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Submission + - Are stored procedures bad?

Submitted by on Monday April 02, 2007 @08:50AM

An anonymous reader writes: I use stored procedures all the time; if not for anything else, but just for the isolation it provides between the business logic and data management. And that's was school taught me! But I was just going through Frans Bouma's article and it shattered all my beliefs. If not all, atleast a few of Frans's points are undeniable. It's an old article and I believe it dates back to 2003 so I'm sure someone would have figured what is best.

Submission + - OMG Ponies

Submitted by jibjibjib on Saturday March 31, 2007 @10:53PM

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Submission + - Are Smokers Dead Weight at the Office?

Submitted by

theodp

on Saturday March 31, 2007 @10:34AM

theodp writes: "The latest salvo in the war against smoking has been fired, with two studies suggesting that daily smokers have lower working performance and take more sick days than their non-smoking colleagues. However, Navy researchers said it could be that cigarette smoking is simply a 'marker' for non-conformity and high risk-taking, which contribute to poorer performance in the military."

Submission + - Wii as a standard user interface

Submitted by

Paul Bourke

on Saturday March 31, 2007 @09:29AM

Paul Bourke writes: "Scoop ... perhaps not a "scoop" but here are the results of some hopefully interesting experiments using the Wii as an interface device in a virtual environment. Not a total success perhaps but possibilities remain given a help along with a predictivetracking algorithm.
http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/tmp/Wii/"

Submission + - Windows Vista restricts GNU GCC apps to 32 MB

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30, 2007 @08:06PM

An anonymous reader writes: Thomas R. Nicely reports that images compiled with GCC or DJGPP on Vista without employing the Win32 API cannot allocate more than 32MB of memory. The same problem does not appear on Windows 98 or Windows XP.

No mention was made or guess offered as to what would motivate Microsoft to make this restriction.

Will this affect applications that you distribute?

Submission + - Debian win32-loader adds win9x and Vista support

Submitted by Robert Millan on Friday March 30, 2007 @07:57PM

Robert Millan writes: The win32 loader for installing Debian that was mentioned here earlier now targets for a broader spectrum of "victims". Over the last few days, support for Windows 95/98/ME was added. Now, this tool can easily replace Windows Vista as well. Seems like every member of the big "win32 family" can now be replaced with Debian in a matter of minutes. Only ReactOS missing. Anyone send the patch? :-)

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