I used to support a commerce site whose backend was coded in UNIBASIC on a PICK system. The frontend was a Javascript abomination.
While UNIDATA is amazingly primitive, I wouldn't say it was the worst job I've ever had. That would have to be detassling corn at the height of the American MidWest summer as a teenager. Compared to that, anything else is a breeze.
As long as your DB can fit in a single table, doesn't need transactional support and journaling, and doesn't need to be multi-user (at the same time), then excel can potentially do just fine.
Doesn't Excel still have a hard limit of 65,535 records per spreadsheet?
Darl: What do you want? FBM: I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike, as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I want to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave, like this:::waves::
Mandrake 9.1 was my third distro, the first being RedHat 7.0 and the second being SuSE 8.0. I'm experienced enough to compile my own kernel, manually set up services, install source packages, etc, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate urpmi and the Mandrake Control Center to easily administer my boxen.
From the article: On March 25, Internet research company Netcraft Ltd.'s Sites on the Move section reported that EV1 had lost 1,080 Web sites in the previous 30 days, but according to Marsh, a loss of 800 to 1,300 sites per month was normal for EV1. Because of new business, EV1 had experienced a net gain of more than 3,300 sites during the same period, he added. "We churn a lot of sites," Marsh said.
You call that a small-to-midsize business? Interesting.
Thinking about this made me reflect on the long term instability of our calendar. What happens in millions of years when the Earth's orbit and rotational velocity will have decayed somewhat, resulting in a longer day and fewer days in a year?
And if you think no-one will be using the Gregorian calendar in a million years, remember: we still have Cobol programmers.:p
<snip some very interesting NTSC information> As to leap days...well, I guess I prefer July to be in the summer.
I was kidding of course, but couldn't the calendar be stable at 365.0 days per year, if a day was slightly less than 24 hours long? (I can hear the outraged clockmakers already..:))
If MS refused to abide by the EU's ruling, then they wouldn't be able to sell their wares in EU countries anymore. This would lead to a temporary vacuum, which I predict would quickly be filled by Linux, Macintosh, and other competitors.
In the end, this would lead to an even faster dissolution of MS's monopoly. But MS is too smart to just let go of 1/3 of the global IT market.
That would depend on your definition of 'disabled'. Is it enough that links clicked in your email program or html documents opened locally no longer open in your browser of choice?
I seem to remember that IE's checkbox to 'alert if not default browser' didn't appear until a certain service pack, the previous behavior was to simply become the default browser without asking, and there was no UI to disable that feature.
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Because everyone knows the sword was invented after the shield.
No, the pilum was invented after the shield.
Who Wants Jack Daniels? Always a decent proposition..
What you say!!
Sometimes they come with notes attached.. it's like fortune cookies with wings!
I used to support a commerce site whose backend was coded in UNIBASIC on a PICK system. The frontend was a Javascript abomination.
While UNIDATA is amazingly primitive, I wouldn't say it was the worst job I've ever had. That would have to be detassling corn at the height of the American MidWest summer as a teenager. Compared to that, anything else is a breeze.
As long as your DB can fit in a single table, doesn't need transactional support and journaling, and doesn't need to be multi-user (at the same time), then excel can potentially do just fine.
Doesn't Excel still have a hard limit of 65,535 records per spreadsheet?
Darl: What do you want? ::waves::
FBM: I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike, as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I want to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave, like this:
Only if it's a +3 iMace of Disruption or better..
Mandrake 9.1 was my third distro, the first being RedHat 7.0 and the second being SuSE 8.0. I'm experienced enough to compile my own kernel, manually set up services, install source packages, etc, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate urpmi and the Mandrake Control Center to easily administer my boxen.
You can easily disable MDK's automount, and in fact many people do.
Nah, dumping would be if they sold 'em for $1 each to students, educators, the army, etc. Kind of like their Office strategy.
I was still getting ACPI lockups with 2.6.4 on my Nforce2 system when working with relatively large files. Works fine with ACPI disabled tho..
What happened to the government mandated handicap access regulations, do Bush's popups work properly with a screen reader?
In fact, they're using one sound in between V and W for both.
So do Hawaiians, for that matter.
What do they use for decimals, I wonder?
[Some small to midsized business owner]
From the article:
On March 25, Internet research company Netcraft Ltd.'s Sites on the Move section reported that EV1 had lost 1,080 Web sites in the previous 30 days, but according to Marsh, a loss of 800 to 1,300 sites per month was normal for EV1. Because of new business, EV1 had experienced a net gain of more than 3,300 sites during the same period, he added. "We churn a lot of sites," Marsh said.
You call that a small-to-midsize business? Interesting.
only 16 for the record
Posting to /. during your school lunch hour? Back in my day we considered ourselves lucky to roam the building during lunch, much less the Internet..
Thinking about this made me reflect on the long term instability of our calendar. What happens in millions of years when the Earth's orbit and rotational velocity will have decayed somewhat, resulting in a longer day and fewer days in a year?
And if you think no-one will be using the Gregorian calendar in a million years, remember: we still have Cobol programmers. :p
<snip some very interesting NTSC information>
As to leap days...well, I guess I prefer July to be in the summer.
I was kidding of course, but couldn't the calendar be stable at 365.0 days per year, if a day was slightly less than 24 hours long? (I can hear the outraged clockmakers already.. :))
Drop-frame attempts to correct for the time errors by dropping two frame addresses periodically.
Brought to us by the same genius thinking that gave us Leap Days, no doubt.
If MS refused to abide by the EU's ruling, then they wouldn't be able to sell their wares in EU countries anymore. This would lead to a temporary vacuum, which I predict would quickly be filled by Linux, Macintosh, and other competitors.
In the end, this would lead to an even faster dissolution of MS's monopoly. But MS is too smart to just let go of 1/3 of the global IT market.
They're the ones who are holding all of your 401k money.
I already cashed out my 401K to pay bills. Hah, that'll show 'em!
Having a [Commodore] computer was like driving a moped.
You mean it was fun to use while still getting you where you wanted to go? I agree!
That would depend on your definition of 'disabled'. Is it enough that links clicked in your email program or html documents opened locally no longer open in your browser of choice?
I seem to remember that IE's checkbox to 'alert if not default browser' didn't appear until a certain service pack, the previous behavior was to simply become the default browser without asking, and there was no UI to disable that feature.
You think that's weird, check out Badger2 by the same guy..