On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> but I was thinking of something more mundane, like perl. In perl,
> which is untyped, you have to treat any value as if it were a
> string, float, or int, all at the same time. If the user wants
> to multiply by two, and then concatenate it to a str
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > No way - RPC is far more lightweight than CORBA.
>
> I am an rpc novice ... so excuse me, but what about the overhead of
> having to contact 3 or 4 different servers, e.g. portmapper, statd,
> rpciod, and all that? My impression was that this was
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > You're missing the point - HTTP is slow! It doesn't load the server, it's
> > just slow!
>
> Its not slower than rpc, corba, ftp, nfs or sendmail.
Is so.
HTTP:
1) TCP 3 way handshake
2) Send request packet
3) Receive request ack
4) Receive re
On 22 Dec 2000, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Also, it's not that hard to create your own transport with security.
> A simple extention to rpc_tcp.c to build TCP-based transports is all
> you really need. I've done it once before, and it works well.
> Luckily, the RPC interface is standardized across al
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Bill Gribble wrote:
>
> What I understood your proposal about closing books to be was:
> - at book closing time all account balances get rolled
>up into a 'closing/opening' balance for the next period.
> - expenses/income get transferred to equity.
> - old transacti
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Bill Gribble wrote:
> Right, but that doesn't help you generate a graph of weekly bank
> balances over 5 years. This is a hard problem, and it's one I think
> needs to be addressed.
Sure it does...
SELECT SUM(amount),date_to_week_num(date) AS week FROM splits WHERE
account
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Bill Gribble wrote:
> Keep in mind that in the financial context, you are not-infrequently
> asked to do simple "data mining" in the form of any report run over 2,
> 5, or 10 years of your history. The problem of multiyear reports is
> the biggest roadblock to book closing A
