Re: A Short History on the Term "Bug"

2023-06-30 Thread David Robley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper#/media/File:First_Computer_Bug,_1945.jpg On 30/06/2023 23:05, Keith N. McKenna wrote: I came across this bit of trivia on a news group I follow: PS --- don't you love the term "bug". Where I used to work, they had the late Grace Murray Hopper in to gi

Re: blog migration

2023-06-30 Thread Matthias Seidel
Hi all, how do we proceed? Regards,    Matthias Am 19.06.23 um 22:24 schrieb Marcus: > Am 19.06.23 um 22:05 schrieb Matthias Seidel: >> Am 19.06.23 um 22:00 schrieb Marcus: >>> Am 11.06.23 um 19:46 schrieb Matthias Seidel: BTW: I *think* there is a closing missing here: >>>

Re: A Short History on the Term "Bug"

2023-06-30 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 06:50:05 -0700 Dave Fisher wrote: > When I was a child I asked my father “why?”and he told me that the bug was a > cockroach flipping a bit in core memory - which was a grid of wires where > each bit was a little magnetic donut. Ah! core memory, where each memory cell was

Re: A Short History on the Term "Bug"

2023-06-30 Thread Dave Fisher
When I was a child I asked my father “why?”and he told me that the bug was a cockroach flipping a bit in core memory - which was a grid of wires where each bit was a little magnetic donut. Thanks! Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 30, 2023, at 6:36 AM, Keith N. McKenna > wrote: > > I came acros

A Short History on the Term "Bug"

2023-06-30 Thread Keith N. McKenna
I came across this bit of trivia on a news group I follow: PS --- don't you love the term "bug". Where I used to work, they had the late Grace Murray Hopper in to give us a talk every few years. One of her anecdotes of the early days was how the term came about. One time a "down" was caused by

Re: OpenOffice.org - Windows 11 Compatibility

2023-06-30 Thread David Robley
That version was released in 2011 and  I don't think anyone would recommend it for use with Windows 11. I'd suggest you upgrade to the current version from https://www.openoffice.org/download/ Since you are not subscribed to this list you may not see all the replies to your query. To subscri

Re: Flat ODF

2023-06-30 Thread Matthias Seidel
Hi Francis, Am 30.06.23 um 02:53 schrieb F Campos Costero: > On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 9:57 AM F Campos Costero > wrote: > >> >> On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 7:55 AM Matthias Seidel < >> matthias.sei...@hamburg.de> wrote: >> >>> Hi Francis, >>> >>> Am 20.06.23 um 22:50 schrieb F Campos Costero: On