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MS Access 'equiv' for Linux 3288
Joe The problem with the Borland Interbase product is that you have to install it with Jbuilder or Kylix or whatever. Most clients...
MS Access 'equiv' for Linux 3289
Al. C schrieb: As long as this is used in-house, with the average user alone using it, this is O.K. But such "software", consisting basically of a compilation of VBA Macros for MS...
MS Access 'equiv' for Linux 3290
Al. C either person is these that's way". don't Then why use Linux? Why make Linux work their way? They are certainly...
MS Access 'equiv' for Linux 3291
prg return from it) I agree with you. But as a consultant to under-capitalized small businesses or small...
MS Access 'equiv' for Linux 3292
On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 11:06:51 -0400, John-Paul Stewart The demand is not only "perceived", it is very real. Commercial Open Source businesses...
MS Access 'equiv' for Linux 3293
Juha Siltala With the ability to get fair to middling programming from India or China (good article in the WSJ...
MS Access 'equiv' for Linux 3294
John-Paul Stewart I agree but I wasn't really thinking of FOSS. I think that if Linux wants to move to the next level in the business environment, there...
MS Access 'equiv' for Linux 3295
Al. C schrieb: It wouldn't. People buy MS-Access because the know nothing different (better). That's the only way Microsoft's business...
MS Access 'equiv' for Linux 3296
Michael Heiming who would just have Sorta depends on what you mean by "test". I'm not aware of any head-to...
MS Access 'equiv' for Linux 3297
Michael Heiming machine embedded same The problem, in my experience, with networked file-share dbs, is that because the engine does't "really" offer concurent read-write access from multiple clients, that precisely lack...
MS Access 'equiv' for Linux 3298
What bits I have used have been flakey :-(. OpenOffice.org + PostgeSQL is similarly a sort of option; I find the OpenOffice.org front end to be pretty fragile as...
MS Access 'equiv' for Linux 3299
Christopher Browne an earthling, themselves, So smaller air;) crap fan one) Thanks for the reminder-correction. IIRC, there was some little bitterness over this issue. From what I've read, this...
MS Access 'equiv' for Linux 3300
Yes, more-or-less that summary has been outlined a couple of times on one or...
MS Access 'equiv' for Linux 3301
That is the specific thing that is most certainly nonsense in every way. The whole "sector" of free software was created because people found it of value to build tools...
MS Access 'equiv' for Linux 3302
The thing is that the "road that is imagined to lead towards an Access clone" winds up educating the would-be developer in...
MS Access 'equiv' for Linux 3303
I do a lot of consulting and I always advise Linux when it is "right" for the (business) client. It's getting 'more right...
Groupware server Is that what I want
Hi, I'm a single computer consultant with three different offices scattered here and there--two have broadband, one dialup. I am now using Outlook at one location for my email and calendar and...
Linux hard drive sequence hdx drive mappings Question clarification
I like your ascii-art, but I don't understand your figures: 2 primary; 2 extended; 4 subsidiary parbreastions ? Here's my Oberon S3's Parbreastions.Show output:- Disk: IDE0, 74GB, ST380011A IDE0#00 76319MB --- (Whole disk) IDE0...
Toshibas vs TPads
staggered into the Black Sun and said: Why? It's extremely useful for questions and answers of this type...
computer backup
into the Black Sun and said: Whatever you're most comfortable with. All Linux distros can read and write FAT32 without...
Wierd, SuSE 9.2 uses 650MB of RAM while idle
Why is my O-S using so much memory when it is idle? All I have is a couple of text editors open (I...
RAID 1 with IDE HDD
hello all, i am new to the RAID installation and functioning. I have just configured...
RAID 1 with IDE HDD 3310
Depends on what you expect RAID to accomplish for you; and since you haven't stated what that is, it's a bit difficult...
RAID 1 with IDE HDD 3311
Grrrr... you are of course exactly right! Thank you for the correction. (I'm not even going to look and see what the OP was doing... he probably doesn't care one hoot about speed...
Redirecting Standard Output to a Variable
I am not a newbie. Similarly, I do not confuse "3" and "E", because I am also not...
How to tell if CF card is faulty 3313
Mathew J. Newton Well funnily enough I have another CF card that's playing up which I need to test so I tried badblocks. I...
How to tell if CF card is faulty 3314
John Stumbles buttuming you're running a sufficiently recent kernel (2.6.x, for stable), look atsys-block-sda-sda1-size...
Getting rid of XP 3315
On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 18:32:14 -0700, poorstudent staggered into the Black Sun and said: Don't top-post. Message rearranged and trimmed...
Getting rid of XP 3316
On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 21:24:44 -0500, Dances With Crows Watch out for this. SuSE definitely...
Starting my own studio Gear suggestions wanted
Giving the benefit of the doubt that this thread is not a troll ... Stephanie Goldfarb Q. How do you make a small fortune in...
Problem compiling eclipse
Hi Upon trying to compile eclipse on Debian Sarge. I downloaded and installed j2sdk1.4.208 inusr-local-java and symlinked tools.jar inusr...
Going open source
I want to open-source a piece of software that I have been maintaining for several years. It is an...
Going open source
Erik Aronesty Be sure you have clear breastle to the software before you distribute it under GPL. If you wrote and maintained it for private clients...
dmesg: who made this output
Hello, I upgraded an old computer with 2 new large harddisks. Before I could use thoses...
understanding shared memory 3322
Black Sun and said: Postfix-sendmail-q***l-Exim weren't doing the job? kernel programmers always want to do is to keep fork-exec overhead low. processes, after all. fork() is handled in a virtual...
understanding shared memory 3323
Dances With Crows the Nope. I had my reasons, but bottom line, it's been a really interesting project...
understanding shared memory 3324
Black Sun and said: Hm. 9-10 for Hubris, 0-10 for Laziness. :-) ? fork() doesn't come into the picture for subroutines...
understanding shared memory Sender: Linux
Just some Perl-type discussion......(value = 2 cents :-) ) When you fork, you get an exact copy...
DVD backup copy
I'm trying to make backup copies of my 3-yr olds DVDs, and after that DVD copies of our...
mmap implementation for writing
The mmap(2) man page seems to say that the file fields showing that the file was modified will be updated after a write to the mmap'd area but before any subsequent msync(). How is...
Easily switching languages in Linux
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:12:50 -0400, G Dahler staggered into the Black Sun and said: If the environment variable LANG is...
Wacom tablet is this normal
I bought a wacom intuos3 tablet hoping to use it with my linux system. i'm in...
Wacom tablet is this normal
On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 00:13:19 +0200, John Stolz staggered into the Black Sun and said: Shouldn't be too horribly difficult. If you need an X config file snippet that'll work...
Convert BGR images to RGB Sender: Linux
Perl to the rescue!! :-) I don't know about streamer, but I ran into that problem when I was trying to make a...
PC running FC3 remains in high wait state
Hi All, I just installed FC3 on a friends old intel celeron machine - on running...
Errors Compiling gpg 1.4
Has anyone sucessfully compiled Gnupg 1.4.1 under Linux? I can't compile it on my Dell OptiPlex under SuSE 9.0 with stock kernel 2.6.11. Here's what happens: With these options to...
Errors Compiling gpg 1.4
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 20:20:07 +0200, Davide Bianchi staggered into the Black Sun and said: trying to compile gpg 1.4 on SuSE 9.0 Red herring. gcc's default output binary format on Linux for the...
How to install Java compiler and configure it
I buttume that you use the bash shell. If not, consult the man page for your shell. Edit the file .profile in your home directory, and add a line like this: export...
what is the most suitable Linux platform for Programmers and software developers
On 12 Apr 2005 11:42:31 -0700, upulDI staggered into the Black Sun and said: Include context when you post to Usenet. Yes, that "G2" never-to-be-sufficiently-damned client doesn't...
resumecv authoring advice
To me, it seems to mean that either somebody thinks his looks are going to help get him a job, or he...
kde freeze but not gnome
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 18:43:55 -0400, Bill Marcum staggered into the Black Sun and said: Mouse cursor disappearing-reappearing sounds like an X problem or a hardware problem. Ditto for freeze-hang. But if...
Bootloader problem...HELP
Hi all. I've got a problem with my sons machine. It has 2 harddrives, hda & hdb, and for a while now I have had WinXP installed on...
The Linux Advocates Playbook Revealed
First off, you will not find any Linux advocates in comp.os.linux.advocacy but you will find children, morons and other social defects for whom Linux is the...
The Linux Advocates Playbook Revealed! 3341
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 first of all, let me call it as I see it: thou art a troll! Phillip Cornwallis...
The Linux Advocates Playbook Revealed! 3342
Phillip Cornwallis wrote something like: Yep, their are a lot of trolls and other social misfits on here and they do a large portion of the posting. Seems to be...
Looking for GNUGPL Excel like Spreadsheet package for my customized live Linux CD solution
The problem is that that is no answer to the question. In case rewording the requirements might be informative, the O.P. was looking for a small...
Hardware Configuration on DSL 3344
OK..."lspci grep -i audio" gave me nothing at all. "lspci" gave me the following: 0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086: 7190 (rev 02) 0000:00:01.0 0604: 8086: 7191 (rev 02) 0000:00:0d.0...
