"I'd call randomly corrupting files and moving images around more than
annoying quirks." Mod parent up! Exactly right.
Several people had told me about this, but I don't often use MS Word, so I
have only recently seen it myself. I was working on an MS Word document, that
someone else had started in Word, for about 4 hours. I saved the document
frequently. Eventually I tried to save and got only an error message. MS Word
would not open its own file, and would not open the backup. My work was lost,
apparently.
I decided to try something I had heard about on Slashdot. I tried opening the
trashed document in Open Office. No problem, it opened immediately. Then I
saved the document in MS Word.DOC format, and it opened fine in Word. So, if
you use MS Word, you should also install Open Office, because OO is sometimes
a necessary tool to make MS Word work.
Another story: Someone gave me an MS Excel spreadsheet. I opened it in Excel,
but was unable to discover how to make the row and column headings stay
visible when I scrolled to the right or down. The Excel help was no help.
I opened the Excel spreadsheet in OO. The OO help was clear about how to make
headings stationary. I did what it said, and saved the file as an MS Excel
file. Then I opened it in MS Excel, and it worked fine. Again, OO showed that
it is a very useful MS Office tool.
It is an issue. SQLite is much easier to install and begin using than the big RDBMs. The small database on each computer market is where dBase, FoxPro, Access, and FileMaker compete. PostgeSQL is for enterprises with many clients.
It looks to me (but I have no experience with it) that SQLite is part of an excellent replacement for Access, FileMaker, dBase, and FoxPro.
From the look of the web site, SQLite is VERY impressive. Now we need a GUI form designer.
Will it run with Mono? Looks like yes.
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Looks like it will run under Mono, since Mono has the required library, ADO.NET: "ORM.NET takes advantage of one of the key features of Microsoft's ActiveX Data Objects.NET (ADO.NET)--its data sets. In ADO.NET, he said, data sets can be used to hold hierarchical data tables, such as a customer, the customer's orders and fulfilled orders. What ORM.NET does is abstract out the data layer, generate a SQL statement, and commit all changes back to the database with a single call, he said."
Maybe you've seen the old motto. MS: "The whole world is our beta test site."
Why is MS software so insecure, and just plain sloppy? Maybe their management model just does not allow a programmer to finish his work. Later some poor guy is assigned to fix a terrible bug that is getting publicity, but it is difficult, boring work trying to understand what someone else did, and he makes mistakes.
The present goverment corruption often costs the taxpayer $100 or $1,000 for every dollar stolen. The simply don't care how much money they waste as long as they get theirs.
In response to nations nationalizing their oil resources, the U.S. government initiated much of the violence, before Usama bin Laden was born. This was to help increase the profit of U.S. and British oil companies.
Having a lot of weapons, and using them often, is an indication of fundamental weakness, not strength.
However you explain it, they die.
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"The divine sword of God" is another way of saying that the Jews die.
Of course, they can always save their lives by converting to evangelical Christianity, but that won't happen, for numerous reasons.
The U.S. government is far more violent. Even conservative estimates show that the U.S. government has been responsible for the deaths of more than 3,000,000 people since the end of the 2nd world war. It killed an estimated 2,000,000 people directly in Vietnam.
In Brazil, the present violence is the police, acting independently of the government.
The U.S. government's violence is organized and directed from the top.
Slashdot Mirror
"I'd call randomly corrupting files and moving images around more than annoying quirks." Mod parent up! Exactly right.
Several people had told me about this, but I don't often use MS Word, so I have only recently seen it myself. I was working on an MS Word document, that someone else had started in Word, for about 4 hours. I saved the document frequently. Eventually I tried to save and got only an error message. MS Word would not open its own file, and would not open the backup. My work was lost, apparently.
I decided to try something I had heard about on Slashdot. I tried opening the trashed document in Open Office. No problem, it opened immediately. Then I saved the document in MS Word
Another story: Someone gave me an MS Excel spreadsheet. I opened it in Excel, but was unable to discover how to make the row and column headings stay visible when I scrolled to the right or down. The Excel help was no help.
I opened the Excel spreadsheet in OO. The OO help was clear about how to make headings stationary. I did what it said, and saved the file as an MS Excel file. Then I opened it in MS Excel, and it worked fine. Again, OO showed that it is a very useful MS Office tool.
The processors run a loop, waiting for the interrupt.
Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government
It's illogical to vote Republican in 2004.
Bush's education improvements were fraud. (my sig)
These are exactly the people who did not give me a choice about paying my taxes to kill Iraqis.
Please join with me in sending links to educational information to the delegates:
Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government
It's illogical to vote Republican in 2004.
Bush's education improvements were fraud. (my sig)
It is an issue. SQLite is much easier to install and begin using than the big RDBMs. The small database on each computer market is where dBase, FoxPro, Access, and FileMaker compete. PostgeSQL is for enterprises with many clients.
I agree, form design is the most important issue.
It looks to me (but I have no experience with it) that SQLite is part of an excellent replacement for Access, FileMaker, dBase, and FoxPro.
From the look of the web site, SQLite is VERY impressive. Now we need a GUI form designer.
Looks like it will run under Mono, since Mono has the required library, ADO.NET: "ORM.NET takes advantage of one of the key features of Microsoft's ActiveX Data Objects
The only news I can find is on SourceForge: Olero Software is no longer able to continue supporting ORM.NET.
It's surprising that they released it as open source. Does anyone have any idea why? Will they continue supporting it? Will the company continue?
The Olero web site looks professional. I don't see even one word about releasing the code.
Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government
There's no storage problem. GMail accounts will be 1 Terabyte by then. Email yourself a big attachment.
We won't have 2GHz processors that wait 99.999% of the time for your every keystroke, like they do now. They will be 20 GHz and will wait 99.9999%.
There will be mods that turn a motherboard into a radar.
Britney Spears will be an old married woman by then. You will be able to examine her stretch marks in high definition detail.
Wouldn't you like some arrogance with your mouse?
Mod parent up!
I've had bad experience with Sony laptops, too, and a wacky response to requests for repair.
The small network "routers" are hardware firewalls, too, and modern ones are excellent firewalls.
Maybe you've seen the old motto. MS: "The whole world is our beta test site."
Why is MS software so insecure, and just plain sloppy? Maybe their management model just does not allow a programmer to finish his work. Later some poor guy is assigned to fix a terrible bug that is getting publicity, but it is difficult, boring work trying to understand what someone else did, and he makes mistakes.
The present goverment corruption often costs the taxpayer $100 or $1,000 for every dollar stolen. The simply don't care how much money they waste as long as they get theirs.
Continuing from above: New computers have no serial ports, so he could use a USB to RS-232 adapter to support RS-232.
Cherry Keyboards is IE specific. I wanted to check if their keyboard software is available for download. The menu fails in Mozilla 1.7.2.
Also, the download link is dead.
Several other things indicate to me that these people seem to have NO technical knowledge whatsoever.
Badly designed, IE only web site. I'm guessing the product will not be excellent.
He said he would like to get rid of USB completely, and only use RS-232. This was a comment he posted to the story.
In response to nations nationalizing their oil resources, the U.S. government initiated much of the violence, before Usama bin Laden was born. This was to help increase the profit of U.S. and British oil companies.
Having a lot of weapons, and using them often, is an indication of fundamental weakness, not strength.
"The divine sword of God" is another way of saying that the Jews die.
Of course, they can always save their lives by converting to evangelical Christianity, but that won't happen, for numerous reasons.
Anyone who thinks that the Christian Bible is accurate should read The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy.
The U.S. government is far more violent. Even conservative estimates show that the U.S. government has been responsible for the deaths of more than 3,000,000 people since the end of the 2nd world war. It killed an estimated 2,000,000 people directly in Vietnam.
In Brazil, the present violence is the police, acting independently of the government.
The U.S. government's violence is organized and directed from the top.
I've had success with USB to serial converters. I bought a bunch of them for $12.00 apiece from Belkin, for example. Email me if you want more info.