Daily Archives: June 7, 2006

Quick Quiz

Who said this: Naturally the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, […]

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Windows better than Linux?

This article seems to think so. Standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Linux distributions from “niche” open source vendors, are offline more and longer than either Windows or Unix competitors, the survey said. The reason: the scarcity of Linux and open source documentation. And there’s the rub. Open-source software suffers greatly from it’s lack of […]

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Web Applications – The Update Curve

When you buy software off the shelf, you’ll use it for a number of years, and then decide that it’s too old. It’ll get creaky and slow, and the formats it uses will become obselete. It won’t be supported on newer computers, and newer versions will become available. Eventually you’ll upgrade. The great thing is […]

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Google Spreadsheet

This is my limited memory of the post which Blogger lost. Google have just launched an online spreadsheet application, Google Spreadsheets. It’s all over the Blogosphere, so I thought I’d add my two penn’orth of limited viewpoints.My first problem with the application is right there in the middle: Formulas. Is that a word? Formulae, please. […]

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