This is a pretty interesting story. Found a link to it on Slashdot this morning.
Two women in China have been found to have HIV immune “mutant” genes. Apparently, these genes were previously known to exist only in caucasians.
Too bad we can’t use any new stem cells here in the U.S. to get more of these “mutant” genes. Stem cells will save us all if they’re ever given the opportunity…stupid congress.
Anyway, here’s the full article:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/content_379267.htm
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Microsoft Excel is the damned stupidest app ever made. It doesn’t follow any sort of logic. It typically does the exact opposite of what I think it should be doing.
I’m making charts for total meals sold weekly for various clients. Each client has it’s own sheet in the workbook.
I’m trying to add a pie chart so we can see what client has what percentage of our business. I can’t do this because I have the data for each individual client on seperate sheets. Normally Excell has no problems working across sheets, but apparently can’t do it when making graphs.
Excel is constantly changing data in our spreadsheets too. One lady, Kelly, saves her data on the network. When she saves it, the values in some of the gets changed so it’s ponting to a different workbook on the server. The actual cell has a link to some other excel file on the network.
Excel is messy, un-reliable, and a pain to work with. All the MS Office products have been annyoing the shit outta me lately. I can’t stand using them because I have no idea what they might do to the work I’m doing.
I spoke with Mike Schilling a few days ago. He wrote the software we use to manage our meals. He wrote it with an Access database as the backend. I think I got him convinced to move the data over to a MySQL server. I totally don’t trust Access with that many records. Our access database is up to around 600,000 records. One table alone has over 300,000 records. It seems that once an Access db reaches 100,000 or more records, it starts to slow dramatically.
Switching to MySQL would be killer. That would give us the ability to access that data from anywhere. I need to get a .NET or Mono book and start reading…
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I formatted my / partition lastnight and installed slackware-current. The ftp server is down. This website was down for about 2 hours last night. I dunno when ftp access will be up again.
If you had an FTP account, it’s prolly gone now. I dun even know if I want to allow ftp access anymore. It was sucking up too much bandwidth. My total bandwidth usage last month was 71.9GB. Of that, 29.6GB was outbound traffic.
Almost too much for my liking. If I had a 512kbps upstream, then no prob…but I only have 256kbps upstream.
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