A refund for what?
I am sure other forums would ignore your question too.
Peter.
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Joseph Ssekandi <[email protected]
> wrote:
Patrick,
Yes I will .
I intend to stay on this forum and until I get my "REFUND" :-) In
full!
From: Patrick Okui <[email protected]>
To: Linux Users Group Uganda <[email protected]>
Sent: Wed, March 17, 2010 2:10:32 PM
Subject: Re: [LUG] Excel blues
I sug
On 17 Mar, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Joseph Ssekandi wrote:
> Paul,
> I knew very well where I was posting and my first statements were
profuse apologies.
> My main issue here is that instead of roundly dismissing anything
non open source, to the point of calling them silly(this really
hurt), we could answer them with open source answers. We don't offer
M$ solutions, but we offer Open Source answers to M$ problems! I
challenge you all, ISN'T THAT THE MAIN SKILL AREA REQUIRED OF ANY
OPEN SOURCE CONSULTANT IN UGANDA AS OF NOW!!! Ability to answer a
clients challenges faced in M$ with Open Source solutions? Isn't
it?????????????????????
> If we take my case in point, I posted Excel, someone/anyone on the
list could have answered with the OO version of the same. I would
have gladly appreciated. Someone still did help me out but using
MySQL, but he couldn't post the replies to the list despite the fact
that they were very beautiful ingenious, cleverly written MySQL
statements!!!! Now I understand why, but I don't agree that it is
the right stand. Let people post their issues, but solutions should
simply be Open Source! Like I said, where we fail to provide an Open
Source solution to a M$, we then pick our lessons too.
> Is that too hard?
>
> From: Paul Bagyenda <[email protected]>
> To: Linux Users Group Uganda <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wed, March 17, 2010 10:27:06 AM
> Subject: Re: [LUG] Excel blues
>
> This is a Linux users list. Occasionally, we will go off and talk
about other things. But we try to keep it centred around OSS issues.
Now, asking Excel questions arguably risks taking us too far off our
core purpose, so I do believe the comments were in order. The SNR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal-to-noise_ratio
) on this list is higher than (say) that on i-network precisely
because of this focus. I think most people might like to keep it
that way. For the greater good and so forth.
>
> Paul
> A Ugandan.
>
>
> On Mar 17, 2010, at 09:57, Joseph Ssekandi wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>> Personally I was stung by this rude dutchman's post below and I
had decided to let it go only that a few interesting things have
turned up.
>> 1. This isn't the first mailing list I am subscribing to and all
lists have a certain characteristic about them(rude, polite,
helpful, strictly expert, talkers etc). I decided to find out about
yours and guess what, no archives available at http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug
!!! Where are your archives?
>> 2. Just after this post, one of the list members contacted me
offlist and we worked on this problem. Using MySQL!!!!!!! We created
the database, exported the excel file I posted into a CSV and
imported it into the database using the LOAD DATA INFILE command,
when it reached there we wrote a number of beautiful SQL statements
using order by, limit, multiple where clauses, creating subtables
from queries and so on. We only stopped because on other Excel
dedicated forums I had got the answers.
>> SIMPLE LESSONS IN THIS:
>> - Lets not be narrow minded, if a M$ problem comes up, we can
solve it in Open source and hence indirectly convert the poster.If
we can't atleast that will be a lesson learn. Lets not simply
discard. If the list had kept an open mind, believe me, what
happened off list would have been invaluable to any MySQL newbie.
Throw in the experts, it would have been explosive.
>> - Every forum has an elder, and many of them work hard to
maintain that status. I was made to understand that this Victor
fellow is highly respected on this forum but from such statements,
its time you challenged his stand and question his other postings
and views. They could be counter productive.
>>
>> Regards
>> Joseph.
>>
>> From: Victor van Reijswoud <[email protected]>
>> To: Linux Users Group Uganda <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Mon, March 15, 2010 9:38:29 PM
>> Subject: Re: [LUG] Excel blues
>>
>> Can we get these kind of silly excel questions of the list - this
is
>> linux/open source/unix list. There are plenty of excel/M$ lists
in the
>> world.
>>
>> Search and you will find.
>>
>> Victor
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Joseph Ssekandi
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Nope, no class assignment.
>> > Trying to develop a system to beat the bookies :-)
>> > If you look at both spreadsheets, you can see the trend. Now
are you going
>> > to help me?
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Joseph.
>> >
>> >
>> > ________________________________
>> > From: Mwirima Byaruhanga <[email protected]>
>> > To: Linux Users Group Uganda <[email protected]>
>> > Cc: Joseph Ssekandi <[email protected]>
>> > Sent: Sun, March 14, 2010 10:52:15 AM
>> > Subject: Re: [LUG] Excel blues
>> >
>> > If this is a class assignment, cheating is bad.
>> >
>> > Joseph Ssekandi wrote thus on 3/14/10 11:28 AM:
>> >> OK guys, no offense meant whatsoever by asking for excel help
but I am
>> >> excel challenged and I seem not to have anywhere else to
turn :-(
>> >> In the the first file attached, is a sheet showing the 2006
Turkish
>> >> league. Could you guys help in how I can fill out columns G,
H, I, J?
>> >> Remember, at one point a team is a home and another point the
team is away.
>> >> The computations should be consistent.
>> >> In the second file, is payment record for 3 men to a loan
shark over a
>> >> given period. This morning, the loan shark received a payment
of $2.25 but
>> >> it wasn't marked from who. What is the probability that the
payment was from
>> >> Geronimo? What is the probability that the payment was from
Herod? What is
>> >> the probability that the payment was from Amon?
>> >> Your kind help will be greatly appreciated
>> >>
>> >> Kind regards
>> >>
>> >> Joseph
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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