report that the Linux Desktop is not dead on their desktop!!!!

I am one of those few as well :).

While we're making silly requests, please email me a big bucket of money along with your requirements.

Personally, I find that Qt (C++ api from Nokia) has a nice sql api which will were with several database engines. Maybe not as mind numbingly simple as VB, but very versatile and easy to use.

It is just the nature of Tablets to kill NetBooks. Typically it is done through choking but there have been a few cases of stabbings and drownings as well.

Let me guess, you can do that by writing your code in java or C#

I found that some of my best fun is to write software to test my software. Fortunately, I have written server code for a long time so I either get to write clients to exercise it or hardware device simulators to emulate devices the server talks to.

Loads of fun! Quite often, more fun than the SW I'm supposed to be writing.

to not inhale his supper!

The content and descriptions were certainly not worth the 21 pages of ads I had to step through.

Database design for Mere Mortals

http://www.amazon.com/Database-Design-Mere-Mortals-Hands/dp/0201752840/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278637201&sr=8-1

and

Sql Queries for Mere Mortals

http://www.amazon.com/SQL-Queries-Mere-Mortals-Hands/dp/0321444434/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b

Bothe are really good books! They take you from start to finish on SQL databases and good design principles

-joe

scroodled?

Your comment sounds like the democrats and republicans fighting over every stinkin' piece of legislation that has gone through congress over the last 12 years. Two sides each standing as far to the extreme as possible making stupid if not totally wrong and invalid arguments on how they are right and the other side is wrong.

Sadly, I don't see it stopping anytime soon.

about us being enslaved by the government. I'm sure they had no qualms about us being enslaved by our corporate leaders.

Now bow down and submit to our corporate benefactors and overlords.

Even using my two fingers and the occasional thumb, I can type way faster than I can talk. And before you say I am oraly challenged, my wife will be more than happy to tell you I eat way faster than I type.

I'm so sick of hearing it!

I find that for many things the command line is a real pain to use. Things such as web browsing email, accounting and similar things.

Then again, I find that the gui sucks just as bad for doing bulk text searches, builds, finding files and acting on them in bulk.

Why can't folks figure out that a hammer is good for smacking things and a shovel is good for digging. Granted you can smak things with a shovel and you can dig with a shovel, but you will work much more effectively if you use the right tool for the job at hand!