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Have just one AP somewhere out of the way and use some Wifi Spray occasionally to make sure it propagates everywhere you need it.

I think Excel stores formulas in a zipped XML document. Someone could write a tool that extracts each cell's formula from a workbook, sorts them topologically, and spits out JavaScript, Python, or whatever your favorite scripting language is.

Or you could make an Excel spreadsheet that lists formulas in other spreadsheets.

To get those higher speeds outside the lab, you'll need some wifi spray

Apple. And they're thoroughly pissed about that: yeah, they're making more money than ever before but that's not what this is about

Are you a complete idiot? How can you possibly not know that music industry revenue and profits have PLUMMETED in recent years?

http://j-walk.com/images/MusicRevenueChart_8E6C/MusicIndustry.jpg

Did you compare your gold solution with wifi spray? http://j-walk.com/other/wifispray/

If you like this conference, maybe you'll like the Nigerian Email Conference: http://j-walk.com/other/conf/

I have found wi-fi spray to be quite effective.

I am Mr. Laurent Mpeti Kabila, a senior assistant leader of the Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone.

I present to you an urgent and confidential request: I request your attendance at The 3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference. This is an excellent opportunity to meet your distinguished colleagues, learn new marketing techniques, and spend your hard-earned money. Attending this conference demands the highest trust, security and confidentiality between us.

Details at http://j-walk.com/other/conf/

-M

WiFi Speed Spray to the rescue!

Maybe this would work: WiFi Speed Spray(TM)
Wrong frequency band, though, ....

A lot of the source material is gone, gone, gone.

Let them decide naturally what they want to do.

It's not a game loading complex 3D worlds and sound effects

Adding "Magic" to the front of your product name really does little for your credibility. This is a little reminiscent of another spray.

That's half the market-price! (http://j-walk.com/other/wifispray/)

C'mon, Apple has got to have something better than this "easter egg". It's nothing compared to previous Excel eggs.

Say what you will about Microsoft, but they (did) have some cool people working on Office :)

That is one way, but a better way is WiFi Speed Spray.

Sending Nigerian emails?

oops, I thought the article was talking about the 3rd Annual Nigerian Email conference.

Hmmm...

I wonder if it would store safely with my Wifi Speed Spray

Actually, Visicalc was a "first".

The first commercial success for the Apple II, perhaps. The first spreadsheet? No. The first electronic spreadsheet? No.

Remember what I said about incremental improvement? Dan Bricklin himself says that he saw Visicalc as an incremental improvement to a Texas Instruments calculator.

The idea for the electronic spreadsheet came to me while I was a student at the Harvard Business School, working on my MBA degree, in the spring of 1978. Sitting in Aldrich Hall, room 108, I would daydream. "Imagine if my calculator had a ball in its back, like a mouse..." -- http://www.bricklin.com/history/saiidea.htm

Even then, the idea of spreadsheets didn't come from Bricklin. They have been used by accountants for 100s of years. So even from that perspective, Bricklin's contribution was an incremental improvement over pen and paper spreadsheets.

Even then, Visicalc was not the first electronic spreadsheet. That honor goes to Mattessich who wrote an electronic spreadsheet in Fortran.

In the early 1960s, Richard Mattessich (then at the University of California at Berkeley; since 1967 at the University of British Columbia) pioneered computerized spread sheets for business accounting--first in a paper "Budgeting Models and System Simulation" (The Accounting Review, July 1961: 384-397) and later in two books Accounting and Analytical Methods (Chpt. 9 which contains the mathematical proto-type model) and Simulation of the Firm Through a Budget Computer Program (both, Homewood, IL: R.D. Irwin, Inc., 1964) which contains, among others, print-out illustrations and the computer program (the latter written in FORTRAN IV by two of his research assistants, Tom C. Schneider and Paul A. Zitlau). This contribution (anticipating such best-selling spreadsheet programs for Personal Computers as VisiCalc, Lotus 1-2-3, Excel, et.) has variously been recognized in the accounting and related literature,

In any event, I think it's unhealthy to focus on "being first". Everything is built upon what was learnt before. That's why technology continues to advance, rather than starting from scratch with each generation.

They even have an annual conference. Check out this site for a laugh!

Here's your cite, bubba.

Double Fold- Libraries and the Assault on Paper.

You didn't think. So?

One of the jobs of an archivist is to provide deep archives of relevant information.

There have been substancial books written on this topic. You won't find the book I had in mind on the 'banned book list' put out by librarians, however.

Here's info about the book. Don't bother looking for it at some libraries. It pisses off the librarian.

You can get Wi Fi Speed Spray for a few bucks less, and there's no overseas shipping to worry about.

I believe it's a somewhat polluted city, so I'd be concerned about WiFi performance. Would WiFi Speed Spray do the trick??

WiFI Speed Spray

Yes but you will only be able to access it by hitting the special keystroke for the easter egg in MS Excel (scroll down to Excel 95 for those of you not in the know)...

Once again open sores proves superior. Take that Maya!

That's nothing. I was able to hack into his hotmail account.

Just blanket the city with this and we're set.

easy. you need the wifi speed spray!>

Its ok, I think I've found a better link for his University..

I can provide!

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Visit website today!

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I call fake. It wasn't written in ALL CAPS.

He obviously would have benefitted from attending the 3rd Annual Nigerian Email Conference

The Lord's peace be with you!
I brother Fede Raltra working at a mission in the Decom district, Lagos, Nigeria. I am also the organizer of the annual Nigerian email conference. You are hereby cordially invited to the conference.

To register, send your address, daytime telephone numbe, name of your contact in Amsterdam, and the registration fee to me (the address on the page is out-dated):
Nigerian EMail Conference
c/o Fede Raltra
Decom Mission
600 Penn. Av. N. W.
Wa Shing
Ton D. C. 20580
Lagos
Nigeria

HERE is something to make us all tremble for the future!

Great stuff. Go there.

Welcome to Spam University, the world's top-rated educational institution for the growing spam industry.

Are you tired of your dead-end job? Want to make some big-time cash without actually working? Earn the money you deserve in the exciting and fast-growing spam industry.

;-)

Solution

"You have won the Grand Bill Gates $1000 prize".

It's good to know that a developer with a substantial stint at MS is likely to be self-diciplined, though (or at least able to cope well with strict process)

for one thing you can check the AppDB at wine first to see if it runs (or transgaming)... then you can go out an buy it. and who wants a game console that you can only set up on one tv and if you change tvs you have to tell the console makers for permission

. sounds like a blast! where can i get my "game console" so i can begin raping my computer ;p

;-)

Not everyone agrees with Nicholson Baker though, not even the Society of American Archivists, but it sure is fascinating. Even more so than the current trendy paranoia about privacy.

Ironically, Baker's Vox is probably one of those books most of you are afraid of getting caught with. It's so naughty, Monica gave it to Bill, and we all found out, thanks to the pre-existing police state (but of course we had a benevolent dictator for 8 years).

If you're a perv, be a perv. If you're into homemade bombs, be into homemade bombs. If you still read Beverly Cleary even though you're a 45 year old single man... okay, I want you locked up!!

Sweet, a copy of the EULA. Let me see if I can point out the parts I was referring to.

* Consent to Use of Data. You agree that MS and Microsoft Corporation and their affiliates may collect and use technical information gathered in any manner as part of the product support services provided to you, if any, related to the SOFTWARE. MS, Microsoft Corporation and their affiliates may use this information solely to improve products or to provide customized services or technologies to you. MS, Microsoft Corporation and their affiliates may disclose this information to others, but not in a form that personally identifies you.

Summary: You allow Microsoft to use spyware, etc, to collect information on you and sell it to their affiliates.

* Security Updates. Content providers are using the digital rights management technology ("Microsoft DRM") contained in this SOFTWARE to protect the integrity of their content ("Secure Content") so that their intellectual property, including copyright, in such content is not misappropriated. Owners of such Secure Content ("Secure Content Owners") may, from time to time, request MS, Microsoft Corporation or their subsidiaries to provide security related updates to the Microsoft DRM components of the SOFTWARE ("Security Updates") that may affect your ability to copy, display and/or play Secure Content through Microsoft software or third party applications that utilize Microsoft DRM.

Summary: Microsoft or their subsidaries can install updates to the DRM software on your computer to remove your ability to view/listen to certain content. I guess it doesn't say anything about deleting files, but then again, that could be a way to keep you from viewing/listening to them!

* Internet-Based Services Components. The SOFTWARE contains components that enable and facilitate the use of certain Internet-based services. You acknowledge and agree that MS, Microsoft Corporation or their subsidiaries may automatically check the version of the SOFTWARE and/or its components that you are utilizing and may provide upgrades or supplements to the SOFTWARE that may be automatically downloaded to your COMPUTER.

Summary: Microsoft may install software on your computer without your acceptance for any purpose.

* Mandatory Activation. THIS SOFTWARE CONTAINS TECHNOLOGICAL MEASURES THAT ARE DESIGNED TO PREVENT UNLICENSED OR ILLEGAL USE OF THE SOFTWARE. The license rights granted under this EULA are limited to the first thirty (30) days after you first run the SOFTWARE unless you supply information required to activate your licensed copy in the manner described during the setup sequence (unless Manufacturer has activated for you). You can activate the SOFTWARE through the use of the Internet or telephone; toll charges may apply. You may also need to reactivate the SOFTWARE if you modify your HARDWARE or alter the SOFTWARE.

Summary: You must register within 30 days, or your copy of XP will cease to function. You may need to re-register if change your hardware or software. Also, although not mentioned in the EULA, a quick search reveals sites like http://www.j-walk.com/ss/excel/activation.htm that say Microsoft will activate a product no more than 8 times.

So, do you still consider my post FUD?

Are you referring to the DooM easter egg or the flight simulator? Hidden Excel features :-)

Both Word and Excel existed as Mac programs before there were Windows versions, but they existed as DOS programs before there were mac versions.

Excel was originally developed for Macintosh. The first Windows version was labeled "2" to correspond to the Mac version.

The next milestone was the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Excel was originally written for the 512K Apple Macintosh in 1984-1985. Excel was one of the first spreadsheets to use a graphical interface with pull down menus and a point and click capability using a mouse pointing device. The Excel spreadsheet with a graphical user interface was easier for most people to use than the command line interface of PC-DOS spreadsheet products. Many people bought Apple Macintoshes so that they could use Bill Gates' Excel spreadsheet program. There is some controversy about whether a graphical version of Microsoft Excel was released in a DOS version. Microsoft documents show the launch of Excel 2.0 for MS-DOS version 3.0 on 10/31/87.

Actually, Nicholson Baker has been raising a cry over this very issue; it seems that, in many cases, the libraries aren't keeping the hard copies. So the loss may be real.

-- MarkusQ

Hardware

• Teletype ASR-33, teletypewriter very popular as a computer terminal.
• Popular Electronics, January 1975, cover story: MITS Altair 8800 microcomputer.
• Apple II with its color graphics and multiple easy-to-access expansion slots.
• IBM PC and its corporate desktop success providing cheap hardware for all.
• IBM's MicroChannel bus and its failure showed the popularity of open hardware.
• Hayes modem command set allowed modem control without custom device driver.
• VGA graphics. Finally the IBM PC could show reasonable images. Web browsing later became a significant side effect.

Software

• VisiCalc. Killer App. Welcome to "electronic spreadsheets." A reason to buy a computer.

Early Computer Magazines

• People's Computer Company, an organization promoting personal and community computing. A computer newspaper before there were computer publications. Community Memory was an early idea for sharing computer databases at computing storefronts.
• dr. dobb's journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia, an early proponent of publishing source code. Evolved into Dr. Dobb's Journal.
• Byte magazine, its huge 50,000 copy beginning and eventually the first computer magazine to appear on general magazine racks.
• Kilobaud magazine, very popular hacker magazine, often with sources (remember programs on vinyl sheets for playback from phonograph player into cassette interfaces?).

Conceptual

• Homebrew Computer Club. Build your own computer if you can't afford a small CDC or PDP to heat your house. I was designing a TTL personal computer until the 8080 appeared; sure was nice to have quad NAND DIPs.
• Xerox PARC center with its influential network and user interface experiments.
• MECC: Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium" spread timeshare computing to all Minnesota school districts, then Apple computers. I worked there in the 1970's. State of MN has since sold it.