[plug] web page problem

[Beau Kuiper]

On Mon, 03 Jan 2000, you wrote:
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> > I am using KDE k-file manager to browse and I got this
> > message at the http://www.seek.com.au web site when I tried
> > to do a search:
> ...snip...
> >> I've never seen this before and was curious if anyone
> > knows what it means? I don't get this error using netscape.
> 
> It is a server-side error, so I would be very surprised if it had
> anything to do with KDE.  More likely it was just a coincidence that
> you got it with K file manager and not Netscape.  Microsoft Back
> Office products are so flaky it is unbelievable that they are so
> widely used.
> 
Actually, this is not really Back Offices flackiness showing (well maybe
deadlocked requests should be restarted automaticly after they are rolled
back). It is just a try it again error that should have been picked by some
part of the system and acted upon. Anyway, for smaller things, MS SQL isn't a
disaster. Slow yes, flaky not really.

Yes, Microsoft is still evil *grin*
Beau Kuiper
ekuiperba at cc.curtin.edu.au

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