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On 1/28/2026 2:12 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:15:11 -0500, DFS wrote:

And even then, unless the data is in a db, it's nearly useless. All
you can do is scroll it up and down on the screen, and you have to
write a new program every time you want a different view.

Did you know that LibreOffice Base supports multiple DBMS backends,
including SQLite?

I did know that. I knew that some 20 years ago.

Let’s see you use Microsoft Office to match that.

eh? Access has been ODBC-connective since 1993. I built lots of
corporate Access apps using Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata and DB2
backends. Not only that, but you could connect as many different
backends as you wanted to an Access frontend.

You can even use ODBC to connect one Access database (.mdb, .accdb) to
another Access database.

Last I tried a few years ago, an LO database file wouldn't accept
connections (in the form of linked tables) from more than one ODBC
datasource at a time. Hopefully that limitation isn't still in place.

Not to mention the superior Object Model underpinning MS Office, or the
far superior form and report designers and VBA scripting language.

Another thing I like about Access is, via compilation and various
properties you can set at runtime, you can make an Access system look
like a standalone Windows app - the user never knows it's Access (unless
he knows .mde vs .exe), sees whatever title you want, can't see a
database window, can't break into the code or make changes to forms and reports, etc. It looks very professional. I deployed a big bunch of them.

You can't do that with LibreOffice.

LO just can't compete. Too many lackadaisacal devs working on the
things they want to work on, at their own pace.

Not that LO won't meet the needs of virtually all non-developers. It
has a boatload of features, and is a nice program for being free of cost.

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On 1/28/2026 7:23 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

DFS wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:

On 1/27/2026 7:02 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

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Enjoy!

Thank you for your Linux advocacy.

Did you run the program?

Nah.

It's a cool program, but not as cool as those graphical representations
of your hard drive.

https://lifehacker.com/the-best-disk-space-analyzer-for-windows-5915921


I like this pie-chart view too:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer

I wrote all of it on Windows, and it ran 100% unchanged on Linux/WSL.

It's very nifty. But it chokes if your top-level directory has a lot of
subdirectories.

Time to put your 'good enough to get into physics grad school but not
make it out' [1] brain to work and fix it!

Nah. I've got a lotta other code to fix.

I won't do your homework for you, bwah! :-D

No award for you!

[1] Heh, I was taking a course in quantum mechanics, and feeling
like I wasn't getting it. Talking to the professor, he said
that, unlike some others, I seemed to be understanding it.
Wha?

After all that schooling you became a lowly programmer like the rest of us.

In case quantum computing doesn't frighten you: https://wrfranklin.org/Teaching/quantum-f2022/blog/

It wasn't until I took some statistics-related courses (e.g.
systems & signals and signal-detection theory) that I grokked
the Schrödinger equation.

Schrödinger was apparently quite a randy fellow, having
multiple affairs and a live-in mistress.

Sexual abuse allegations

Around 1926, at the age of 39, Schrödinger tutored a 14-year-old girl
named Itha "Ithi" Junger. Walter Moore relates in his 1989 biography of Schrödinger that the lessons "included 'a fair amount of petting and cuddling'" and Schrödinger "had fallen in love with his pupil".[71]
Moore further relates that "not long after her seventeenth birthday,
they became lovers". The relationship continued and in 1932 she became pregnant (then aged 20[72]). "Erwin tried to persuade her to have the
child; he said he would take care of it, but he did not offer to divorce
[his wife] Anny ... in desperation, Ithi arranged for an abortion."[73]

Moore describes Schrödinger having a "Lolita complex." He quotes from Schrödinger's diary from the time where he said that "men of strong,
genuine intellectuality are immensely attracted only by women who,
forming the very beginning of the intellectual series, are as nearly
connected to the preferred springs of nature as they." A 2021 Irish
Times article summarized this as a "predilection for teenage girls", and denounced Schrödinger as "a serial abuser whose behaviour fitted the
profile of a paedophile in the widely understood sense of that
term."[74] Schrödinger's grandson and his mother were unhappy with the accusation made by Moore, and once the biography was published, their
family broke off contact with him.[75]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger#Sexual_abuse_allegations


Stallman and Feeb would've definitely defended his behavior.





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DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote at 20:20 this Friday (GMT):

On 1/28/2026 7:23 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

DFS wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:

On 1/27/2026 7:02 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

DFS wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:

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Enjoy!

Thank you for your Linux advocacy.

Did you run the program?

Nah.

It's a cool program, but not as cool as those graphical representations
of your hard drive.

https://lifehacker.com/the-best-disk-space-analyzer-for-windows-5915921

I like this pie-chart view too:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer

[snip]


Those programs are cool visually, but I'll always kinda prefer something
like ncdu to deal with file space.
--
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom
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On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:03:50 -0500, DFS wrote:

On 1/28/2026 2:12 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

Let’s see you use Microsoft Office to match that.

eh? Access has been ODBC-connective since 1993. I built lots of
corporate Access apps using Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata and DB2
backends. Not only that, but you could connect as many different
backends as you wanted to an Access frontend.

So why didn’t you think to use it, then?

Not to mention the superior Object Model underpinning MS Office, or
the far superior form and report designers and VBA scripting
language.

So why didn’t you use VBA to do your little programming exercise? Why
did you have to use Python, and run it on Linux via WSL2, at that?
Windows and Office no longer good enough for you?

LO just can't compete.

And yet you never thought of using your wonderful Microsoft Office to
solve this problem?
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DFS wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:

On 1/28/2026 7:23 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

<snip>

[1] Heh, I was taking a course in quantum mechanics, and feeling
like I wasn't getting it. Talking to the professor, he said
that, unlike some others, I seemed to be understanding it.
Wha?

After all that schooling you became a lowly programmer like the
rest of us.

Heh heh. As a "lowly" programmer I used knowledge from my
schooling: hearing science and speech production, electrical
engineering, physics, and mathematics.

Not to mention writing skills and tenacity from all that schoolwork.

As an aside, I don't consider *any* job to be *lowly*. Not even
"SQL jockey" :-).

<snip>

--
"Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like `Psychic Wins Lottery'?"
-- Jay Leno
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On 1/31/2026 7:37 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

DFS wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:

On 1/28/2026 7:23 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

<snip>

[1] Heh, I was taking a course in quantum mechanics, and feeling
like I wasn't getting it. Talking to the professor, he said
that, unlike some others, I seemed to be understanding it.
Wha?

After all that schooling you became a lowly programmer like the
rest of us.

Heh heh. As a "lowly" programmer I used knowledge from my
schooling: hearing science and speech production, electrical
engineering, physics, and mathematics.

So you programmed a smart fart generator. Submit it to the alumni
newsletter.

Not to mention writing skills and tenacity from all that schoolwork.

As an aside, I don't consider *any* job to be *lowly*. Not even
"SQL jockey" :-).

<snip>

DCL, DQL, DDL and DML for the win!

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On 1/30/2026 4:56 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:03:50 -0500, DFS wrote:

On 1/28/2026 2:12 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

Let’s see you use Microsoft Office to match that.

eh? Access has been ODBC-connective since 1993. I built lots of
corporate Access apps using Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata and DB2
backends. Not only that, but you could connect as many different
backends as you wanted to an Access frontend.

So why didn’t you think to use it, then?

So why didn't you think to do some basic research before making your
stupid post "Let's see MS Office match that"?

Not to mention the superior Object Model underpinning MS Office, or
the far superior form and report designers and VBA scripting
language.

So why didn’t you use VBA to do your little programming exercise? Why
did you have to use Python, and run it on Linux via WSL2, at that?
Windows and Office no longer good enough for you?

So why do you mostly talk about Windows - Linux no longer good enough
for you?

Why do you write Python code? C no longer good enough for you?


Give it up Larry Duh - trolling and flaming isn't your forte. Stick to
your lame lies about Windows and Office.

LO just can't compete.

And yet you never thought of using your wonderful Microsoft Office to
solve this problem?

MS Office will always be wonderful.

For example, these Access 2003 apps I created still can't be duplicated
using LibreOffice crapware:

https://imgur.com/hv5AWU6
https://imgur.com/a/vrlDw
https://imgur.com/a/x7TnMZC


23 years later and LO is still way behind.


Isn't it time for all you MS-haters around the world to fix LibreOffice?

Maybe have a big conference/bitch-fest where you promise each other
you'll "destroy Microsoft Office"?

Oh wait, y'all have been holding such gatherings annually since 2011.


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On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 07:37:28 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

As an aside, I don't consider *any* job to be *lowly*. Not even "SQL
jockey" .

That's pushing the window. I've done my fair share of database programming
and it always reminded me of shoveling shit in the mule stalls. If I were going to use ChatGPT that would be the place.
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On 1/30/2026 3:50 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:

DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote at 20:20 this Friday (GMT):

On 1/28/2026 7:23 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

DFS wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:

On 1/27/2026 7:02 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

DFS wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:

code file: https://filebin.net/d726wbjyc20gd29d
(link expires in 6 days)


Enjoy!

Thank you for your Linux advocacy.

Did you run the program?

Nah.

It's a cool program, but not as cool as those graphical representations
of your hard drive.

https://lifehacker.com/the-best-disk-space-analyzer-for-windows-5915921


I like this pie-chart view too:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer

[snip]

Those programs are cool visually, but I'll always kinda prefer something
like ncdu to deal with file space.

Ncdu for Windows
https://github.com/itefixnet/wincdu https://github.com/itefixnet/wincdu/releases

And it's BSD 2 clause licensed.

I'll check it out.

My 2TB SSD was like 95% full, so I wrote that python program to capture
file metadata and figure out what's up. I found I had downloaded ~150GB
of .mp4 files (not porn).

Windows has a built-in 'Storage Usage' app that analyzes your drive and
points out directory sizes, but I wanted more detail than it provides.
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