It's so obvious I remember having to do it on paper for a first-year CS data structures subject exam 15 years ago! This was a mandatory subject for first year CS students at my university.
I believe in that exam we had to design a data structure and provide pseudo-code algorithms that would allow traversal of a collection of items in at least three different directions.
I used to do timesheets with Excel as I work remotely and have to bill my time to various jobs.
I had some formulas that would scan the spreadsheet and calculate day totals and so on.
Recently I took the Excel sheet and started doing the timesheets with OO. I then save-as Excel and email it to the office for processing. I noticed a couple of problems in the process:
OO converted my "scanning" formulas that use lookups etc on A:A to A1:A32000. For some reason Excel can't calculate the answer when it is given the formula in this form (although OO can).
OO does not save the formatted version of the formula result, time, date etc. in the.xls file. This means Perl utilities such as Spreadsheet::ParseExcel are unable to extract a lot of the information from an OO created spreadsheet. I found that opening such a spreadsheet in Excel, and resaving it put this information back in the file. I found this a bit disappointing, as I'd like to be able to use Excel/OO to create test data, and use the Perl utilities to extract it from the file. I currently support only CSV format, which sucks because you can't save formulas for expected results etc.) Looks like I'm stuck with just using Excel (either that or going the extra mile to support OO's native format, which I doubt anyone but me would use).
I just tried enabling it with an old 4363, and the latest 4496 drivers on a geforce 256. Worked fine until I loaded this article up in slashdot in galeon.
At that point, my box locked up tight each time.
550 MHz P3-550E
440BX ASUS P3B with ASUS NVIDIA GEFORCE 256 Deluxe card
Disabling it again made the system revert to normal. I didn't notice any improvement in my XD2 performance either (up to it locking up).
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It's so obvious I remember having to do it on paper for a first-year CS data structures subject exam 15 years ago! This was a mandatory subject for first year CS students at my university.
I believe in that exam we had to design a data structure and provide pseudo-code algorithms that would allow traversal of a collection of items in at least three different directions.
I used to do timesheets with Excel as I work remotely and have to bill my time to various jobs. I had some formulas that would scan the spreadsheet and calculate day totals and so on.
Recently I took the Excel sheet and started doing the timesheets with OO. I then save-as Excel and email it to the office for processing. I noticed a couple of problems in the process:
I just tried enabling it with an old 4363, and the latest 4496 drivers on a geforce 256. Worked fine until I loaded this article up in slashdot in galeon. At that point, my box locked up tight each time. 550 MHz P3-550E 440BX ASUS P3B with ASUS NVIDIA GEFORCE 256 Deluxe card Disabling it again made the system revert to normal. I didn't notice any improvement in my XD2 performance either (up to it locking up).