Re: Excel.

2009-03-26 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Jarkko Hietaniemi j...@iki.fi [2009-03-24 15:10]: =01234 I won't bother explaining the whys because I will start sobbing. They are reasonably obvious by looking at the outcome. The fun part was obviously the journey... Oh yeah, and I think this constitutes positive evidence for what Bruce

Re: Excel.

2009-03-26 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Matthew King matthew.k...@monnsta.net [2009-03-24 16:50]: [Excel] is the effort of an impressive collection of morons all the way from the luser to the cpu. Joel Spolsky was the Excel program manager at one time. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Excel.

2009-03-26 Thread Matt McLeod
Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * Matthew King matthew.k...@monnsta.net [2009-03-24 16:50]: [Excel] is the effort of an impressive collection of morons all the way from the luser to the cpu. Joel Spolsky was the Excel program manager at one time. Which doesn't mean what one might think it does

Re: Excel.

2009-03-26 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Matt McLeod m...@boggle.org [2009-03-26 00:25]: Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * Matthew King matthew.k...@monnsta.net [2009-03-24 16:50]: [Excel] is the effort of an impressive collection of morons all the way from the luser to the cpu. Joel Spolsky was the Excel program manager at one

Re: Excel.

2009-03-26 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* H.Merijn Brand h.m.br...@xs4all.nl [2009-03-24 14:35]: but why on earth 2009-03-05 *WITH* quotes end up as May 03, 2009 - even in the Dutch locale - is way beyond my level of understanding. Did you try 2009-03-05 ? Ie. a quoted column value surrounded by quote-escaped quotes... It looks

Hates (Re: Excel.)

2009-03-26 Thread Joshua Juran
On Mar 25, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * H.Merijn Brand h.m.br...@xs4all.nl [2009-03-24 14:35]: but why on earth 2009-03-05 *WITH* quotes end up as May 03, 2009 - even in the Dutch locale - is way beyond my level of understanding. Did you try 2009-03-05 ? Ie. a quoted column

Re: Hates (Re: Excel.)

2009-03-26 Thread book
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 06:39:51PM -0700, Joshua Juran wrote: On Mar 25, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: [^1]: Or is it? I forget what hates-software is supposed to be, other than not-a-list. An automatically-generated blog. And a gem of self-reference, in that instance.

Re: Thanks a lot, Sun

2009-03-26 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Benjamin Reed wrote: How about: Our entire infrastructure as a society has moved to digital storage, and yet we don't have backups that would last for more than a few decades. We haven't noticed only because we've changed technologies so much in the short lifespan of

More Sun Love

2009-03-26 Thread David . Mackintosh
I have a Sun V240. God help me, I know, but I have one. It's going flakey, in that one of the fans that force air through one of the CPU heatsinks is failing. (Sun hate: so I call up my hardware provider and ask for a replacement. Their FIRST answer is that the fans, heatsinks, CPUs and

Re: More Sun Love

2009-03-26 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 09:31:00AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: Worse, you could have a NetApp, where the message would be buried about 2/3 of the way down between a complete dump of the system configuration, a blog about knitting that's been hijacked by Sicilian CRT-cleaning-cloth

Re: More Sun Love

2009-03-26 Thread Peter da Silva
On 2009-03-26, at 09:42, David Cantrell wrote: Only if manglement has paid for the support contract. Well, yes, I was just expressing amazement that the support contract actually worked that way. As opposed to How long does it take a DEC FE to change a lightbulb? Depends on how many dead

Re: More Sun Love

2009-03-26 Thread David . Mackintosh
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 09:31:00AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: Worse, you could have a NetApp, where the message would be buried about 2/3 of the way down between a complete dump of the system configuration, a blog about knitting that's been hijacked by Sicilian CRT-cleaning-cloth

Re: More Sun Love

2009-03-26 Thread Peter da Silva
On 2009-03-26, at 09:57, david.mackint...@xdroop.com wrote: Yes, we have many NetApp filers. We pay through the nose for them. But the vast majority of the time, the subject line of the email alerts tells you what's up, and for things like disks you don't even bother reading the alert