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RE: New Users Introduce Yourself - Ofnuts - Dec-14-2016
(Dec-14-2016, 02:28 AM)ejronin Wrote: step away from proprietary and expensive software and just extract our data into Access / Excel
*** Falls off chair ***
Welcome to the forum, nevertheless...
RE: New Users Introduce Yourself - Skaperen - Dec-30-2016
there will be a point, soon, where you can be productive, but learning is eternal.
RE: New Users Introduce Yourself - Farrout - Jan-01-2017
New guy here, obviously.
Built (with components) my first PC in 1980. Cromemco with Z80, 16K RAM,
two floppy drives. Became pretty proficient in basic.
Python was recommended to me by an IT pro because I said I was going to
take some classes at the local Jr. college to learn Java.
I want to data mine some extremely large (50 gig) data sets and hope this
will be easier to learn. It kind of reminds me of basic.
Anyway, reading lots of tutorials, trying things.
I've gotten to the point that I can write a module, and import it, and it runs, once.
Still trying to find out what to do to make it run again without closing python, then starting over.
I'll try not to be a pest.
Thanks
Dennis
RE: New Users Introduce Yourself - Skaperen - Jan-02-2017
(Jan-01-2017, 05:52 PM)Farrou Wrote: I want to data mine some extremely large (50 gig) data sets and hope thisfind the largest hard drive of the day.
will be easier to learn. It kind of reminds me of basic.
find the largest multi-drive RAID controller (SAN/SCSI/SATA) of the day.
multiply. now refer to that size when saying "extremely large" on that day.
in 2016 that was at least 192TB.
in 1994 i saw a 4TB DB spinning in one rack.
i can't even remember when 50GB was "extremely large".
i was a co-sysadmin of a mainframe with 220GB back in 1980.
imagine needing over a Petabyte for your next DB project.
there are probably a few DB admins that would laugh that off.
imagine what Facebook is adding on this year.
ignore that blank line that was somehow added to my post
RE: New Users Introduce Yourself - Farrout - Jan-02-2017
Please forgive my ignorance. It was not my intention to upset you.
It's good to know the tone of this board.
I'll be more careful in the future with my picayune issues.
RE: New Users Introduce Yourself - sparkz_alot - Jan-02-2017
(Jan-02-2017, 12:40 PM)Farrout Wrote: Please forgive my ignorance. It was not my intention to upset you.
It's good to know the tone of this board.
I'll be more careful in the future with my picayune issues.
lol, can't believe at my age I had to look up "picayune". Anyway, I don't think it's the policy or desire to chastise anyone for their views.
As to the previous comment, there is a difference between what is available and what is needed. When I first started with computers, hard drive space and memory were expensive commodities and programmers took pains to keep programs small while still producing a product. Even comments were deleted because they took up space. I can't tell you how many times in today's environment that I've asked, on both Windows and Linux forums, "How do I get rid of unneeded or orphan files?" only to be told "Don't worry about it, you have plenty of space on your HD, just leave them." Or when I install an upgrade or new OS, go in and delete all the bloatware that comes with it.
Well, that's my rant for 2017
RE: New Users Introduce Yourself - wavic - Jan-02-2017
Well, I remember three years ago I bought a 16 gig usb flash drive to make a linux resque usb and I thought I have plenty of space to do it and I did it. But after that I put in it more linux systems and became multi purpose usb. Then I wanted to add a Windows install image, a few more linux systems but there was no more space. Now I have 128 gig micro cd in my pocket and there was a 256 gig one at the store and it was cheap. I am wondering what is next.
RE: New Users Introduce Yourself - Larz60+ - Jan-02-2017
I bought a dual 8" floppy drive (capacity 90K each drive) back in mid 70's for more than $1000 US)
You can see it here (it's the box in the middle):
https://archive.org/stream/kilobaudmagazine-1978-02/Kilobaud_1978_February#page/n37/mode/2up
Page 38 (Best (worst) part, Picture of me when I was 30 years old)
RE: New Users Introduce Yourself - Ofnuts - Jan-03-2017
(Jan-02-2017, 04:04 AM)Skaperen Wrote:(Jan-01-2017, 05:52 PM)Farrou Wrote: I want to data mine some extremely large (50 gig) data sets and hope thisfind the largest hard drive of the day.
will be easier to learn. It kind of reminds me of basic.
find the largest multi-drive RAID controller (SAN/SCSI/SATA) of the day.
multiply. now refer to that size when saying "extremely large" on that day.
in 2016 that was at least 192TB.
in 1994 i saw a 4TB DB spinning in one rack.
i can't even remember when 50GB was "extremely large".
i was a co-sysadmin of a mainframe with 220GB back in 1980.
imagine needing over a Petabyte for your next DB project.
there are probably a few DB admins that would laugh that off.
imagine what Facebook is adding on this year.
ignore that blank line that was somehow added to my post
Disks and files aren't the same thing. In my previous project (digital videos for a TV group) they acquired 3 peta-bytes per year, but the videos themselves where "manageable" at 60GB, even if when you routinely handle files that big, you start having lots of interesting problems
RE: New Users Introduce Yourself - Syntex - Jan-24-2017
Hi, I'd like to give a short intro as am still getting things sorted. I am from south africa. I greup learning bits and pieces of different programming languages though never enough to fully develop something by myself, recently I've gotten inroduced to open source and it stuck to me so I decided why not stick to one language and work on that (which brings me here). I hope we can come to communicate with one another as I am hoping to be taken as a low level beginner.