That depends on what version you were using before.:-)
Frankly, if it was 'long ago' then gnumeric is well overdue for another look. Test it out on that troublesome spreadsheet and judge for yourself.
I've followed it on-and-off for a while. The 0.6x series wasn't good enough (stability mostly) for what I needed but starting with 0.7x I found it was up to the task to handle my spreadsheets (though they're not as complex as yours by the sound of it).
I noticed the Excel import as being one of the items that improved the most (after stability) in the recent releases. There were some concerns about reliability for WRITING excel format but I believe these are now also taken care of on the whole.
It's almost completely manageable via a web interface (the only thing I know of that isn't is setting the default printer). It integrates very nicely with samba. It uses gimpprint drivers to create nice output on newer printers.
The reviews indicates that it can use cups, but I don't yet understand what this gives me that cups doesn't do already.
How annoyed am I? Not only can I not SPEND my money, but I also can't get it back without giving paypal my personal, financial information.
Gee... one day to spend a couple of hundred bucks....
Very, Very not amused by this whole scam they've got going.
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Pretty much safe... UNTIL... someone hacks a server (gee, let's take doubleclick.com for example) and re-writes the billion or two popup ads that get sent out a day.
Incorrect. If someone's going to make a landmark legal case against microsoft for something like negligence they'd better darn well be sure they'll have good chances of winning.
To set a bad precendent would be foolhardy, more so if the only reason for trying was "gee, folks, let's give this a go?"
I recently tried to purchase something via PayPal. According to the site, the person I was sending money to had specified that they'd only accept "Confirmed Addresses" (or was it certified? I don't know). Even though there was no reason for my address to be sent with this transaction (the vendor already had it), Paypal wouldn't let me continue without entering a *credit card number* (for them to use to confirm the address).
After a few rounds of emailing, the vendor was pursuaded to remove that restriction so I could send the funds over.
The issue was avoided, and I'm trying even harder to avoid using paypal whenever I can.
What about the insurance for the WTC - has anyone stated what that covers...
Insurance? Some of the papers I read at the time seemed to indicate that only one of the two towers was insured at all. Never heard anything else about that, though - perhaps the gov't supressed the media again.
At least the patent on the "machine that goes Bing!" can be overturned by well documented prior art with "the machine that goes Ping!".
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Couple more items from me. I use galeon for about 97% of my browsing (the only things I don't use it for is online purchases due to the fuzziness regarding which SSL cert is being used as mentioned by another poster).
1) turn off those annoting pop-up windows that happen whenever a loaded page has an unrecognized plugin. I *know* it's not supported, and for that matter I don't really want it to be supported either so just shut up about it!
2) Finer grained control over auto-complete. Too many web sites have some areas where you WANT to remember input, and some where you don't. How about 'remember values? yes / not for this page / not for this site'?
Recently, I tried to move one of my domains away from NSI, and towards one of the OpenSRS resellers.
As per the docs, I make the request, wait up to two business days to receive the case number from NSI, reply to authorize the change and (ha ha) all is well in the world.
I put in the request, waited my two days and then called NSI.
Me: "I'm calling to follow up on a domain move. You've received the request but not assigned a cse number. I need a case number before the time period expires"
Them: "Yes, and what is your case number please".
Me: "I don't have one. That's why I'm calling".
Them: "I'm sorry - I can't help you unless you have a case number".
Gee, my fingers are COLD but it was a clear and starry night!!
I started at 04:25.
I counted 18 by 04:30. The 100th came at 05:15. The 150th came at 05:25. I wanted to count the 200th but my neightbour had to go to work and triggered the parking lot BRIGHT light at 05:46 with a count of 197.
I probably didn't even see 1/4 or 1/5 of them all. I (d'oh!) realized my hat (baseball cap) was obstructing the upper part of my vision (didn't notice because it was dark!) at about 5:30 so turned it around and dealt with it not keeping my head quite as warm. Also, with buildings and trees all around me (thankfully most of the trees aren't evergreen so were mostly transparent) there were large areas of the sky that I couldn't see at all.
Not taking a chair outside was a big mistake, too. Trying to stand, stay warm AND crane your head up at the sky for over an hour wasn't that comfortable, but was well worth getting up early for!!
In a not-too-distant land I wrote a tail of woe regarding Cablevision and their tendency to break my cable (this time, physically cut it) at inopportune times.
This is just one such time. Alas, for me, no tick tonight.
*EVERY* time a Cablevision van pulls out of my driveway, with an original intent of seeing someone other than myself (in the 4 unit apartment), they've managed to break my cable modem.
EVERY SINGLE TIME.
Then it takes 4-7 days to schedule a tech to come back out and fix the problem they just created.
gotta love those monopolies, esp. when I live about 3 feet outside the DSL radius.
It's a kind of high-performance massively parallel computer built
primarily out of commodity hardware components, running a free-software
operating system like Linux or FreeBSD, interconnected by a private
high-speed network. It consists of a cluster of PCs or workstations
dedicated to running high-performance computing tasks. The nodes in
the cluster don't sit on people's desks; they are dedicated to running
cluster jobs. It is usually connected to the outside world through
only a single node.
Some Linux clusters are built for reliability instead of speed. These
are not Beowulfs.
As noted elsewhere, using mod_perl avoids the overhead of loading PERL ITSELF, not just the modules.
The other significant benefit of mod_perl over (for example) a perl/cgi combination is that it makes perl available to you far earlier in the apache request sequence. So... mod_perl can determine how to (and whether to) handle the request - you can't do that with CGI.
Another nice benefit is that you can actually start writing your apache configuration in perl blocks. How about having a single httpd.conf for *all* your servers and have it automagically determine where it's running and configure appropriately at runtime?
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Ten hours a night, please.
I read it as:
:-(
http://napster.com/download_promo-25.html
Going there gives a 404 though
That depends on what version you were using before. :-)
Frankly, if it was 'long ago' then gnumeric is well overdue for another look. Test it out on that troublesome spreadsheet and judge for yourself.
I've followed it on-and-off for a while. The 0.6x series wasn't good enough (stability mostly) for what I needed but starting with 0.7x I found it was up to the task to handle my spreadsheets (though they're not as complex as yours by the sound of it).
I noticed the Excel import as being one of the items that improved the most (after stability) in the recent releases. There were some concerns about reliability for WRITING excel format but I believe these are now also taken care of on the whole.
Try the (ahem) Kevin Warwick Watch: www.kevinwarwick.org.uk if you want something more interesting than www.kevinwarwick.org.
FEAR KEVIN
I find it very interesting the way Ian Holm plays Frodo in the Radio adaptation, and later Bilbo in the movie.
I use cups and it does all I need to do and more.
It's almost completely manageable via a web interface (the only thing I know of that isn't is setting the default printer). It integrates very nicely with samba. It uses gimpprint drivers to create nice output on newer printers.
The reviews indicates that it can use cups, but I don't yet understand what this gives me that cups doesn't do already.
Tom is also missing from the BBC's radio dramatization of the book, which I just finished listening to a day or two ago.
I agree - in the book, it's a fun interlude but he doesn't really add anything critical to the storyline so saving time is justified IMNSHO.
That wasn't a joke. :-)
Pretty much safe ... UNTIL ... someone hacks a server (gee, let's take doubleclick.com for example) and re-writes the billion or two popup ads that get sent out a day.
Ooops. Guess everyone's exposed now.
Incorrect. If someone's going to make a landmark legal case against microsoft for something like negligence they'd better darn well be sure they'll have good chances of winning.
To set a bad precendent would be foolhardy, more so if the only reason for trying was "gee, folks, let's give this a go?"
What kind of steps can people use to protect themselves now?
If you really want to toggle IE into secure mode you just need to click the little "X" in the top right corner of the window.
I recently tried to purchase something via PayPal. According to the site, the person I was sending money to had specified that they'd only accept "Confirmed Addresses" (or was it certified? I don't know). Even though there was no reason for my address to be sent with this transaction (the vendor already had it), Paypal wouldn't let me continue without entering a *credit card number* (for them to use to confirm the address).
After a few rounds of emailing, the vendor was pursuaded to remove that restriction so I could send the funds over.
The issue was avoided, and I'm trying even harder to avoid using paypal whenever I can.
What about the insurance for the WTC - has anyone stated what that covers...
Insurance? Some of the papers I read at the time seemed to indicate that only one of the two towers was insured at all. Never heard anything else about that, though - perhaps the gov't supressed the media again.
At least the patent on the "machine that goes Bing!" can be overturned by well documented prior art with "the machine that goes Ping!".
Couple more items from me. I use galeon for about 97% of my browsing (the only things I don't use it for is online purchases due to the fuzziness regarding which SSL cert is being used as mentioned by another poster).
1) turn off those annoting pop-up windows that happen whenever a loaded page has an unrecognized plugin. I *know* it's not supported, and for that matter I don't really want it to be supported either so just shut up about it!
2) Finer grained control over auto-complete. Too many web sites have some areas where you WANT to remember input, and some where you don't. How about 'remember values? yes / not for this page / not for this site'?
Recently, I tried to move one of my domains away from NSI, and towards one of the OpenSRS resellers.
As per the docs, I make the request, wait up to two business days to receive the case number from NSI, reply to authorize the change and (ha ha) all is well in the world.
I put in the request, waited my two days and then called NSI.
Me: "I'm calling to follow up on a domain move. You've received the request but not assigned a cse number. I need a case number before the time period expires"
Them: "Yes, and what is your case number please".
Me: "I don't have one. That's why I'm calling".
Them: "I'm sorry - I can't help you unless you have a case number".
At least it was a 800 number.
Gee, my fingers are COLD but it was a clear and starry night!!
I started at 04:25.
I counted 18 by 04:30. The 100th came at 05:15. The 150th came at 05:25. I wanted to count the 200th but my neightbour had to go to work and triggered the parking lot BRIGHT light at 05:46 with a count of 197.
I probably didn't even see 1/4 or 1/5 of them all. I (d'oh!) realized my hat (baseball cap) was obstructing the upper part of my vision (didn't notice because it was dark!) at about 5:30 so turned it around and dealt with it not keeping my head quite as warm. Also, with buildings and trees all around me (thankfully most of the trees aren't evergreen so were mostly transparent) there were large areas of the sky that I couldn't see at all.
Not taking a chair outside was a big mistake, too. Trying to stand, stay warm AND crane your head up at the sky for over an hour wasn't that comfortable, but was well worth getting up early for!!
Didn't v1.0.21 come out a day after the changeover?
In a not-too-distant land I wrote a tail of woe regarding Cablevision and their tendency to break my cable (this time, physically cut it) at inopportune times.
This is just one such time. Alas, for me, no tick tonight.
Ah. It's not that offtopic is it?
*EVERY* time a Cablevision van pulls out of my driveway, with an original intent of seeing someone other than myself (in the 4 unit apartment), they've managed to break my cable modem.
EVERY SINGLE TIME.
Then it takes 4-7 days to schedule a tech to come back out and fix the problem they just created.
gotta love those monopolies, esp. when I live about 3 feet outside the DSL radius.
va research in my bookmark file.
webdav'll do this.
Actually, that is *NOTHING* like Beowulf at all.
Beowulf is about squeezing speed out of multiple machines. Beowulf is not about load balancing. Beowulf is not about high availability.
From the FAQ
1. What's a Beowulf? [1999-05-13]
It's a kind of high-performance massively parallel computer built
primarily out of commodity hardware components, running a free-software
operating system like Linux or FreeBSD, interconnected by a private
high-speed network. It consists of a cluster of PCs or workstations
dedicated to running high-performance computing tasks. The nodes in
the cluster don't sit on people's desks; they are dedicated to running
cluster jobs. It is usually connected to the outside world through
only a single node.
Some Linux clusters are built for reliability instead of speed. These
are not Beowulfs.
As noted elsewhere, using mod_perl avoids the overhead of loading PERL ITSELF, not just the modules.
... mod_perl can determine how to (and whether to) handle the request - you can't do that with CGI.
The other significant benefit of mod_perl over (for example) a perl/cgi combination is that it makes perl available to you far earlier in the apache request sequence. So
Another nice benefit is that you can actually start writing your apache configuration in perl blocks. How about having a single httpd.conf for *all* your servers and have it automagically determine where it's running and configure appropriately at runtime?