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Be nice to Excel

Friday, September 30th, 2005
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Jim Minatel is, as always, right. No one should use Excel as a database ! If you are one of those people who are really looking forward to having 1,048,576 rows by 16,384 columns (that’s a whopping 1,500% more rows and 6,300% more columns than Excel 2003 has!) in Excel 12 (when do they [...]

Most US adults think Internet is dangerous for children

Friday, September 30th, 2005
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ZDNet  is reporting on a survey carried  out for Zone Labs (the makers of Zone Alarm) which shows that most US adults (94% of 2,322 men and women, for those of you who like numbers) think that the internet is a dangerous place for children.
At the top of the list is predators in chat rooms [...]

Weekend fun - Annular eclipse

Friday, September 30th, 2005
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OK, not really the weekend but ...
Monday, the moon will glide in front of the sun, producing a solar eclipse that's visible from Europe, Africa and the Middle East (it's not visible from the US).
The eclipse won't be total, but rather annular, meaning that the moon won't be big enough to completely cover the [...]

MSN Search Plugins for Firefox

Friday, September 30th, 2005
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Am I the only one surprised to see MSN Search blog mentioning a add-on  for Firefox? Am I the only one surprised by this statement on the MSN Search blog:
some of our customers prefer using Firefox and we respect that choice.
Is this part of Microsoft's plan to win the web? Either way, I [...]

The case for changing software licenses

Friday, September 30th, 2005
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If you buy hardware and it turns out to be a dud you have a number of avenues open to you for redress. The same is not true for software.
Technology analyst Bill Thompson  thinks it is time for software vendors to accept their liability.
I agree - the idea that you accept [...]

Do we rely too much on computers?

Friday, September 30th, 2005
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Here's a question for you. Do we rely too much on computers and the data they hold? I don't mean on a personal, small scale, but on a larger scale.
Just who are you? What do people know about you? Who told them what they know and how accurate is [...]

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