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Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 01/13/08 20:52
Scripsit NvrBst:
> On Jan 13, 5:38 am, "Beauregard T. Shagnasty"
> <a.nony.m...@example.invalid> wrote:
> ...
That pseudoquotation doesn't really give us much context, does it?
> Ahh, the data can get very wide because of the number columns
> returned. Some of the tables have thousands of cells (The site runs
> on an intranet so bandwidth isn't an issue).
Is meaningfulness an issue? What would anyone _do_ with such a table?
This reminds me of the good old days when I worked in a computing centre
where line printers were the main output device, and there was a
researcher who printed out hundreds of pages about daily, picked up the
listing, flipped over to a certain page, looked at a number and threw
the listing away. He just couldn't be bothered to modify his output
routines to print just the data he actually needed.
Consider letting users select the data they need (typically, via a form
on a web page). This means some hard work to some programmer(s), but
once done, it saves a lot of labor and time.
> Anyway, baically the column headers usally go something like "Msg / X1
> Acks / X2 Acks / X1 N-Acks / X2 N-Acks / Rty 1 / Rty 2 / ... / Rty N /
> Dup Msg / Dup Overlap / etc".
Is this explanation supposed to help?
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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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