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    • ?
      A Former User
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      Where’s the P2 call to discuss adding another 5 terabytes of RAM to this forum’s server?

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      • tiggerT
        tigger
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        Could do with 5 TB for sure!

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        • Gators1G
          Gators1
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          Doesn’t always work though. I downloaded over a TB of ram over the years and still never got more than 30 FPS on WW2OL.

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          • tiggerT
            tigger @Gators1
            last edited by

            @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

            Doesn’t always work though. I downloaded over a TB of ram over the years and still never got more than 30 FPS on WW2OL.

            The issue is that the downloaded memory often fills your hard disk before it can be actually installed.

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            • Gators1G
              Gators1 @tigger
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              @tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

              @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

              Doesn’t always work though. I downloaded over a TB of ram over the years and still never got more than 30 FPS on WW2OL.

              The issue is that the downloaded memory often fills your hard disk before it can be actually installed.

              Duh, I know that! That’s why I downloaded a NAS first and filled it with downloaded hard drives before I installed the downloaded memory!

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              • Gators1G
                Gators1
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                This was high tech in the 1800s. I guess the French beat Edison kinda.

                The Oldest Voices We Can Still Hear

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                • JamJ
                  Jam
                  last edited by Jam

                  The real reason head-butting became unpopular at the end of the 18th century!

                  "laissez les bons temps rouler!"

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                  • PakoonP
                    Pakoon
                    last edited by

                    I didn’t read most of this crap, but I’m sure that 99% of LOT don’t know how to pronounce MySQL right.

                    ♙♙♙ Michael Waltz added you to the group.

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                    • Lob12L
                      Lob12
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                      “MySQL”

                      Here, just did it.

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                      • ?
                        A Former User
                        last edited by A Former User

                        I call it “My-S-Q-L” but I’ve never heard another human say it so I don’t know what’s correct. “My-see-quell” sounds kinda ghey if that’s how you are supposed to say it.

                        I’ve never heard a human utter 90% of the tech words I know and, when I get one wrong, it’s years or decades before someone hears me say it and corrects me. I used to pronounce “array” wrong from about 1985 to 2003 until a friend bailed me up on it. I’m still retraining myself to say “cache” correctly but it’s really hard to change after internally pronouncing a word a certain way for so many years.

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                        • StuS
                          Stu
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                          I was trying to figure out how cache could be pronounced differently. But looking at it, if someone is following english language rules, it would almsot look like it’s pronounced “cake”

                          It is easy to do justice - very hard to do right

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                          • Gators1G
                            Gators1 @A Former User
                            last edited by Gators1

                            @Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                            I call it “My-S-Q-L” but I’ve never heard another human say it so I don’t know what’s correct. “My-see-quell” sounds kinda ghey if that’s how you are supposed to say it.

                            I’ve never heard a human utter 90% of the tech words I know and, when I get one wrong, it’s years or decades before someone hears me say it and corrects me. I used to pronounce “array” wrong from about 1985 to 2003 until a friend bailed me up on it. I’m still retraining myself to say “cache” correctly but it’s really hard to change after internally pronouncing a word a certain way for so many years.

                            Sorry, but the rest of the world picked the ghey way to say it. It’s “my seequel”.

                            Edit: Actually I take that back. Apparently it’s mixed and Oracle even calls it “My S-Q-L”. I have mostly heard My Seequel though in use in my company and from AWS. I guess my company is ghey.

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                            • ?
                              A Former User @Stu
                              last edited by A Former User

                              @Stu said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                              I was trying to figure out how cache could be pronounced differently. But looking at it, if someone is following english language rules, it would almsot look like it’s pronounced “cake”

                              I was pronouncing it kaysh; don’t ask me why because I don’t know / don’t remember (edit: but it’s possibly because of what you said.) At some point I realized the rest of the planet were calling it “cash” so I’ve been trying to remember to pronounce it that way.

                              I’m just thankful the “e” is silent and it’s not pronounced cash-eh. That would be even gheyer than My See-quell.

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                              • Gators1G
                                Gators1
                                last edited by

                                Maybe the whole word cache is just ghey, no matter how you pronounce it? I mean it is of French origin.

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                                • JamJ
                                  Jam @Gators1
                                  last edited by Jam

                                  @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                  @Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                  I call it “My-S-Q-L” but I’ve never heard another human say it so I don’t know what’s correct. “My-see-quell” sounds kinda ghey if that’s how you are supposed to say it.

                                  I’ve never heard a human utter 90% of the tech words I know and, when I get one wrong, it’s years or decades before someone hears me say it and corrects me. I used to pronounce “array” wrong from about 1985 to 2003 until a friend bailed me up on it. I’m still retraining myself to say “cache” correctly but it’s really hard to change after internally pronouncing a word a certain way for so many years.

                                  Sorry, but the rest of the world picked the ghey way to say it. It’s “my seequel”.

                                  Edit: Actually I take that back. Apparently it’s mixed and Oracle even calls it “My S-Q-L”. I have mostly heard My Seequel though in use in my company and from AWS. I guess my company is ghey.

                                  We support a couple of My S-Q-L systems and as we are not formally trained and certified to do so, we have contracts with the My S-Q-L arm of Oracle and none of the support or sales people we have spoken with ever use MySequel.

                                  I researched this years ago and recognize that the founder originally wanted to call the relational DB “SEQUEL” as explaned below, but the word was already trademarked, so the abreviation SQL came into being.

                                  But that is no excuse for pronouncing it the wrong way, but it does explain the origin and why some people say MySequel.

                                  There are some people who also say other silly things like “Whom came to the door Richard?” ;-)

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                                  S.Q.L or Sequel: How to Pronounce SQL?

                                  S.Q.L or Sequel: How to Pronounce SQL?

                                  Dive into the debate: Should SQL be pronounced 'S.Q.L' or 'sequel'? Learn the correct way and explore its impact on the tech industry.

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                                  • Gators1G
                                    Gators1
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                                    In the context of the language I always hear sequel for the most part. Despite the history, people tend to make words out of acronyms and that becomes how the cool kids say it. Have even heard people wondering if people that say S-Q-L are inexperienced.

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                                    • JamJ
                                      Jam
                                      last edited by Jam

                                      This thread has caused me to realize that I have been misspelling cachet on occasion.

                                      I have always used cache to represent a collection of something such as a cache of weapons and the verb form to cache or to store in both cases pronounced “kash.”

                                      But . . .

                                      When suggesting that Donald Trump has more cachet than he has earned, I’d have spelled it cache as well.

                                      I’m so embarrassed. ;-)

                                      I would bet that it is spelled the same way in French, but in the case of “kashay” it needs an accent?

                                      Lob would know.

                                      "laissez les bons temps rouler!"

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                                      • ?
                                        A Former User @Gators1
                                        last edited by

                                        @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                        Have even heard people wondering if people that say S-Q-L are inexperienced.

                                        I’ve heard people wondering if people that say sequel are baguette-eating surrender monkeys.

                                        Those people are only in my head but I heard them.

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                                        • Gators1G
                                          Gators1 @A Former User
                                          last edited by

                                          @Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                          @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                          Have even heard people wondering if people that say S-Q-L are inexperienced.

                                          I’ve heard people wondering if people that say sequel are baguette-eating surrender monkeys.

                                          Those people are only in my head but I heard them.

                                          Bill Gates pronounces it as sequel, as in “sequel server”. I think you are due for a booster.

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                                          • JamJ
                                            Jam @Gators1
                                            last edited by

                                            @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                            @Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                            @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                            Have even heard people wondering if people that say S-Q-L are inexperienced.

                                            I’ve heard people wondering if people that say sequel are baguette-eating surrender monkeys.

                                            Those people are only in my head but I heard them.

                                            Bill Gates pronounces it as sequel, as in “sequel server”. I think you are due for a booster.

                                            Fuck Bill Gates.

                                            I hate him now as much as you do!

                                            "laissez les bons temps rouler!"

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