Re: [HACKERS] Who is everyone? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers
From | D. Dante Lorenso |
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Subject | Re: [HACKERS] Who is everyone? |
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Msg-id | 01bd3e3a$b45f1f40$3a151ecf@redhat.afai.com Whole thread Raw |
List | pgsql-hackers |
I'm just listening in on the list, but I'm hoping I can dive in and help once I'm up-to-speed on the education part. I'm using MySQL to develop my Visual Basic 5 programming skills, but once PostgreSQL catches up on ODBC, I'll be moving to PG. I am a 21-yr-old native Floridian (here in the US) and have been married for over a year. I will graduate this semester with a degree in CIS from the University of Florida. Going along with the whole pet theme, I have two cats (well kittens actually), named Spartacus and Cervantes. In college, my senior project was to design a mini-DBMS using the PERL language, but set it up such that it could be installed and run from a normal user's account of 4Mb quota. I used DBM files to store each record, with the 'KEY' acting as the Primary Key for the tables. This worked rather well, and I was able to then add a small subset of SQL to select, insert, delete, and update tables. Of course, no security, datatypes, transactions, or anything that makes a database functional existed, but the whole program (DBMS) fit in just 60k and a 10 tables of 10,000 tuples manages to stay under 1 Mb altogether..., so I accomplished my goal ;) For the past two years, I have worked for Accounting Firms Associated, inc., where I am the Network Admin. I run a couple redhat 5 linux servers (connected to the internet through ISDN), two NT servers, one Novell server, and about 35+ workstations. I prefer Linux of the three servers and have spent several years working with it since the 1.0 kernels and slackware (remember when you had to make all those disk sets...YUK!) At home, I have three machines, one Redhat 5 server, and two Win95 workstations. My home server dial-up to the internet and connects my home PCs with IP masquerading (so my wife and I can share a phone line), and I'm using Samba to allow the Redhat 5 server to authenticate logins and store user profiles. I'm running MySQL and PostgreSQl 6.2.1 until I finish designing my current project. My immediate goal is to integrate all of this firms information pools into large databases which can be accessed via internal and external methods. My ideal solution is to have Win95 on all desktops (for Office and stuff) with VB5 applications interfacing with the DB. Then, on the linux machines I'll have PERL and DBI/DBD interfaces generating pages for Apache to serve up. With that, costs stay low, and I learn a whole lot about tons of systems and languages and protocols etc... Dante PS - Who needs graduate school? It'll only interfere with my education! .------------------------------------------.-----------------------. | _ dlorenso@afai.com - D. Dante Lorenso | Network Administrator | | | | ___ _ _ ___ __ _ ___ ___ | | | | |__ / o \| '_|/ o_\| \ |\_ _\/ o \ | Accounting Firms | | |____|\___/|_| \___/|_|\_|\___|\___/ | Associated, inc. | | http://www.afai.com/~dlorenso | http://www.afai.com/ | '------------------------------------------'-----------------------'
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