Patrick O'Beirne's blogRisk Management, Data Quality, Testing, Spreadsheet check and controlPraxIS Newsletter July 2008- (Found July 8, 2008 ) www.sysmod.compraxisprax0807.htm 1) Risk & Security What to do if you suspect or discover fraud 2) Quality Presentations available on Software Testing 3) Spreadsheets Eusprig 2008 XLTest: ANew Addin for Spreadsheet Checking 4) Off Topic Don't blame me, I voted ... 5 Web links in this newsletter At Eusprig 2008 I'll be announcing my new XLTest add-in for auditing spreadsheets and looking for beta testers.http://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2008/07/07#prax0807 Banff music and dance- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Some quick notes on other events we attended: Sat 4 Aug, Young Dancers, an end-of-term presentation of what they could do in classical and jazz dance. Very impressive, especially as some were very young, aged 12 and 13. Only three male dancers. Tue 7 Aug, Summer music in St. George's in the Pines, Banff. A nice mix of song and string quartet including an amusing piece "Don't let that horse eat that violin" Wed 15 Aug, Mighty Popo. Blues, African singer, drummer, guitar. Easy listening for.http://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2007/08/21#banff-music-aug-07 Frobisher: Three characters in search of an ending- (Found July 8, 2008 ) I enjoyed the production of the new opera Frobisher by John Estacio & John Murrell produced by Kelly Robinson and the Calgary Opera at the Banff Centre for the Arts on Sunday 12 Aug 2007. In the tradition of musicals about theatrical people, this Opera is based on movie people. The theme is the American Dream, the belief in a new start, and a place to make it in. Musically, it passed by without much sticking; unlike a musical, in opera there are no big tunes to go away humming. The...http://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2007/08/21#Frobisher Opera Banff htm Google Desktop annoying beep- (Found July 8, 2008 ) After a lot of searching on "why does my computer beep" This is a loud POST-type beep, not a normal Windows sound which can be suppressed by turning the volume down. My version of Google Desktop is 5.0.0611.10655-en-GB-pb Thanks to Gert http:www.vantslot.begertdotnet I found http:desktop.google.comsupportbinanswer.pyhl=en&answer=58591 February 22, 2007 Google Desktop 4.5 (5.0.0702.07034) All Languages, Consumer and Enterprise Security update Fixed beeping issue related to PDF indexinghttp://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2007/08/25#google-desktop-beep Creative Zen Missing Feature- (Found July 8, 2008 ) MP3 concept of Albums It's amazing that a modern MP3 player like the Creative Zen VPlus can't do what disk changers have been doing for decades, right up to CD changers. They say to use playlists, but that only works from a collection on the PC to the Zen. It does not apply to a Zen which has been filled from different PCs or where I did not store the music on the PC. The Zen only lists music by artist, not album so I can't even copy it back to a PC with album integrity in order to create a...http://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2007/08/25#creative-zen-missing-feature Final days of August 2007 vacation in Alberta- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Banff Centre for the Arts We went to a couple of the concerts of the Banff International String Quartet Competition. Megan liked the Tin Alley quartet from Australia and indeed they were the winners on Sept 2nd. I find Bartok rather severe for my tastes, but John Largess, violist with the Miró Quartet (winners of BISQC 1998), provided a very good background to the music. You can listen to the performances on the CBC Concerts on Demand archive. There were some fun events, such as an...http://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2007/09/05#canada07 PraxIS newsletter Sep 2007- (Found July 8, 2008 ) www.sysmod.compraxisprax0709.htm 1) Irish Computer Society 50 years awards Your vote is wanted! 2) prax0709.htmQuality Free Software Testing Seminars in Ireland 3) Spreadsheets Apple Numbers introduced 4) Off Topic Tech Gripes 5 Web links in this newsletterhttp://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2007/09/10#prax0709 PraxIS October 2007- (Found July 8, 2008 ) October 2007 1) Risk & Security Nedap voting machines de-certified in The Netherlands Phishy education 2) Testing Holistic Test Analysis and Design Software & Systems Quality Conferences in London and Dublin3) Spreadsheets 65535 calculation bug in Excel 2007 cell display 4) Off Topic Mnemonics and pangrams21 Web links in this...http://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2007/10/09#prax0710 Excel oddities- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Some annoyances I came across in Excel and VBA: Maximum application.statusbar message length is 255 characters. Setting it to a string of 256 or more characters long gives error 1004. A Text formatted cell displays characters to fill the cell (eg ) when the length of the text is between 256 and 1024 characters. Excel 2007 with European regional Windows date settings cannot import dBase dbf file dates correctly. Although the data is stored in the record unambigously as YYYYMMDD, Excel 12...http://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2007/10/29#xloddities Dance, Talks, and more at Banff Centre- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Sun Aug 19 The Dance of Life - Keeping Pace The Banff centre promotes artistic activity as an alternative to the hard-skills component of most management training centres. The marketing term they use is Leadership Development rather than the '80's Management Development. The programs are for corporate, government, Aboriginal, arts, and not-for-profit (NfP) sectors. The series on Leading Creatively included conversations on Leadership Jazz, Extreme Leadership, the Ecology of Business,...http://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2007/08/21#banff-misc-aug-07 |