You do know you can use perl (know for it's regular expressions) and very easily interface with just about any database?
Oh and you can use html or even tk to make an interface. The other great thing about perl is that when your company finally figures out windows does _not_ have a lower TCO and you switch to linux you can still use perl.
Excel is just another bloated app from a company that really knows bloat. I worked for one company that used excel to generate some reports and it took forever. (in comparison to a database with a good front end.)
Excel is ok when the data set is small but if you have a lot of data or a lot of calculation, use something else.
Have you tried Ximian Evolution? It's got e-mail, a calendar, task list and address book. It also has the ability to grab rss feeds and display them for you. I think it's a lot better than outlook.
Ximian evolution with Open Office and PostgreSQL or mySQL and you are set... Who needs Office/Outlook?
Futher more, it doesn't integrate with Exchange, Access, or any other Microsoft product.
They are claiming this is a bad thing?
Access is a POS and Exchange isn't much better. My school switched from a sun machine of some sort that handled all the mail to an exchange server. We went from not worrying about e-mail to the server going down quite frequently. I'm just wondering who got the kickback on that switch.
I'd rather gouge my eyes out with a spoon than use that horrible "database" known as access. I mean is anyone out there really using it? and are they really happy with it?
There are a bunch of front ends for most of the open source databases out there... while I'm a terminal man myself, I imagine one of them should be as easy to use as access.
Actually I think the failings of the palm market are that they really haven't come up with anything new and integration with the desktop really isn't seamless.
They need to come out with something new and innovative to keep up and they really haven't. I like the T3 (probably the best thing they've come up with so far) but palm needs to take some hints from Sony and the other WinCE units.
However, I don't think that cramming in as many features as possible into one unit is the way to go.
Most new phones do have a GPS tracking feature and yes, you can be tracked using your phone. However, you cannot track a phone otherwise. You can tell what cell tower they are using but you could be anywhere around there. Oh and you know when you are being tracked... although I'm sure their is probably a way around it.
I laugh at the "technology" used on TV. It is usually based on some fact and then they change it to suit their needs.
To me, a "no cell phone" policy means no cell phones. (yours or companies) It doesn't matter if it's a company/personal phone.
I would guess that this policy was implemented because people were using their personal cell phones for their own personal calls on company time.
If I were the OP, I would talk to my manager and point out that it is used for work and maybe suggest that work pays for a phone so they can keep track of the calls. (to make sure it's not used for personal use)
Vote with your dollars. Don't buy from companies that outsource; start a consumer advocacy group (like the ones that pressured businesses not to invest in South Africa).
That doesn't really work. I'll take the example of walmart. It's a big chain that comes in and ruins most of the small towns it goes into. What happens is they sell cheap (both in price and quality) goods at "low low prices." On the surface, providing low cost goods sounds great... However, they drive out the smaller stores and then when it's not profitable they pack up and leave. What's left? Not much... walmart destroys these towns and people let it happen. I often ask people why they shop at walmart and they say "because it's cheap." I start to explain about how bad walmart is but they say I know but they have cheap stuff.
The bottom line has become the most important thing. This leads to a huge increase in initial income but what happens in a few years? If you don't care about your town or what country you live in then by all means outsource or by from walmart. However, most americans have become complacent. They think that the rights they have in the US are basic human rights that everyone should have. They don't realize what they have and therefore really don't care anymore.
I for one care about my country and I don't like seeing it's economy being hurt by things like outsourcing. You can no longer buy anything that is american made because everything comes from somewhere.
Trade is not bad... trade at the expense of your own economy is. All so a manager (who should really take a paycut if they want to save the company money) can save a few bucks.
It seems to me that a lot of people think this is all about American's thinking Indian's shouldn't work... That's really not what it's about. It's about american companies saving a buck by sending jobs overseas. I don't have a problem with Indian's working... I have a problem with America shipping all of it's work overseas. Then the money goes overseas. It's not that I don't want Indian's to have an economy too... I just don't think it should come at a cost of american jobs.
If there was a shortage of programmers in the US... then sure, send some work overseas. However, when programmers can't find work and comanies are still sending jobs overseas, it's not good for our economy.
There was an interesting news feature a week or so ago where one company that was starting up decided to offer experienced programmers $40,000/year instead of (what they said the industry standard) $80,000/year. They had no problems finding people to hire and kept jobs here.
It's not a question of India's people and how good/bad they are... it's about keeping US jobs in the US during a time when the economy isn't the greatest.
Right... open source browsers conform to the W3C standards... M$ doesn't. What was your point again? The open source community isn't making up their own standards like M$ is.
My web page doesn't look right in IE... my link bar shows up over the main page. (using CSS). It conforms to the W3C standards and is fully CSS compliant. It works under Mac's IE, Safari, Mozilla, Galeon, FireFox... but not IE in Windows. So rather than spend time (especially when I can't test it) I tell people to download firefox.
I did that for my in-laws... We got them an iMac and the only questions I've had to answer are one's like "How do I burn a cd?" It's not bad... no more virii and they've gotten used to it. I did get Word because switching them to a Mac AND OO I think would have been a bit much.
I've told everyone "I don't do windows!" I have caved in once or twice but only to set up a wireless network and then it was only to install a wireless card. Now when people get the latest virus I just sit back and say "That sucks..." I mean, I kindof feel bad for them but if they don't listen to my suggestions to buy a mac/ use linux (I've offered help) then it's what they get. They know it's a problem and choose to use it anyway.
Communism is idealistic... Where has it worked? Capitalism has worked here in the US. Sure, the US isn't perfect but I think we're a lot better off than if we had a dictator. Capitalism is based on the best product doing the best. Not "I'll do whatever it takes to drive you out of town EXCEPT make my product better so people will want it." That is what M$ is doing. If they were to actually try and make a good product without their underhanded dirty practices I really wouldn't have a problem with them.
The open source movement is making a better product and microsoft's response should be to make a better product, not funding false TCO reports and whatever else it's doing this week.
I don't think you can really compare M$ vs. Linux as capitalism vs. communism/socialism or any other ism. It's really not the same thing.
Sure Microsoft has the monopolistic dictatorship qualities. They don't care about the people, only about themselves. Security is an afterthought and they run things. No one is going to take them down. However, they are capitolistic in some sense because they are a company providing a service. However, if you look at their practices, they are anything but competitive. If someone releases a better product, they release theirs as free and tightly integrate it into their OS. They then send some goons to muscle suppliers (like dell, compaq, etc...) to not install the competitors product. This is very anti-competitive.
Now let's look at linux. Aside from being free (as in speech... something this country was founded upon) it is all about choice. It is also all about producing a better product. It's also about choices. If you don't like the way a product is going, you can take the source and code it the way you want. (or hire someone to do it for you) There are also many companies that use linux to make money (in a very capitolistic sense). RedHat is the perfect example of this. They use their reputation and hard work to get where they are.
However the biggest fact is that software developers have no control over what you do in terms of religion, and every other aspect of life. Americans have it ingrained in them that communism is a bad thing so everyone tried to relate what they don't like to communism. In fact most people that say this, don't even know what communism is. I'm also not supporting communism... I don't think it would ever work and it's more of a throwback to a dictatorship but that's besides the point. I don't think communism is necessarily "evil" but rather what people choose to do with is could be evil.
I'm just tired of people trying to use the "all (linux|Microsoft) users are just like communists." I think there is room for both to survive. I've been a Linux user for about 9-10 years now so I know how to use it. I haven't used a M$ product in about 2-3 years now. (Not word, office, that crappy media player, etc...) So I must be against closed source right? Wrong... I have an apple PowerBook G4 with OS X. Sure it's got an open source component (and I have open office, emacs and a bunch of otherr free GNU tools from fink) but it also has a very closed proprietary part which is definately not free.
Should all software be open source? It doesn't matter because it never will. There will always be a niche that needs customized software for their needs and people always like choice and if you can offer something better than open source can offer, you stand to make a lot of money. I think they can live side by side but M$ needs to stop their anti-competitive practices!
Sortof yes, currently I have ingredients listed in a table like so:
qty - varchar(20)
amt - varchar(20)
des - varchar(100)
recID - int(11)
ingID - int(11) * primary key
the recID is used to tell which ingredient line belongs to which recipe and ingID is a unique key for each ingredient. I wanted to be a little more strict with some things like making qty a little smaller but sometimes you have something like 1/2 - 1 cup something and I wanted to preserve that. I still don't have a good way of inserting a recipe other than parsing a text file with perl. I'd like to be able to just automatically insert it but I'm running into some limitations with CGI and the ability to add ingredients dynamically.
But hopefully when I'm done you would be able to do a select along the lines of select recID from ingredients where ingredients.des LIKE "coors" AND ingredients.qty=5; and so on but I'd probably just impliment a search so you don't actually have to much about with SQL.
I just started working on my own recipe database program. I started with a perl/mysql/cgi interface and now I'm working on a qt program to interface said database.
Granted all my recipes are family recipes and it's nowhere near ready for mass consumption but there are recipes everywhere. allrecipes.com has already been mentioned but there are some other good sites: http://www.recipesource.com/ http://www.r ecipezaar.com/ http://eat.epicurious.com/ http:/ /www.foodtv.com/
Of course if you are looking for something google can be your best resource.
Hopefully I will eventually have something that I feel is good enough to release. While I am using mysql, since I am using dbi (for the perl end) and qt for the c++ end it should be able to use any database that these support with just a recompile. Let me know if there is really an interest in this and I could try and release something soon. I'd give my web site but it's on my cablemodem which I'm not supposed to run a server off of.
I got it working, it's just another step that can be a pain. Especially when say 2.6 first came out... I had to wait until nVidia recompiled their drivers. I'm tied to their drivers and I'd prefer to not be. Switching to ATI again isn't an option because they too are closed source.
Ok, so ATI and nVidia are out since they release a binary only graphics driver. I have a GeForece card and It's really a pain to get it working properly.
It there a good grapics card that has good, open source drivers? With 3d acceleration etc...?
I agree... LDP has gone down in quality over the years as linux has gotten more popular. Outdated stuff stays up and their site is a pain to navigate and search. I mean, how many different kinds of tutorials do you need? You have HOWTOs in both regular and mini sizes though authors really don't do anything different. (like making the mini ones shorter and to the point) Then you have Guides which are more like books. While they may have their use, I have never really found one on a topic I need an explanation for. (Especially that in-depth) Therefore I'm more likely to look at a book for information of that scale first as they are usually better. And again, a lot of times if you do find something that might be useful, it's mostly out of date. Then you have FAQ's... There aren't that many and I doubt questions obout the topics listed are really asked all that frequently.
I mean it's a nice idea and most of the guides that were around when I first started using linux (about 9-10 years ago) were excelent. In fact, some of them are still useful but they need updating!
TLDP also needs a redesign of their site. Maybe have a section for newbies and then other sections based on what you want help on instead of just grouping all the HOWTOs together. It's a beast to look through. If I want to find information on an editor I need to know to look for vi or Emacs.. it would be nice to click on an Editors section and see all the documentation relating to editors.
I think you could easily show malicious intent if SCO doesn't own the linux code in question. The statement could be made that SCO filed their lawsuit with IBM to get illegal license fees because SCO is dying.
What would be cool would be for Daimler Chrysler to sue SCO in germany over what is going on in the US. I don't know if they could actually do that but I'd find it amusing.
As an aside, this is probably the best publicity that AutoZone and Daimler Chrysler could have. SCO is busy with many lawsuits right now. I don't know about AutoZone's legal department but I can only imagine how large Daimler Chrysler's is. And they can dedicate their best lawyers to this case... SCO doesn't stand a chance.
Nah.... the Viper (Dodge is a part of Daimler Chrysler)
Of course I can't afford to buy or insure one but it would be sweet.
The Crossfire is nice, so is the kompressor (mlk something... I forget now). On the cheaper end, the new neon doesn't look that great but has a killer engine in it.
I'm sure the reason they decided to sue Chrysler is because are a current licencee who probably uses linux as well. Way to go SCO, sue your customer base!
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You do know you can use perl (know for it's regular expressions) and very easily interface with just about any database?
Oh and you can use html or even tk to make an interface. The other great thing about perl is that when your company finally figures out windows does _not_ have a lower TCO and you switch to linux you can still use perl.
Excel is just another bloated app from a company that really knows bloat. I worked for one company that used excel to generate some reports and it took forever. (in comparison to a database with a good front end.)
Excel is ok when the data set is small but if you have a lot of data or a lot of calculation, use something else.
Have you tried Ximian Evolution? It's got e-mail, a calendar, task list and address book. It also has the ability to grab rss feeds and display them for you. I think it's a lot better than outlook.
Ximian evolution with Open Office and PostgreSQL or mySQL and you are set... Who needs Office/Outlook?
I can get it in LaTeX by doing \item[1] then \item[7] it doesn't care what I use... I will never go back to word!
Futher more, it doesn't integrate with Exchange, Access, or any other Microsoft product.
They are claiming this is a bad thing?
Access is a POS and Exchange isn't much better. My school switched from a sun machine of some sort that handled all the mail to an exchange server. We went from not worrying about e-mail to the server going down quite frequently. I'm just wondering who got the kickback on that switch.
For the small office there's nothing like Access.
I'd rather gouge my eyes out with a spoon than use that horrible "database" known as access. I mean is anyone out there really using it? and are they really happy with it?
There are a bunch of front ends for most of the open source databases out there... while I'm a terminal man myself, I imagine one of them should be as easy to use as access.
Actually I think the failings of the palm market are that they really haven't come up with anything new and integration with the desktop really isn't seamless.
They need to come out with something new and innovative to keep up and they really haven't. I like the T3 (probably the best thing they've come up with so far) but palm needs to take some hints from Sony and the other WinCE units.
However, I don't think that cramming in as many features as possible into one unit is the way to go.
You are getting your facts from a tv show?
Most new phones do have a GPS tracking feature and yes, you can be tracked using your phone. However, you cannot track a phone otherwise. You can tell what cell tower they are using but you could be anywhere around there. Oh and you know when you are being tracked... although I'm sure their is probably a way around it.
I laugh at the "technology" used on TV. It is usually based on some fact and then they change it to suit their needs.
Yeah, because I check my e-mail while at lunch or going to the bathroom...
To me, a "no cell phone" policy means no cell phones. (yours or companies) It doesn't matter if it's a company/personal phone.
I would guess that this policy was implemented because people were using their personal cell phones for their own personal calls on company time.
If I were the OP, I would talk to my manager and point out that it is used for work and maybe suggest that work pays for a phone so they can keep track of the calls. (to make sure it's not used for personal use)
Vote with your dollars. Don't buy from companies that outsource; start a consumer advocacy group (like the ones that pressured businesses not to invest in South Africa).
That doesn't really work. I'll take the example of walmart. It's a big chain that comes in and ruins most of the small towns it goes into. What happens is they sell cheap (both in price and quality) goods at "low low prices." On the surface, providing low cost goods sounds great... However, they drive out the smaller stores and then when it's not profitable they pack up and leave. What's left? Not much... walmart destroys these towns and people let it happen. I often ask people why they shop at walmart and they say "because it's cheap." I start to explain about how bad walmart is but they say I know but they have cheap stuff.
The bottom line has become the most important thing. This leads to a huge increase in initial income but what happens in a few years? If you don't care about your town or what country you live in then by all means outsource or by from walmart. However, most americans have become complacent. They think that the rights they have in the US are basic human rights that everyone should have. They don't realize what they have and therefore really don't care anymore.
I for one care about my country and I don't like seeing it's economy being hurt by things like outsourcing. You can no longer buy anything that is american made because everything comes from somewhere.
Trade is not bad... trade at the expense of your own economy is. All so a manager (who should really take a paycut if they want to save the company money) can save a few bucks.
It seems to me that a lot of people think this is all about American's thinking Indian's shouldn't work... That's really not what it's about. It's about american companies saving a buck by sending jobs overseas. I don't have a problem with Indian's working... I have a problem with America shipping all of it's work overseas. Then the money goes overseas. It's not that I don't want Indian's to have an economy too... I just don't think it should come at a cost of american jobs.
If there was a shortage of programmers in the US... then sure, send some work overseas. However, when programmers can't find work and comanies are still sending jobs overseas, it's not good for our economy.
There was an interesting news feature a week or so ago where one company that was starting up decided to offer experienced programmers $40,000/year instead of (what they said the industry standard) $80,000/year. They had no problems finding people to hire and kept jobs here.
It's not a question of India's people and how good/bad they are... it's about keeping US jobs in the US during a time when the economy isn't the greatest.
Right... open source browsers conform to the W3C standards... M$ doesn't. What was your point again? The open source community isn't making up their own standards like M$ is.
My web page doesn't look right in IE... my link bar shows up over the main page. (using CSS). It conforms to the W3C standards and is fully CSS compliant. It works under Mac's IE, Safari, Mozilla, Galeon, FireFox... but not IE in Windows. So rather than spend time (especially when I can't test it) I tell people to download firefox.
I did that for my in-laws... We got them an iMac and the only questions I've had to answer are one's like "How do I burn a cd?" It's not bad... no more virii and they've gotten used to it. I did get Word because switching them to a Mac AND OO I think would have been a bit much.
I've told everyone "I don't do windows!" I have caved in once or twice but only to set up a wireless network and then it was only to install a wireless card. Now when people get the latest virus I just sit back and say "That sucks..." I mean, I kindof feel bad for them but if they don't listen to my suggestions to buy a mac/ use linux (I've offered help) then it's what they get. They know it's a problem and choose to use it anyway.
Communism is idealistic... Where has it worked? Capitalism has worked here in the US. Sure, the US isn't perfect but I think we're a lot better off than if we had a dictator. Capitalism is based on the best product doing the best. Not "I'll do whatever it takes to drive you out of town EXCEPT make my product better so people will want it." That is what M$ is doing. If they were to actually try and make a good product without their underhanded dirty practices I really wouldn't have a problem with them.
The open source movement is making a better product and microsoft's response should be to make a better product, not funding false TCO reports and whatever else it's doing this week.
I don't think you can really compare M$ vs. Linux as capitalism vs. communism/socialism or any other ism. It's really not the same thing.
Sure Microsoft has the monopolistic dictatorship qualities. They don't care about the people, only about themselves. Security is an afterthought and they run things. No one is going to take them down. However, they are capitolistic in some sense because they are a company providing a service. However, if you look at their practices, they are anything but competitive. If someone releases a better product, they release theirs as free and tightly integrate it into their OS. They then send some goons to muscle suppliers (like dell, compaq, etc...) to not install the competitors product. This is very anti-competitive.
Now let's look at linux. Aside from being free (as in speech... something this country was founded upon) it is all about choice. It is also all about producing a better product. It's also about choices. If you don't like the way a product is going, you can take the source and code it the way you want. (or hire someone to do it for you) There are also many companies that use linux to make money (in a very capitolistic sense). RedHat is the perfect example of this. They use their reputation and hard work to get where they are.
However the biggest fact is that software developers have no control over what you do in terms of religion, and every other aspect of life. Americans have it ingrained in them that communism is a bad thing so everyone tried to relate what they don't like to communism. In fact most people that say this, don't even know what communism is. I'm also not supporting communism... I don't think it would ever work and it's more of a throwback to a dictatorship but that's besides the point. I don't think communism is necessarily "evil" but rather what people choose to do with is could be evil.
I'm just tired of people trying to use the "all (linux|Microsoft) users are just like communists." I think there is room for both to survive. I've been a Linux user for about 9-10 years now so I know how to use it. I haven't used a M$ product in about 2-3 years now. (Not word, office, that crappy media player, etc...) So I must be against closed source right? Wrong... I have an apple PowerBook G4 with OS X. Sure it's got an open source component (and I have open office, emacs and a bunch of otherr free GNU tools from fink) but it also has a very closed proprietary part which is definately not free.
Should all software be open source? It doesn't matter because it never will. There will always be a niche that needs customized software for their needs and people always like choice and if you can offer something better than open source can offer, you stand to make a lot of money. I think they can live side by side but M$ needs to stop their anti-competitive practices!
Sortof yes, currently I have ingredients listed in a table like so:
qty - varchar(20)
amt - varchar(20)
des - varchar(100)
recID - int(11)
ingID - int(11) * primary key
the recID is used to tell which ingredient line belongs to which recipe and ingID is a unique key for each ingredient. I wanted to be a little more strict with some things like making qty a little smaller but sometimes you have something like 1/2 - 1 cup something and I wanted to preserve that. I still don't have a good way of inserting a recipe other than parsing a text file with perl. I'd like to be able to just automatically insert it but I'm running into some limitations with CGI and the ability to add ingredients dynamically. But hopefully when I'm done you would be able to do a select along the lines of select recID from ingredients where ingredients.des LIKE "coors" AND ingredients.qty=5; and so on but I'd probably just impliment a search so you don't actually have to much about with SQL.
I just started working on my own recipe database program. I started with a perl/mysql/cgi interface and now I'm working on a qt program to interface said database.
r ecipezaar.com// /www.foodtv.com/
Granted all my recipes are family recipes and it's nowhere near ready for mass consumption but there are recipes everywhere. allrecipes.com has already been mentioned but there are some other good sites:
http://www.recipesource.com/
http://www.
http://eat.epicurious.com/
http:
Of course if you are looking for something google can be your best resource.
Hopefully I will eventually have something that I feel is good enough to release. While I am using mysql, since I am using dbi (for the perl end) and qt for the c++ end it should be able to use any database that these support with just a recompile. Let me know if there is really an interest in this and I could try and release something soon. I'd give my web site but it's on my cablemodem which I'm not supposed to run a server off of.
I got it working, it's just another step that can be a pain. Especially when say 2.6 first came out... I had to wait until nVidia recompiled their drivers. I'm tied to their drivers and I'd prefer to not be. Switching to ATI again isn't an option because they too are closed source.
Yes but you can't go into any Daimler Chrysler dealership and get a MINI. Just because they helped develop the engine doesn't mean that "have Minis."
:-D
I own one... it *is* a fun car.
Ok, so ATI and nVidia are out since they release a binary only graphics driver. I have a GeForece card and It's really a pain to get it working properly.
It there a good grapics card that has good, open source drivers? With 3d acceleration etc...?
Wikipedia
I know you are just a troll but there are a lot of crappy wiki's out there. This is one example of one that rocks!
I agree... LDP has gone down in quality over the years as linux has gotten more popular. Outdated stuff stays up and their site is a pain to navigate and search. I mean, how many different kinds of tutorials do you need? You have HOWTOs in both regular and mini sizes though authors really don't do anything different. (like making the mini ones shorter and to the point) Then you have Guides which are more like books. While they may have their use, I have never really found one on a topic I need an explanation for. (Especially that in-depth) Therefore I'm more likely to look at a book for information of that scale first as they are usually better. And again, a lot of times if you do find something that might be useful, it's mostly out of date. Then you have FAQ's... There aren't that many and I doubt questions obout the topics listed are really asked all that frequently.
I mean it's a nice idea and most of the guides that were around when I first started using linux (about 9-10 years ago) were excelent. In fact, some of them are still useful but they need updating!
TLDP also needs a redesign of their site. Maybe have a section for newbies and then other sections based on what you want help on instead of just grouping all the HOWTOs together. It's a beast to look through. If I want to find information on an editor I need to know to look for vi or Emacs.. it would be nice to click on an Editors section and see all the documentation relating to editors.
I think you could easily show malicious intent if SCO doesn't own the linux code in question. The statement could be made that SCO filed their lawsuit with IBM to get illegal license fees because SCO is dying.
What would be cool would be for Daimler Chrysler to sue SCO in germany over what is going on in the US. I don't know if they could actually do that but I'd find it amusing.
As an aside, this is probably the best publicity that AutoZone and Daimler Chrysler could have. SCO is busy with many lawsuits right now. I don't know about AutoZone's legal department but I can only imagine how large Daimler Chrysler's is. And they can dedicate their best lawyers to this case... SCO doesn't stand a chance.
This whole thing keeps getting better and better.
Nah.... the Viper (Dodge is a part of Daimler Chrysler)
Of course I can't afford to buy or insure one but it would be sweet.
The Crossfire is nice, so is the kompressor (mlk something... I forget now). On the cheaper end, the new neon doesn't look that great but has a killer engine in it.
I'm sure the reason they decided to sue Chrysler is because are a current licencee who probably uses linux as well. Way to go SCO, sue your customer base!