[Gllug] Re: Writing C

[Ian Norton]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 10:35:41AM +0100, Nordlund, Niko wrote:
> SQL. I would need a SQL database engine that is, stable, can handle
> large databases (> 2GB), easily extendible with own functions (at least
> postgreSQL supports dynamic loading of functions written in c)
> 
> Graphical interface for developing and administering the SQL database. 

for a good IDE you might want to look at Kdevelop (for kde) or Anjuta (for gnome) 
i've found that anjuta is good if you want to use cvs aswell

> C. As indicated above I would need to do a bit of C coding to get my
> functions available within SQL. I have some experience in using VB, but
> I would like to move over to C. Any suggestions which editor and
> compiler would be easy to learn? Preferably a nice GUI. I would also
> need to pass data to and from a database. Also, recommendations on what
> C-books to read are welcome. 

i found the o'rielly c books are excellent and also 
help with things like make and diff. 

> Intranet tools to SQL. We are, at the moment, using VB to pass info
> between our intranet pages and SQL. What would be the easiest Open
> Source way of doing this?

in unix you can interface pretty much anything with
an sql database, you could use one of the many perl or php 
based website content managers to do this. you can
also use phpmyadmin as an excellent web frontent to 
db management if you use mysql as a database

> VNC. I would like to give a "thin client" a go. Obviously on local
> network we have enough capacity to run X window, but going to another
> continent would need something else. My issue relates to user
> authentication in VNC. Then there is the question of how to do this in a
> secure fashion.

you can tunnel your vnc session over ssh, or you could 
juse use console apps over ssh, there is usually
a good console program for every x program

> A *big thanks* to everyone who bothers to answer!
> 
> Best regards,
> Niko Nordlund
>

you might find it a good idea to hire someone from here 
for a week or so to help you get started, especially 
if not many of your staff have linux experience.

regards

Ian  
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