SilvrT
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yes, DITTO that! Brian is one "stand-up" guy!
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I recall a time, several years ago, when Saskatchewan govn't was offering land for something like a dollar...just to get people to move there. In 1990 or maybe it was 1989... whatevah LOL ... my nephew lived in Calgary, Alberta as so did I. He had a 1/2 duplex ... nothing fancy..not very big, 3 bedrooms...a bit of a front and back yard. He and his wife and kids moved to Saskatoon..they sold the duplex in Calgary for $84,000 ... and bought a really nice 4 bedroom split level single family home with a basement, double car garage, big lot, in-ground sprinkler system....for $70,000 ! Sheesh! He said.."c'mon Uncle Rick... move out here" ... but yanno, Calgary was as close to the prairies as I EVER want to get and I didn't like it there either. My hat's off to those who choose to live in such places .... I couldn't do it.
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good plan Brian... I bet it kinda sucks towin a bike all over the place....
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Fortunately it hasn't hit us...yet... but the company my wife works for (a job placement co) is certainly suffering ... they shut down two branches today and I found out the other day that a couple of the contracts that my workplace has will not be renewed this year. Still have enuf tho to keep me going for a few more years tho.
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No plans for this year other than Kruisin in the Kootenays. Money's tight this year as I'm starting to collect my Canada Pension in June and to qualify, I have to quit working for one month (and have no income) so that will consume any savings. Once the pension starts coming in, it goes towards paying for the new scoot. Until then, I've been supporting the payments out of savings. Ask this question again next year and I'll have something better
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say what???
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I always listen to my wife ... every word she says goes into my one ear .............. and out t'other ..
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DITTO that... except Ruth isn't my wife!
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Found this..... maybe it will be heplful http://www.appdev.com/promo/freetitle.asp?PC=SE00023&T=d%5FSQL&gclid=CM3Rm5aIhZkCFRBbagodwGo8lg
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well, I stand corrected... DataPerfect was relational according to the following... http://dataperfect2005.blogspot.com/
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cool!!! yep... DataPerfect / Enable / Q&A ... all very similar (and there were a couple others which I can't recall the names to) ... unfortunately (if I recall correctly) they were all "flat-file" based. Not sure about the others but one thing I liked about Q&A was it's "artifical intelligence". You could teach it your own language and ask "real world" questions of your data such as "print me a report showing all the clients from Houston who have purchased more than a thousand dollars worth of goods a year ago February" Not to say that flat-files aren't good but in most cases, relational is more suited.
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Well, it depends on what one refers to as "more than small"... I've done hundreds of Access database systems and a few of them working with millions of records. What it is notorious for is it's slowness of complex queries on large datasets. As for networking... heck, no problem there and you can define various record locking settings and you can programmatically define transaction based updates which is crucial in networked processing. Furthermore, you can use any number of backends including MySQL so who really cares about the size of the data at that point. I love Access for it's ease of developing front ends and reporting. It has an extremely large following. I started developing in Access/VBA & VB when version 2 came out somewhere around 1992/3. At this stage in my work tho, I am no longer self-employed but work for one company only so I tend to stick with MS Access 2003 / MySQL and have no plans (or reason) to go beyond that in the foreseeable future.
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ahhhh yes... good 'ole "Data Perfect" ... a rare breed for sure. Maybe good for some but I found it to be "out of mainstream" and not robust enuf. heh ... Novell did the same thing to it as Computer Associates did to Clipper ... well, at least they "tried" to "Windowize" it but they failed miserably and it eventually went by the wayside. I was very disappointed because Clipper was "THE COMPILER" for database development at the time, was extremely fast, had a lot of support and moreover, I had tons of utilities and tools for it. It was after that when I moved to Visual Basic and MS Access. I did test out Borland's Delphi and really liked it but my clients were forcing me to go with Access. hey... good luck!
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heh... here's a bit of a breakdown for ya... SQL ... Structured Query Language (a common, cross-platform language used to ask questions of data ... very "english language-like") For example, let's say you wanted a list of all the people you have in your address book from a specific area such as "Dallas" You'd create a statement like "select Name, Address from MyAddressBook where City='Dallas'". DOS ... an acronym for Disk Operating System or better known as "Duhhhh Operating System" (to use as a back end) ... "back end" means the file or files where the data is stored ... can also be your A$$ .... LOL UI ... User Interface ... this is the part the user works with and is also known as the Front End. field calculations .... this is what you do when you've got your calculator out and figuring how much a certain item will cost while standing in a field. .... Scripts and Queries ... saved SQL statements. a book ... something you read... has several pages, a front end and a back end .... hope all the above helps...
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Chuck... I would be interested to know what development environment you used in "DOS" because, DOS is nothing more than an operating system. I've done tons of development before Windows (in DOS) but I used a variety of "applications" to do it... Basic, Turbo Basic, Turbo Pascal, dBase, FoxPro, Clipper, Q&A (to name a few).
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You "could" use a stored proceedure but generally "field" calculations are done at the form or report level. A "rule of thumb" is, if you can calculate the result, then you generally don't need to store it -unless- the result is based on changing variables over time such as tax rates ... then you would store the variables and calculate the result. Saves overloading the data store. I use MS Access or Visual Basic as a front end and MySQL as the back end. Don't really care for Microsft SQL Express or the full-blown version. Furthermore, MySQL is free.
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roadking mufflers on my venture
SilvrT replied to krotchrocketgrampa's topic in Royal Star Venture Tech Talk ('99 - '13)
yvw .... I like 'em too! -
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RK Muffler Mod Chrome Clamp
SilvrT replied to birin's topic in Royal Star Venture Tech Talk ('99 - '13)
It's the one you listed.... and yes, they seem to work just fine. Others on here have used them too. V twin mfg and are part # 31-9920 -
I think Sailor was being "snarky" .... but the truth is, our justice system sucks when it comes to doleing out punishment for just about anything. That person should have had her driver's license taken away for at least 5 years and been forced to pay a fine many times more than what she got IMHO.
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Sorry to hear you "have to" sell your scoot. Man, what a deal! ... makes me wish I hadn't just bought my '06 Good luck! ... oh, and congrats on the new child!
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RK Muffler Mod Chrome Clamp
SilvrT replied to birin's topic in Royal Star Venture Tech Talk ('99 - '13)
I got mine from Canadian Chopper in Richmond ... cost about $37 Canadian "Chopper" Dist Ltd - 604-278-6147 150-5751 Cedarbridge Way , Richmond , BC V6X 2A8 Category : Motorcycles & Motor Scooters, Motorcycles & Motor Scooters-Supplies & Parts -
awrite!!!!... are you inferrin that I'm a WUUS????
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ever notice how much better your scoot or your cage "seems" to run after it's had a good cleaning?...
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removed cassette, added gauges......done
SilvrT replied to jlh3rd's topic in Computer, Lights, Horns, Other Electrical
DITTO .... when???