she did not need to have the TV on the same channel while recording a show on the VCR (that's right, I said VCR  ). Seems that she did not understand that the TV had its own tuner and that the VCR had its own separate tuner.
Fletcher Glenn
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Can you download the internet to my memory (flash drive)?
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Also "Computer" when they mean "Monitor".
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I know one who refers to Microsoft Office as an Operating System
<sig notetoself="think of a better signature">
<first>Jim</first> <last>Meadors</last>
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One I get all the time which I'm surprised I haven't read yet:
desktop background == screen saver
"Nice screen saver!" they'll say, about a desktop background photo...usually I thank them and follow that by asking "Hey what do they call that animation that appears when your computer is left idle..?" and they fall silent.
Prior graphics designer used to quip "let's go digital" when intending to move our newsletter from PDF to HTML format...
My mom greatly amuses me with the use of "voice" for computer audio...."my computer has no voice!" she'll say, when the speakers aren't working. However if computers evolve to the point where they naturally converse with users then this will start making a lot of sense.
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dannomanno wrote: they fall silent
One I forgot is the confusion people have between Windows and Office. 'What version of Office are you using?'...'Seven'. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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[I'd meant to post this on the Lounge but accidentally posted it in Insider News...apologies for the confusion.]
I was just reading this[^] and was wondering, are SSD's better or worse for protecting against a CME? What about the electronics themselves?
Any ideas from the experts here on CP?
And yes, I have an ample supply of tin foil. 
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: And yes, I have an ample supply of tin foil.
I wondered where my hat had gone!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Chris is more a physicist than I, but I can tell you that this sort of event will fry semiconductor junctions and the induced currents will likely melt the minuscule conductors used to connect electronic circuits to the outside world. So no, the short answer would be; a SSD is not inherently safer from this sort of event than a conventional hard drive. But it wouldn't hurt to cover it with a tiny tinfoil hat, just in case...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Thanks for the link, without that, I wouldn't have found what a CME was. Basically if it had hit us, I think we would have been hit with an EMP (Electro-magnetic pulse) I would expect that, with going through buildings to reach the computers, it would have created some slight glitches, but even though possible, I don't think it would fry our computers or erase our regular drives let alone the SSD's. Of course I could be wrong, EMPs have been known to disable engines that were running when they were hit.
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Never realised how easy this was to do.
I set up a company, install a couple of systems, install a couple more.
All on weekends.
Someone recommends me, so I now have three more systems to install.
Got a great supplier and a a fitter at a good rate.
Then get it remotely set up and running by the tech guys at the supplier.
I only have to be there to do the final connections, set up the t'interweb link and test it.
(Oh, and to pick up the cheque!)
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dave is watching you......
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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It's pretty simple, isn't it?
I was surprised how easy when I installed that setup in your office...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Bet you have never seen me work though!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Nope. At your desk a lot, but...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Hmm... I would think the market in the U.K. would be reaching its saturation point by now.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Do not need a license for that kind of things? Here you have to pay to the government for such a license - and it costs a lot... 
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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I think a license is required if the camera view includes any public property.
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No, court cases resulted in "No expectation of privacy in a public place" and so anyone can stick them up.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: Never realised how easy this was to do.
Sure, until you run into problems. 
After 12 years in that business (as a developer) I have heard quite a few stories from installers, Tech Support and the RMA department. Not to mention all the feature requests coming in from the users.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I have good tech support.
Good system though, IP cameras viewable via PC or phone.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Just be prepared for the unexpected. Somewhere around 2003-2005, we got clobbered when a large number of hard drives started failing in the DVR units we were shipping. It was a bad batch of drives from the manufacturer, but the RMA costs fell on us.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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