Yeah, and wouldn't you know it, when you scroll down on the page, you come across a posting about half way down that says:
Accepted Answer from JDettman
Date: 12/29/2005 07:50AM PST
Grade: A
Accepted Answer
I have a search written in Access for MDB's. Finds all and gives you some stats on each. Drop me an e-mail at "jimdettman@earthlink.net" and I'll send it along.
Should be a pretty good start for what your looking to do and easily modifiable to do the spreadsheets.
You also could pull it into VB 6 easily enough. The code is pretty simple.
JimD.
That's just it. We're not a software company. We're a private college that has such a specific business process (and CEO wanting software that's custom fit to the company, rather than the company to the software) that we have to customize or build our own systems. Many times it's been "Oh, we need this done" and whatever IT person that is closest to them at the time saying "OK, we have this software on hand so we'll use that" and then that system becomes a "critical" non-critical system. It also meant the same business logic being redone over several languages and rarely were they all updated at the same time.
I beg to differ on the "let programmers do what they want" attitude. With job turn over and needing to get helping eyes in on projects, attempting to figure out what's going on is a waste of resources. The project that I originally joined the company to work on had (from what I heard) 7 different developers on the project (when it really needed about 20). I can tell who added what code because of different ways things were handled. One developer used recordsets whenever and where ever possible. Another used global variables and never had functions take any parameters. Another had the tendency to keep indenting to the point that you had to scroll horizontally further than you did vertically. *I* have no problem slogging through the mess of code, but it still takes me at least a day to figure out what a program is doing before I can even attempt to fix it. That's after looking at this code base for a year. But that's still a full day wasted on other tasks that can be accomplished. A vast majority of the time the fix takes 5 minutes. So 1 day of decoding = 5 minutes to fix. That isn't a very efficient formula and this has become the norm for the company, yet they wonder why the programmers can't get anything done.
This is a very valid point. As people start to only interact with similar minds online, they will confront a sort of system shock when they have to deal with people who have a radically different view on life in real life. It would probably take a few generations for this effect to happen though...
Agreed. Pop-ups are an automatic block. Same goes for annoying Flash ads. Especially if it makes noise. Also the bright, quickly rotating GIFs/images. Text ads are fine with me (can easily ignore them, as do so many others). Plain images also work as great advertisements. None of this "reach out and bash the viewer over the head to look at the ad" type advertising, that's overly distracting. When I see things like that I will either go into over-Adblock mode or I'll never visit that site again.
Try introducing a way to combine the outdoors and in. An example would be like Astrology. Have the kids look up constellations on the internet and then at night head out with them and go star gazing. Or things like geo-caching. There's tons of things that can mesh indoor activities with outdoor activites (with or without technology) to get kids to enjoy the outdoors.
Or in the worst case scenario, over expose them to indoors activities so much that they grow to hate it and would do anything that doesn't involve sitting by a computer/TV for long periods of time.
I don't think it's nutty. I'd have to say he has a pretty good excuse. Now if he were claiming to find proof of Area 51 or something, then he'd be a nut...
The fact that a 17,000 row spread sheet only takes up about 750K is the best thing I've found so far. Just ignore the fact that it takes at least a minute to initially load Open Office and then an additional 4 to open the document. Now if they can get speed AND file size down....and memory footprint....and overall usability......then it might be worth using. Until then, I'll continue with the necessary evil that is MS Office...
stop drinking coffee? I've never drank coffee and I'm still dead tired. When you have to be a "day person" to work 9-10 hours and then talk with friends/relatives/significant other who are "night persons", you find yourself on a lack of sleep. It's not about ridding yourself of caffine, it's about actually having time to get that full 8 hours sleep. And in the good ol' US, that's just crazy talk thanks to computers helping us do so many tasks for work....*rolls eyes*
Just remember that Douglas Adams actually wrote the script for the movie and intended that it not be the same as the book, or the radio show, or the other reincarnations...
Why not follow in Google's footsteps and then contribute to the their work and then you can search that one source, across multiple languages, to find what you're looking for. Then it won't necessarily be English dominated documents...It's not that hard...
Maybe it's just the way the French are..."That's a great idea, but if I support it I look like one of the general masses. I know! I'll critisize it, and at the same time perform the exact same actions and claim my way's better!"
Plus you could easily write a firefox plugin to do something similar (and use other soucres besides Google's). It's like saying the adblock plugin is doing something illegal because you can OPTIONALLY choose to have it display a tab by the media file you want to block. It's inserting the extra tag, oh no, better start pointing fingers and yelling about illegal activities.
And besides, who's forcing you to the Google tool bar anyways?
yes, but it's only one image. Semi-permanently on there... "What hunny? No, I wasn't looking at anything like that recently. Why do you ask? *mutter* stupid monitor..."
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Yeah, and wouldn't you know it, when you scroll down on the page, you come across a posting about half way down that says: Accepted Answer from JDettman Date: 12/29/2005 07:50AM PST Grade: A Accepted Answer I have a search written in Access for MDB's. Finds all and gives you some stats on each. Drop me an e-mail at "jimdettman@earthlink.net" and I'll send it along. Should be a pretty good start for what your looking to do and easily modifiable to do the spreadsheets. You also could pull it into VB 6 easily enough. The code is pretty simple. JimD.
That's just it. We're not a software company. We're a private college that has such a specific business process (and CEO wanting software that's custom fit to the company, rather than the company to the software) that we have to customize or build our own systems. Many times it's been "Oh, we need this done" and whatever IT person that is closest to them at the time saying "OK, we have this software on hand so we'll use that" and then that system becomes a "critical" non-critical system. It also meant the same business logic being redone over several languages and rarely were they all updated at the same time. I beg to differ on the "let programmers do what they want" attitude. With job turn over and needing to get helping eyes in on projects, attempting to figure out what's going on is a waste of resources. The project that I originally joined the company to work on had (from what I heard) 7 different developers on the project (when it really needed about 20). I can tell who added what code because of different ways things were handled. One developer used recordsets whenever and where ever possible. Another used global variables and never had functions take any parameters. Another had the tendency to keep indenting to the point that you had to scroll horizontally further than you did vertically. *I* have no problem slogging through the mess of code, but it still takes me at least a day to figure out what a program is doing before I can even attempt to fix it. That's after looking at this code base for a year. But that's still a full day wasted on other tasks that can be accomplished. A vast majority of the time the fix takes 5 minutes. So 1 day of decoding = 5 minutes to fix. That isn't a very efficient formula and this has become the norm for the company, yet they wonder why the programmers can't get anything done.
Yeah, if you start watching AOTC a few frames earlier than TPM.... Or if you have a life and don't literally look at it frame by frame...
This is a very valid point. As people start to only interact with similar minds online, they will confront a sort of system shock when they have to deal with people who have a radically different view on life in real life. It would probably take a few generations for this effect to happen though...
That definitely will help in the future. I know there's been several times I've had to fight the metabase to get it to work correctly.
:-)
Oh yeah...and it helps get the first post
Agreed. Pop-ups are an automatic block. Same goes for annoying Flash ads. Especially if it makes noise. Also the bright, quickly rotating GIFs/images. Text ads are fine with me (can easily ignore them, as do so many others). Plain images also work as great advertisements. None of this "reach out and bash the viewer over the head to look at the ad" type advertising, that's overly distracting. When I see things like that I will either go into over-Adblock mode or I'll never visit that site again.
Try introducing a way to combine the outdoors and in. An example would be like Astrology. Have the kids look up constellations on the internet and then at night head out with them and go star gazing. Or things like geo-caching. There's tons of things that can mesh indoor activities with outdoor activites (with or without technology) to get kids to enjoy the outdoors. Or in the worst case scenario, over expose them to indoors activities so much that they grow to hate it and would do anything that doesn't involve sitting by a computer/TV for long periods of time.
I'm shooting for Troll points man, I'm all about the Troll points.
Funny how Slashdot has an article about RSS and their own RSS feed hasn't been updating as often as it should...
I don't think it's nutty. I'd have to say he has a pretty good excuse. Now if he were claiming to find proof of Area 51 or something, then he'd be a nut...
and by putting them all together as one, it just means less items for you to lose/get stolen!
Isn't that why it's a MOZILLA extension?
The fact that a 17,000 row spread sheet only takes up about 750K is the best thing I've found so far. Just ignore the fact that it takes at least a minute to initially load Open Office and then an additional 4 to open the document. Now if they can get speed AND file size down....and memory footprint....and overall usability......then it might be worth using. Until then, I'll continue with the necessary evil that is MS Office...
Check out iRate.sourceforge.net. Sounds like a vaguely similiar idea....
Pretty good explanation. I'm a programmer (who's forced to do networking) and have just enough knowledge on DNS to see exactly how that could happen.
stop drinking coffee? I've never drank coffee and I'm still dead tired. When you have to be a "day person" to work 9-10 hours and then talk with friends/relatives/significant other who are "night persons", you find yourself on a lack of sleep. It's not about ridding yourself of caffine, it's about actually having time to get that full 8 hours sleep. And in the good ol' US, that's just crazy talk thanks to computers helping us do so many tasks for work....*rolls eyes*
2.5 oz scoop? That doesn't even justify driving to the place....
Just remember that Douglas Adams actually wrote the script for the movie and intended that it not be the same as the book, or the radio show, or the other reincarnations...
Why not follow in Google's footsteps and then contribute to the their work and then you can search that one source, across multiple languages, to find what you're looking for. Then it won't necessarily be English dominated documents...It's not that hard... Maybe it's just the way the French are..."That's a great idea, but if I support it I look like one of the general masses. I know! I'll critisize it, and at the same time perform the exact same actions and claim my way's better!"
Plus you could easily write a firefox plugin to do something similar (and use other soucres besides Google's). It's like saying the adblock plugin is doing something illegal because you can OPTIONALLY choose to have it display a tab by the media file you want to block. It's inserting the extra tag, oh no, better start pointing fingers and yelling about illegal activities. And besides, who's forcing you to the Google tool bar anyways?
yes, but it's only one image. Semi-permanently on there... "What hunny? No, I wasn't looking at anything like that recently. Why do you ask? *mutter* stupid monitor..."
Yes, but these are more fun...because you're in space...and when you get tired, you just fall asleep right there because it's your bedroom also!
Nope, you have to double click to recenter the map, that changes the link.
yeah, look at where it links to...if you're just panning, it's the default page and zoom...