I’m a longtime Gnucash user but it’s no harm looking around at what’s on offer. Here’s a review of MoneyDance 2003. MoneyDance is a cross-platform Java finance program the reviewer is quite taken with, while at the same time dissing on Gnucash.
If you have Linux installed, try out Gnucash, you won’t be disappointed!
Monthly Archives: April 2003
Quality of Surfing: An Intermediate Level HowTo
Brief and very light tutorial on manipulating Linux’s QoS parameters.
Life at 56K finally is bearable. I was able to type away at a remote shell with a 20MB download pounding along in another window.
This is one brave man…
While women complained of sexism at the US Masters one brave man decided enough was enough!
I just hope they didn’t turn around… *gulp*
New b2 snapshot release
This release is a must-have for anyone running b2++ as it fixes a major bug in the b2options.php page. Thanks to Andreas Banze for finding that one!
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Bob, first of all, glad to hear your son Channing is doing well. It was a shock to read about Chase a year ago. It doesn’t seem that long at all!
Unfortunately I have to disagree with your arguement against Open Source.
When a project is successful it’s used by people and the maintainers are hopefully motivated to work at it. Even if the project developers lose interest in a project sometimes those projects are taken up by others. The author of b2 disappeared off the Internet (he’s back, sort of now!) and now there’s several branches of b2, including this website, all with enhanced features.
If a project stagnates and isn’t maintained, it’s usually because people aren’t using it. There are many exceptions of course, and some popular tools go unmaintained, but what happens when a company goes bust? What happens when the company won’t support your old version of the software? At least you, or your development team has access to the source of the open source project.
I don’t believe Microsoft can easily subvert OSS projects by simply pumping money into them and leading them off in a tangent. People will notice.
You cite the Apache project. The new Apache 2 has been out for quite a while. How many complex sites are using it? It doesn’t have much support from 3rd party developers. So much for the mighty influence of IBM.
Where’s Ximian now? What have they done in the Gnome world to lead that desktop environment?
They might have a chance if they got a controlling role in Red Hat or some other major Linux distributor, but even then there’s too many people. Alan Cox is quite independent of Red Hat even though they pay his salary.
Open Source will be around for a long time I’m glad to say!
Linux 'Just Works' For Me
After all those “Linux doesn’t work! I’m going home to mammy!” stories here’s a refreshingly positive story about Linux, and also a link to a great apt-rpm repository. Here’s some brief instructions on getting it working. Lots of games and stuff available 🙂
And the award goes to:
This one has to go in “Humour”, no doubt about it. Made me grin. hehe.
Proinnsias is on the upgrade cycle once more. Pity Mr Project can’t import MS Project files..
The Dictionary of Cork Slang
Adam, this dictionary is excellent! Your uncle did a great job! A must read for Corkonians!
Linux drivers for Conexant Chipsets
Yaay! Linux drivers for my modem have been released for Red Hat 9 and other distributions! Should be online tonight! Thanks Ruairi!
OpenOffice
The ILUG is a great resource and often it’s great having such a varied and technical group of people on the ILUG. Caolan works on Open Office/Star Office and it looks like my OO problems may be fixed in the 1.1 release!
I love his explanation why bullet points were a bit screwy when exporting to Word format. hehe.