Re: [Semibug] Need an example of libxo usage

Mike Wayne wrote on 2024-04-12 12:57: What I can not figure out is how to select fields to print. To customize the output fields for the lastlogin command using libxo with XML formatting in FreeBSD, you'll need to use the -f option to specify the fields you want to include. Here's how you

Re: [Semibug] Need an example of libxo usage

(Apologies if this is a duplicate - been mucking about with email server settings.) Mike Wayne wrote on 2024-04-12 12:57: What I can not figure out is how to select fields to print. To customize the output fields for the lastlogin command using libxo with XML formatting in FreeBSD,

Re: [Semibug] Keeping Track of Inventory with OpenBSD?

Jonathan Drews wrote on 2024-03-23 20:00: I need advice on how to keep track of inventory. A *lot* of thought must go into the structure of the data you'll need to store. Let's start with basics, the SKU (Stock Keeping Unit): * id * description (i.e. green silk) * location (in a 400,000+

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

CAREY SCHUG wrote on 2024-05-22 15:34: I would like to choose a PEN color, e.g. red, no matter what I enter or change, no matter where, it will be in the pen color. As Carl mentioned, LibreOffice supports colourizing text. so I can make a group of changes, then go back and verify them,

Re: [Semibug] re tracking changes in libre office spreadsheet [was: OT: is there any office package (especially spreadsheet) that lets me choose a PEN color]

CAREY SCHUG wrote on 2024-05-22 23:46: Perhaps version tracking would help with this? All changes can be tracked and reviewed. ok, found this page: https://itsfoss.com/libreoffice-version-control/ it says click on edit/track changes/record. --done click on view/toolbars/track changes

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

Steve Litt wrote on 2024-05-22 23:26: This command can be run in 3 seconds Ctrl+S == saved, 0.3 seconds. Haven't personally experienced much instability with LO. Certainly would *not* advise against using it. > LibreOffice is notorious for randomly, summarily and permanently > changing

Re: [Semibug] LibreOffice is summing incorrectly

CAREY SCHUG wrote on 2024-05-22 14:27: I typed 4.73 into a cell, it was actually stored that way LibreOffice Calc (which uses 64-bit double-precision numbers internally) https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/scalc/01/calculation_accuracy.html never have more than 5 (actually

Re: [Semibug] internal number storage in libre office calc [was: LibreOffice is summing incorrectly]

CAREY SCHUG wrote on 2024-05-22 22:55: OK, my spreadsheet is only 1.3 MB 1.3MB is miniscule in relation to any disk in the past 10 (20?) years. What's your time worth? single precision calculation is faster too. How many microseconds could you save and how much time are you willing to

Re: [Semibug] LO backups & OO [was OT: is there any office package (especially spreadsheet) that lets me choose a PEN color]

CAREY SCHUG wrote on 2024-05-23 08:07: LO vs OO (topic 1) I was pissed when I was told I "had" to convert from OO to LO. LO was buggy (see below) later found a friend stayed with OO and was happy. any opinions on which of LO and OO (or others) do the best job on reading in XL or other

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

Steve Litt wrote on 2024-05-23 02:53: LibreOffice' reason for existence is to interact with MS Office documents. If it can't do that, why use it? The blame for poor interaction lies with Microsoft, 100%. Also, another major reason for LibreOffice is to have a full featured office suite that

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

Jonathan Drews wrote on 2024-05-23 19:54: I don't know what the cause was but I could never get scanning (xsane) to work on either Linux Mint or Kubuntu. Scanning has been a solved problem in Linux for a decade or two, so it's hard to know what went wrong, nor what purpose is served bringing

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

Jonathan Drews wrote on 2024-05-27 10:59: The boot time was so slow that it was obvious. If different processes were involved in the boot sequence, that just may have an effect on time-to-desktop, but since it's left unaddressed, I guess we'll never know. Is something like that even

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

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 with servers and software between the FLOSS families. I try to contribute answers to questions

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

Ron / BCLUG wrote on 2024-05-27 18:10: you'll love both the runit and s6 init systems. That's great, I didn't know they ran startup stuff in parallel. Is it achieved through "script_name &" or something else? Answering myself, runit looks kinda nifty according t

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

Jonathan Drews wrote on 2024-05-27 14:43: There's a lot of cross-over with servers and software between the FLOSS families. >> How would you know if you don't run FreeBSD or OpenBSD? Because I'm not stupid? I mean, that's a really dumb question; are you disputing the overlap between Linux

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

Steve Litt wrote on 2024-05-27 05:24: If you like parallelism, It is a compelling idea... you'll love both the runit and s6 init systems. That's great, I didn't know they ran startup stuff in parallel. Is it achieved through "script_name &" or something else? Try em, you'll like em.

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

Steve Litt wrote on 2024-05-23 18:06: I'll address his central point, which is that systemd has many benefits. My rebuttal is that nobody needs that kind of complexity. Computers are complex, imagine that. Most systemd features can and have been done better and simpler other ways.

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

Steve Litt wrote on 2024-05-25 01:25: That being said I don't think it calls for a full boycott of Linux, > Thanks Kyle. Like you, I don't think systemd calls for a boycott on Linux, and I hadn't intended to imply it. Cheers Steve, Kyle, et al. I just wanted to say, despite the spirited

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

Kyle Willett wrote on 2024-05-23 21:31: One piece of software can't be that good at so many different tasks! I'm not sure that logic holds up: "Fedora can't be that good at so many different tasks" "Linux kernel can't be that good at so many different tasks" GNU utilities - contains