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Journal by MichaelDavidCrawford
Forty-five minutes later and it's still installing dependencies. The hell is goffice?
All I wanted was to do my income taxes on my Mac. Perhaps if I settled for my Windows box those taxes would have been done by now.
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Dealing with failure is easy:
Work hard to improve.
Success is also easy to handle:
You've solved the wrong problem.
Work hard to improve.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday February 11 2018, @02:46AM (1 child)
http://time.com/money/4679362/tax-protest-boycott-federal-income-refuse-penalty-fine/ [time.com]
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday February 11 2018, @02:51AM
I am quite certain I won't owe any tax.
But my witch doctor ordered a $6,000 test without obtaining pre-authorization from my insurance company.
Conceivably I could take my witch doctor to small claims court so that she'd have to pay for the test, but aside from this one thing I regard her as very helpful to me.
That $6,000 could drop to as low as $25 but I have to send them a photocopy of the first page of my tax return.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday February 11 2018, @02:51AM (3 children)
---> Fetching archive for ffmpeg
---> Attempting to fetch ffmpeg-3.4.1_4+gpl2.darwin_16.x86_64.tbz2 from https://packages.macports.org/ffmpeg [macports.org]
---> Attempting to fetch ffmpeg-3.4.1_4+gpl2.darwin_16.x86_64.tbz2 from http://sea.us.packages.macports.org/macports/packages/ffmpeg [macports.org]
---> Attempting to fetch ffmpeg-3.4.1_4+gpl2.darwin_16.x86_64.tbz2 from http://ywg.ca.packages.macports.org/mirror/macports/packages/ffmpeg [macports.org]
---> Fetching distfiles for ffmpeg
---> Attempting to fetch ffmpeg-3.4.1.tar.xz from https://distfiles.macports.org/ffmpeg [macports.org]
---> Verifying checksums for ffmpeg
---> Extracting ffmpeg
---> Applying patches to ffmpeg
---> Configuring ffmpeg
---> Building ffmpeg
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday February 11 2018, @03:27AM (1 child)
It will show them videos of your bank account.
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday February 11 2018, @03:33AM
Maybe I'll do my taxes _next_ weekend.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 11 2018, @04:36AM
Probably a dependency of a dependencies dependency.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 11 2018, @06:42AM (1 child)
get linux on a usb stick and boot from it instead?
I recall looking at postgres version in macports back in 2003 and going debian. I also knew that a company selling a portable hd which could not exchange files (the ipod) had no future. I was right (in a very user centric way, though)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 11 2018, @07:06PM
Oh, hi! I used to read your blog [slashdot.org].
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 11 2018, @10:18PM (1 child)
Two things are better done with pen and paper: taxes and voting.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Magic Oddball on Monday February 12 2018, @12:08AM
Not if the person is stuck with dyscalculia, like I am.
Also, if you're voting with a Scantron/Optical-Mark-Recognition sheet, you might as well use an e-voting system that produces a paper trail (e.g. the one my county uses), as security for OMR systems is just as poor. (Among other things, keeping the OMR system offline doesn't help much if the county programs or accesses its memory card using a standard Win/Mac system connected to the network.) [verifiedvoting.org]
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday February 12 2018, @03:20AM
I don't know what kind of package manager you are using, but on Debian there is a configuration option whether to install "recommended" packages, or just actually "required" packages. It wouldn't surprise me at all if gnucash depended on some Gnome components, and that they recommended the rest of Gnome.
Setting the options to just install "required" packages will probably reduce the amount of unneeded crap that gets pulled in. I remember one package that actually installed about a gigabyte of stuff I did not need. I think it was asciidoc that installed the entire TeX ecosystem in case I were to want to generate TeX documents from asciidoc ones. As it happened, I didn't.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday February 12 2018, @06:30PM
Despite that it runs on the Mac it's an X11 application. I use quartz-wm to give all the window title bars so I can drag them around.
There are some errors in my books. I'm checking against the online banking for the entire time I've had both my personal and business accounts.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]