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Eric Stevens
SubjectRe: An Apology - Was Re: converting raw images from Canon EOS 600D
FromEric Stevens
Date12/21/2013 00:46 (12/21/2013 12:46)
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On 20 Dec 2013 09:45:51 GMT, Sandman <mr@sandman.net>wrote:

Sandman
In article <uus7b91khujotm7ftr7acttr5onnrg69i8@4ax.com>, Eric Stevens wrote:

Incorrect. The conclusion that you are lying is based on your inability to provide substantiation, period.

Eric Stevens
Well, when you ask for the engineering certificates of racing drivers I know you are not seriously looking for evidence of their technical competence: either that or you think that all skills can engrained by training. Either way, there is no point in trying to satisfy you.

Sandman
You'd have a point if you had provided another, equally viable, support. Which of course you didn't. I even told you that I just wanted to share in on the source of your intel, the information you used when you made the explicit claim of *ALL* "successful" drivers. You weren't able to provide *ANY* support for this claim. This was an *assumption* on your part and should have been phrased as such.

Eric Stevens
However, when you first started telling me I was lying you never even asked for evidence or gave me the chance to produce it.

Sandman
Incorrect. I spent some two weeks asking you to back up your claims. You failed.

Rubbish.

On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 21:09:19 +1200 in Message-ID: <sib9091tjfhq4pl41iu9fv8uiblg3uv1ik@4ax.com>I wrote

"I've used operating systems that worked with magnetic drum storage right through virtually the entire range of both floppy and hard discs. I bought and used a microcomputer system with one of the first such hard discs in captivity.

I've set up and written databases using Cromemco DBR (SQL), Informix (SQL), Basic, C, dBXL, Paradox and one or two others I can't remember.

I've used file systems including Cromix, Unix, CP/M, PC-DOS and all flavours of NTFS since version 3.5 (except 8)."

You responded to this saying:

"This I can't believe. *EVERYTHING* you've said leads to the logical conclusion that you know NOTHING about databases. So I am assuming that this is just a plain out lie."

See. No request for me to back up my claims. Just an immediate denial of the truth of my claim and the labeling of it as a lie.

You've gone on from there, disputing everything I say and calling me a liar at every opportunity.

Had you given me the benefit of the least amount of doubt I could have given you https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31088803/_DSC6945.jpg which is a link to a corner of my book shelves. You will see *nine* Paradox manuals covering two generations. In fact the Word Perfect Office 2002 manual describes Paradox 10. I haven't been collecting these as a hobby.

Subscribers to this news group will know that I have several times mentioned the use of a Cromemco computer. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31088803/Cromemco%20dBase.jpg is a screen clip of a most unfortunately coloured catalogue of Cromemco software. (The original file can be found on page 11 of the 28 slow loading pages at http://www.thecomputerarchive.com/archive/Computers/Other/Cromemco%20Catalog%20Autumn%20%281980%29%20-%20Part%202%20of%202%20-%20Software.pdf or http://tinyurl.com/m9w8ct4 ) This page describes the Data Base Management System. At the bottom there is mention of the 'DBR report writing package'. Although it was not described as such, this was basically SQL, some time around 1980.

The Cromemco data base software was written by Roger Sippl and Laura King who previously worked at Cromemco and were responsible for their database software. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informix_Corporation

So, when I later bought an AT&T 3B2-700 (?) it was natural that I should buy the Informix package which came with it. It was shortly after that, that Informix introduced their SQL version which, of course, I bought.

I'm not going any further along this line. I don't now really care whether you believe me or not, but please stop pretending you are virtuous in this matter.

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Regards,

Eric Stevens

Sandman (15h & 13m) > Eric Stevens