RFC: ClassicCmp Demographics/Geographics

From: Julius Sridhar <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Sun Feb 10 17:54:52 2002

On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Pat Finnegan wrote:

> > Along the lines of last week's "specialty" thread, I'm kind of curious
> > where the various members (including and especially lurkers) live.
> > Maybe more to the point, where our various machines and parts dumps
> > reside....
>
> Yeah, that sounds like a good/useful idea. I'd be willing to do some work
> on setting this up. I could even host the database... right now, using
> a server on Purdue's campus.
>
> > I've managed so far never to touch a database, but this strikes me as
> > an interesting-enough and simple-enough first project. I'm interested
> > in listing and correlating several things:
>
> The last time I've really played with a database was back in Windows 3.1
> days with Microsoft Access. However, I know people that know what they're
> doing and could assist me ;). [I'd propose a system set up on a Linux
> server, not Windows of course.]

Get a good DB2 book, and I'll let you host it distributed on some of my
mainframes and RS/6000's.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Sun Feb 10 2002 - 17:54:52 GMT