Evening Andy,
> It was when I downloaded the file at
> http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/ProcessMonitor.zip
> My A/V (F-Prot) said it was 'a potential', so I stopped their; better things
> to do etc...
Of all the people in all the world, Mark Russanovich (spelling?) is
probably one of the m
Evening,
> Check out ProcMon, it will perhaps tell you what caused the activity:
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx
Exactly what I was going to suggest. I use it at work (and I'm not
supposed to!) and it has helped me solve many an insidious problem with
Windows.
Che
Evening Geoff,
> PS Please forgive the levity of the email, but today is a very special
> day. As a sign of respect to our two Scottish QL Today writers I had a
> rather large wee dram with my haggis, tatties and neeps.
Now, who could they be I wonder?
Cheers,
Norman.
PS. Full of finest Scotch
Hi Geoff,
> "One thing is certain and that is that I am a liar"
Which is very similar to my all time favourite :
Everything I say is a lie.
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Evening Dilwyn,
> Test email only, please ignore.
I tried to ignore it, but it said that I *had to* ignore it, so if I had
ignored it, then I would have followed the instructions in the email and
that would have meant that I had not, in fact, ignored it!
My brain hurts after that!
Cheers,
Norma
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
> As to the way "windows" handles the size changes, I'm pretty sure that much
> of this is left to the
> application - some do redraw their entire window every so often (and YES,
> they DO flicker -
> Pegasus mail is an example of this), others don't (make the explorer wi
Evening Marcel,
> No, you *never* paint anything in WM_SIZE. That's what WM_PAINT is for.
Argh! I knew that there was something wrong in the information I
sent but for the life of me I couldn't see what it was. You are
absolutely correct, it is WM_PAINT that you respond to to repaint the
scree
Evening Ralf,
> Of course, that way would be very slow. Hmm, does anyone know, how this
> works in Windows? No flicker or anything else. How do they do it?
Charles Petzold (Petzhold?) is your friend!
In Windows, when the window is being dragged around, a message is sent
to the application. The m
Evening Dilwyn,
> OK, British-Rail style "wrong type of security" then.
:-)
We had the wrong snow today!
> Ah, so NOT the fault of IE itself then!
Yes and no. Windows is insecure. IE is insecure. Outlook [express or
otherwise] is insecure. All are set up with defaults that allow your PC
to be
Evening Malcolm,
> Is it really "not secure" to have no password entrance to use a computer
> that is for personal use ?
Possibly not, however, are you in total control of your computer at all
times? If "yes" are you 100% sure?
> It is only with the advance of networked systems that password entr
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> pretty sure it wasn't any fault of Jochen's site, althouth the site did
> want to place a cookie on my computer that IE was blocking because I had
> opted for strict security settings at the time.
Sorry, IE wouldn't know strict security if it leapt up and bit it on the
backs
Time files these days doesn't it? Must be because I'm getting old!
I remember announcing a while back that QStripper, my program for taking
a quill file and converting it to text, html, DocBook XML, or PDF would
be made available on Sourceforge 'soon'.
Well, 'soon' turned out to be quite a long t
Evening Jochen,
> as I discovered in the past few days that letters within Europe take 10
> days or longer (to arrive here),
Well, some letters posted in the UK take longer than that to reach other
parts of the UK!
> I would like to report that issue 2 of
> QL Today Volume 13 has been mailed to
Evening Per,
> Luckily, I wasnt suggesting anything of the kind ;o) I only set the outline
> to
> the whole screen during the *interactive* process of changing the size
Aha, I see now. My mistake, sorry.
> Prowess is an alternative window manager. We were discussing an idea
> for simulatin
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> Prowess.
That's the one, thanks.
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When I first wrote one of my early programs under the PE for DJC (them
were the days!) I set the outline to the whole screen and drew m y
windows within said outline.
Unfortunately, customers complained that when they clicked on another
program that was visible behind mine, my program was picked i
Just thought I'd mention in a very public place. I was on
qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk tonight and it seems that George (Gwilt) has
been very busy updating and adding pages.
I'd like to say a big "thank you" to George for this, so thanks George.
It is much appreciated.
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I suspect I'm not the only one who remembers all those web sites with
the little icon/graphic saying something along the lines of "Best viewed
wit Internet Explorer". Well, "the times they are a changin'" as one
Robert Zimmerman would have probably said!
IE is becoming the lame dog of the browser
Hi Geoff,
> It does seem that there is a problem specific to IE,
Ok, I can't resist, .
only one problem?
Relating to IE I mean, not to the web page itself!
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> I don't have that plugin in Firefox 3.0.4 on the Mac and Windows and it
> works. I do though *hate* flashing on the display. I find it very hard
> to concentrate on other parts of the display.
Works fine on Linux with Firefox 3.04 here as well.
I agree about the flashing though, very annoying
Evening Dilwyn,
> Dilwyn Jones wrote:
>> I accidentally started an enourmous SDUMP printout from QPC and can't
>> stop it!
My HP printer has a menu button upon which is a "cancel job" option. I
also have a button to cancel job as well. Does yours?
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Evening Bill,
> My son caught
> a virus on his computer ( He wiped the hard drive - including Windows -
> no recovery disc???) so it kind of helped him out giving him my old PC.
Hmmm. Do you still have your son's old computer? If so, there might be a
recovery partition on the disc. If it was a DE
Evening George,
Had a quick look at the readme - I'm off out in about 5 mins - and from
my first impressions, I think you have blown my next three articles out
of the water. Gee thanks!
Other than that, I shall be using it for all fortcoming articles I
suspect - it looks great!
Cheers,
Norman.
Marcel Kilgus wrote:
> Imagine not being able to use QPAC2 anymore because the directory you
> want to navigate to is too deeply nested in the tree.
That was what I had in mind when I suggested that we also change the
directory separator. So if the path is full of '/' (for example) then
those ar
Evening Ralf,
> In the meantime, we are not QL-compatible in some cases, there are
> programs, which just run under WMAN2, and that is ok. So why can't we
> have real subdirectories for the harddisk side? A QXL file isn't
> interchangable.
To be honest, I can't find a reason myself why we are sti
Evening Alan,
> Sorry if I seemed to infer that your remark was stupid!
Ok, no worries. No offence taken at all.
> Not a bit of ! It was with reference - poorly expressed- to an earlir
> exchange between Geoff and myself.
Ok, no problem. With my memory these days I'd probably forgotten about
yo
Evening Andy,
Andy Barber wrote:
> Norman
> Thanks for the useful Wiki on No 6*: But well OT! Stop it, please.
> * Good episode, though, I though John Drake#/No 6 had gone mad!
I think you'll find the wiki stuff wasn't me! I was the recipient of
said wiki information as I was puzzled by Geoff's
Evening Tony,
> The Prisoner wiki page suggests No6 (Geoff?) asked No2 (Chairman?) to
> find a replacement.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer_Into_Anvil
Aha, a reference to a TV series that I have never watched and cryptic
crossword clues as well. No wonder I didn't have a clue! :-)
Thanks f
Evening Alan,
> Norman said:
>> Must have been the blacksmith then!
> I think it is mixture of a stupid answer to a stupid question ...
I have no idea about the stupidity of the original question, but my
answer certainly was! Mind you, I have no idea what Geoff was referring
to when he mentione
Geoff Wicks wrote:
> Oops, been watching too many repeats of The Prisoner, but then the clue
> lies in "The Hammer and the Anvil".
Must have been the blacksmith then!
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Hi Geoff,
> I know some of our readers have only had their QL Today for just over a week,
> but
> the deadline for issue 2 is next Sunday 16th November.
Ha! I'm not worried this time because I know I've sent you two articles!
So I refuse to panic this time.
> ... and the start of a new series a
hitchies wrote:
> (it rained yesterday Norman)
Of course it did John!
:-)
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Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> Now that could be the subject of a few jokes ;-)
> I feel a new thread coming on - Geoff Wicks Clones jokes :o)
Always remember, clones are people two.
:-)
> Actually, has anyone worked out which is the real Dilwyn Jones and which
> the clone (see page 10 of current issue of
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> Careful Malcolm, John Gilpin might quote these jokes in Quanta like he
> did Norman Dunbar's recently.
Someone publishing my jokes? Which one(s) were they then?
> On the other hand, Geoff Wicks is the former probation officer, so he
> may need to take you under his wing as a
Evening Dilwyn,
> I remember poor Albin Hessler trying to demonstrate Easyptr to me at a
> meeting in Germany at some point (Munster?).
It's always difficult as a developer/programmer (whatever the correct
term is these days!) to demonstrate something to the general public. The
developer knows eve
Marcel Kilgus wrote:
> Of course there is also the EP4 version that has this bug fixed and
> also doesn't crash when encountering any high colour sprites and
> stuff. ;-) Which was much harder than it sounds.
There's nothing worse, in my opinion, that taking someone else's code
and running with i
Evening all,
I have been using EasySourse_exe from Easy Pointer 3 to try and convert
my old menu definitions to assembly. It gives me a way to visually
design a window and convert that to assembly.
Well, that was the theory but it simply won't work under high colour
mode. After a wee bit of time
Evening George,
> Use SETW which will allow any of the SMSQE sprites (all coded easily by
> words 1, 2 etc) to produce a window and look at the _ASM file produced
> to see how the spriteare is coded in the window definition.
Yes, I figured it out and confirmed it with SETW. A very nice program
Evening Marcel,
> The document Per pointed to answers it all (of course, as I wrote it
> ;-) ). But the sort answer is: a "system sprite" is what you want. A
> system sprite definition is quite simpe, it only consists of 2 bytes:
> a $00 byte and the sprite number you want. The move sprite for exa
Evening Bill,
> I retired from work two weeks ago so I hope to rekindle my interest - so
> far I have not had time ( I'm still a few weeks off full recovery from
> mitral valve replacement)
Take it easy and enjoy your retirement.
> All the best - Bill
Indeed, all the best to you too Bill.
Cheers
Hi George,
> The delay is for those subscribed by QBranch, which is being sorted out
> I believe.
>
> Still, it is a good issue ... so worth waiting for.
As far as I'm aware, the first of November is an expected date for this
issue. Plus, being so late, we won't have to wait as long as everyone
Evening Per,
> Just a quick answer: Are yoiu aware of the document called display_txt
> in the extras/doc folder in the SMSQ/E sources? It explains the new (and
> old) sprite formats in great detail. I think you may finbd some mopre
> answers there..
I was not aware, or if I was, I had forgotten!
Is there any way to use one of the predefined sprites as a loose item
object in a manner similar to how we can set the window sprite to 0 and
get the default arrow pointer etc.
I want to put the default sprites for move, sleep, wake, resize etc into
loose items so that I don't end up having the cl
Hi Per,
> Norman, your documentation site is great!
Thanks.
> It must have been painstaking work!
It was, it is and it will be!
> I hope people will support it and add to it.
I notice a couple of people have signed up recently. That makes them
potential updaters as readers don't need to registe
Morning all,
> Almost three weeks ago Jochen posted an email on this list about the shipping
> of the latest issue of QL Today. In it he mentioned problems with QBranch
> that meant we were unable to print and ship the UK orders:
Private email sent.
Cheers,
Norman.
_
Evening Geoff,
Norman wrote:
>> >> The forums (fora?) are a separate thing.
Geoff Wicks replied:
> Both are possible.
> All part of the Just Words! service!
Thanks Geoff, I had a funny feeling I'd be hearing from either you or
Tony - if he is not in Venice of course!
Cheers,
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Hi George,
> This looks interesting but the Traps do not include the large number of
> additional SMSQ routines such as trap #2 ioa.sown (D0 = 5) which sets
> the owner of a channel.
Yes I know. I was working from the Original QDOS docs, Pennell and
Dickens when I originally started this project *
Evening Jochen,
just a quick word, I received the documentation upgrades safely. Thanks.
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Evening Tony,
> I am probably singing in Venice that weekend (8-(#
Make the most of it. I read recently that the city council (or
equivalent) have given the go ahead to put up neon signs in St Marks!
At least I think it was neon - but with my memory, it could have been
something else. Regard
Norman Dunbar wrote:
Google maybe?
Well I tried looking for hypertext +ql or Hypertext +qdos or Hypertext
+sinclair - nothing of relevance I'm afraid.
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Hi Dilwyn,
Can anyone help with this query I've just received?
Never heard of it - as far as I can remember - on the QL. That's not to
say that it wasn't a QL program though! Sorry.
Google maybe?
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Hi George,
Will I? Will living in Edinburgh help?
I suspect you will. To Edinburgh dwellers it will appear as 68000
assembly language - which almost anyone can understand! (Except maybe
Geoff!)
I am a Highlander but I only have a tiny little bit of Gaelic I'm
afraid. I was born too far East
Paul Holmgren wrote:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/msg/d86d60ac12c92da4
Highly amusing wonder who and what it was all about, I think we should
be told!
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Engstler Karsten wrote:
is there any extnsions to SuperBasic or packages for C who provide
sprite
for game programming on the QL ?
I think Digital Precision did something with sprites years ago. Can't
remember the name though - or if it was included in the DP 'Package'
that was created just
SMSQ wrote:
Oh! In this case, you definitely never had any updates.
I'll think about something and let you know.
Thanks Jochen.
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Hi Jochen,
how old is it? (Later versions show dates in the center part of the
footer of updated pages). Which is the latest date you find there?
There are no dates in the footer on any pages! Plus I suspect my QPTR
docs are well out of date as well!
Cheers,
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Dennis S wrote:
While the Mohawk had their own language, the Navajo were the "code
talkers" in WWII.
Duh, sorry, that is entirely correct. Wrong clan! Silly me.
Thanks.
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Hi Jochen,
Norman, you are right: of course, it is still available from me :-)
talking of which, my version is old, very very very old. I bought it
many years ago when it first came out and have never had an update so far.
What chance do I have of obtaining an up to date copy please - what
Rich Mellor wrote:
Does anyone have a copy of the original QL Technical Manual, or Jochen's
QDOS/SMS Reference Guide that they would be willing to sell to someone
who has recently returned to the fold?
In the case of the first I have 1.03 - but it is well out of date. I'm
not selling though.
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Interestingly, as an aside, if you supply fixed RANDOMISE values
beforehand, IIRC it would generate the same sequence of random numbers.
It does.
Text encryption is of course possible by translating the text to a
minority language such as Welsh to render it unreadable to t
Stephen wrote:
Some random number generators such as that in the TrueCrypt
encryption program use other factors such as keyboard presses and mouse
movements to generate a series of random numbers that don't follow a
reproducible pattern as they are independent of the passage of time.
Linux's
Hi Geoff,
Would not have been too much of a problem as I have already have a news
item, letter box and article from you. The last was much appreciated as
I could understand it,
So, if I understand you correctly, you are saying that normally, you
don't understand my articles?
I must have been
Geoff Wicks wrote:
Just a last warning that my two beeb.net email addresses will disappear next
Tuesday.
Phew! There was me thinking that it was deadline time again! :-)
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A very good evening to one and all,
well now, here's a turn up for the books - and a god one at that. After
much wailing and gnashing of teeth recently trying to get QPC to run
under Linux and Wine, I finally have a working QPC, none of that nasty
keyboard repeating problem - so far - and I'm
Geoff Wicks wrote:
Actually given your mention of devils and Wolfgang's QDEVil, I suggest a
price of 666 Euros would be appropriate,
Ah yes, 666 the number of the beast.
Let's not forget though, 667 the neighbour of the beast!
:-)
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Evening Davide,
Which is the latest Norback version? Is the latest version the one available
on Dilwyjn web site?
Sorry, I don't know.
Is there an alternative backup program?
WinBack? Also available on Dilwyn's web site. It was written originally
to backup a Miracle Hard drive, but as long a
Evening Ralf,
> 8-) Winbackup seems quite a long time ago ;.)
WinBack does seem a long time ago - it was the first program I had
reviewed in QL World magazine. We must be getting old.
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Evening Per,
> Good stuff all this. I hope someone's taking notes! It would be nice
> to have this information in a neat documentary form. Luckily, this
> seems to be what Norman (condolences!)is trying to do with his
> well-made and useful QDOSMSQ.Dunbar-it.co.uk site. Thanks guys!
Notes are
Evening David,
David Tubbs wrote:
> It is some time since I was looking into the depths of QXL_WIN, and at that
> time I found a full and detailed specification of the layout.
>
> Not sure where it came from, a web page, not on my current machine but I
> could look at an old HDD ?
I have rece
Evening John,
Thanks for yet more explaining. I discovered (!) that if I take the
file_id from the file's entry in the directory and use that to index
into the block map (having subtracted 1 first) I get a 'value' which I
call stragely, the block number.
Multiply that by the number of sectors
Evening all,
I'm writing up more of the sqdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk website and I'm
looking into the format of the QXL.WIN format hard drive much beloved of
QXL and QPC users.
Now I've hex dumped a 30 MB 'win' drive and I'm going through it using
the brief details I had of the QLWA format also fo
Evening all,
> What you should have is:
>
> * tiny fingers
> * sharp eyesight
>
> as both keyboard and screeen are really, really small. uqlx at 800x480
> gives on-screen characters 3-4 mm high - So you should be used to read
> the small print. If you are a 10-finger touch-typist, forg
Hi Wolfgang,
> Use the "send_event" keyword. (send_event job_id,events)
Thanks, I googled for something else and found a reference to the send
event trap. Will have a look later.
>> If I PICK the job, or button frame it, then DO it's button,
>> I get the same event both times - $2D with a Key Str
Hi Per,
> These are a different kind of event. You need to use a trap
> (sms.sevt)to send a job event. Used for jobs communication.
Thanks - found that somewhere using google. Couldn't find what I was
actually looking for though!
> The above it what I do in D-Miner. The Timer toolkit (source c
Hi George,
> The manual (called description) for TurboPTR and the source code for
> the extra keywords (tptr510_asm) will give information about WRPTR.
> All this is on he SQLUG site.
>
> The information is sufficient to enable actual programming but there
> is far too much too put in this
Norman Dunbar wrote:
> David Tubbs wrote:
>> Please stop, it was enough effort to write a response to Malcolm's request.
Ok.no worries.
>> I was not seeking guidence or solutions to problems long past.
Don't ask questions then!
>> I admit no knowledge of Linux
Evening Tony,
>> Wonder what's going on?
>>
> html?
> I often resolve long lines in Thunderbird by using "view | message body
> as | simple html".
I have all my email systems, including work, plus the 1 and 1 webmail
system configured to send everything in plain text. It is the standard
after al
as a figure of speech, sorry if thought that I thought I was 'under
attack'. I shall attempt to refrain in future from using words that may
cause confusion.
> Will learned counsel for the defence please inform the court what he is
> defending.
> The less than sensible ? Linux ? Or
Hi Wolfgang,
> "Difficulty" is too much of a word. It arrived here as separate lines, but
> the lines don't linewrap, so I
> scroll a lot.
Spookily enough, your email to me is one long line as well. I've never
suffered from this before until David raised the 'fault' with my email
all being one s
Hi David,
> As a single paragraph yours is unreadable.
I imagine it would be!
However, I sent it from the web interface at work and my copy here in
Thunderbird (on Linux) reads perfectly as a number of paragraphs and
indeed, looks remarkably similar to that which I sent.
I shall forward myself a
My own experiences with Laptops are as follows :
Sony PCG-FR315S laptop, 512 MB RAM and a P4 processor running about 2.3
GHz. Can't remember when I got it, it was around 2003, no later than
December 2003.
Running Windows XP (Only for work) and Linux - for everything else.
Mandrake of various flav
Evening Malcolm,
> Umm ... that does seem anticlimatic ... :-) ... you mean the Linux
> installation just detects what space it has the potential to use and
> just installs itself there ?
Most Linux distributions these days happily locate an empty partition on
your disc, and prompt you to insta
Morning Marcel,
> Well, I only noticed 3, none of those running QPC under Windows. And I
> currently do not have any further ideas in this area because the
> things told do not add up:
I agree - I'm impressed that you are still thinking about it to be honest.
None of the above makes any sense d
Hi George,
> I notice that many people have a problem with fast cursor flashing.
> My problem is that sometimes the cursor will not remain where it is
> placed, by the mouse or cursor keys. Instead it drops directly to the
> bottom of the screen at a constant, fairly fast, speed. Perhaps 1 1
Hi Wolfgang,
> have you switched off all the stuff that Suse autostarts (e.g. the *-
> +**$ Beagle indexing, Man pages autoupdate etc...)?
I have checked. Kerry Beagle had indeed been turned on after my last
reinstallation - but nothing much of consequence otherwise. I have
disabled the beagle too
Evening Marcel,
> Could you (and anybody else having increased cursor blink frequency)
> run this Basic program? Tell me what values it's printing (47 to 50 is
> normal).
Ok, managed to get it to run quite happily - couldn't type it in though,
too many foibles with the keyboard. Created a file in
Hi Wolfgang,
> Perhaps using a PC formatted floppy is a way around this, for now?
Just tried that as well, nothing works. dir flp1_ gives me a stat of the
win drive and dir dos1_ (a:\ is configured as dos1_ on startup) gives me
0/0 sectors.
:-(
Cheers,
Norman.
Evening Marcel,
> cd ~/.wine/dosdevices
> ln -s /dev/fd0 a::
> ln -s /mnt/floppy a:
Ok, tried that. No effect. dir flp1_ gave me a header for win1 instead
with the sector count for the win drive and not for the floppy.
On startup I set dos1_ to be the A:\ drive, and a dir dos1_ gave me "A:\
0/0
Evening Wolfgang,
> Not using the POKE didn't make any difference.
I tried the poke here as well, it had no effect on the system either
way. It is still the same. Slow responses to mouse and keyboard and then
the 'mad' repeating key problem.
> First of all, I'm not using the standard Suse 10.03 K
Hi Tim,
> What I did when running UQLX under IRIX was to just put the floppy in
> the disk drive and just use 'dd' to copy the entire disk to a file.
This works :
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy bs=512 count=1440
and I get the floppy image on disc. When I start QPC up and configure
the image as win2
Hi Wolfgang,
> OK, so get 0.9.52
Version 0.9.52 obtained and installed. QPC runs, slowly, and still gives
repeating characters - but not all the time. It is now workable - sort of.
I notice that if I pause at the keyboard then start typing, I get the
repeats. Pressing ENTER a few times then typin
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
> As to Norman, I've been using QPC under Wine for quite some time now.
I know - I read your article in QL Today recently to see what problems
you have had with it. You didn't mention the repeating key problem but
did mention extreme slowness.
How on Earth did you get arou
Hi Marcel,
> Well, step 1 would be to get the whole assembler stuff compiling under
> linux, which given that linux uses a completely different syntax for
> everything assembler (AT&T style versus Intel style) would be quite a
> feat in itself. Not to say practically impossible.
It appears that u
Evening one and all,
Happy New Year first of all, may 2008 be a happy, healthy and prosperous
one for everyone.
Windows ate my laptop recently. Over the festive period my Xp system,
fired up for the first time in absolutely ages, removed my Linux root
drive (partition) without so much as a by-you
Hi Andy,
Andy Barber wrote:
> I read in the Guardian (so it must be true!) that the maximum memory that can
> be used is 3Gb but that could be just for XP.
Up to XP at least, Windows 32 bit can address only 4GB of memory.
However, this is split into 2 GB for the user processes in total, and 2
GB
Hi Dave,
Dave Walker wrote:
> Modern machines have hyperthreaded CPU cores, so you are more likely
> to load multiple applications and still get decent performance if
> you have lots of memory available.
A good theory, in practice it is let down by either the design of the
Core Duo chip or the
gwicks wrote:
> The QL Today team would like to apologise to our UK subscribers that we have
> been unable to keep our promise to deliver issue 2 shortly before Christmas.
> Although the magazine was ready at the end of November it was not possible to
> print the UK copies immediately.
Not a
Hi Dilwyn,
> I'm looking to write a little utility to record keypresses as macros,
> if necessary assigning them to a hotkey or altkey for later use.
>
> Some processes mean repeated strings of keypresses, so it may be handy
> to record these keypresses and replay them later with an alt or hot
>
Norman Dunbar wrote:
> Well, if you are reading this, I might as well try to make it interesting !
>
>
It works, it works - hooray !
Norman.
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Well, if you are reading this, I might as well try to make it interesting !
Ah well, after saying how wonderful Demon were and how I'd never leave,
my recent house move stuffed that up. BT told Demon that I had moved so
Demon cancelled my account yesterday (2/7/07) - they did send an email
to tell
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