I second that notion. I am working for a financial company and they use spreadsheets for everything, including some database stuff. It irritates the crap out of me actually. Thank you for noting that.
Dave Johnson On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, MJang wrote: > > > IIRC, there are a number of bugs related to wicd and hidden networks, > > esp related to encryption. The following google seems to confirm: > > > > wicd "hidden network" > > I looked with wicd for hidden networks, but it didn't find any. > > > iwlist wlan0 scan > > Considered doing that but decided to spend my waiting time extracting > data > from a spreadsheet from the same client that provided me with other > horrendous data spreadsheets. I'm still plowing my way through one of 37 > tabs that has about 100 columns to extract sets of related data to massage > into format for the database. > > <vent> > A good thread topic for PLUG-TALK is why those in the Microsoft business > world try to use spreadsheets as databases. Well, the why is pretty > obvious, > but retraining them is very difficult. IMO, spreadsheets should be > restricted to the financial people; everyone else learns how to use a > database system. > </vent> > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
