Where do I start with a Mac

I am looking to get a mac ever since I heard about Windows 8 in the fall. I need multi track recording hardware and software, I need video capture and editing, and i would like multi displays. Where do I start?

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http://www.apple.com/why-mac/faq/
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Manda:
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You will find directions for installing the Hard Disk Drive at ifixit guides. It is a very intensive task, and requires patience and concentration. However, if you can use a screwdriver and work with painstaking care, you can do it. While you have the 'Book disassembled you can install the RAM. Here are few tips you may find helpful:
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Formatting, Partitioning Zeroing a Hard Disk Drive
Boot from the install CD holding down the "C" key.
Select language
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Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in left side bar.
Select Partition tab in main panel. (You are about to create a single partition volume.)
Select number of partition in pull-down menu above Volume diagram.
(Note: 1 partition is normally better for an internal HDD. External HDDs usually have more than one. See Dr. Smoke’s FAQ Backup and Recovery for tips on partitioning external HDD.)
Type in name in Name field (usually Macintosh HD)
Select Volume Format as Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Click Partition button at bottom of panel.
Select Erase tab
Optional: (Select the sub-volume under Manufacturer ID (usually Macintosh HD).
Check to be sure your Volume Name and Volume Format are correct.
Select on Security Options button (Tiger) Options button (Panther & earlier).
Select Zero all data. (This process will map out bad blocks on your HDD. However, it could take several hours. If you want a quicker method, don't go to Security Options and just click the Erase button.)
Click OK.
Click Erase button
Quit Disk Utility.
Open installer and begin installation process.
Choose to Customize and deselect Foreign Language Translations and Additional Printer drivers.
Check box to install X11 (Tiger) BSD Subsystems (Panther & earlier).
Proceed with installation.
After installation computer will restart for setup.
After setup, reboot computer.
Go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility.
Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in left side bar.
Select First Aid in main panel.
Click Repair Disk Permissions.
Connect to Internet.
Go to Apple Menu > Software Update.
Install all updates.
Computer will restart after updates.
Go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility.
Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in left side bar.
Select First Aid in main panel.
Click Repair Disk Permissions.
+should I start with the original OS install disks that came with the Powerbook and then upgrade to Leopard or should I just start with the Leopard disks and the clean hard drive?+
If you have no data to save from the HDD, you can just go ahead and boot directly from the Leopart Install disk and perform the partition/formatting and the installation. The one situation in which you may want to begin with the PowerBook's install disk it if you want to have the iLife suite. The Retail Version does not include iLife (iTunes, iPhoto etc.). However, it will be on your PowerBook install disk. So you can install that first, then use the Upgrade or Archive and Install option. You will then need to run Software update afterwards.
Please do post back with further questions or comments.
Cheers
cornelius

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Hi,
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http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/sharepoint-server-help/getting-started-introduction-to-the-business-intelligence-center-HA101809949.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/video/creating-bi-dashboards-using-sharepoint-2010-no-programming-required.aspx
http://sharepointpromag.com/sharepoint-administration/business-intelligence-sharepoint-2010
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I have a printer server that has printers for multiple buildings. All the buildings have abbreviations like "BLD" for example, so my printers start with the same building abbreviations
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Start With/Connect by

DB is 11gR1
I have a table that defines formulas for items that are created (line_type = 1) and what ingredients are needed to make it (line_type = -1). Some ingredients also need to be made, so they will have another record in the table (different formula) with a line_type of 1, and the ingredients that make it up. Those ingredients could also be created, and so on.
So in the example below formula 807 creates item 4112949142. The line_type = -1 for formula 807 define the ingredients that make up that item. One of the ingredients, KT00518, is also a manufactured item, defined by that item with line_type = 1 which is formula 1420. Ingredient WP50255 is manufactured with formula 3030.
What I need to be able to do, is starting with formula 807, recursively loop through all the formulas to get all of the ingredients needed to make that item:
KT00518
PK15199
PK13947
RM31009
RM30711
RM31004
WP50255
RM30951
RM30948
RM30981
RM30957
In this simple case it would be easy because there are no formulas that are not related to this item, but obviously I need a way to do this with a start with/connect by in the real world:
SELECT *
FROM XX_FORMULA
WHERE line_type = -1
DROP TABLE XX_FORMULA;
CREATE TABLE XX_FORMULA
FORMULA_ID     NUMBER          NOT NULL,
ITEM           VARCHAR2(60)    NOT NULL,
LINE_TYPE      NUMBER          NOT NULL,
LINE_NO        NUMBER          NOT NULL
--Top Level
INSERT INTO XX_FORMULA
VALUES( 807,'4112949142',1, 1);
INSERT INTO XX_FORMULA
VALUES( 807,'KT00518',-1, 1);
INSERT INTO XX_FORMULA
VALUES( 807,'PK15199',-1, 2);
INSERT INTO XX_FORMULA
VALUES( 807,'PK13947',-1, 3);
--Middle
INSERT INTO XX_FORMULA
VALUES( 1420,'KT00518',1, 1);
INSERT INTO XX_FORMULA
VALUES( 1420,'RM31009',-1, 1);
INSERT INTO XX_FORMULA
VALUES( 1420,'RM30711',-1, 2);
INSERT INTO XX_FORMULA
VALUES( 1420,'RM31004',-1, 3);
INSERT INTO XX_FORMULA
VALUES( 1420,'WP50255',-1, 4);
--Leaf
INSERT INTO XX_FORMULA
VALUES( 3030,'WP50255',1, 1);
INSERT INTO XX_FORMULA
VALUES( 3030,'RM30951',-1, 1);
INSERT INTO XX_FORMULA
VALUES( 3030,'RM30948',-1, 2);
INSERT INTO XX_FORMULA
VALUES( 3030,'RM30981',-1, 3);
INSERT INTO XX_FORMULA
VALUES( 3030,'RM30957',-1, 4);Thanks in advance for your help.
--Johnnie

Hi,
Vortex13 wrote:
DB is 11gR1
I have a table that defines formulas for items that are created (line_type = 1) and what ingredients are needed to make it (line_type = -1). Some ingredients also need to be made, so they will have another record in the table (different formula) with a line_type of 1, and the ingredients that make it up. Those ingredients could also be created, and so on.
So in the example below formula 807 creates item 4112949142. The line_type = -1 for formula 807 define the ingredients that make up that item. One of the ingredients, KT00518, is also a manufactured item, defined by that item with line_type = 1 which is formula 1420. Ingredient WP50255 is manufactured with formula 3030.Okay, so that explains that
VALUES( 807,'KT00518',-1, 1);is the parent of
VALUES( 1420,'KT00518',1, 1);But it looks like there's also another kind of parent-child relationship in this table. That is, the last row I showed above apparantly has children. I'm guessing that
VALUES( 1420,'RM31009',-1, 1);is one of its children. That is, a row with line_type=1 can have children: any row with the same formula_id and line_type=-1 is its child. Is that right?
If so:
SELECT     *
FROM     xx_formula
WHERE     line_type     = -1
START WITH     formula_id     IN (807)     -- Change as needed
      AND     line_no          = 1
CONNECT BY     (    item          = PRIOR item
          AND line_type          = 1
          AND PRIOR line_type     = -1
     OR     (    formula_id          = PRIOR formula_id
          AND line_no          = PRIOR line_no + 1
What I need to be able to do, is starting with formula 807, recursively loop through all the formulas to get all of the ingredients needed to make that item:
KT00518
PK15199
PK13947
RM31009
RM30711
RM31004
WP50255
RM30951
RM30948
RM30981
RM30957I get 20 rows of output, not just the 11 you want. I guess I don't understand the requirements.
Here are my results:
FORMULA_ID ITEM        LINE_TYPE    LINE_NO
       807 KT00518            -1          1
      1420 RM31009            -1          1
      1420 RM30711            -1          2
      1420 RM31004            -1          3
      1420 WP50255            -1          4
      3030 RM30951            -1          1
      3030 RM30948            -1          2
      3030 RM30981            -1          3
      3030 RM30957            -1          4
       807 PK15199            -1          2
       807 PK13947            -1          3
       807 KT00518            -1          1
      1420 RM31009            -1          1
      1420 RM30711            -1          2
      1420 RM31004            -1          3
      1420 WP50255            -1          4
      3030 RM30951            -1          1
      3030 RM30948            -1          2
      3030 RM30981            -1          3
      3030 RM30957            -1          4Take a couple of examples where I'm getting the wrong results, and explain again, using different words, how you get the right results in those places.
Maybe I just need to say SELECT DISTINCT .
In this simple case it would be easy because there are no formulas that are not related to this item, Yes, it would be better to add a couple of rows that are not related. Why don't you?
but obviously I need a way to do this with a start with/connect by in the real world:Thanks for posting the CREATE TABLE and INSERT statements; that's very helpful.

Hierarchical connect by and start with and joins?

I've got an employees table and an identifiers table. The identifiers table is hierarchical, with parents and children. Each employee has one or more identifiers, but only one identifier is considered the "primary" or root identifier for each employee. Unfortunately, the employee table might be pointing at one of the child identifier rows and not the root. I need a fast query to join the employees with their most current (root) identifier.
Here's code to define the problem.
create table employees (employeeid varchar2(8), fakeNationalID varchar2(9), empname varchar2(30));
insert into employees (employeeid, fakeNationalID, empname) values (1,'001000001','John Smith');
insert into employees (employeeid, fakeNationalID, empname) values (2,'002000002','James Jones');
create table realids (realidkey NUMBER, fakeNationalID VARCHAR2(9) not null,
   realNationalID VARCHAR2(9) UNIQUE, parent_realidkey number);
insert into realids (realidkey, fakeNationalID, realNationalID, parent_realidkey) values
   (1,'001000001','111111111',3);
insert into realids (realidkey, fakeNationalID, realNationalID, parent_realidkey) values
   (2,'002000002','222222222',null);
insert into realids (realidkey, fakeNationalID, realNationalID, parent_realidkey) values
   (3,'003000003','333333333',null);
commit;
create or replace function get_parentid (fakeID in VARCHAR2) return varchar2 is
   tempid VARCHAR2(9);
   begin
      select realNationalID into tempid
         from (
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              from realids
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              connect by nocycle prior parent_realidkey = realidkey
              order by level desc)
              where rownum = 1;
      return tempid;
      exception
         when NO_DATA_FOUND then
            return NULL;
         when others then raise;
    end;
select get_parentid('001000001') from dual; -- returns 333333333 because its linked to a parent
select get_parentid('002000002') from dual; -- returns 222222222 because there is only one child
select get_parentid('003000003') from dual; -- returns 333333333 because it is the parentWhat I want is to get the highest parent node in realids for each row in employees...
This works, but is NOT very efficient:
select employeeid, get_parentid(fakeNationalID) realid, empname from employees;
employeeid   realid       empname
1            333333333     John Smith
2            222222222     James JonesYou can imagine what this would be like with 100K rows or greater. It takes about 3 minutes to run.
This seemed like a good way to do this, but with a sub query.
select e.employeeid, e.fakenationalid, e.empname, sub.realnationalid
   from employees,
      (select realidkey, fakenationalid, realnationalid, parent_realidkey
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Hi,
Thanks for posting the sample data in such a convenient form!
It always helps to post your Oracle version, too, especially when dealing with CONNECT BY queries.
The following does what you requested in Oracle 10:
WITH     got_roots   AS
     SELECT     CONNECT_BY_ROOT     fakenationalid     AS leaf_id
     ,     realnationalid
     FROM     realids
     WHERE     CONNECT_BY_ISLEAF     = 1
     START WITH      fakenationalid IN ( SELECT fakenationalid
                                          FROM    employees
     CONNECT BY     realidKEY     = PRIOR parent_realidkey
SELECT     e.employeeid
,     r.realnationalid
,     e.empname
FROM     employees     e
JOIN     got_roots     r     ON     r.leaf_id     = e.fakenationalid
;In any query, calling a user-defined function for each row is going to be slow. Fortunately, Oracle now has built-in functions and operators that can take the place of get_parentid. The CONNECT_BY_ROOT operator, which was introduced in Oracle 10, is the key to this problem. In Oracle 9, you can get the same results using SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH.
It's usually faster to do the CONNECT BY query separately, and then join whatever other tables you need to the results.
You had a good idea in your last query. The problem was that sub and employees were equal tables in the FROM clause, and you can't correlate equals. You can only correlate a sub-query to its super-query. You could make that general idea work by changing sub into a scalar sub-query,which could be correlated to employees, but I think it would be a lot less efficient than what I posted above.

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So what I want to know is where do I start? Is there a good mid range configuration. What I mean by that is that I might be playing games and the likes, but it won't be the main use. Working while watching TV (Word, Excel), Browsing the web (via wireless LAN) and streaming audio / video.
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Thank you!
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Cheers,
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