Now, the last field there is an ID number. The zeroes are significant. All of the above spreadsheets will import that as a number and drop the leading zeroes.
Were it not for that, we would probably be fighting for our lives against the many-legged hordes of the deep.
How many legs do you think that an octopus has? Six of the appendages are used for manipulating objects, and the remaining two are used for propulsion. That give the octopus the same amount of legs as the standard-issue human.
One thing I would surely like to see in email clients however - the gmail like threaded conversation view. It's just so much better and nicer to use, but still many email applications tend to have the plain-list-of-messages view.
> WTF. People still buying inkjets and bitching about it? Is lexmark STILL in business?
Simple. Upfront cost. An inkjet can be had for $50 - $75. Good luck finding a color laser or dye sub for anything even remotely close to that.
And fax/scan/copy? There is no sub-$400USD laser printer that can fax, but the inkjets can for about $60USD. That's what made it an inkjet for my household.
What is so awesome about MS staging a GPL violation that "forces" them to release the source code of their product? This will only feed the "GPL is cancer" mindset.
By the way: GPL _is_ cancer: for developers who want to use other peoples' code and not give back. But MS products are cancer for end users, who face interoperability issues when even thinking about leaving MS's operating system, web browser, office suite, or instant messenger. Not to mention forced upgrades.
I’ve never bought anything using Bing Cashback, but the balance of my account is $2080.06. Apparently, I placed two $1 orders on January 24th of this year, and spent another $104,000 on October 24th. Let’s see how these transactions might have “accidentally” got credited to my account.
First, we need to try to figure out how transactions get into Bing Cashback. Microsoft posted some documentation here. The explanation of how a merchant reports transactions to Bing starts on page 20. Merchants have a few options for reporting, but Bing suggests using a tracking pixel. Basically, the merchant adds a tracking pixel to their order confirmation page, which will report the the transaction details back to Bing. The request for the tracking pixel looks something like this:
This implementation, while easy for the merchant, has an obvious flaw. Anyone can simulate the tracking pixel requests, and post fake transactions to Bing. I’m not going to explain exactly how to generate the fake requests so that they actually post, but it’s not complicated. Bing doesn’t seem to be able to detect these fake transactions, at least not right away. The six cents I earned in January have “cleared,” and I’m guessing the remaining $2080 will clear on schedule, unless there is some manual intervention.
Even if Bing detects these fake transactions at some point in the future, the current implementation might have another interesting side effect. I haven’t done enough work to say it with confidence, but a malicious user might be able to block another user’s legitimate purchases from being reported correctly by Bing (I only tried this once, but it seemed to work). Posting a transaction to Bing requires sending them an order ID in the request. Bing performs a reasonable sanity check on the order ID, and will not post a transaction that repeats a previously reported order ID. When a store uses predictable order ID’s (e.g. sequential), a malicious user can “use up” all the future order ID’s, and cause legitimate transactions to be ignored. Reporting would be effectively down for days, causing a customer service nightmare for both Bing and the merchant.
Based on what I’ve found, I wouldn’t implement Bing Cashback if I were a merchant. And, as an end user and bargain hunter, it does not seem smart to rely on Bing Cashback for savings. In our next blog post, I’ll demonstrate some other subtle but important reasons to avoid using Bing Cashback.
No, Wine has a strict policy of not letting app-specific hacks into the mainline tree, if that wasn't the case things would be a mess and nothing would run.
Actually, Windows has app-specific hacks. There was a/. story when Vista was coming out that linked to an MS blog in which the developer described how Quicken would not run on Vista, so MS hacked the API to identify Quicken and do as that app expected. They test all major software and most have app-specific hacks.
Please file an issue at the OOo bug tracker with a test document. Or sent it to me, my gmail address is the same as my/. username. Without the test document OOo cannot improve.
Hmm, I just had a PDF yesterday that looked different (=wrong) in KDE's okular than it looked in PDF XChange (Windows version). When I printed it from PDF XChange, some of the text underlines were so thick on the printout that they covered the text. Finally, I printed from Adobe's Reader to get the expected result...
Please file an issue at the KDE bug tracker with a test document. Or sent it to me, my gmail address is the same as my/. username. Without the test document Okular cannot improve.
Please file an issue at the OOo bug tracker with a test document. Or sent it to me, my gmail address is the same as my slashdot username. Without the test document OOo cannot improve.
Please file an issue at the OOo bug tracker with a test document. Or sent it to me, my gmail address is the same as my/. username. Without the test document OOo cannot improve.
File an issue at the OOo bug tracker with a test document. Or sent it to me, my gmail address is the same as my slashdot username. Without the test document OOo cannot improve.
File an issue at the OOo bug tracker with a test document. Or you can sent it to me, my gmail address is the same as my/. username. Without the test document OOo cannot improve.
File an issue at the OOo bug tracker with a test document. Or sent it to me, my gmail address is the same as my/. username. Without the test document OOo cannot improve.
Compare video and 'compositing', and '3d effects'. Luckily, that works well for me now, but it didn't in the past, and still doesn't work (completely) for many people. When compositing or 3d effects don't work for your system, then either is has already been switched off automatically, or you can switch it off easily in the system settings (and even with a special three-finger salute (alt-shift-f12)), and you system will work as if compositing and 3d effect never existed. It never breaks video on your system.
Big deal. Scratch your itch! Check out the code from CVS and contribute a fix. Don't just sit there and complain, do something about it! This is F/OSS for God's sake.
F/OSS, stage 1: Get involved, file some bugs!
F/OSS, stage 2: Actually, file a patch.
F/OSS, stage 3: If you don't like it then go write your own damn software.
And warafin, an excellent anti-blood clotting agent is also used as rat poison.
That's how it works in the rat, too. The rat bangs into things, developing hundreds of internal bleedings during the course of it's day. The rat has evolved to deal with that. But when the rat's blood can no longer clot, that internal bleeding kills the rat.
Trivia: it's also what cocaine is cut with, because really good cocaine also causes nosebleeds.
We can pretty much rule out the biblical Judeo god (christianity, islam and judaism) because theres a LOT of claims about reality that contradict science (7 day creation, 6000 years old, giant wierd flood, space made of water, etc).
Actually, when you read the Old Testament in the original Hebrew most of those contradictions disappear. They mostly came about in translations by trying to reuse existing Greek (then English) words (like water) for different concepts in the original. Ever heard about Moses' horns? Same phenomenon: inappropriate translation.
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Often times, for CSV data, it's best to throw up your hands and use a text editor because spreadsheet apps all try to be 'too smart' about the task.
Or you should comment on this bug, which requests that Calc auto-format as per the format which it is recognizing:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=108014
Now, the last field there is an ID number. The zeroes are significant. All of the above spreadsheets will import that as a number and drop the leading zeroes.
You should comment on this bug, which requests just that:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=108014
Are you kidding? The submission is a clone!
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/01/1657215&from=rss
Were it not for that, we would probably be fighting for our lives against the many-legged hordes of the deep.
How many legs do you think that an octopus has? Six of the appendages are used for manipulating objects, and the remaining two are used for propulsion. That give the octopus the same amount of legs as the standard-issue human.
One thing I would surely like to see in email clients however - the gmail like threaded conversation view. It's just so much better and nicer to use, but still many email applications tend to have the plain-list-of-messages view.
Have you voted and commented on the relevant bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241197
> WTF. People still buying inkjets and bitching about it? Is lexmark STILL in business?
Simple. Upfront cost. An inkjet can be had for $50 - $75. Good luck finding a color laser or dye sub for anything even remotely close to that.
And fax/scan/copy? There is no sub-$400USD laser printer that can fax, but the inkjets can for about $60USD. That's what made it an inkjet for my household.
You can watch the progress live, here:
http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html
Awesome!
What is so awesome about MS staging a GPL violation that "forces" them to release the source code of their product? This will only feed the "GPL is cancer" mindset.
By the way: GPL _is_ cancer: for developers who want to use other peoples' code and not give back. But MS products are cancer for end users, who face interoperability issues when even thinking about leaving MS's operating system, web browser, office suite, or instant messenger. Not to mention forced upgrades.
Just in case it disappears from the cache, too:
I’ve never bought anything using Bing Cashback, but the balance of my account is $2080.06. Apparently, I placed two $1 orders on January 24th of this year, and spent another $104,000 on October 24th. Let’s see how these transactions might have “accidentally” got credited to my account.
First, we need to try to figure out how transactions get into Bing Cashback. Microsoft posted some documentation here. The explanation of how a merchant reports transactions to Bing starts on page 20. Merchants have a few options for reporting, but Bing suggests using a tracking pixel. Basically, the merchant adds a tracking pixel to their order confirmation page, which will report the the transaction details back to Bing. The request for the tracking pixel looks something like this:
https://ssl.search.live.com/cashback/pixel/index?
jftid=0&jfoid=&jfmid=
&m[0]=&p[0]=&q[0]=
This implementation, while easy for the merchant, has an obvious flaw. Anyone can simulate the tracking pixel requests, and post fake transactions to Bing. I’m not going to explain exactly how to generate the fake requests so that they actually post, but it’s not complicated. Bing doesn’t seem to be able to detect these fake transactions, at least not right away. The six cents I earned in January have “cleared,” and I’m guessing the remaining $2080 will clear on schedule, unless there is some manual intervention.
Even if Bing detects these fake transactions at some point in the future, the current implementation might have another interesting side effect. I haven’t done enough work to say it with confidence, but a malicious user might be able to block another user’s legitimate purchases from being reported correctly by Bing (I only tried this once, but it seemed to work). Posting a transaction to Bing requires sending them an order ID in the request. Bing performs a reasonable sanity check on the order ID, and will not post a transaction that repeats a previously reported order ID. When a store uses predictable order ID’s (e.g. sequential), a malicious user can “use up” all the future order ID’s, and cause legitimate transactions to be ignored. Reporting would be effectively down for days, causing a customer service nightmare for both Bing and the merchant.
Based on what I’ve found, I wouldn’t implement Bing Cashback if I were a merchant. And, as an end user and bargain hunter, it does not seem smart to rely on Bing Cashback for savings. In our next blog post, I’ll demonstrate some other subtle but important reasons to avoid using Bing Cashback.
You think that's bad? Type in "what are" and see what gets suggested!
...data that can be used to predict quickly drought and flood risk in certain areas,
Notice how "gives little to no warning" was worded as "predict quickly".
Great idea, please comment here:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=106241
No, Wine has a strict policy of not letting app-specific hacks into the mainline tree, if that wasn't the case things would be a mess and nothing would run.
Actually, Windows has app-specific hacks. There was a /. story when Vista was coming out that linked to an MS blog in which the developer described how Quicken would not run on Vista, so MS hacked the API to identify Quicken and do as that app expected. They test all major software and most have app-specific hacks.
Please file an issue at the OOo bug tracker with a test document. Or sent it to me, my gmail address is the same as my /. username. Without the test document OOo cannot improve.
Thanks!
Hmm, I just had a PDF yesterday that looked different (=wrong) in KDE's okular than it looked in PDF XChange (Windows version). When I printed it from PDF XChange, some of the text underlines were so thick on the printout that they covered the text. Finally, I printed from Adobe's Reader to get the expected result ...
Please file an issue at the KDE bug tracker with a test document. Or sent it to me, my gmail address is the same as my /. username. Without the test document Okular cannot improve.
http://bugs.kde.org/
Thanks!
Please file an issue at the OOo bug tracker with a test document. Or sent it to me, my gmail address is the same as my slashdot username. Without the test document OOo cannot improve.
Please file an issue at the OOo bug tracker with a test document. Or sent it to me, my gmail address is the same as my /. username. Without the test document OOo cannot improve.
File an issue at the OOo bug tracker with a test document. Or sent it to me, my gmail address is the same as my slashdot username. Without the test document OOo cannot improve.
File an issue at the OOo bug tracker with a test document. Or you can sent it to me, my gmail address is the same as my /. username. Without the test document OOo cannot improve.
File an issue at the OOo bug tracker with a test document. Or sent it to me, my gmail address is the same as my /. username. Without the test document OOo cannot improve.
Compare video and 'compositing', and '3d effects'. Luckily, that works well for me now, but it didn't in the past, and still doesn't work (completely) for many people. When compositing or 3d effects don't work for your system, then either is has already been switched off automatically, or you can switch it off easily in the system settings (and even with a special three-finger salute (alt-shift-f12)), and you system will work as if compositing and 3d effect never existed. It never breaks video on your system.
Tell that to the KDE4 devs:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196379
In short, non-composting KDE4 is designed to look like garbage.
Big deal. Scratch your itch! Check out the code from CVS and contribute a fix. Don't just sit there and complain, do something about it! This is F/OSS for God's sake.
F/OSS, stage 1:
Get involved, file some bugs!
F/OSS, stage 2:
Actually, file a patch.
F/OSS, stage 3:
If you don't like it then go write your own damn software.
Seen this week on the KDE-Usability list.
And warafin, an excellent anti-blood clotting agent is also used as rat poison.
That's how it works in the rat, too. The rat bangs into things, developing hundreds of internal bleedings during the course of it's day. The rat has evolved to deal with that. But when the rat's blood can no longer clot, that internal bleeding kills the rat.
Trivia: it's also what cocaine is cut with, because really good cocaine also causes nosebleeds.
We can pretty much rule out the biblical Judeo god (christianity, islam and judaism) because theres a LOT of claims about reality that contradict science (7 day creation, 6000 years old, giant wierd flood, space made of water, etc).
Actually, when you read the Old Testament in the original Hebrew most of those contradictions disappear. They mostly came about in translations by trying to reuse existing Greek (then English) words (like water) for different concepts in the original. Ever heard about Moses' horns? Same phenomenon: inappropriate translation.
First MS Office. Then Open Office. Now the whole damn solar system!
Ribbons be damned!