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We have a little football pool for family & friends every year. Up 'til a couple years ago they used to have to fill out a grid in pen with everybody's picks and it took a LONG time and was prone to human error and penmanship problems. I'm not much into football but it seemed to be a good job for a PC so I've been handling the pool for the past couple years.

I found some software that handles it, but it is padded with a bunch of stuff nobody needs, I have to edit (simplify) the reports to suit our purposes and it seems like it would be a relatively easy application to write. If only I was a programmer. Seems like a simple, small database thing. A couple of features would make it extremely nice to use.

Here's the outline.
Beginning of season - enter team names and 2 or 3-letter team abbreviation (for printing in the grid). Enter weekly contests for the season (i.e. week 1 A vs. B, X vs Y - week 2 A vs Y, B vs X, etc.)
Weekly contest data is used to generate a report (pick sheet) for that week.

During season - Enter participants names, enter each participants picks by clicking Home vs Visitor down the list for that week.
After all participants picks are made, it prints a summary report (recap sheet) showing a list of participants and their picks on a grid.
That's pretty much it.

Extra features would be:
Generates a simple "Pick Sheet" web page so folks could make their picks on the net and when they hit "submit" it sends an email to the manager (i.e. me) to enter into the software.
Online picks could be directly imported into the program via email rather than have to enter each pick individually.
After picks are made, the recap sheets can be generated in both HTML (to be uploaded to a web page for viewing) and maybe RTF and/or PDF to be emailed to participants so they can print their own and follow along as the games progress.

That's pretty much it. Long post, but it's a simple idea I hope.

Hopefully this isn't just another hare-brained idea. Seems like more people would use this than an astronomy application, though not nearly as interesting to use or write.

Thanks for any input. If anybody is interested in this, I can reply with more specific info.

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Beside the excellent work of the developers, too many bugs will be open until 24. April.
As suggestion:
Release Hardy on 24. April and on 5. June 8.04.1 as Hard-LTS.

In this way, early adopters can use hardy on time and LTS
users get a polished version a little bit later.

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There are still lots of PowerPC users and there is an active section on the forums. However the going is a bit tough. Gutsy required quite a few work arounds to boot the install CD, and there are plenty of long standing PowerPC specific bugs.

It would be great for powerpc to be supported again. Perhaps canonical could hire a PowerPC dev, or a ports dev.



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plus there is no reason to waste space on the servers.

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]]> Tue, 14-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/985/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/4128/ And a great idea would be, at the same time, to take away the borders of windows since they just take up space for no good reson, cluttering up the desktop experience. Less is more.

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More Info:
Many people desire out-of-the-box, or seemingly out-of-the-box playback of MP3s, AAC (mpeg4 audio), and (sometimes) RealMedia audio and video files. Currently Ubuntu offers seemingly out-of-the-box support for MP3s by offering to install MP3 codecs that are open source but may violate patent laws in the US.
Suse has an easy solution to this: bundling RealPlayer. It supports the above-mentioned formats. Rather than bundling RealPlayer, Ubuntu should offer to install it from the multiverse. This would require that RealPlayer be added to the multiverse (Helix Player is insufficient because it does not support the proprietary formats.)

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Is this an attempt to imitate Windows? There, too, I see strange folders in the 'My Documents' folder. Is this an attempt to make windows users 'feel at home' in Ubuntu?

Personally, I know very few people who actually use these folders.

What I'm trying to say is, maybe we should stick to our own standards and ideas rather than trying to lure Windows users over by imitating them?

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So you can say thank you to the thousands of developers and users who gave their time by voting for this article :)



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