microsucks....

[hugme]

I had to install Windows XP here at work... it boots a lot faster than the old windows... hmmm... lets see if they fixed some of the bugs which have been there since Windows 3.11

nope... still broken...

Here is a simple test to prove that you are just using a copy of windows 3.11 that has been "fancied up"

open your calculator in standard mode...
do you see the square root button? (it's the one marked sqrt right under the 'C') it's a pretty button isn't it... if you were using it you would probably want your calculator to be in scientific mode so you have all the other nifty buttons...
so put your calculator in scientific mode...

now press the squareroot button.. it's right over... um... uh... yeah...

anyone want to tell be about how great this OS is? SO great they haven't been able to fix a bug that has been there since 1991.

if only I could open visio documents with unix...

Comments

[girlvinyl.livejournal.com]

Can you open visio docs in kivio?

[hugs.livejournal.com]

I hadn't checked for a while so I just did...

here is the last mention I can find of visio documents by one of the programers:

"I don't think I'll have time to make an import filter for Visio myself, but if someone else steps up good luck to him/her. (Currently there are to many other things that needs to be done to get stuck with filter development)."

I heard there was a filter for visio files... you had to apply it before you opened the file, the file had to have been produced with an older copy of visio (do you know that visio 2000 cannot read visio 2003 files at all) and could not contain any scripts, templates odd objects or a host of other things....

So I am pretty much stuck having to have 2 computers at my desk just for visio.

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

i wouldn't call that an OS bug, more like no one every took another glance at the calculator program

[hugs.livejournal.com]

Please... this has been floating around news groups and on the internet for 14 years minium!! that and they have to have revamped it for 95 to run on the 32 bit (giggle) kernel then again for XP to run on the NT kernel.

or could it be that it's actually still a 16 bit kernel and microsoft has been lying to the public all this time?

they wouldn't do that!! no!! not microsoft!! That's like saying Al gore didn't invent the internet.

[lokii.livejournal.com]

Type 16, check the Inv check box (middle left) and then hit the x^2 button (pink on the bottom row) to get 4 (sqrt of 16). Yes, it's not pretty but it's not a bug either. Especially considering that the calendar is an accessory and not a "part" of the OS. I prefer my Mac but XP is one of the better Windows OS incarnations to date IYAM.

[melonaise.livejournal.com]

Or hit x^y, and then .5

There are ways around it, but if square root is such a common function it's on the non-scientific version, it should definitely be on the scientific version as well. It's a gross oversight.

[lokii.livejournal.com]

Of course you are right. It's a stupid oversite on MS's part. But it's still not what I'd call a bug.

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

HOW DARE YOU SAY HE DIND'T INVENT THE INNERNIT!!

[digitaldevil.livejournal.com]

That was damn amusing.

[dwivian]

Odd.... I've never heard of a square root function in scientific notation. Exponentiation to 1/2, yes, or the inverse square, but not square root. Is this some shortcut term?

(in the purely scientific notation system, the radical isn't permitted. Neither is the linear divisor, which is a similar notation. To do roots, press INV, then X^2, with a number in the window as your operand.)

[melonaise.livejournal.com]

Somehow I doubt MS hasn't included sqrt out of a sense of mathematical purity. ;)

[dwivian]

You never know.... they employed LOTS of geeks there for a while. Maybe it's in the plan document for 'calc' that it follow certain rules for buttons...

But, then again, there is no 3d6 button, so maybe you're right...

[asbrand.livejournal.com]

*shrug*

Care to guess how often I have *needed* the squareroot function on the scientific calc in any Windoze OS?

;-)

Less than zero, I'd guess. *grin*



-Az

Visio on Unix

[drefooty.livejournal.com]

I have successfully installed Flash 5 on my Linux box with a program called Crossover. (http://www.codeweavers.com/site/products/) Along with TheGimp and Sketch, I no longer need Microsoft to create and publish my graphics.

Crossover allows the installation of Microsoft programs on Linux. (actually uses WINE technology) I have not tried it on FreeBSD but I though it was worth a mention.....

Re: Visio on Unix

[hugs.livejournal.com]

Last time I checked crossover did not have a unix port

Why did you need crossover for flash 5? I am running it in freebsd just fine on 3 boxes...

you installed the gimp with crossover? what are you nuts? the windows version of gimp SUCKS!!, like really really sucks!!

The one thing I wanted to install with crossover is windows media player because xine and xmovie don't have a codec for wmv files yet (sigh) or a converter for that matter (I think M$ has a patten on wmv). I have been watching the crossover project pretty closely for that reason. like I said, there is no port for FreeBSD.

I have ported a few things to Free... however I don't have time to work on something like that now.

Re: Visio on Unix

[drefooty.livejournal.com]

No, No, no! I only installed Flash with Crossover. (it was an experiment) I know Gimp and Sketch don't need Crossover for installs (duh!). I only mentioned crossover in case you wanted to "Try" it for Visio. That's all....