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Originally Posted by clowntable
Get Xubuntu (with an X). The new Ubuntu is "Windows 8 like" whereas Xubuntu is more "classic desktop".
If it's your first one something Ubuntu-ish like Xubuntu is probably a good idea because you'll find the most support etc.
You can always spend a couple of hours browsing
http://distrowatch.com
[Mint is also a good choice, have heard about some issues with upgrading between releases but that was a while back no idea what their current status is]
And this is advice from a real expert, therefore, you should listen to him.
There's good and bad to Canonical's flavor of Ubuntu. The spyware and bloatware is a real turn off to me, but there is something nice about having everything set up, running, and ready to go. Of course, if you ever decide to run your own server (god bless your heart), it's a pretty good idea to program in a distro that is often used for this stuff. Seems to common ones are Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, and Arch.
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Originally Posted by clowntable
I used to do it all the time in the pentium pro to about 2Ghz single core ones. These days I have to research a bit to even know what's inside. All those crazy buses and whatnot...where's ISA :P
Also fried a CPU due to improper isolation so probably -EV lifetime building PCs
Many of my coworkers are gamers. It seems to be a thing for them to do. I'm not sure why there is a preference for rolling your own over buying something pre-built, but I guess they don't want more than they need and only want the highest quality parts.
The closest analogy I can come up with is buying a bicycle of the rack or buying something custom made. The expensive bikes all feature a few cheap parts that greatly diminish the quality of the product, or they sell expensive stuff at the cost of other parts, like selling a $250 seat pole and $5 breaks, so it is better to build your own or custom make one, and it tends to be cheaper that way.
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Originally Posted by candybar
Did your work in finance involve Excel and maybe Macros/VBA? Access? Excel VBA I think is the easiest way for a non-programmer to get a programming job, because it's both valuable and undesirable to other programmers. Microsoft botching .NET/Office integration also ensures that VBA will survive for at least another decade.
*sight* VBA... I had to do split dollars and cents so that:
cellA = 10.99
cellB = 10
cellC = .99
Not too hard in Excel. This is simply:
cellB = Int(cellA)
cellC = Mod(cellC, 1)
I needed a bunch of if / else logic and didn't want to write a 3-mile equation, so I opened up VBA. The natural thought is that this should work:
Code:
Function woah (v as Double) as Double
dollar = Int(v)
cent = Mod(v, 1)
If...
'' do stuff to dollar and cent''
End If
woah = answer
End Function
dollar = Int(v) works as expected, but the cent doesn't work at all. So go to Google and get this:
no dice.
Then you find crap like this, with a zillion possible ideas (all wrong or just yuck, of course):
http://chandoo.org/wp/2010/11/22/splitting-a-number/
Finally, I end up with this eyesore:
Code:
cent = ((v * 10) Mod (1 * 10)) / 10