Moneydance - Cross-Platform Personal Finance

sreilly self-promotes: "Moneydance 2003 has just been released for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. This program is a completely cross-platform replacement for Quicken or MS Money. This is the first time that online banking and online bill payment has been available in a made-for-Linux application. It also has features that aren't available in Quicken such as an extension mechanism that lets developers easily add and distribute new features to the program."

money money money

[stratjakt]

Does your average linux user actually have any finances to manage?

-1: Troll

GREAT!

[tabo_peru]

Now I only need money.

Re:money money money

[Anonymous Coward]

A program that managed the crumbs in their dirty beards would be more useful.

Not for me

[guacamolefoo]

Until there is a personal finance program that allows me to calculate my savings in large stone wheels [stonemoney.com], I just don't have a use for it.

GF.

Dancing Money?

[Anonymous Coward]

I am more fond of women who dance for money than money that dances. But, mabey that's just me.

Re:GREAT!

[Scaba]

No, my friend, all you need is love.

MoneyDance

[unsinged int]

I've tried it before. People just looked at me funny and I didn't get any money. Same thing with the rain dance. Must be doing something wrong...

Who names this stuff?

[fobbman]

Did I really need a visual of CPAs mimicking the Riverdance folks? I don't think I did.

Bank of America

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm a Bank of America customer and all their online stuff works great thru Mozilla on my SuSE 8.1 system. All the usual secure encrypted SSL stuff too, even though they officially claim to only support IE4+ and Netscape 4x. They run the site on big Sun/Solaris iron so that makes me much more comfortable using their services than if it were Win/IIS. The only this that really scared me about the deal is that by some wierd coincidence the online ID number they assigned me is exactly the same string of digits as the ip address to my default gateway on my main router here where I work. I freaked out and thought it was some kind of evidence of big-brotherism, that somebody was watching my financials, till I found out that a good friend of mine who works for BofA in their Dallas office and manages their email systems had their Internet guys assign me that ID account number as a joke.

Re:MoneyDance

[infinite9]

Must be doing something wrong..

This reminds me of my favorite far side. There were a bunch of indians standing around looking at one in the middle. The indian in the middle was holding a book titled "101 Rain Dances". Instead of rain drops, it was raining hand-crank egg beaters. The caption said, "Oh, one step to the left, then two to the right. What kind of dance was I doing?"

Re:money money money

[WebMasterJoe]

Does your average linux user actually have any finances to manage?

Since the average linux user has no girlfriend, yes, he does still have some money.

Read that "MonkeyDance"

[Greyfox]

And, having my /. habits honed to a fine edge, jumped right in without reading the post either, expecting to find something about Steve Ballmer. Oh well.

MONEY Dance?

[pjt48108]

I thought that was what Michael Flattley does everytime some moron shells out $$ for a Riverdance ticket.

An unfortunate software title for those of us disaffected, frustrated theatre types in geekdom.

Re:GREAT!

[yokem_55]

$ make love
make: *** No rule to make target `love'. Stop.

Damn!

Nice EULA

[lorcha]

Well, it looks like you might be routing some requests to a different box or httpd server. At any rate, the server that I connected to looks like it is experiencing SSI issues because the EULA it's asking me to "sign" before doing the trial download is

"<!--#include file="license.txt"-->"

On the bright side, it is quite possibly the most easy-to-understand EULA I've ever read... :-)

Re:money money money

[JourneymanMereel]

You mean bring a laptop (running linux, of course) to social events isn't a turn-on?
</sarcasm>

Re:Tracking money is wrong.

[JTB]

You ought to try MS Money. I use it in exactly the way you describe. Every time I open it up, it tells me where I've already overspent my budget for the month. Every week, I check where I have money left in the budget, and spend accordingly.

$120 left in the grocery budget on the last Sunday of the month? Let's eat steak! Gas budget is over by $20? Better reallocate from groceries...

Not only that, but it also includes a "Lifetime Planner," which tells you how much you'll want to earn when you're having kids, paying for college, retiring, and so on.

Re:money money money

[Creepy]

interesting...

most Linux geeks I know are married (including myself). Working a UNIX heavy tech job probably draws more of that sort...

I have to manage my wife's money - she's to money what a heatsink is to heat. Now if she'd only stop overheating (er, bouncing checks)...

Re:This is better than a spreadsheet HOW?

[Anonymous Coward]

I've never understood the rationale behind Excel and its ilk. A special app just for adding numbers -- because, after all, financial bits are so different from the numbers the CPU is designed to process anyway. It's like the people that want a "word processor" to create formatted streams of text, because that's so different from the byte sequences that are in the computer memory anyway.

C'mon, people! The computer is a general purpose machine! There's no point in limiting it with all these special purpose "applications".

Re:what about canada?

[dacarr]

Well, by the looks of it, unless the Canadian currency structure has recently been shifted to base 9, there should be no problem.