Re: [ql-users] OPD Expired!

2007-04-04 Thread Norman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Morning all, SNIP If, and only if a pin is bent, first ground yourself on a radiator then take a pair of fine pliers or tweezers (available from maplin) = if I might point out, my radiators (10 year old 'modern' house in th UK) have plastic pipes and are not

Re: [ql-users] QL, Spectrum, and PC

2007-04-04 Thread Tony Firshman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Vista is just a glorified Windows 95 - it's vastly expensive, it under performns, it requires a huge investment in hardware and provides nothing much in return. Stick with XP if you have

Re: [ql-users] QL Supercharge

2007-04-04 Thread George Gwilt
On 3 Apr 2007, at 14:46, Malcolm Cadman wrote: Yes, it is one of those Digital Precision hard on the eyes productions :-) I think you probably mean one of those Digital Precision 'hard to photocopy' productions - Freddy was very very good at protecting his interests. All his

Re: [ql-users] OPD Expired!

2007-04-04 Thread John Gilpin
- Original Message - From: Billy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 1:32 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] OPD Expired! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Morning all, SNIP If, and only if a pin is bent, first ground yourself on

Re: [ql-users] QL, Spectrum, and PC

2007-04-04 Thread David McCann
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 18:44 +0100, Roy Wood wrote: In all fairness here this is not a M$ problem but sheer laziness on the part of the companies concerned. I know you're very keen on Windows, Roy, but you're missing the point ... and this a point which applied (to some extent) to SMSQ. An

Re: [ql-users] QL, Spectrum, and PC

2007-04-04 Thread Marcel Kilgus
David McCann wrote: I know you're very keen on Windows, Roy, but you're missing the point ... and this a point which applied (to some extent) to SMSQ. An operating system is just there to run your applications and manage your files. It's the job of the creator of a new version to make sure

Re: [ql-users] QL Supercharge

2007-04-04 Thread Dilwyn Jones
I think you probably mean one of those Digital Precision 'hard to photocopy' productions - Freddy was very very good at protecting his interests. All his manuals were on coloured paper that was, at least back then, very difficult to photo copy. I'm told, because I never actually tried, that they

Re: [ql-users] Comment from the Traditional QUANTA Committee

2007-04-04 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Gilpin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Is there a convention to follow as regards where the reply goes? Sometimes I get replies at the top of the original email, sometimes individual comments interspersed in the Original message and sometimes at the bottom. Frequently

[ql-users] Wiki

2007-04-04 Thread Dilwyn Jones
After 3 attempts (connection seems to drop out without apparent reason first 2 times I tried) I finally got an article up on this new QL site. It's about QL CD-ROMs - info about using and setting them up along with a short list of those I know of. Once I know I've done it correctly (i.e.

Re: [ql-users] QL, Spectrum, and PC

2007-04-04 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Vista is just a glorified Windows 95 - it's vastly expensive, it under performns, it requires a huge investment in hardware and provides nothing much in return. Stick

Re: [ql-users] QL, Spectrum, and PC

2007-04-04 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In all fairness here this is not a M$ problem but sheer laziness on the part of the companies concerned. Vista was available as a free time expired beta version for over a year. Clip Oh yes, and maybe they

Re: [ql-users] QL, Spectrum, and PC

2007-04-04 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 18:44 +0100, Roy Wood wrote: In all fairness here this is not a M$ problem but sheer laziness on the part of the companies concerned. To give M$ credit they are the market leader for PC's, so it up to

Re: [ql-users] Comment from the Traditional QUANTA Committee

2007-04-04 Thread Tony Firshman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Malcolm Cadman wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Gilpin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Is there a convention to follow as regards where the reply goes? Sometimes I get replies at the top of the original email, sometimes individual comments