[ql-users] [OT] Norman Dunbar

2003-08-14 Thread Norman Dunbar
Just a little bit off topic, but as of Friday 15th August I will no longer be receiving emails from this list at this email address - I'm leaving work on Friday never to return :o( The email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] will no longer be valid and should not be used after Friday. I will

Re: [ql-users] [OT] Norman Dunbar

2003-08-14 Thread Tony Firshman
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 at 10:58:49, Norman Dunbar wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Just a little bit off topic, but as of Friday 15th August I will no longer be receiving emails from this list at this email address - I'm leaving work on Friday never to return :o( Not in the slightest OFT. I wish

Re: [ql-users] OT

2003-07-15 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 15 Jul 2003, at 12:05, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Anyway, you'll never get hit by anything British, not because British bombs and bullets are accurate but our poor soldiers end up having to borrow and scrouunge American kit and bullets while overseas... Is that the newspeak for friendly fire?

Re: [ql-users] OT

2003-07-15 Thread Darren . Branagh
-users] OT Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] g.uk

Re: [ql-users] OT

2003-07-15 Thread Dilwyn Jones
No. Friendly fire is where bombs/gunfire/schrapnel aimed for the enemy ends up hitting and/or killing one of our own troops. Ridiculous name for it... I always thought, not that is should ever happen anyway. Seems to happen all to often though, Reminds me a lot of this list. We used to

Re: [ql-users] OT

2003-07-15 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] OT And have just remembered that after talking about missiles etc, I'm the one writing the program called LAUNCHPAD :-) Just remember, when SOQL comes out I'll put a feature in Launchpad that I can

Re: [ql-users] OT

2003-07-15 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Dilwyn, remember what you accused me of the other day about naughty bits of code in my programs to spy on Ql-ers. May I advise you to double check the bits of code I sent you for use in Launchpad? You never know what my Whitehall masters have secretly slipped into it! BTW, just because you

[ql-users] OT : Intersting foinble when replying to HTML emails !

2003-01-27 Thread Norman Dunbar
I don't want to start a huge thread on this as it is OT, but I've noticed that when George Gwilt and Rich Mellow reply to an email, it comes through in HTML with nice blue lines down the quoted text. When I reply, I force the format to plain text - as it required :o) - and the quoting is

Re: [ql-users] OT : Intersting foinble when replying to HTML emails !

2003-01-27 Thread RWAPSoftware
In a message dated 27/01/03 09:46:14 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't want to start a huge thread on this as it is OT, but I've noticed that when George Gwilt and Rich Mellow reply to an email, it comes through in HTML with nice blue lines down the quoted text. When I

Re: [ql-users] OT : Intersting foinble when replying to HTML emai ls !

2003-01-27 Thread RWAPSoftware
In a message dated 27/01/03 12:09:15 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No worries, I was merely reporting an observation which may have been partly responsible for a recent thread, not casting aspersions on your good name, nor George's. Sorry about the typo in your name ! No

Re: [ql-users] OT: Cheap [Christmas card] posting

2002-12-17 Thread Robert Newson
Phoebus Dokos wrote: ??? 16/12/2002 8:51:54 ??, ?/? Robert Newson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... What exactly is the rarity of it? There were no marks to suggest it had ever gone through the UK postal system Well it's the first of this kind that I have heard of (I mean recent one because if you go

Re: [ql-users] OT: Cheap [Christmas card] posting

2002-12-17 Thread Phoebus Dokos
??? 17/12/2002 9:37:46 ??, ?/? Robert Newson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ??: Not so rare to find post going astray, or do you mean from US? It's the two country combo together with the markings (You should keep the USPS label of course) Self adhesive as in lick and stick, or as in peel off and

Re: [ql-users] OT: Cheap [Christmas card] posting

2002-12-17 Thread Robert Newson
Phoebus Dokos wrote: Not so rare to find post going astray, or do you mean from US? It's the two country combo together with the markings (You should keep the USPS label of course) I've kept the label...mainly for it's unecessary repetition. Self adhesive as in lick and stick, or as in

Re: [ql-users] OT: Cheap [Christmas card] posting

2002-12-16 Thread Phoebus Dokos
??? 15/12/2002 3:59:48 ??, ?/? Robert Newson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ??: snip Hi Robert, Actually you now have what we used to call in the philatelic world (were I was working for the longest time) a rarity. Better hang on to the envelope as it will fetch a decent price in the future. For

Re: [ql-users] OT: Cheap [Christmas card] posting

2002-12-16 Thread Robert Newson
Phoebus Dokos wrote: ??? 15/12/2002 3:59:48 ??, ?/? Robert Newson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Robert, Actually you now have what we used to call in the philatelic world (were I was working for the longest time) a rarity. Better hang on to the envelope as it will fetch a decent price in the future.

Re: [ql-users] OT: Cheap [Christmas card] posting

2002-12-16 Thread Phoebus Dokos
??? 16/12/2002 8:51:54 ??, ?/? Robert Newson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ??: snip Bit late...I reposted it this afternoon along with most of the remains of my mum's christmas posting left after the theft of contents of parcels (leaving wrappings and cards - returned by a council worker who found

[ql-users] OT: Cheap [Christmas card] posting

2002-12-15 Thread Robert Newson
Phoebus, this may be of most interest to you, but others may find it interesting. I've just received a Christmas card, posted by my mum, intended for someone in USA. Nothing odd about that you may say, considering how good the Royal Mail is. However, the card is franked 30 Nov (ok, so it's

[ql-users] OT: Testing DOS Browser - Please disregard

2002-11-06 Thread Phoebus Dokos
This is a test = Please disregard -- This mail was written using The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ Running under FreeDOS beta (Nikita) - Kewl! Don't need Windoze anymore! -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/

Re: [ql-users] OT - 'Windows' tip

2002-10-02 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marcel Kilgus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Malcolm Cadman wrote: On my RISC OS system I have a utility called 'Autofocus' which highlights the active window automatically when the mouse pointer enters it. Most recent Windows versions can do this, too (can be

[ql-users] OT?-Looking for stats

2002-09-22 Thread Voyager
Hi guys I am working on an essay, and I need statistics and figures from the 80's on sales, value, models, types of computers sold. Any number would be appreciated. I need to cover not only the PC market, but the home computer market too. Looking for numbers like like, how many Ti99/4A were

[ql-users] OT (a bit) Sinclair TV

2002-09-07 Thread Voyager
Hi guyz, I know, it sounds Off Topic. I 've just got a Sinclair Flat-Screen Pocket TV, and I am trying to use an external PSU, but there are no specs for it. Has anybody used it? could anybody give me the specs? I suspect it's 6V DC, and the socket seems like the Nokia GSM's power plug, but I

Re: [ql-users] [OT] Making business with Roy Wood

2002-07-03 Thread Tony Firshman
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 at 20:23:59, Dilwyn Jones wrote: (ref: 003101c22136$9baaae40$e2065cc3@default) Well that was an interesting tirade. I have no intention of going into a lengthy discussion of this in deference to those of you who have become as heartily sick of the whole thing now as I

Re: [ql-users] [OT] Making business with Roy Wood

2002-07-03 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 03:07:48PM +0100, Norman Dunbar wrote: PS. Got UQLX working on Mandrake 8.2 - yippee ! The colour scheme seems to be a bit wonky, might be Mandrake or KDE, maybe not - all I get is yellow, magenta, cyan, red and black - regardless of mode 4 or 8. :o( interesting..

RE: [ql-users] [OT] Making business with Roy Wood

2002-07-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
- -Original Message- From: Richard Zidlicky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 10:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] [OT] Making business with Roy Wood On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 03:07:48PM +0100, Norman Dunbar wrote: PS. Got UQLX

Re: [ql-users] [OT] I'm back!

2002-07-03 Thread Phoebus Dokos
At 02:53 ìì 3/7/2002, you wrote: Hi there, are you by any chance Greek? or visiting Greece? Yes totally ;-) 1000% Greek from Greece but only visiting once a year :-) My time is unfortunately over (at least we drank plenty of Mavrodafni, ate about a ton of Pita-Gyro ;-) and surfed a bit as

Re: [ql-users] [OT] Making business with Roy Wood

2002-07-01 Thread Tony Firshman
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 at 23:19:06, Roy Wood wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Well that was an interesting tirade. I have no intention of going into a lengthy discussion of this in deference to those of you who have become as heartily sick of the whole thing now as I was in trying to deal with

Re: [ql-users] [OT] Making business with Roy Wood

2002-07-01 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Well that was an interesting tirade. I have no intention of going into a lengthy discussion of this in deference to those of you who have become as heartily sick of the whole thing now as I was in trying to deal with Peter in the first place. I do feel, and I apologise in advance here that

Re: [ql-users] [OT] Making business with Roy Wood

2002-06-30 Thread Roy Wood
Well that was an interesting tirade. I have no intention of going into a lengthy discussion of this in deference to those of you who have become as heartily sick of the whole thing now as I was in trying to deal with Peter in the first place. I do feel, and I apologise in advance here that