Hope you soon feel better Ian,
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Dilwyn said -
Marcel, I don't know how to start thanking you for all this - you have been
a central pivot for the QL community for many years now with your work on
QPC2, SMSQ/E, WMAN2 and everything else. Thank you.
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My sentiments
Re:
Does anyone have the correct lead to connect a QL to a Phillips 8833
monitor - it has a scart like socket and an 8 pin din on the back.
Unfortunately, the standard QL monitor lead only has a 6 pin din on the
monitor end...
Hi Rich,
Sent me (alas, off
Dilwyn wrote:
It already had Win XP Service Pack 3, so I didn’t expect too long to update.
Two hours later it’s still only got as far as update 19 of 127. Is this a
record?!?
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Two months ago I had just this Xp experience. Par for the course. Sometime
before 6 hours, it
Hi François,
Regarding your reference to Fabrizio's -
Attached you can find a screenshot of my desktop
Fabrizio included a dynamic link which I sucessfully used to see his fine
desktop.
I'll reproduce it below in the hope that it might take you where you wanted
to go -
Dilwyn wrote -
Gives me a nice feeling that Windoze is under QPC control ;-))
the longed for 'Promised Land'. at last!
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Hi Geoff,
Re: My problem is that btinternet is Yahoo under an assumed name and Yahoo
does have security issues. Both Yahoo and Microsoft seem to want you to put
your address book on their servers and, for obvious security reasons, I want
my address book to remain firmly on my own machine,
There's quite a comprehensive Pi hard/software feature in the current
edition [401] of Computer Active pp48 - 53 incl.
Also
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/search?sort=Relevance1query=rasberry+pi
I don't have one yet - so can't comment further!
Greetings,
John in Wales
There were
Tony said -
... but grammar is the foundation of language *and* understanding.
Let grammar slip and meaning becomes less clear, or even entirely
different!
No one, least of all those who write 'code', could fail to see the
importance of this.
But this list is open (and usually overtly
George wrote -
A long time ago I used to pause while reading articles when I found faulty
grammar.
'The Times' is in current QL-List mode. But it's especially concerned with
the
disposition and future safety of CHAR(39)! (16-03-13 etc.)
John in Wales
I agree with Peter -
The QL Today team have done wonders over the years and it's going to be a
big miss.
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Marcel said -
Well, that was meant to be private... thank you, eMail program ;-)
OK Marcel, I'll pretend I haven't seen it - just until you tell us again.
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Re:
You've been watching too much Taggarrrt on TV!
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I may never have drunk whiskey/whisky but I know that as 'Taggarrrt' was
playing a Glaswegian, it should be 'Tgut'!
John in Wales
Hi Wolfgang,
Re your:
If I had had those speeds when developing - SMSQmulator wouldn't have
seen the light of day.
--
I realised that after I posted here - a few days ago - that I forgot to say
'congratulations' to you on SMSQum'.
May I
jon wrote -
I think the keyboard issue is specific to my Lenovo desktop pc...not
sure
what the problem actually is, but in QPC I don't get the correct characters
from the keyboard making work difficult. SMSQmulator fixes it
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On my Lenovo
So, we in the UK are all at home in snow chat-mode! (Our fellow
Scandinavians will laugh, I know.)
I was 19 miles from home last evening on my push bike when the snow started
(West Cheshire). And then it went dark! I had all the 'gear' and I likes a
challenge!
Some denial of service
Frank said -
May I be the first to wish the entire QL community a very happy new
year!
Thank you Frank; and may I be the first to thank you on behalf of all list
readers? [Promotion... at last!]
Regards and best wishes to all,
John in Wales
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Thank you Urs, for the TinyURL.
I found the whole related article very interesting.
Goodaye all,
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Norman said -
This is true, however, a number of the floppies in the drive (some
older, some newer than some of the affected ones) still work and still
have the data. At least, I can read them.
-
From experience -
If push comes to shove - peel off the
Dilwyn said -
but as usual the north west of Wales always seems
to be last to get anything, way behind the M4 corridor and north east
Wales..
But just think Dilwyn, if you didn't have people (like me) in north East
Wales, you in the west would be next
Dilwyn said -
.. there is nothing on this computer to handle “.wiz” files (whatever those
might be). It’s not just one specific .doc file it happens with, it’s each
and every one.
Anyone with any idea what’s going on?
==
.wiz files are produced by M-S Publisher.
Greetings!
I live in the UK and have a BT ADSL connection (400 metres by wire to the
exchange).
Generally, bandwidth was in the order of 6 to 8Mbps - usually the latter
provided I did not switch of my router too frequently.
Move over copper, glass has arrived.
Stable reported speed (W/Xp
Dilwyn said -
I need to scan some documents (with photos) of roughly A3 size and stitching
2xA4 scans together doesn’t really work – the ‘stitching’ looks awful when
the two halves are joined after scanning.
My local 'STAPLES' offers a discrete
Thanks Norman for helping a lazy bloke into the Raspberry Pi websites!
I've just spent more time in there than certain persons have recently wasted
in QJewels ;)
Read all the MagPi magazines. Fascinating and informative.
John in Wales
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Rich said -
Does anyone have a daisywheel printer for sale ...?
I have an Epson DX100 (wide carriage) in perfect working order. {Guts of it
made by Brother?}
Have relevant selection of perfect daisy wheels.
Have several relevant new carbon ribbons.
Dilwyn (and Adrian Ives, Andy Dansby)
Thanks for this at -
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/docs/ebooks/olqlug/index.htm
Excellent.
Must have been finnicky OCR and changing-formats jobs. Much appreciated.
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printer which is recalcitrant if it is
allowed to be dormant for any period of time ... if one did not know
better, one would think that it, too, was broken.
When THAT happens, it is necessary to spend 5-to-10 minutes (maybe, it
took a longer time -- who can remember?) pressing the
. now if you were 13 in 1979. !
and yet enthusiasm is *still* alive and well. ;-)
I thought SST stands for Super Sonic Transport when, all the time, it really
designates Silicon Storage Technology
from a Sinclair Schoolyard Trader.
You're doubly qualified. Welcome SST Allie.
Tony said -
Does anyone use the BBS now?
If not, it probably makes sense to retire this machine
Not I, any longer. But it has been of tremendous utility.
Thank you Tony for all the associated work .and for meeting its power
bills! (You
Re: 2012 Calendar
Thanks Dilwyn. Just what I was looking for.
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. chances are Dilwyn that your W7 recovery software will be (or will
offer an option of - if you're lucky) the W7 32bit version. If push comes
to shove... and you should get all 'unhappy' again, start once more with
that!
ATB.
John in Wales
Norm' (him wots against Jpegs) said -
-
Given that you are John in Wales, how about Taffs instead of Tifs? ;-)
I have some near neighbours (each with a different base-1 OS). They are
famous for their 'tiffs'. The Tales of Wales!
On
Malcolm said -
Does anyone use Word for HTML's?
--
By coincidence - because I'm to distribute some text intended for the widest
possible non-technical/academic audience - I've recently done one or two
tests i.e. -
saving MS-WORD docs in HTM format
Dave said -
Well, I got married yesterday,
Well Dave, congratulations and every best wish to you both - now you are
soldered to one PCB.
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Norman said -
My main task was to hold onto the bare plug lead wire while he cranked
the engine over - to see if it was generating power!
I had nearly finished installing a 240v generator in an unroaded village
remote in the Eritrean Highlands -
I've followed this thread... or so I though, but Dave (Plastic)
what does this mean please? -
strong characters
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As Ralph said -
Quite right. It [QPC2] is *the* QL software emulator.
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It has recently been said -
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That is what I was saying - 'digits' means both fingers and thumbs
in English. We usually say (incorrectly) that we have five fingers on each
hand. We don't. We have four fingers and one thumb.
Dave said -
It seems I will have to start saving for a UK spec QL, pronto. Having a
real
QL to work on is important to me.
Before Norman pulls muscle in his attic AND/OR goin' down the Post Office...
what about a possible PSU 50/60Hz mains supply problem - especially if Dave
is in The
Tobias helpfully said -
Dave,
the manual is right here and your memory is wrong ;-).
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Brave Dave,
Do you have a copy of Jan Jones?
It's great for *all* SBasic INSTR-uctions.
John in Wales
221 lines of code!
Tobias, do have more 'lazy Sunday afternoons', please.
Wish I could have written the same - it's poked some valuable ideas into my
memory. Thank you.
In there however, is a small shadow, specifically regarding your SELect
ON's. Does your code rely on the additional
What do I know about Derby?
It's where they say Twosdee. That is, unless it isn't.
And give over, if you 'avn't. I hear it a lot!
John in Wales
PS: Off topic? Of course not - it's a space-filler for the Toady Editor ;)
Re: Malcom's and Dilwyns recent references to Wales and broadband speeds.
I pay for 'up to 8Mbps' About 20% of the time I get a reported (and
experienced!) '8.1'
This, I have enjoyed for about 15 months. Lucky me. '5.8' is the
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Sorry Dilwyn not to be able to get this *first* privately to you, but you've
accidentally set something in motion following your misunderstanding of what
I wrote privately to you. I have to post this here now to try and stop
possible wrong results.
Dilwyn said (15th October) :-
Could someone (or you, even, John) put together a list of words which
cause difficulty and I could try to put something together as an
article sometime?
-
I said:-
I'm on to it! Will report back.
Bob said -
. and lights are mandatory in the UK .
Only between sunset and sunrise. The rest of the time you may ride without
them (fitted).
Got a fixed dynamo myself - you never know when some beautiful girl might
temp you to stay out late to help her with her QLing, with or
Tony said -
Yes indeed. Use plastic tools, and be careful. One thing worth doing
with the Microvitek, and with power *long* off is to hoover it. It is
mightily prone to high voltage sparks when very dusty. When this
happens, it kills the 8301. I have seen many examples of failed QLs
due to
Nasta,
Petri said thank you for taking the time to write this - wonderful
information!
So do I.
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Re; Tony's -
BTW to reply to what John (in Wales?) said about line broken URLs.
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Not me sir! - but now everyone knows why - just not being 'any boring old
John' - I've always *proudly* qualified
Thank you Stephen, Dilwyn, Bob and Arvid for your suggestions.
I'd never considered the printer (Epson Stylus 640) to be QPC compatible.
I had activated a local procedure in Archive, and accidentally chosen my
(P)rinter instead of my (S)creen. The troublesome 'buffered' result must
have lain
Evening all.
Perhaps my posting of 28 06 2010 (copy below) became randomly corrupted or
something. I am grateful for advice offered, I’m more than a bit puzzled by
the responses, as the appear on my screen.
Have a look at this:
I wrote -
“However, even as it merrily wasted ink, the O/S
Hello everyone,
Had a real teaser last evening. I was networking (LAN) a document to be
printed on a 'remote' (not QPC approved) printer attached to a peer in the
network. In other words it was all in (this) house!
When the printer had initiated, it attempted to print stuff from its local
[Beginners All Symbolic Instruction Code - 'BASIC']
Stephen said -
...
I'd disagree greatly with a lot of these arguments for people just
starting out. Line numbers, although a pain for advanced programmer, do
help novices think about order. Data types confuse things and make it
more complex
Dilwyn said -
...OK, it'll always be handy to be
able to write quick s*basic programs for my own use .
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now George has said -
.Rewriting for a PC or whatever is just not an
Rich says -
(I thought we had settled on bottom posting)
Unless I've accidentally missed some postings, this issue is still in the
melting pot - which is somewhere on a back burner! I suggested that Bruce
might care to lift the lid and
Re:
Just put MRI-1456 PCI-S into Google and the first hit brings a Windows
XP driver.
Or you could try Driverguide.com
Derek
Thanks Derek. Done!
Cheers,
John in Wales
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Paul said -
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I forgot to add this , you can also explore
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
to inventory your PC hardware and software, is free, and very informative
with
out any security concerns
subject was - Cakking Dilwyn
I've changed the subject line - Dilwyn's bin well and truely 'Cakked'
already, poor lad :o)
Norman said -
...
If we choose the standard bottom
Rich asks -
Does anyone have a 24 pin dot matrix printer for sale ?
I could have!
EPSON LQ 100+ (Epson Software Codes 2).
I bought it new. Hardly used (a backup machine). Mint condition.
Complete with user manual.
Situated 50 miles west of
Re:
With the QL, I think the win_ drive name came from winchester...
My understanding (c1978) is that someone familiar with the winchester rifle
likened hard-drive technolgy to its action.
That is, to reload, sweep a segment [seek], collect object of sweep
[read] and put the payload
@evans ...
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Surely this is something to do with living in Wales.
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Rich wrote -
..is a host of Sinclair QL items which are missing in action - does
anyone have any of this missing software, as we would like to preserve it:
I feel like a very poor relative.
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