RE: [ukha_d] Raspberry Pi - £15 computer

["Alex Monaghan" <ha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Reminds me of a former employment, we discovered the accounts dept
were all
using the same copy of Lotus 123, so to ensure software compliance we
bough=
t
a batch of 123v3 disks, spent a Saturday installing them to discover a few
weeks later that they'd found the WYSIWYG capability. All memos &
letters
were now being produced in Lotus 123 :-(

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Jon Wilkins
Sent: 20 May 2011 01:31
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Raspberry Pi - =A315 computer

Talking of Excel...
I once worked for a large-well-know-company in a department who wanted
thei=
r
project "documents" generated in ...er... Powerpoint .  Including
lots of
naff-pp2003-inserted-table-rubbish.

Result? So-called "documents" consisting of bullet-points only;
tabular dat=
a
taking hours to make it look nice.  There should be laws against such
dreadful software abuse.



On 19 May 2011 17:56, Dave McLaughlin <dave_mclaughlin@xxxxxxx>
wrote=
:

>
>
> Talking of Excel, I was at a clients office recently and was watching
thi=
s
> so called IT guy putting together a spreadsheet where he was using a
> desktop
> calculator to add up the numbers and then manually enter then into the
> spreadsheet!
>
> I was there to look at their technology and I decided to ask this guy
som=
e
> tech questions.
>
> I asked him, looking at your spreadsheet, what if you changed quantity
of
> one of the items in your spreadsheet, how would you re-calculate all
the
> other entries! His answer was to use the calculator again=85
>
> This guy made 2 short planks look like a computer. In the end I
decided
not
> to work with this company as I would end up doing all the work myself.
>
>
> Dave...
> ---
> Very funny Scotty, now beam down my clothes!!!
> ---
>
>
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Alex Monaghan
> Sent: 19 May 2011 18:50
>
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Raspberry Pi - =A315 computer
>
> The correct answer to the helpdesk question of "how do I get more
than 65=
K
> rows in Excel" is not to use multiple pages, it is build a proper
databas=
e
> based system that can be supported when you leave the department!
>
> Alex
>
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>
>=20=20
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