anyone...

Do IBM have anything like that? ;o)

 

Lotus approach

 

Nah, you won't need anything like that big. Earl's Court perhaps?

 

err, you're not actually storing terabytes of porn /in a database/ are
you? I mean, I know you /could/, but, well...

 

Indeed...

 

Oh no, just the meta-porn, and usage stats, so probably only gigabytes of
that. It's getting the indexing of all of that content right that's the
tricky bit - I want to run some sort of Bayes classifier thing against it to
do recommendations at some point, and that's going to have to run like shit
off a shovel to be effective.

 

I'm facing the same problem. I'm looking to do the Solaris network and
security courses and Sun want to teach me how to type 'ls' first. And
Cisco want my CCNA cert before they'll let me go for firewall specialist
stuff.

 

Aha, I remember the Oracle 8i launch. Store all your images and documents as
indexed blobs in the database. Let the database become the whole system. The
database will take over the world. Look our share price proves it.

 

"Other people that enjoyed watching soapy frog girls also liked..."

 

Many many moons ago I briefly worked on an OS like that. Pick I think it
was called. Odd little bugger it was.

 

I had assumed from your original post that you were arriving at
Monument/Bank on the Circle Line in which case Cannon Street is one stop
before or after depending which direction you are travelling. Or did you
mean 'Central' but typed 'Circle'?

If so when you come out of the Central Line follow the ramp down to the
Waterloo and City line you find the exit you require just before the
Travellator. Although I'm sure BCB will have emailed you the floorplans by
now.

 

Aye but we will all have moved on into the Open Source space by then....

 

Err no because I could not work out where darsy was travelling from. If
he is travelling on from Liv St then finding King William St at Bank is
easy. I'd almost be tempted to get a bus - 11 or 23 to Bank or else just
walk. Much more predictable that squeezing onto the Central Line at Liv
St to go one stop.

If darsy is travelling from elsewhere on the Circle Line then you can
simply exit at Monument and walk on the surface along King William St -
it's only 5 mins walk along the whole length anyway. If he was in the
vicinity of Cannon St then I would simply cut through the streets on the
surface as you will spend more time walking from the street to the
platform and then waiting, travelling and then surfacing at Monument. So
many of the stations in the City are so close together that it is not
worth waiting for something like the Circle Line which only runs every 8
minutes at best.

 

Yes - but it's not stored in the RDBMS - it just stores info about it -
which is what we were saying.

I find the idea quite novel actually - "No we won't tell you where your data
ACTUALLY is, but here are a load of pointers to it"

 

It's how the content management system I wrote works as well

 

Does it really matter where the data is, as long as you can find it?

 

thought you might.

Bayesian stats rock.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, darsy

Heh. 99.9999999999999% of the world trying to use Bayesian filtering to
weed out porn, and Simon...

 

Ben Blaney wrote

This is true.

Couple of years ago now but back when I did it we prided ourselves on
being the best goddam training centre in the whole organisation. But
like I said, I don't work for them any more.

 

darsy wrote

The shitest coffee you have ever drunk and the coffee is the best thing
on offer.

The best grub is the Britannia just opposite the back door.

and the instructor password is...... easy to work out.