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Originally posted by Spacecadet View PostNice, what spec?
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Dual Core Mobile Processor i7-640M (2.80GHz) 4MB Cache
Memory (RAM) 4GB SAMSUNG 1333MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (2 x 2GB)
Graphics Card nVIDIA® GeForce® GT 425M - 1GB DDR3 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
Memory - 1st Hard Disk 500GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD5000BEKT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (7200 rpm)
Originally posted by Spacecadet View PostIf you're serious about the Microsoft BI stack then you really need:
Windows 7
Office 2010
SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer Edition
The way you're going you seem to want to become obsolete.
VMWare is very handy for quickly creating dev environments
You are right about SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer Edition though, think its only $50 so well worth it, would like to get the SSIS/SSAS stuff for SQL/Visual studio too but again its about getting the dev versions for cheap.Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by 2BIT View Postright, gotcha.
PuTTY gets mentioned a lot and I may have to work with unix boxes in the future so it's worth a look
ZOC - SSH Client (Secure Shell), SSH2 Client, Telnet Client for Windows and Mac OS XLeave a comment:
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Originally posted by 2BIT View PostJust bought me a nice new laptop purely for work
Originally posted by 2BIT View PostWin XP Pro 32-bit
Office 2003
SQL Server 2008 express
Windows 7
Office 2010
SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer Edition
The way you're going you seem to want to become obsolete.
VMWare is very handy for quickly creating dev environmentsLeave a comment:
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Originally posted by k2p2 View PostSQL Developer is free and does most of what Toad does.Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by doodab View PostIn some environments e.g. my current one, ftp is simply banned as it's considered insecure. SCP works over SSH, which means you don't have to run ftpd on the server.
PuTTY is used for connecting to unix machines via SSH.
PuTTY gets mentioned a lot and I may have to work with unix boxes in the future so it's worth a lookLeave a comment:
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Originally posted by 2BIT View Posthave you used filezilla? if so why do feel WinSCP is superior (or is because filezilla only does FTP?)
out of interest what do you use telnet for? i've only ever used it to debug network probs - just interested is all
PuTTY is used for connecting to unix machines via SSH.
If given truly free reign e.g. using my own hardware, I sometimes use a linux VM on my laptop which has all these sorts of tools available on the command line. Of course their utility depends somewhat on whether the client environment is Unix / Linux or Windows.Leave a comment:
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Microsoft TFS for my source code control, but before that I was using perforce.Leave a comment:
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WinSCP
Putty
out of interest what do you use telnet for? i've only ever used it to debug network probs - just interested is all
Originally posted by thunderlizard View PostThat's going to slow things down, unless you have at least one of them turned off by default.
I'd have
some kind of source code control repository
otherwise I think you've got everything covered.
what do you use git or mercurial/subversion or something else?Leave a comment:
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