Re: [Semibug] tragedy of systemd: was: OT: is there any office package (especially spreadsheet) that lets me choose a PEN color

2024-05-27 Thread Jonathan Drews
On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 01:27:09PM -0700, Ron / BCLUG wrote: > Jonathan Drews wrote on 2024-05-27 12:09: > > > ??This is a list devoted to helping people with *BSD systems. If you > > have no intention of using it, why are you even here? > > There's a lot of cross-over w

Re: [Semibug] tragedy of systemd: was: OT: is there any office package (especially spreadsheet) that lets me choose a PEN color

2024-05-27 Thread Jonathan Drews
On Mon, May 27, 2024, at 12:53, Ron / BCLUG wrote: > Jonathan Drews wrote on 2024-05-27 10:59: > > > > Have you even installed OpenBSD or FreeBSD? Have you ever used *BSD > > for longer than one day? > > Installed, yes. Used, no. > > I used OS/2 bac

Re: [Semibug] tragedy of systemd: was: OT: is there any office package (especially spreadsheet) that lets me choose a PEN color

2024-05-27 Thread Jonathan Drews
On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 01:32:47AM -0700, Ron / BCLUG wrote: > All running KDE? With the exact same packages installed? Seems like apples > to oranges without that info. Mint used the Mate desktop > What times did you measure for them? > The boot time was so slow that it was obvious. > >

[Semibug] NTFS usb HDD and OpenBSD

2024-05-25 Thread Jonathan Drews
I need to buy new external USB hard drives to do backups, for my OpenBSD laptop. Are most of the portable hard drives fornatted in NTFS? If so, I read the following in the OpenBSD man pages: >From man (8) mount_ntfs "The supported NTFS versions include both NTFS4, as used by Microsoft Windows NT

Re: [Semibug] tragedy of systemd: was: OT: is there any office package (especially spreadsheet) that lets me choose a PEN color

2024-05-23 Thread Jonathan Drews
On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 09:06:39PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Ron / BCLUG said on Thu, 23 May 2024 12:12:31 -0700 > > > I'll address his central point, which is that systemd has many > benefits. My rebuttal is that nobody needs that kind of complexity. I don't know what the cause was but I

Re: [Semibug] LibreOffice is summing incorrectly

2024-05-22 Thread Jonathan Drews
On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 04:41:04PM +, an...@buskvekster.mooo.com wrote: > I suggest you check Gnumeric. I don't know how it does rounding, > but I suspect you will like it. > > I don't use spreadsheets but have written Gnumeric extensions, > and therefore I read on the Gnumeric mailing list

Re: [Semibug] LibreOffice is summing incorrectly

2024-05-18 Thread Jonathan Drews
On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 06:44:51PM -0600, Jonathan Drews wrote: > I got a big problem. If I sum the column of numbers in LibreOffice Iget > 43.81000 > 0.0 > 95.53000 > 21.9 > 18.9 > 37.72000 > 174.89000 > 16.73000 > 0.0 > 18.56000 > 0.0 &

[Semibug] LibreOffice is summing incorrectly

2024-05-18 Thread Jonathan Drews
I got a big problem. If I sum the column of numbers in LibreOffice Iget 43.81000 0.0 95.53000 21.9 18.9 37.72000 174.89000 16.73000 0.0 18.56000 0.0 423.02067 or rounded to two places 423.02 But if I add them up using dc then I get the correct answer: $ dc 2 k 43.81 95.53

Re: [Semibug] Show and Tell at GoLUG, 5/1/2024

2024-05-01 Thread Jonathan Drews
Steve: It was an interesting meeting but I couldn’t stay long On Wed, May 1, 2024, at 02:04, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > The Wednesday, 5/1/2024 GoLUG meeting commences at 7pm Eastern Daylight > Time online at meet.jit.si/golug . > > I'll be late because of my kids' birthday (this happens

Re: [Semibug] Help with Random Password Generator

2024-04-12 Thread Jonathan Drews
On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 05:54:43PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > > There's NOTHING random about time... sigh. > (granted, IIRC, srand and rand have a small input and output range, so ... it > isn't as bad as my initial reflexive puking would suggest) > > > to make it less deterministic ? Thanks

[Semibug] Help with Random Password Generator

2024-04-10 Thread Jonathan Drews
I get the following warning when I link the program RandomPasswdGen $ cc -Wall -c randpass.c $ cc randpass.o -o RandomPasswdGen randpass.c(randpass.o:(main)): warning: rand() may return deterministic values, is that what you want? How can I modify: