1 Sep
2006
1 Sep
'06
2:54 p.m.
--- Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
I had another search for "calculator" today
to find out what directory it was stored
in.
In the same directory I also found a Paint
program and one other program, which I
can understand why they would hide them
Didn't know you could do that.
No offense intended, but are you sure it's not
set up for no decimal places, or perhaps
it's just MS's programmers being lazy? :)
I have never seen a hex number with a
decimal point anyway... do they exist and/or
serve a purpose, or was it just a demonstrate
your point?
[1] We don't have permission to alter the
computers time, as it's part of a very large
network.
Certain drives (eg. drive M: ) are also locked
away (not even displayed on "My Computer").
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk wrot
e:
Yeah, but
it's often hidden.
Not by default.
If it has been hidden, it is because somebody
explicitly and deliberately
was trying to keep you away from it.
Without user intervention Win2K installations will
have it in accessories.
from us.
But we work in a lab and do calculations
on
a *daily* basis. Most of them are done by
the computers (special program made by
Scibertec), but some calc's we do manually.
> snip <<
Now whenever I need it and it's not listed
under applications (we move about alot in the
lab and use diff computers each week), I just
do a quick filesearch, dump it on the desktop
and on the main drop-up (?) menu that appears
when you click on the Start button, incase
I have a screen full of windows.
Now almost everyone uses it (largely because
calc's are so hard to find in the lab).
WHY BOTHER??
Go to Start/Run and type Calc. or
Go to the command line, and type Calc.
Not sure we have permission [1] to go into the
CLI mode, and perhaps we might get suspicious
looks if we did.
The
"scientific" mode includes binary, octal,
hex and decimal, aswell as proper maths
functions.
Yes, but it refuses to do anything but integers in
anything other than
decimal!
3.0h/2.0h gives 1.8h, NOT 1.0
11 binary/10 binary is 1.1 binary, NOT 1
3.14159decimal is NOT 3h.