GnuCash 2.0.0 Released

tashanna writes "After a very welcome GTK2 conversion and some additional feature hacking, GnuCash has released version 2.0.0. Other notable changes include: 'OFX DirectConnect which can directly retrieve and import account statements over the Internet, a "Hide account" feature to keep a better overview of your current accounts tabbed window functionality, the ability to create budgets within GnuCash using your account data, support for Accounting Periods, the data file format has been improved with respect to international characters data files with international characters can be transferred to other countries flawlessly, GnuCash Help and Guide are now fully integrated with the GNOME Help system (Yelp).'"

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Re:And you thought physicists were boring

[eno2001]

I don't spend enough money to garner rewards as I try to spend as little as possible on anything. But even with the big ticket items that I purchase from time to time (like the 37" LCD monitor I got last Christmas for the family which cost me $2500 out the door) I still don't see what kind of advantage I'd get if I even got 5% back. That would be what... $125? What good is that? Unless I'm misunderstanding what you are saying. I noticed that someone else pointed out that they have a credit card that they've set up for automatic 100% monthly payment that is also a no membership fee card. His approach sounds interesting especially since I don't like to spend more than a mentally set limit. But, other than some bonus points (which all seem VERY small and worthless to me) I don't see how useful it really is other than establishing a good credit score. Incidentally (addressing the comments of others) I'm married and have a daughter and my system works fine for us. My wife (stay-at-home-mom) has a depression era mentality so she tries to keep her expenses to less than $400 a month for necessities. We own three cars all of which are completely paid off and we own a house that we purchased in 2004 with a reasonable mortgage (about $800 a month). I haven't had a credit card since 2000. I concluded that all credit card companies are run by and employ worthless greedy bastard motherfucking evil rotten stinking turds. I got screwed by Discover card in my teens. I got turned down by AT&T Universal when I *WANTED* a credit card even though I had a legit job. I got a Capitol One Visa thanks to my dad and even they fucked with me. NOBODY FUCKS WITH ME and gets away with it.

I told Capitol One that I wanted a $1500 credit limit because I was only getting their card to purchase a Yamaha 16 channel mixer that was going to cost me $1300 and some change. They gave me an $1100 credit limit. So I complained. I wasn't asking them for some crazy arbitrary value, I was asking them for an exact standard limit size. A lot of other credit cards offered $1500 limits... So after I bitched and moaned to the rep on the phone she said, "Fine. You now have a $2500 limit"! Grrr... I didn't WANT a $2500 limit!! I knew myself well enough at the time that I couldn't be trusted to not charge to the limit. She finally hung up on me and left me with this very dangerous $2500 limit on my card. And sure enough, after I got the mixer and paid it off, then little by little I crept closer and closer to the limit and then all of the sudden they upped my limit to $4800!! (What kind of crazy numbers are they using. Everyone knows that credit limits are incremental by $500.) So at that point I knew I was in danger. I decided to pay what remained off over the course of the next year or so. Once I did that I cancelled the card and haven't had one since. That is why I think credit card companies are evil. They won't pay attention to what we know about ourselves. And I knew back then that I couldn't handle a sizable credit limit. It's just too tempting.