Ref: A TGraphic Descendant for TIFFs I seem to have left a file out of the projects for this, though I know of a few people who have used it, and I can’t figure out just how. It’s possible that in moving files from one server to another I...
Happenings
E-Mail Disorganization
There’s an interesting article in the Washington Post about e-mail, and the way it’s getting the better of many people. As a disorganized person who has trouble...
Ubuntu Founder Mark Shuttleworth on Microsoft Patent Suits
This is an interesting article. I wonder if he’s right. I dislike Microsoft quite a lot, and generally I see this as one more reason. It would be nice, of course, if they became an ally on the patent issue as Shuttleworth suggests. In software patents have definitely become...
Bible Software for Linux
Well, here I am playing around with my new Ubuntu machine again, and being a Bible teacher and writer, I obviously want Bible software on any machine I’m running. A little effort found me the Sword Project, and it’s related materials. I intend to try out GnomeSword, and I’ll...
Trying Ubuntu
Since I often upgrade, trade, or even occasionally build new machines, I pick up spare parts on many of the deals by allowing people some credit for usable older parts. I did really well on such a deal yesterday, and built the machine I’m typing this on from the...
Beginning Work with Draw
As a means of teaching myself how to program OO Draw using OO Basic, I am trying to duplicate some of the functionality of a game mapping system I wrote some years ago using C++. I’m going to post my earliest material here just because it took me a...
Listing Tables and Indexes
Here’s a piece of code I adapted from the “Programming Guide to BASIC.” It didn’t actually prove to get me anywhere I wanted to go, but it might help in some other effort. This one simply iterates all indexes and tables in a document. 'Just a simple routine I...
Sorting a Scriptural Index – Take I
Update: Please see my next try at this. If you mess up the count of instances of “scripture index” in the rather unhandy way I found the scripture index you could get some nasty results. The new one fixes that. I have finally gotten the first draft of the...
OO vs MS Office Tests
These tests don’t appear terribly relevant to much of anything, but here they are. I guess I was never that worried about feature bloat, and didn’t switch to OpenOffice because it was more efficient, but because it is less expensive and I like the way it accomplishes the features...
Numbers, Text, Dates, and Sorting in Calc
I ran into a problem with the formatting in cells today for sorting. I was trying to sort a number of dates, and they kept sorting as strings. I set the format of the cells to the appropriate date format, made sure all the cells were showing up that...