I think it somewhat depends on your definition of “stupid/clever”. I think I was thinking of it in terms of “self-aware/self-deceiving” or “knows-how-to-play-the-game/doesn’t-know”. The power talk that Venkat mentions in a later post, seems to be a key factor. The “clever/stupid” axis could be “knows-power-talk/doesn’t-know-power-talk”, in which case the Clueless are definitely “stupid” as are Losers.

I think everyone agrees that Losers are stupid-lazy, and that Clueless are hardworking. I just don’t see any way to label Clueless as clever. They only get promoted from the ranks of the Losers based on their willingness to work hard even as a Loser. In some ways this makes them even stupider than the Losers.

stupid-hardworking = No Gervais label (“a menace and must be removed immediately”)

stupid-lazy = Loser

clever-hardworking = Clueless

clever-lazy = Sociopath

Your new label Loser Sociopath doesn’t fit in the matrix at all, if you want it compatible with Venkat’s Gervais Principle theory.

I’ve just finished this project and switched back to web-development where i love RoR more then other frameworks. Also i like Rails & Ruby syntax more then Python. Ruby sugar makes program clean and readable, IMHO.

For most tasks Python and Ruby are similar except embedding of course. And threads %) And unicode (i wanna kill Ruby 1.9 developers and gonna use patch to force utf-8 everywhere it is possible).

I found Linux easier to get working than Mac, so a Debian VM on your workstation is a workable idea. Particularly if it is a headless machine, and you ssh in.

And certainly moving to Postgres from MSSQL is vastly preferable to continuing to work with MSSQL. You’re much luckier than me. I have to continue to work with legacy systems that are out of my control.

Out of interest, did you find Ruby easier than Python for this stuff, or did you only use Python for the transition?

And right now i switched back to ruby from python %)

Does isql my_dsn username password work for you? If not, your config is wrong. If it does work, then I’m a bit stumped. I’ve only had one oppurtunity to get it working so far, and haven’t been able to test my assumptions.

If you do get it working, please let me know what you did. (And if you get really stumped, feel free to email me, singletoned@gmail.com)

I try to add [Default] Driver = /opt/local/lib/libtdsodbc.so to your odbc.ini, and it should work.

but it doesn’t work.

I found that the pyodbc use the iodbc instead unixODBC,how to switch them?

thank you again.

The error message means you need to add:

[Default]
Driver = /opt/local/lib/libtdsodbc.so

to your odbc.ini, and it should work.

Thanks for that. I’ll update the article this evening.

DBAPIError: (Error) (‘IM002′, ‘[IM002] [iODBC][Driver Manager]Data source name not found and no default driver specified.

So, how to tell it to use unixODBC instead of not configured iODBC

Thx.