(OT?) THOMAS

Given the groups occasional interest in House bills, has anyone else
noticed this?

http://www.gadgetopia.com/2005/05/24/Plogress.html

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Re: texas wireless ban is dead

I hope Chip doesn't use SBC for phone service   SBC wrath - raise 
the price on phone subscriptions.

-Victor

On May 31, 2005, at 2:31 PM, Jim Westbrook wrote:

> One last thought -- we MUST view this as only the first skirmish of a 
> battle
> yet to come.  You may be assured that the phone lobby sees it this way.
>
> JimW
>
> Chip Rosenthal wrote:
>
>> Apologies if you are seeing this multiple times.
>>
>> The Texas legislature went home this weekend without enacting the
>> proposed muni wireless ban into law.  The telecom legislation passed
>> by the Texas House was astoundingly skewed to favor SBC and opposed
>> by nearly every other organization and industry segmenent in the 
>> state.
>> One provision--the one opposed by SaveMuniWireless.org--would have 
>> banned
>> municipally operated wireless networks.
>>
>> Thanks to the widespread opposition, the SBC favored legislation was
>> beaten back.  Never before in the history of this state has the 
>> powerful
>> phone lobby been so resoundly defeated.  Then again, never before have

Equivalent/replacement of Windows software to Linux software

I don't remember how I found this site (Slash, Osnews, or Linuxtoday), 
but it is a table of equivalent/replacement of Windows software to 
Linux software.   The site tries to to kept it up to date.   This would 
be a good site if you are a newbie or want to get similar functionality 
of Windows on Linux.

The official site is below

http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html

Enjoy
-Victor

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Re: Equivalent/replacement of Windows software to Linux software

Victor Leal wrote:

> I don't remember how I found this site (Slash, Osnews, or Linuxtoday),
> but it is a table of equivalent/replacement of Windows software to
> Linux software.   The site tries to to kept it up to date.   This would
> be a good site if you are a newbie or want to get similar functionality
> of Windows on Linux.
>
> The official site is below
>
> http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html
>
> Enjoy
> -Victor
>

Thanks, Victor.  A good addition to the bookmark collection.

JimW

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Re: Equivalent/replacement of Windows software to Linux software

Yeah, great resource.  I bookmarked it too.

On 5/31/05, Jim Westbrook <jimw@...> wrote:
> Victor Leal wrote:
> 
> > I don't remember how I found this site (Slash, Osnews, or Linuxtoday),
> > but it is a table of equivalent/replacement of Windows software to
> > Linux software.   The site tries to to kept it up to date.   This would
> > be a good site if you are a newbie or want to get similar functionality
> > of Windows on Linux.
> >
> > The official site is below
> >
> > http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html
> >
> > Enjoy
> > -Victor
> >
> 
> Thanks, Victor.  A good addition to the bookmark collection.
> 
> JimW
> 
> 
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Re: Spread sheet

Donn Washburn wrote:
| Jeff Gipson wrote:
|
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|> Donn Washburn wrote:
|> | Hey Group;
|> | Anyone know of a way to do "while entering field" with a spread
sheet.
|> |
|> | I have tried "=if(G4>"";G4;G2)" and it fails.   ERROR:544 (as I
|> remember)
|> |
|>
|> The problem is quite simply this:  You need a database, but you're
|> using a spreadsheet.  Use Microsoft Access, or better yet, flat CSV
|> files with AWK.  If you are a programmer you might install MySQL and
|> use PERL or PHP to run the queries.
|>
|>
|> - --
|> - --Jeff
|
|
| I do agree a database would be much easier to fix the problem.
However,
| this company is a bunch of hard heads which see no other use but
| Winblows and Spread Sheets.  Beside they like double or triple

Re: Bulk Email License / Registration?

On Tue, 31 May 2005, Les Elliott wrote:

> The only legal way I know of to get around the spam issue is for the
> client to request your email and have your email address added to
> their client. In other words an opt-in agreement.

I don't think this is a proper reading of the law.  In fact, one of
the major weaknesses of CANSPAM is that it doesn't require opt-in at
all.  You just have to provide a legitimate method for recipients to
opt-out.

That said, the law is not your only (and maybe not even primary)
concern on the internet.  Rather, it's the blacklists and databases
that will actually prevent your mail from getting to the people you
want it to get to.  The best way to steer clear of trouble with those
is to make sure your list is strictly opt-in.  From my own experience,
managers don't particularly like this, because they (rightly) perceive
that opt-out means getting a bigger audience much faster than opt-in.
I've never been able to get it through their heads that this is true
only until the list itself or our servers in general end up on one or
more blacklists.  Of course, I'm the one setting things up, so if they
want opt-out, they can fire me and find someone else to do it (so far,
that hasn't happened, and our biggest opt-in list has (slowly) grown
to a size that satisfies the higher-ups).

> On 5/31/05, Mike Hanby <flakrat@...> wrote:
>> Howdy y'all,
>>
>>
>>

Re: Bulk Email License / Registration?

> Mike Hanby wrote:
> Thanks, I'll take a look at using MajorDomo on our Slackware system.

That's a great idea. I've been reporting spam and keeping in touch with
spam-related news for a few years. AFAIK the only way to get on the black
hole lists as a result of your mailing list would be people reporting
messages as spam. Mailing list software such as Majordomo helps to prevent
this by making sure that only people who intentionally signed up for your
list are receiving messages. Using a double-confirm method such as
Majordomo uses (you have to sign up and then you have to confirm the
subscription) is preferable to single opt-in methods.

It can also help to reduce the chance of people reporting your list mail
as spam if you provide clear, easy to understand instructions on how to
unsubscribe in the message footers. When people get message they don't
remember opting-in for and don't see this information, they are more
likely to report them as spam. Some lists I'm on also include a message in
the footers to the effect of "You are getting this message because you
signed up for this list on <URL>. If you wish to unsubscribe
<instructions>".

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Re: Equivalent/replacement of Windows software to Linux software

I think someone (you?) had posted this a while back. GREAT listing (with, um, pokes at M$).

>>> victor_leal@... 05/31/2005 20:44 >>>
I don't remember how I found this site (Slash, Osnews, or Linuxtoday), 
but it is a table of equivalent/replacement of Windows software to 
Linux software.   The site tries to to kept it up to date.   This would 
be a good site if you are a newbie or want to get similar functionality 
of Windows on Linux.

The official site is below

http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html 

Enjoy
-Victor

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Re: Spread sheet

If I think I read your quest correctly, this is what I did.

Using OpenOffice 1.1.4 (patched), Spreadsheet

Cell A1=1
Cell A2=2
Cell A3=3
Cell A4=4
Cell A5="=today()" / cell formatted as date
Cell B5="=IF(A5>"";A2;A1)"	[if(test);(then);(otherwise)]

If A5 contains anything, "1" (Cell-1) is displayed
If A5 is BLANK, then "2" (Cell-A2) is displayed

Not sure about the  "while entering field" part.

>>> n5xwb@... 05/29/2005 06:30 >>>
Hey Group;

In my passed good life I used a datebase called filepro. Filepro was a very good simple to 
program UNIX based DB with creation and runtime modules.  It had a function that allowed a 
person to test "while entering field".  I would like to use this function on a MS/OO 
spread sheet.  Example - If cell "G2" (formatted-DATE 05/29/05) set to =TODAY() then every 
time I call up the sheet it changes to todays date.  Not desireable!

I would like to make a test on cell G4 for "while entering field" G4 ; if G4 equal "" - 
make G2 equal to G4 ; if G4 is greater than "" do nothing (or stay with G4s value).
Example - "=if(G4>"";G4;G2)"

NOTE:I may have the result backwards