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Nov. 9th, 2004 11:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomI am hand-labelling one buttload of CDs right now. Four database and labelling programs, all claiming to use the same formats, and they either won't import or export each other or won't frickin' print. Avery's DesignPro uses dBase III format. Feh.
Have fun, play nice.
Have fun, play nice.
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Date: 2004-11-09 08:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-09 09:09 am (UTC)If I'd spent all the time I spent trying to get the stupid Address Book to print in any of several programs, I'd have had all the labels done by now by hand.
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Date: 2004-11-09 09:07 am (UTC)Can I ask what programs you're using? (Mostly out of a sense of professional curiosity, being a paid geek...)
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Date: 2004-11-09 09:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-09 09:16 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-09 09:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-09 09:28 am (UTC)Insert Obligatory Whappety-Whap-Whap-Whap Here
Date: 2004-11-09 09:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-09 09:37 am (UTC)It features commentary on "The Great Piggy-Bank Robbery" by John Kricfalusi...
Happy Fanboy!
Plus, it has "Book Revue"...
"Nothing could be FEE-ner zen to be in Caro-LEE-ner in ze morrrrrrr-NINK!"
Looney Tunes #2
Date: 2004-11-09 11:45 am (UTC)Harold S.
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Date: 2004-11-09 09:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-09 10:05 am (UTC)Gaaaah.
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Date: 2004-11-09 10:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-09 10:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-09 10:23 am (UTC)If there's something that'll run on Linux that'll open the .mdb files from Access then I should be fine using that. However, I have about zero desire to rebuild all the databases simply because I've changed platforms.
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Date: 2004-11-09 11:03 am (UTC)Eeyup. That's our Topher! :-/
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Date: 2004-11-09 12:39 pm (UTC)And I will have small bits of sympathy for Topher, he just had his galbladder taken out today and his father needs a pacemaker, but they're going to make the man with only 15% of his heart working wait three months before they'll put it in. For that I'll be kind and not grump too much.
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Date: 2004-11-09 11:08 am (UTC)Who is this "Topher"?
[1] I don't consider Access to be a Real database management system, but you can probably write that up to sheer snobbery on my part.
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Date: 2004-11-09 12:42 pm (UTC)And "Topher" is my former (thank the gods) room mate. Who looked over my shoulder at the blue w/yellow letters program we use at work when I was home one night and then told me he'd written some of the code for that program. Er, yeah. Last I knew he hadn't written anything that was DOS based.....
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Date: 2004-11-09 11:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-09 11:10 am (UTC)This apparently works. :)
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Date: 2004-11-09 11:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-09 10:09 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-09 11:43 am (UTC)I adore it, y'see...
Heat of the Blood
Date: 2004-11-09 11:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-09 11:51 am (UTC)Second... you might be interested in the new CD. ;)
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Date: 2004-11-09 01:25 pm (UTC)What? ATSIGT?
(frantically re-checks the downloaded version)
(hopes senior moments don't start before 25)
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Date: 2004-11-09 02:01 pm (UTC)Tee hee.
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Date: 2004-11-09 05:49 pm (UTC)::begins watching mailbox::
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Date: 2004-11-09 01:29 pm (UTC)(But I want to survive WindyCon first. :) )
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Date: 2004-11-09 08:29 pm (UTC)Harold
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Date: 2004-11-10 04:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-10 05:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-10 07:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-09 11:50 am (UTC)"wow! you have a hand-labelled Tom Smith? ooooh! is it signed? i'm so jealous!"
hey, it could happen!
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Date: 2004-11-09 01:25 pm (UTC)Is that an English buttload, a Metric buttload, or some Tom Smith-derived variant thereof?
As for dBase III, I wasn't aware anyone still used it! I last programmed for that in, um, 1990 . . .
Somehow, I Don't Think "The Queen's Buttload" Will Become An Accepted Use
Date: 2004-11-09 02:05 pm (UTC)I repeat. Feh.
Light Sails at Last
Date: 2004-11-10 02:40 pm (UTC)http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/11/10/solar.sail.ap/index.html
Makes me want to listen to the Black Book Band and Michael Longcor.
Don Knots as Dubya
Date: 2004-11-10 04:00 pm (UTC)http://www.dubyamovie.com/