Posts by BenWilson
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"My wife's grandmother's father used to tell her tales of his dad taking him to the Auckland Domain so that he could be properly educated in taking a cudgel to the heathens."
Sounds like a cricket metaphor.
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" Say, what is 'Pacifics Triple Star' anyway?
North, South and Stewart"
Surely it's North, South, and West? In preparation for when we preemptively invade Ozzie before their terrorists destroy our World Cup chances.
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Emma,
"That whole 'bonds of love, at thy feet' thing takes on a whole new light if you're picturing a sort of pagan Horned God type deity too. That's the sort of mental picture one needs to drag one's sorry arse through yet another school assembly."
So *that's* what the girls were thinking about in assembly! I was just thinking about the girls.
You win the prize for the scariest sounding dinner table. I think I'd rather say Grace than discuss OSS, agnostic though I am.
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Mahal, "There's a huge learning curve required between "Hello World" and "ability to debug Open Office"."
Not in MS Visual C++ there isn't. But that's not one of the good things about it ;-). But yeah, the real barrier to debugging open source stuff is "why the hell would I want to?". Fortunately there are millions of nerds who have the strangest desire to show you the answer. Get them to do it. It's a lot easier than getting anyone at MS to lift a finger.
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" a .odt file
It's a tragic fact that for me those letters will forever stand for "Otago Daily Times""
I thought it was a computer game - "Or Die Trying". Kind of poignant.
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Rich, in the context I use the National Song, it could be shortened to:
"Please let the All Blacks win", and then padded out by translating into Maori, and every other Pacific Island language that has ever boasted an All Black. -
Dim, it's calling your integer 'value' that scares me most about that code. From a guy who used to support VBA apps written by dozens of the techiest users and used by thousands, I can tell you that part is the most typical of why converting all those VBA apps will simply never happen.
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Don, what flavor of desktops are u supporting?
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Russell
"But you have to keep buying new ones, because the new ones are cuter than the old ones."
Heh, yup, cunning buggers. It's a question of taste though. I prefer my computers, and my cars, to have the meat hanging out of them for all to see. It's 7337 uc.
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"Hmmm, so running 1000-2000 Mac clients in the enterprise will be cheaper than a MS environment?"
Wouldn't know. Was talking about schools anyway. Haven't used a Mac since I left university. But they were great there....
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