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I had a similar problem, as described in my earlier post. You could check which excel format is used by the file you want to open. There are quite a lot of different formats that Excel has been using over the years and Excel 2010 is very picky about which formats it will read.

You can find the formats also in the trust settings from Excel 2010. 

@f0dder:
That could be possible....using all characters in an Italian accent: "ani muliti" (any mullet)   

A former boss of mine cleaned his PC's at least once a year with an air pump intended for balloons. That thing was not too big (so you could put it in whatever angle necessary) and more than enough force to blow away any dust.

By selling the tear drops from the kids in their sweat-shop(s)?

I think they got their inspiration from this 'Black Mirror'-episode. The first season has only three episodes, and according to IMDB there are three more planned for season two.

These episodes show an interesting and also very depressing look into what the future could have in store for us. All episodes from season one are definitely worth watching. 

Was it not the trading between North European countries that ultimately led to a language form and structure understood by all? When I (native Dutch) keep listening/reading to the nordic languages, I do get what has been said without translation.

People always told me that this became possible, because of the active trading between North-Europeans.

You could start with mentioning your name is Solomon....¨customer is king¨ after all.

Most days I actually like the Oracle products (so, you see I am delusional). But there are also days that I can curse them into hell, because of a stupidity that . You are definitely right about the business practices of Oracle, I think they actually believe that when you install their software you are "pimping" your PC.

At the time (about 10 years ago) there was a test done with this software and several databases (MSSQL 2000, Oracle 9, Firebird ?, PostgreSQL) and Oracle 9 came out as the best overall option. Never looked back since, to be honest, just kept upgrading Oracle.

I don't run 64-bit, because a) compiler doesn't support it and b) i was asked to by the maintainers of the 64 processor system I mentioned earlier. They run a optimized Windows 2008 server 64-bit version with my 32-bit application.

So if I am wrong there, so be it, my bad. from the links that 4wd informed me of, it states that 64-bit applications are compiled with the /LargeAddressAware setting by default enabled.

I would not be contesting your opinions as I do, if I hadn't seen it fail with my own eyes. Let me explain a bit.

The software I work on needs to calculate a lot and has to it really fast, serious money is involved (buying, selling auctioning, predicting and billing of energy usage on time) and is vital for the continuity of the Dutch, German, Belgium and (small part of) Great Britain energy grid.

It runs as expected/desired in 32-bit environments using plain/basic Microsoft and Oracle API's. With this software it is possible to create services that each can contain several scripted processes (yes, this software has its own scripting language) for automatic generation and processing of EDINE, EDIGAS, EDIEL type of messages through Exchange, POP3 or SOAP (XML), generating and processing of reports created in HTML, Excel, CSV, TXT, XML etc.

Because of the huge datasets that this 64 processor system has to pull/store into database schemas this limit of 2GByte per process is very, very real. And with my own eyes I saw that system f.ck up majorly because of that limit. And with Large AddressAware setting it still f.cked up, but now at 3GByte. Hence my assumption that the same misery of 32-bit limitations also was implemented in 64-bit. I didn't bother to do the research, sue me.

However, according to the online documentation you and 4wd pointed me to, I was wrong, so thanks for filling in that gap.   

However, since most of the companies that make use of this software are (forced to) upgrading to newer server OS's and more misery is my part. there was even an error message from the 2008 R2 OS that it lost connection to the hard disk (assuming it developed an error) because of me accessing a database on that hard disk in after 2 hours in on an onslaught of SOAP calls.

Needless to say, that 500GByte database was lost, Oracle was not able to repair itself anymore and one weekend more was spent reuploading that sucker. Anyway, I needed to continue my test, so I pulled my old W2003 Oracle server that contained an older version of that database and guess what, it handled the onslaught with ease for 5 days straight.

To me, 64-bit OS's may be nice in theory, in practice it is job security for IT and not so much for serious work. Believe whatever kool-aid you like/read, I will do the same and we will be happier for it. 

64-bit compilers are default set to enable large address aware. OK, a hiatus is filled. VS2010 and higher most likely, I'm sure. The CodeGear RAD Studio (C++) version I have to work with doesn't even come as a 64-bit compiler, so all limits still apply   

Nope, Windows won't allow any process to consume more than 2 GByte. Believe me, I got a 64 GByte RAM computer that also has 64 processors to its knees, because of that.

Doesn't matter if the OS and/or the application is 32-bit or 64-bit. The Windows memory manager won't let you..unless you step in and take over from it. See KB article 833721 for startup parameter '/3GB'. Still, you are only allowed to consume to a maximum of 3 GByte RAM per process.

Only after enabling that startup parameter on a 64-bit OS and having a 64-bit compiled application you can go over the 3 GByte limit to go to a 4 GByte limit. Expect to run your system into the ground sooner than later though.

As far as I know both the 32-bit and 64-bit Windows memory manager sees that there is 4 GByte of RAM, even if your PC has less physical RAM. Whatever is not there, will be delegated to the hard disk (swap-file). 2GByte of this RAM is for non-Windows processes only, the other 2GByte is also open to Windows kernel processes.

With the /3G parameter you limit the Windows kernel to just 1 GByte and whatever non-Windows process is allowed to use 3 GByte. Nether you or the Windows memory manager is going to be pleased with this. So, if you have an application that consumes 2 GByte, that application is clearly doing something so wrong it doesn't deserve a place on your hard disk in the first place.

Yes Excel, I'm looking at you...

My 8 year old Asus MoBo died some two months ago. It was an AMD single core linux PC (Ubuntu 10 Server) hosting 6 drives (5 SATA/1 IDE) and a software based RAID controller (RAID 6) that came with the OS.

So I bought a new modern Asus MoBo with an AMD multi-core, dreading about how much time would be lost with reconfiguring/rebuilding. Well, whining about it doesn't help so I replaced it inside the case, connecting all the drives and turned the PC on to check for damages.

Guess what, it spun up as if nothing had happened to it. I'm with f0dder, if you have to have RAID, go for software based ones, preferably ones that come with the OS.

As far as I know Windows doesn´t allocate more than 2GByte of RAM to any process. Unless you have specially build executables (Large Address Aware) and boot your Windows system with some extra parameters.

Been there, done that, don´t recommend these tricks to anyone, unless they absolutely need it. Your system will become noticably slower after a while and will keep detoriating until it becomes too slow. Ah well, serves you right for surpassing the Windows memory manager.

Tested this setup once with Excel (2003 till 2010) in a scripting environment and I was baffled how (any) Excel is able to suck all resources from a 8GByte i7 so quickly.

For 8 years I have a very Basic Gateway multimedia keyboard, which I clean every 6 months. Taking it apart and clean the top half with lots of water and a toothbrush. Almost looks like a new one (some minor discolorozation from sunlight) after that. And better yet, it still types like a champ!

I would say my keyboard is almost as solid as those IBM keyboards. Techies know which type/model I mean

Nope, cranioscopical only shines when spitting...

Are you sure that the port you used in the configuration file is open? Could be that firewall/anti-virus software has that port blocked. Are you using a router in the office? Could be that you have to do some configuring there as well (opening and/or forwarding ports).

These are very general hints, but as I do not know 'the lay of the land' it is hard to say anything more useful.

No fan of MS Office here, but I do have to say their OneNote is a real gem.

You´re mean 40hz, now I want to play with one again. I owned one A1000, several A500´s, several A2000´s, one A600 and several A1200´s. Over time with expansion kits and processor upgrades for practically all of them.

Amazing machines, amazing OS and together with Directory opus 5 amazingly capable. 

In my experience, companies are not thrilled to leap from server OS to server OS for a few percent points of extra performance. And even if they want a new server there are such things as central management systems that may or may not have problems with this new version of DragonFly BSD.

Personally I do like PostgeSQL and whatever speed gains people can get out of it. In syntax very similar to Oracle, which is the beast I have most memorable (both good and bad) experience with. Just crossed the border of 0.5TByte databases with that one.

Yeah, it sucks. Sucks, sucks, sucks. Add printer and scanner drivers to the bunch - they've always sucked, but it's gotten extremely bad in the latest years, where printer drivers have started advertising for printer cartridges.

Phone connectivity... several hundreds of megs installed, whether it's Nokia or Sony/Ericsson or whatever. I try to stick with S/E because I can then use the nice unbloated MyPhoneExplorer

After a good deal of searching for software to regain the ability to manage my phone (Nokia 5530) after the latest update made it enter into an locked-in environment almost equal to the Apple crap (both on the phone and the Nokia Suite software), I was on the verge of buying a new Android phone.

However, I did find some old beta software from Nokia and that gives me the access I need. The installer says it only runs on Windows XP SP2, but Win7 still has that compability setting and it even works under Win 7 x64. I would say it is similar to the uncluttered interface you get from MyPhoneExplorer.

So, if you (still) have a Symbian S60 phone, search for the following: PCPhone_install_1.2.2078.exe (I couldn´t find it on the Nokia webpage anymore).

For years I had Synergy running between 3 windows boxes (a server, my personal system and my laptop)...without any issue. It was the 1.3.1 version and installation was easy, the configuration admittedly a little weird but that was it. Now my single multi-monitorred PC has more computational power (and more cores for that matter) so I'm not using it anymore.

I did try alternatives, but somehow always returned back to Synergy. Never tried to connect with my Synergy setup with a linux box though. Apple I don't do on principals alone. I can happily say that I have never touched any (model of) iPhone, iPod or iPad. I never even saw any model of iPad out of its carton box. And yes, I consider myself to be a better person, just because of that.

You will like it, but some levels (that came with my copy) are f!cking hard. There is one with you defending a base while it is under attack...never been able to pass it and it sure wasn't for a lack of trying! 

Are you running Excel 2010?

Then it is likely that the security settings from Excel prevent you from opening these files.
By default, Excel 2010 only opens xls files that have formatted according to the Office 2003 document structure and to the Office 2010 document structure. It also depends if the files are stored in locations that Excel 2010 regards as unsafe (practically your complete system is deemed unsafe). Did these files come from LAN or the internet? Excel 2010 tagged them as such and will not open them either.

Excel 2010, you just have to love it. Anyway, Open Excel 2010 and select the ´File´ tab. In there is an option called ´Trust settings´. Over there you can relax the very strict security rules that are employed by Excel 2010.

If the need arises, I can put some PowerShell scripts up for download here that use Excel 2010 to convert Excel documents that use a structure not deemed safe anymore by Excel 2010 to an Excel document structure (or CSV) that Excel 2010 does not have a problem with. You should not have to go through the same misery as I did with a security consious Excel (or complete Office 2010 for that matter).

Honestly, Directory Opus is keeping me to Windows. If that piece of software goes well in CrossOver, I just might jump. Mainly because I am not impressed with Windows 7 from the beginning and recently 2008 R2. The general sentiment generated by the new ¨contenders¨ doesn´t inspire confidence with me, to be honest.

Good news. Lots of different Xperia models are on offer in the Netherlands (webshops):
http://tweakers.net/produ.../sony-xperia-s/overzicht/
http://tweakers.net/price...eria-ion-zwart/overzicht/

Site is in Dutch, but you can translate those easy. Besides, there are links to the webshops that carry these phones.

And who knows, if they are allowed to be sold in the Netherlands/Europe, then the US should be possible as well.