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Comment on Open Source Employee Time Tracking/Payroll Software by Jennifer Banks

Jennifer Banks — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:47:08 +0000

Thank you for the post. I recently bought a Employee time tracking software for my new company. I could not be happier with my choice.

Comment on Why Linux is Better than Mac (or, how I learned to stop worrying and love apt-get and debuild) by Travis Kneale (KingOfKYA)

Travis Kneale (KingOfKYA) — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:35:51 +0000

Family members (parents, aunts, cousins) start asking
you all sorts of computer questions, many dealing with Windows,
and you start answering them because you
actually do know – not the particular Windows issue,
but the networking/hardware/software principal behind
the problem.

Single,
Best quote that sums up a linux user.

Thank you great read.

Comment on Government Drug Subsidies Raise the Price for the Rest of Us by Pharma Rep

Pharma Rep — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 02:48:42 +0000

Medicare doesn’t buy drugs in bulk or subsidize insurance companies, they reimburse doctors. So… You’re wrong.

Comment on Open Source Employee Time Tracking/Payroll Software by ladylyn

ladylyn — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:50:35 +0000

For managing team members and also for recording hours worked http://www.timedoctor.com/1 is a really good software program as it will give you one email daily with a list of your team and what they have accomplished, and a list of their top priorities they are working on.

Comment on Indifference Curve Demonstrator (Excel-like OpenOffice Calc Spreadsheet and Graph) by owine

owine — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:40:42 +0000

http://www.scottgrizzard.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/indifference-curve-demonstrator.ods

That is the link to the actual ODS file.

Comment on Indifference Curve Demonstrator (Excel-like OpenOffice Calc Spreadsheet and Graph) by Scott Grizzard

Scott Grizzard — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:29:45 +0000

@jenn In FireFox, right-click on the file, and choose "Save Link As".

Comment on Why Mono is Good, even though it’s Evil… by Martyn Hare

Martyn Hare — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:07:48 +0000

I think the anti-Mono crowd are paranoid. Mono is a good route for many different Linux applications.

Banshee for example is the music management app I use, while Brasero is awesome for burning CDs. Higher-level applications should use higher-level programming languages to avoid bugs and make the overall desktop experience more pleasant.

When Sun disarmed the “Java trap”, many people celebrated. MS have disarmed the .NET trap and everyone is moaning. Novell capitalised on an opportunity that was both profitable on the corporate side and beneficial the community.

Microsoft announced that they will not sue people for patent infringement for making C#-related stuff in a community promise that they cannot take back. That shows they are committed to interop and are really looking for good PR with this. Microsoft benefits because FLOSS developers will make C# applications that rock, increasing the pool of good quality software for Windows and Linux benefits because existing .NET applications are now compatible. Microsoft and the free software community both win.

From the development perspective I can write applications that run on both Windows and Linux flawlessly in a transparent way. As Windows is used by many non-technical users, they need not lift an admin’s finger to use any applications since .NET is integrated into the newer Windows versions….

From the end user perspective because of the features of C#, .NET/Mono there are fewer bugs which cause applications to randomly segfault/pagefault and applications remain stable between Windows and Linux releases.

Everyone wins!

Comment on Indifference Curve Demonstrator (Excel-like OpenOffice Calc Spreadsheet and Graph) by jenn

jenn — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:41:01 +0000

Hi- I was really excited to see this, but I can’t figure out how to actually download it. Help?

Comment on Of all the things I run in Wine… An Open Source Text Editor? by Neil C. Obremski

Neil C. Obremski — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:52:50 +0000

I’ve been using Ubuntu as my primary operating system for at least a year now and I feel your pain. Similarly I’ve found Geany to come closest to what I left behind on Windows with TextPad, but just this morning I found your blog when trying to figure out how to replace new-line sequences with “\n”. You’d think something that simple and silly would be really easy, but I cannot figure it out: use “$” and blank lines don’t get fixed up; use “\n” and it LEAVES the original sequence so you can only leave AFTER it (not before); use “^” and it has the same effect as “\n”.

Alright, enough complaining out of me, I’m off to continue the search (being stubborn) …

Comment on Why Mono is Good, even though it’s Evil… by Rob

Rob — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:50:05 +0000

Well, like the old saying goes, beware of geeks bearing gifts, meaning if Microsoft is giving you something, it ain’t just because they’re nice guys.

I would hope we’ve been around the block enough to realize that they’re up to something that they think ultimately give them an advantage over the open-source world.