Fri Dec 28/ 2007 – 11:27 am MST
In the beginning, there was created the heavens and the seas, and the birds and the bees, and humans. Sort of. So what is human, anyway. Well, a really good case could be made that humans are the animals with an advanced high capacity pre-frontal cortex. (Look, if you are gonna go there, leave me […]
Sat Dec 22/ 2007 – 8:01 pm MST
Time for some clichés. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” No? How about “The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.”
You are about to take a single step. The path in front of you has quicksand, bogs, steep hills, giddy downhills, siren songs, enemy […]
Sun Dec 16/ 2007 – 9:39 pm MST
Just to review, spreadsheets developed from large green ledger pages (no, green is not important) that accountants used to list expenses or revenues, or assets, or …. and then to categorise them. Every expense, for instance, was listed in column A, and if it was a material purchase, it was also listed in Column D, […]
Sat Dec 8/ 2007 – 5:27 pm MST
You are a small or medium business. You expect to get top value for your dollar, because that is how you operate in every area. This is particularly true of office infrastructure, which contributes little to the value you deliver to your customers. Nor do you like being bullied and lied to by major vendors […]
Wed Dec 5/ 2007 – 7:15 am MST
Productivity Tools
Lions and Tigers, and bears - oh my….Well, at least Writer and Impress and Calc - oh no. Computers were of course, originally developed to manage numerical manipulation according to a described methodology (a program). Along the way, the industry naturally realised that the same tools could also manipulate a great deal of other […]
Mon Dec 3/ 2007 – 10:41 am MST
The last post reviewed 3 alternative archiving programs, and decided on the Open Source project 7Zip. Now we are going to install it, and learn to use it.
Download and Install
The download link is here. Unless you are running Windows x64 (we think you would know it if you were), the file you want […]
Sat Dec 1/ 2007 – 1:01 pm MST
What is an Archive
Archiving is putting stuff in a bag/box, or an envelope.
Software developers tend to work with large numbers of constantly changing files -a typical development project can include thousands of files - source text files, compiled object files, linked executables and their supporting libraries. Each of these files might have as many as […]
