Re: [Hampshire] 3 Mobile broadband

2009-06-14 Thread Paul Stimpson
Hi Tim, >From the empty ATD command it looks like your software isn't dialling a >number. Try putting *99# in as the number and see if that makes a difference. Cheers, Paul. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- From: Tim Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:34:06 To: H

[Hampshire] 3 Mobile broadband

2009-06-14 Thread Tim
I have a 3 network USB broadband mobile dongle, according to the packaging it is a Huawei E156G, if I plug it in and do a lsusb it comes up with the following: Bus 001 Device 003: ID 12d1: 1003 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd E220 HSDPA Modem / E270 HSDPA/HSUPA modem It one of those which has a

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday muse

2009-06-14 Thread Jon Wilks
2009/6/14 Damian Brasher > Jon Wilks wrote: > > > I think you should get out more. > > > > Just back from Wimborne Folk Festival, which was great fun and an afternoon > Kayaking at Calshot:) > > Cheers Damian > > -- > WWW http://www.diaser.org.uk - working together to make long term digital > arc

Re: [Hampshire] OOo 3.1 supports anti-aliasing

2009-06-14 Thread john lewis
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:08:08 +0100 Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: > I'd be interested to know which 'open source' bicycle components you > use! :P Sram? Campag? Are they any better? I'm using Shimano on my > road bike, but historically I prefer Campag, but I've never really > felt any other compa

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday muse

2009-06-14 Thread Damian Brasher
AdamC wrote: > 2009/6/12 Damian Brasher : >> Do modern psychologists ever contrast computer data management to human >> data >> (memory) management? > To summarise, my guess is that psychologists are still a long way from > completely understanding how human memory actually works, unless > anyone

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday muse

2009-06-14 Thread Damian Brasher
Jon Wilks wrote: > I think you should get out more. > Just back from Wimborne Folk Festival, which was great fun and an afternoon Kayaking at Calshot:) Cheers Damian -- WWW http://www.diaser.org.uk - working together to make long term digital archives more accessible RSS http://sourceforge.ne

Re: [Hampshire] OOo 3.1 supports anti-aliasing

2009-06-14 Thread Anton Piatek
> Heres what you do. Go into synaptic, select all of the OO progs, and > just see the total MB at the bottom that your system is going to remove. > I can tell you that MS Office is, at worst, only 2/3 the size. The space OO.org needs is not going to require me to buy a new disk - > I had my watch

Re: [Hampshire] OOo 3.1 supports anti-aliasing

2009-06-14 Thread Stephen Nelson-Smith
Verging OT >> I started reading your post, and was rather impress with what you had >> to say, up to the point where you had to use "M$Office" rather than >> plain old "MSoffice". > > a bad habit I agree! but it does reflect my opinion of MS's 'attitude' > to users. I won't use Shimano product

Re: [Hampshire] OOo 3.1 supports anti-aliasing

2009-06-14 Thread john lewis
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:25:50 +0100 Phillip Chandler wrote: > > I have never used M$Office but my wife has Office2000 and it causes > > her no end of grief because it won't 'allow' her to do things the > > way she wants but has a will of its own. She would have preferred > > to go on using WordP

Re: [Hampshire] OOo 3.1 supports anti-aliasing

2009-06-14 Thread Phillip Chandler
On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 13:58 +0100, John Cooper wrote: > Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: > > Hello, > > > The majority of people will find OO good enough to use > >>> That's just an assertion. > >> No,it isn't. > > > > Yes it is. An assertion is: "Something declared or stated positively, > > ofte

Re: [Hampshire] OOo 3.1 supports anti-aliasing

2009-06-14 Thread Stephen Nelson-Smith
Hi, > But just because a piece of software crashes, is it any cause to call it crap, Almost certainly not. > You also say you give time and money to open source projects, are they slow to > start, do they crash when used They certainly have bugs, some of them annoying ones, but not ones that ha

Re: [Hampshire] OOo 3.1 supports anti-aliasing

2009-06-14 Thread Tim
On Sunday 14 June 2009 15:15:46 Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: > > > > And you use Windows? > > No. I use Linux, OSX and Solaris. But the mention of Windows is > interesting. Many people claim that Windows is, for them, an adequate > solution. Many of us would suggest that Windows is crap - for t

Re: [Hampshire] OOo 3.1 supports anti-aliasing

2009-06-14 Thread Stephen Nelson-Smith
Hi Vic, On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Vic wrote: > >> I'll stop correcting you when you stop getting it wrong. :) > > On the subject of being wrong... > > Your comment was "That's just an assertion". Refuting that statement does > *not* mean that the original "it's good enough" comment is not

Re: [Hampshire] OOo 3.1 supports anti-aliasing

2009-06-14 Thread Vic
> I'll stop correcting you when you stop getting it wrong. :) On the subject of being wrong... Your comment was "That's just an assertion". Refuting that statement does *not* mean that the original "it's good enough" comment is not an assertion, it means that it is not *just* an assertion. I ho

Re: [Hampshire] OOo 3.1 supports anti-aliasing

2009-06-14 Thread Stephen Nelson-Smith
Hi, > This is not a thesis and some things are obvious and don't need proving > to LUG users. OO is well used and we all know what it is. So is star > office. You are completely aware of that so stop playing childish word > games. I'll stop correcting you when you stop getting it wrong. :) > Are

Re: [Hampshire] OOo 3.1 supports anti-aliasing

2009-06-14 Thread John Cooper
Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: > Hello, > The majority of people will find OO good enough to use >>> That's just an assertion. >> No,it isn't. > > Yes it is. An assertion is: "Something declared or stated positively, > often with no support or attempt at proof." Show me the support or > attemp

Re: [Hampshire] OOo 3.1 supports anti-aliasing

2009-06-14 Thread Vic
> Whether you like or hate MS, I firmly believe that they have helped get > computers get where they are today. I'd agree with you. I just don't think that's something of which to be proud... > Their OS was always advertised as > being for the masses, and that means so dumbed down that even a m

Re: [Hampshire] OOo 3.1 supports anti-aliasing

2009-06-14 Thread Phillip Chandler
> > I have never used M$Office but my wife has Office2000 and it causes her > no end of grief because it won't 'allow' her to do things the way she > wants but has a will of its own. She would have preferred to go on using > WordPerfect which like me she had got used to using at work back in the

Re: [Hampshire] OOo 3.1 supports anti-aliasing

2009-06-14 Thread john lewis
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:12:44 +0100 Phillip Chandler wrote: > If you are just writing a standard letter to Aunty Mildred in South > Australia, then why use a computer ? Why not use pen and paper, that > surely isnt as bloated as an office suite. In fact whats wrong with > gedit or a text editor ?

Re: [Hampshire] OOo 3.1 supports anti-aliasing

2009-06-14 Thread Stephen Nelson-Smith
Hello, >>> The majority of people will find OO good enough to use >> >> That's just an assertion. > No,it isn't. Yes it is. An assertion is: "Something declared or stated positively, often with no support or attempt at proof." Show me the support or attempt at proof in your original statement an

Re: [Hampshire] OOo 3.1 supports anti-aliasing

2009-06-14 Thread Phillip Chandler
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 23:12 +0100, John Cooper wrote: > Phillip Chandler wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 21:38 +0100, John Cooper wrote: > >> Don't forget you need a valid MS office license to run under Crossover > >> and that doesn't mean just because you have the windows version you can > >> ins

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday muse

2009-06-14 Thread Hugo Mills
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:26:27AM +0100, Chris Dennis wrote: > I often find that I can only remember the first letter of something -- > for example yesterday I was looking for a pub in Wimborne, and I knew it > began with "P" -- eventually we stumbled across the "Pudding and Pye" > and then I r

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday muse

2009-06-14 Thread Chris Dennis
Damian Brasher wrote: > Do modern psychologists ever contrast computer data management to human data > (memory) management? > > Whilst thinking, probably too deeply again, about the differences between > Perl arrays and hashes it struck me that the human mind may use a similar > construct to manag

Re: [Hampshire] OOo 3.1 supports anti-aliasing

2009-06-14 Thread Paul Stimpson
Hi, I'd agree that MS has the same learning curve issues. My customer has licenses for both Office 2003 and Office 2007. I have been told to carry on installing Office 2003 and the XML compatibility pack and forbidden from installing 2007 because the new 2007 UI is unacceptable to the users and

Re: [Hampshire] OOo 3.1 supports anti-aliasing

2009-06-14 Thread John Cooper
Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: > Hello, >> OO is free to download and use. > > It's also shit. I'm not interested in 'demand a full refund' > conversations - OOo, particularly the spreadsheet, has cost my company > *much* more than £200.00 in lost time with its crashes and > unbelievably slow perfor