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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (20490)	3/12/2004 7:14:29 AM
From: SI Bob	Respond to of 32883

I've often been critical of the structure, but I have to admit that the Brad-engineered stuff that survived the Oracle migration has been very educational. Preview is a perfect example. It's very solid here. The way I wrote it at iHub, if I sneeze near a computer that's editing any kind of message-updating or inserting routine (or even filtering), the Preview function breaks so badly you lose your message if you try to edit it. But this peoplesearch thing is a head-scratcher. It appears the system at one time went through a lot of effort to make an indexed lookup for aliases and every word in profiles. I can definitely go along with that when you're dealing with tens of millions of very large rows (the message table), but don't see it as necessary when dealing with hundreds of thousands of much smaller rows. Although part of the explanation may be the immense amount of computing horsepower available now compared to 3 years ago. I might also be reluctant to use SQL's LIKE function if I had about 10% of the dev site's computing horsepower. Oh, yet again, I'm up early (4:30 yesterday; 4:00 today) doing development on the new SI. Hate waking up this early, but it's by far my most productive programming time. Right frame of mind and few distractions. This morning's wakeup call came courtesy of my daughter who shook me and said (keep in mind she's 14) "The 'piece of sh*t' car's horn is doing it again. "It" being sounding loudly. Seems if it gets cold enough, the horn activates. At least this time I knew which relay to yank. The last time this happened, I was outside in the wee hours in single-digit temperatures and had yanked every single fuse before it finally dawned on my sleep-deprived brain that the horn was more likely going through a large relay than a small fuse. Oh, the "POS car" is the name that's stuck to my 89 Taurus SHO. A lovable car that's a blast to drive, but it frequently comes up with the oddest problems. Main problems right now are a radio display that's just a constantly-changing jumble of randomly displayed LED's, making it unreadable but otherwise very functional (especially through the nice Pioneer speakers I added), the "Door Ajar" and "Low Coolant" lights that remain lit despite neither condition being true, an oil leak that gets heavy enough to make smoke billow out from under the car and under the hood when driven hard (which is the only way I drive this car), and the fact that no key is needed for the ignition, as was discovered when I turned in to the driveway once and the keys fell out onto the floor. Actually took it to the racetrack once last year mainly so I could learn to drive a FWD car on the track and the biggest decision was whether or not to trailer the car. Thought it would be nice to be truckless and trailerless for the first time in 7 years, but the wife ended up convincing me to trailer it. Her argument: "Are you really going to have fun if you're babying a POS car because it has to get you home?" The answer was "Probably not. I'd rather drive it like the $2k POS it is." Tentatively planning to take it to the first event I go to this year. If I can find and fix the source of the oil leak. Which I'm starting to think might entail overhauling the relatively clean but loose engine of the identical parts car I bought for it and dropping it in. And surely it's a sign of some sort of mental illness that I've done enough measuring to determine that it wouldn't be a terribly daunting task to make this a 2-engined, AWD car. <g> I've got two complete drivetrains and front-ends. Back to programming. I'm rambling. hehe