[ilugd] Queries regarding OpenOffice Base

2008-08-15 Thread Niyaz
Hi Friends, I am working in an organization that primarily deals with hospitals and colleges. We are using M$ Excel to keep data related to those hospitals/institution. Now those sheets have grown in number and size to trouble the less tech aware seniors. I have suggest them to go for a proper

Re: [ilugd] Queries regarding OpenOffice Base

2008-08-15 Thread आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Niyaz wrote: Hi Friends, Hi, [snip] 4) Is there any other open-source alternative which can satisfy these requirements? What kind of data is it ? If it is some medical data (like patient records, etc.) then I came across one

[ilugd] XDR Memory

2008-08-15 Thread Mani A
By how much do you think these will really speed up computers? For details, see http://www.rambus.com/us/products/xdr/index.html Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

Re: [ilugd] HW raid question

2008-08-15 Thread Yashpal Nagar
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Naresh Narang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- On Thu, 7/24/08, Yashpal Nagar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I also want to understand is, does hardware RAID system really care about data, what happens to the data if one, add a disk into the existing logical

Re: [ilugd] Queries regarding OpenOffice Base

2008-08-15 Thread Mani A
Niyaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These are my queries regarding OO.Base: 1) The database should run on a central machine and others will input/access data from their PC using a small application (Form). Is it possible with OO.Base? 2) I am also hopeful that i will be asked to develop the

[ilugd] Happy Birth Day Debian

2008-08-15 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
Its great to see that Debian is celebrating its 15th birthday today. Are there any celebrations going on in India? http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/28150/news.htm Swapnil Did you know? You can CHAT without downloading messenger. Go to http://in.webmessenger.yahoo.com/

Re: [ilugd] Queries regarding OpenOffice Base

2008-08-15 Thread Raj Mathur
On Saturday 16 Aug 2008, Mani A wrote: [snip] I think it will be a much better idea to use MySql, Postgres or other open source database applications. They can be easily used with statistical software like R and have plenty of customisable frontends. But open office database has good