I updated my Optimization III: Selecting and Configuring InterBase Server Hardware paper with information about InterBase 7.5. Click the title of this post to read the full paper.
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I presented this paper at BorCon 2004:
With InterBase 7 and higher, InterBase now provides insight into and control over the internal functions of the server via the temporary system tables. This article focuses on practical use of the feature.
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With InterBase 7 and higher, InterBase now provides insight into and control
over the internal functions of the server via the temporary system tables. This article focuses on practical use of the feature.
If you’re interested in using either InterBase or Delphi in the .NET world, be sure to read Robert Love’s Building a custom data provider for .Text.
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Seen in Wired:
There were also problems with machines that counted absentee ballots in Florida. Software made by Election Systems & Software began subtracting votes when totals surpassed 32,000.
Item no. 9 from this list may be relevant here.
UPDATE:The same bug changed at least one election result.
UPDATE 2:The manufacturer of the machine has confirmed my conjecture.
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Among the tiny graves on Blocker Hill, the wind echoes with the tortured cries of computer programmers. Beneath the eight grave markers, and perhaps in a rumored unmarked grave nearby, lie reams of paper printouts of code for software that has left this mortal operating system.
The cemetery is a quirky tradition among the programmers [...]
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