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 […]
Thu Nov 29/ 2007 – 8:14 pm MST
Learning the General Environment (Windows common feature set)
So you hate learning new software - don’t blame you. Most learn-to-use-it manuals would weigh down a small truck. Yeah, I did my post graduate work on Microsoft’s new product…
Tue Nov 27/ 2007 – 9:33 am MST
Software Choices and Decisions
Earlier, we pointed to a series of questions that needed to be addressed before making a software decision.
product criteria establishment – determining the decision criteria for selection
product acceptance - testing to ensure criteria are met
product decision and selection
time to convert all of your documents and other files,
When it […]
Sun Nov 25/ 2007 – 2:07 pm MST
“Daddy, why is the computer on fire?”
Open Source Software and Viruses/Malware
As said in previous posts, free software on the Internet has earned a bad reputation, especially with the early generation of internet users (people born before 1990). Shareware or freeware, as it used to be known, quickly developed a reputation for being badly built, […]
Fri Nov 23/ 2007 – 11:18 am MST
Vendor Hide and Seek
One of the challenges that has emerged over the past 15 years of software proliferation has been that software comes and goes. In part, that is the inevitable evolution of capability and functionality. In part it is driven by users demand for ever greater leverage of their investments in information technology. And […]
Tue Nov 20/ 2007 – 8:39 am MST
The Price and Cost of Open Source Software
There is price and cost, and there is free and not so free. Price is the amount of money that you pay to the vendor of the product for the right to use the product. Sometimes support is bundled into that price. Cost though is the price PLUS
