Perhaps you should be looking at Sqlite, which is a "a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine" (as it says on their webpage).
You can run it interactively (or through a bash script or something) with the sqlite3 command line shell, or (most efficiently) hook it into your own programs and use it to do all kinds of clever SQL stuff directly within your program.
Oh yeah, it's also explicitly public domain, so you can use it for any purpose and in any application whatsoever.
I have NEVER EVER seen any small business use anything other than quickbooks.
Perhaps you don't associate with many small business owners?
I have been running my small business (a movie theatre) for twenty years and I do all of my bookkeeping, plus box office reports for the film companies and so forth, on a spreadsheet. Currently Libreoffice; when I first opened my theatre I used AsEasyAs and along the way I have used Lotus Smartsuite, Gnumeric and Openoffice as well.
Friends of mine who own a printing and publishing business used to do their using MYOB; when they switched to Linux they started using LedgerSMB. They looked at Gnucash but it doesn't do invoicing the way that they want it done.
I have been playing with computers (and writing programs) for well over 30 years. I have my own small business that has nothing to do with computers. Computers are my hobby; if I made it into my job then what would I do for fun?
Right now I'm reading and experimenting with OO programming (GTK, actually), something that I've never really looking into until just a couple of weeks ago, and it's a whole new world compared to the stuff that I've done before.
It's fascinating, it's fun and I like it. So yes, there are people who code for fun.
they aren't a hardware company, they frankly have sucked ass the times they have tried selling hardware
Microsoft actually makes great computer mice, keyboards and joysticks. I love the "Natural" line of keyboards and have been using and recommending them for years.
I don't use or have any use for Microsoft software, but their input hardware is great!
Sure! I have a trustworthy accountant and I give him everything that he asks for once per year. He tells me how much to send in to the government and I write a cheque.
I have little to no interest in accounting; that's why I hire someone who knows how to do it and have him do it for me.
This is a restaurant. Why can't it run if the POS is down for a while?
The waitresses can write orders on a pad, the kitchen staff can cook meals, the guy manning the front counter can grab a calculator to figure the taxes due on an individual order.
It's less convenient. But the doors can stay open.
Most theatres have 5.1 sound systems. Most dcp's (diigtal cinema packages) come with the 5.1 sound mix built-in, and some come with an add-on 7.1 sound mix that you can ingest into your server and play if you have a 7.1 setup. Most movies are currently available with 5.1 sound mix only.
My theatre has 5.1 sound and it'll blow you away. I've never seen the need to upgrade it to 7.1, though it would actually cost all that much in the greater scheme of things. A couple of surround speakers and another amp, I suppose. But the sound is amazing just the way it is now.
Dolby is trying to stay relevant in the age of digital cinema, where the sound processor is more-or-less irrelevant.
Digital cinema has 16 available discrete audio channels (of which 6 or 8 are usually used). Linear PCM, 24Bit, either 48 or 96KHz. The sound is Broadcast Wave format (BWFF) with linear pulse-code modulation (LPCM).
That's it. Modern DSP based cinema processors are, as far as I know, pretty much a commodity item. They just take the audio from the server, equalize/balance it to the presets for the room, and feed it to the amps.
My processor is a USL and as far as I know nothing would be different in my theatre if it was a Dolby other than having a different name on the faceplate on the rack in the projection room.
I own and operate a movie theatre in a small town. I put real butter (that I buy from the local grocery store) on popcorn. I'm their biggest butter customer, of course, because I purchase 50 pounds at a time.
My drink prices are $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50, and my popcorn prices are $2.50, $3.50 and $4.50.
My admission prices are $8 for adults and $6 for children 12 and under, plus a $3 surcharge for 3D movies.
So there you have it. My theatre is located in a town of about 5000 people.
Iran should have known better, how, and how would they get around using Windows even if they wanted to - the equipment they buy is welded to Microsoft.
Why would you put your centrifuge on the Internet anyway? If it's a stand-alone machine, leave it standing. Alone.
If it's something that's operated on a plant-wide basis, then you should have everything on an internal network not connected to the outside world.
I don't see why this is so difficult to grasp. Windows (or anything else) on an industrial machine doesn't need to be updated over the Internet or via a flash drive or in any other way.
When I first started my small business twenty years ago, I opened a commercial bank account at the bank that's located just a half-block away from my building. No particular reason to go to that bank other than it was the closest one to me.
About five years later they were charging me about $50 per month in various service charges, and they sent me a notice of service charge increases that would have raised that to nearly $75!
I then opened an account at the local Credit Union and moved all of my business there. I paid $12 per month to them for their services at that time. It's $15 per month today.
I can't recommend this more strongly: If you're not doing your banking at your local Credit Union, you're getting ripped off.
I haven't had it happen with electricity, but a couple of months after I installed a new high efficiency boiler I had an inspector from the natural gas utility come out to find out why my bill was suddenly so much lower.
I would like to have a device that would hook into my phone line between where the service comes in and the first phone on the circuit, i.e something that would work on every phone. That device would answer each phone call and say "Please press $RANDOM_NUMBER to continue this call". If the number is pressed, ring my phone. Otherwise, not.
They couldn't install junkware on an os-less computer, though, so that revenue stream would be unavailable. I suppose they could include "demo CD's" in the box, but that would add costs for the CD's and nobody would actually do anything with them other than fire them into the trash basket, so the advertising / trial value would be pretty much zero and advertisers would pay just about that much for it. You couldn't apply that money toward a larger hard drive; it wouldn't be there.
I've always been unsure if bundled Windows actually costs anything. The computer maker gets paid to install all sorts of adware and other crap on the computer; does that cover the cost of the Windows license? If so, then Windows is effectively "free" to the end user.
I don't know if this is how it actually works out in practice, though.
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I am no fan of Google...
What does google have to do with apple vs samsung?
Perhaps you should be looking at Sqlite, which is a "a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine" (as it says on their webpage).
You can run it interactively (or through a bash script or something) with the sqlite3 command line shell, or (most efficiently) hook it into your own programs and use it to do all kinds of clever SQL stuff directly within your program.
Oh yeah, it's also explicitly public domain, so you can use it for any purpose and in any application whatsoever.
I have NEVER EVER seen any small business use anything other than quickbooks.
Perhaps you don't associate with many small business owners?
I have been running my small business (a movie theatre) for twenty years and I do all of my bookkeeping, plus box office reports for the film companies and so forth, on a spreadsheet. Currently Libreoffice; when I first opened my theatre I used AsEasyAs and along the way I have used Lotus Smartsuite, Gnumeric and Openoffice as well.
Friends of mine who own a printing and publishing business used to do their using MYOB; when they switched to Linux they started using LedgerSMB. They looked at Gnucash but it doesn't do invoicing the way that they want it done.
The Radio Shack used to be like that ... After they lost the "The", they have gone downhill,
In the interest of accuracy, the T stood for Tandy, not The.
Tandy Radio Shack (hence TRS-80, etc).
Radio Shack was a division of the Tandy Leather Company.
I have been playing with computers (and writing programs) for well over 30 years. I have my own small business that has nothing to do with computers. Computers are my hobby; if I made it into my job then what would I do for fun?
Right now I'm reading and experimenting with OO programming (GTK, actually), something that I've never really looking into until just a couple of weeks ago, and it's a whole new world compared to the stuff that I've done before.
It's fascinating, it's fun and I like it. So yes, there are people who code for fun.
I used to work in a municipal office and quite a few people (mostly elderly) would pay their property taxes with $1000 bills.
I thought screen-widening tricks were all trapped and ignored by Slashdot. Obviously they missed one.
Not that you deliberately did that, but that's the effect.
they aren't a hardware company, they frankly have sucked ass the times they have tried selling hardware
Microsoft actually makes great computer mice, keyboards and joysticks. I love the "Natural" line of keyboards and have been using and recommending them for years.
I don't use or have any use for Microsoft software, but their input hardware is great!
Sure! I have a trustworthy accountant and I give him everything that he asks for once per year. He tells me how much to send in to the government and I write a cheque.
I have little to no interest in accounting; that's why I hire someone who knows how to do it and have him do it for me.
(business owner for 20 years)
This is a restaurant. Why can't it run if the POS is down for a while?
The waitresses can write orders on a pad, the kitchen staff can cook meals, the guy manning the front counter can grab a calculator to figure the taxes due on an individual order.
It's less convenient. But the doors can stay open.
Most theatres have 5.1 sound systems. Most dcp's (diigtal cinema packages) come with the 5.1 sound mix built-in, and some come with an add-on 7.1 sound mix that you can ingest into your server and play if you have a 7.1 setup. Most movies are currently available with 5.1 sound mix only.
My theatre has 5.1 sound and it'll blow you away. I've never seen the need to upgrade it to 7.1, though it would actually cost all that much in the greater scheme of things. A couple of surround speakers and another amp, I suppose. But the sound is amazing just the way it is now.
Dolby is trying to stay relevant in the age of digital cinema, where the sound processor is more-or-less irrelevant.
Digital cinema has 16 available discrete audio channels (of which 6 or 8 are usually used). Linear PCM, 24Bit, either 48 or 96KHz. The sound is Broadcast Wave format (BWFF) with linear pulse-code modulation (LPCM).
That's it. Modern DSP based cinema processors are, as far as I know, pretty much a commodity item. They just take the audio from the server, equalize/balance it to the presets for the room, and feed it to the amps.
My processor is a USL and as far as I know nothing would be different in my theatre if it was a Dolby other than having a different name on the faceplate on the rack in the projection room.
I own and operate a movie theatre in a small town. I put real butter (that I buy from the local grocery store) on popcorn. I'm their biggest butter customer, of course, because I purchase 50 pounds at a time.
My drink prices are $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50, and my popcorn prices are $2.50, $3.50 and $4.50.
My admission prices are $8 for adults and $6 for children 12 and under, plus a $3 surcharge for 3D movies.
So there you have it. My theatre is located in a town of about 5000 people.
RHEL and Centos are not affected by this issue:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-2122
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2012-June/126719.html
Iran should have known better, how, and how would they get around using Windows even if they wanted to - the equipment they buy is welded to Microsoft.
Why would you put your centrifuge on the Internet anyway? If it's a stand-alone machine, leave it standing. Alone.
If it's something that's operated on a plant-wide basis, then you should have everything on an internal network not connected to the outside world.
I don't see why this is so difficult to grasp. Windows (or anything else) on an industrial machine doesn't need to be updated over the Internet or via a flash drive or in any other way.
When I first started my small business twenty years ago, I opened a commercial bank account at the bank that's located just a half-block away from my building. No particular reason to go to that bank other than it was the closest one to me.
About five years later they were charging me about $50 per month in various service charges, and they sent me a notice of service charge increases that would have raised that to nearly $75!
I then opened an account at the local Credit Union and moved all of my business there. I paid $12 per month to them for their services at that time. It's $15 per month today.
I can't recommend this more strongly: If you're not doing your banking at your local Credit Union, you're getting ripped off.
I haven't had it happen with electricity, but a couple of months after I installed a new high efficiency boiler I had an inspector from the natural gas utility come out to find out why my bill was suddenly so much lower.
His tagline gives his website name.
whois singularityone.ca
tells me that his hosting provider is whatevercomputes.com
I would like to have a device that would hook into my phone line between where the service comes in and the first phone on the circuit, i.e something that would work on every phone. That device would answer each phone call and say "Please press $RANDOM_NUMBER to continue this call". If the number is pressed, ring my phone. Otherwise, not.
Did you try removing the old configuration files from your home directory before starting the new version?
It's in ~/.libreoffice on linux. I'm not sure where it is on Windows, but someone else can probably chime in with the facts.
Catholic schools (unlike any other religious school) have a constitutional right to taxpayer funding in Canada.
They couldn't install junkware on an os-less computer, though, so that revenue stream would be unavailable. I suppose they could include "demo CD's" in the box, but that would add costs for the CD's and nobody would actually do anything with them other than fire them into the trash basket, so the advertising / trial value would be pretty much zero and advertisers would pay just about that much for it. You couldn't apply that money toward a larger hard drive; it wouldn't be there.
I've always been unsure if bundled Windows actually costs anything. The computer maker gets paid to install all sorts of adware and other crap on the computer; does that cover the cost of the Windows license? If so, then Windows is effectively "free" to the end user.
I don't know if this is how it actually works out in practice, though.
No, we can't do that:
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Bywater Basic
Bas
blassic
Any of those should be what you're looking for (and they all work quite well).