Posted on 08/18/2022 8:03:49 PM PDT by ganeemead
A decent quality computer that you might have bought six or 10 years ago lacks very little in being a supercomputer, and could be made into a supercomputer fairly easily. As a general rule, that computer could also be bought for very little money on eBay now. The two things that computer needs: .....
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I wo Der if there is a registry hack,that can turn off,the nagging from Corel? Sometimes all it takes is shutting off a certain process in the processes app. But sometimes doing so renders the program unusable till you turn it back on
“Most all of the data acquisition suppliers I use, DEWEYSoft, MTS, DATAQ, HBM, etc., have their own proprietary data format, but also will output data in CSV format. This is an ideal fit for EXCEL, but Libre is useless for handling and charting it.”
I have used LibreOffice to output data in CSV format. It worked fine for my use. Gnumeric also worked well.
From what he posted the other day, I think he may have to go up. I think some of his systems got fried by a lightening strike.
It’s been a while since I have talked to him (we have been traveling for several years) and he may have gone up a level and I didn’t know it!
I always figured the happiest day of my life would be the day I never had to pay taxes or deal with governments again... That will never happen.
But the second happiest day is the day I never have to deal with Bill Gates or MicroSoft or any of their BS/schlocko software again and that day has arrived.
The same has been true for every version of window over the years. Linux will resurrect old computers and make them fly, especially, if you use one of the smaller distros like Xfce and don't use some of the more bloated distributions, like gnome (and now, apparently KDE). I loaded my desktop with the latest Kubuntu running KDE, and am fairly unhappy with the overall performance of the distro. Might just switch to Mint-Xfce again.
A weird thing that I've noticed is that the plama desktop now runs with an insane number of open files. After running brave for about 5 days or so, I'll get "too many open files" errors when trying to start other programs.
$ sudo lsof | awk '{ print $2 " " $1; }' | sort -rn | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -20
92278 2466 plasmashe
13356 2405 kwin_x11
12600 86010 brave
12200 5545 MetadataB
11374 85976 brave
9988 1041 Xorg
8188 4068 konsole
7958 2557 kgpg
7788 6112 kate
7680 2459 polkit-kd
7291 2880 xdg-deskt
6930 2092 kwalletd5
5288 2402 kded5
2600 86464 brave
2392 86478 brave
2353 86396 brave
2353 86382 brave
2340 86358 brave
2249 86209 brave
2028 86180 brave
That first program name is a bit truncated. It is actually /usr/bin/plasmashell. I've seen it with over 180k open files. That is insane.
Here's the same thing on my Xfce desktop...
5772 1942 rhythmbox
1881 871 Xorg
1596 1660 evolution
1449 1529 xfwm4
1422 1733 mintUpdat
1413 1852 evolution
764 1255 pulseaudi
736 1669 nm-applet
630 1864 evolution
596 1623 mintrepor
592 1658 blueman-a
588 1554 xfdesktop
582 1566 panel-12-
568 1839 evolution
564 1989 xfce4-ter
546 1545 xfce4-pan
525 1557 panel-1-w
519 1596 xfce4-not
519 1562 panel-8-s
513 1565 panel-11-
No. You occasionally have to learn something new.
The Horror!
That really is awfully convenient for all of the companies involved, isn't it? One might think that it is planned that way or something.
So it was humor.
I should have known when it said super computer for$400. Lol.
and maybe even search the web or read the docs to find an answer. How cumbersome.
Agreed, Calc kinds sucks and lacks a lot of Excel features that I like and use a lot. Softmaker (Germany) has an office suite in free and paid versions and I generally use their spreadsheet Planmaker. It has all the Excel stuff that I like, reads and writes the latest MS file formats, can be set to default to those, and I used the free version as my daily driver for years. Eventually, I found something I needed that was only in the paid version, so I bought it, but even that's like $80 for a perpetual license for the whole suite or something like that. The only place it falls short of Excel that I've seen is that it will only run a single core, where Excel will use multiple cores. Makes no difference 99.9% of the time, but if you get a VERY large sheet, like tens of thousand of rows and 20 or 30 columns (basically a database), it bogs down, so I run those on Excel.
For WP, I do have their WP Textmaker installed, but generally prefer and usually use Writer from the Open Office suite.
Plasma killed KDE.
I run XFce or an older pre Plasma version of KDE (Trinity).
It seems to me like people just can't leave well enough alone. It is annoying. The only reason I normally upgrade is because the repositories stop doing security updates for the distro. This one was a major disappointment, because I generally like the way KDE works. I think Dolphin is a fantastic file browser, primarily because it is able to use the 'fish://' protocol to let you browse remote file systems using ssh as if they were local. I don't use it often, but when I do, it's da bomb.
Looks like I may have to switch to Xfce permanently. If only I could get rid of systemd as well. Lord what a mess systemd is. Give me init scripts any day.
Quattro-Pro was reputed to be a superior spreadsheet, did you ever try that?
Install VMware and run the old version in a virtual machine. Even compatibility mode in Windows might do the trick.
Yes I did, around 1994 or so. 3D in DOS! Woo hoo! What I was doing with spreadsheets back then wasn’t nearly as demanding and niche as now, plus it had the advantage of not being 1-2-3, which I never could warm up to.
I understand Word Perfect bought it and is now selling it as part of their suite.
“Bus was the biggest bottleneck in older computers.”
That’s what Michael Dell figured out early on. While Packard Bell and Compaq were throwing cheap junk together with fast CPUs Dell lined-up component bus speeds to closest match to the CPU. A more efficient design. Result: Cheap not-so-junk. That’s one reason why Dell’s early systems were so good. No design bottlenecks. Intel did the same later on putting the Celeron sticker to it.
AMD Ryzen 5 5600G 3.9 GHz 6-Core Processor $176.33
MSI B450-A PRO MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard $79.98
Silicon Power XPOWER Turbine 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory $82.97
Silicon Power A55 512 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive $33.99
Thermaltake Versa H21 ATX Mid Tower Case $54.99
Corsair VS600 (2020) 600 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply $39.09
Verbatim 99201 Wired Standard Keyboard $7.99
$475.34
The data I’m dealing with right now has as many as 482 columns and more than 40,000 rows.
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