Ade Vickers wrote, on 20/Jun/12 09:45 | Jun20:
pjwitte wrote:
Like reading my bloomin obituary ;)
No, Im alive and QLing, though not actively developing stuff
(for the time being). Knoware is down as I dont have a host.
Tested hosting it on an old laptop via DynDNS, but could get
it to reliabl
Ade Vickers wrote, on 20/Jun/12 09:45 | Jun20:
pjwitte wrote:
Like reading my bloomin obituary ;)
No, Im alive and QLing, though not actively developing stuff
(for the time being). Knoware is down as I dont have a host.
Tested hosting it on an old laptop via DynDNS, but could get
it to reliabl
Tony Firshman wrote, on 19/Jun/12 18:10 | Jun19:
Lee Privett wrote, on 19/Jun/12 17:56 | Jun19:
This isn't the guy I suppose?
http://soundcloud.com/per-witte
No.
The QL Per has a pony tail, and is never to be seen without a small cigar!
He is on this page:
http://dilwynjones.topcitie
Lee Privett wrote, on 19/Jun/12 17:56 | Jun19:
This isn't the guy I suppose?
http://soundcloud.com/per-witte
No.
The QL Per has a pony tail, and is never to be seen without a small cigar!
He is on this page:
http://dilwynjones.topcities.com/qlers/qlers.html
... but without cigar!
Tony
-
Rich Mellor wrote, on 13/Jun/12 10:38 | Jun13:
On 13/06/2012 10:21, thorsten herbert wrote:
Seems to be too late now, but this really sounds like a perfect case
for Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/
It's a crowd-funding site, people can say "hey, I have this cool
project and if 100 peopl
it to others at the show. using
Andrea's internet link via her Iphone hotspot.
Tony
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John Alexander wrote, on 1/Jun/12 11:42 | Jun1:
The problem with just the Domain name thing is that you then need to support
the server
so :
a) you need a server
b) need to power maintain and maintain security on etc etc
c) need to host it if that's what you are doing
d or home host which is
Bryan Horstmann wrote, on 30/May/12 13:27 | May30:
On 30/05/2012 12:07, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
I was going to put mine down then it asked for a confirmation
email...Nice try i
wonder what they send you after you have clicked
In my case, absolutely nothing
Neil
Some do, some don't. Most s
Martin Wheatley wrote, on 24/May/12 12:59 | May24:
On 24/05/2012 12:37, John Southern wrote:
Hi John - nice to hear you are still about. Takes me back to one evening
in the top room of a pub near Tony's
You and I and Colin Murphy were over in one corner meeting for the first
time and the expert
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 13/May/12 13:29 | May13:
Morning (!) Tony,
It is Norman's time that is worng (from the header):
Norman: 01:30 PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
Dilwyn: 01:54 PDT
Maybe, Norman, you are on SST (Scottish Summer Time) (8-)#
Scottish summer time? That's when it rains then! No,
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 12/May/12 11:44 | May12:
It is Norman's time that is worng (from the header):
^
Lovely typo, Tony! /
I do that automagically, and it is only right when I correct it!
... much like 'star' which always arrives as 'start' - blam
Added manually: Norman Dunbar wrote on 12/May/12 10:30:
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 12/May/12 09:49 | May12:
Dilwyn's reply was "9:49" of course, and Norman sent at "10:30",
confused by Dilwyn's mailer not having an attribution!
It is Norman's time that is worng (from the header):
Norman: 01
On 12 May 2012, at 01:05, John Alexander wrote:
> I had hundreds of memory boards from some mainframe and stripped off kilos
> of chips.
>
> Back in the day of 41256 RAM chips almost every one had a set of pulls from
> myself.
>
> Kept me in University ...Cheers guys John A
>
Ah mainfra
On 10 May 2012, at 19:32, Bryan Horstmann wrote:
>
>
> On 09/05/2012 10:07, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
>> Norman Dunbar wrote:
>>> My image when I hear the word "blowtorch" is of my dad filling his with
>>> paraffin and pumping it for what seemed ages to get some pressure up and
>>> then a huge bl
I see from the current issue of Quanta that a joky "quote of the show"
referring to Lee's removal of components from pcbs using a blow torch.
This is not a joke. I too used a purpose built 2kw hot air gun to
selectively remove components from QL pcbs. This I suspect is similar
to the 'blow t
ro today ZX Spectrum anyone
>>> ___
>>>
>>
>> My Google search shows a St George logo.
>>
>> Bryan H
> Well, it seems to be on google.com.
Not when loaded in NH, USA.
We are getting the normal logo.
To
On 21 Apr 2012, at 10:10, Ralf Reköndt wrote:
>
>
>CLOSE #channelsclose channels
>
What is the syntax?
close #2,#3 ?
Tony
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ver actually
> tried that). Perhaps George could tell us if Turbo can too.
>
> GOTO and GOSUB are one thing, you can usually do without them. What about
> RESTORE line_number though?
>
Ah I didn't know about that one, and have never used it.
>
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nough with Python to see if that is an advantage or a limitation.
>
> PS - You are not the Bryan, named in a Python film, are you? ... :-)
Silly - that was 'Brian' (8-)#
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On 19 Apr 2012, at 06:00, Bryan Horstmann wrote:
> I've had a look at Python too, Malcolm, and found "Python Languages & Syntax
> Cheat Sheet". Under basic arithmetic it says "i=a%b e.g. 11%3 > 2" I
> cannot make sense of that. I'll just hope that we can get an emulator and
> stick to
On 16 Apr 2012, at 17:19, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Reading the Raspberry Pi web site - with some interesting videos - the first
> production "Pi"'s have been delivered to a School in Leeds, UK. On Monday
> 16th April 2012.
>
> Delivery of early orders is now expected from Friday 20th
Lee Privett wrote, on 3/Apr/12 19:09 | Apr3:
I have never seen the ones I have posted here on the Ql-users list, I don't
know why unfortunately, I use to worry about, then someone replied :).
I seem to remember someone saying something about having a gmail account and
the way Google operates.
Billy wrote, on 1/Apr/12 21:29 | Apr1:
On 01/04/2012 17:40, Lee Privett wrote:
Guys, I feel it would be remiss not to mention that owning the book
(which I do) is one thing, however obtaining an electronic version
from somebody else may indeed break copyright especially if the
copyright owner ha
John Alexander wrote, on 1/Apr/12 19:27 | Apr1:
Yep , they have photos of them been in the UK warehouse which is great leap
forward.
I don't know how much more if any of the EMC testing they need to complete.
Any way it sort of gives me my unit in maybe 2 weeks ish
Re casing, I don't
The first 10,000 have arrived in the UK but are now being held up as RS
and Farnell are demanding a formal CE test, rather than the usual self
certification.
This might be a problem, as they are uncased and are bound to produce EMI.
In the USA the FCC allow manufacturers to bypass this by label
am was the main cause - again dirty connections.
I am sure Peter Graf of Derek Stewart could be of more help.
Tony
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Lee Privett wrote, on 29/Feb/12 20:25 | Feb29:
Unfortunately any account with CPC-Farnell is not recognised with
'Farnell', they are treated as two separate companies which means
registering with Farnell separately if you wish to purchase.
they had sold out of Raspi when I managed to get through
Tony Firshman wrote, on 29/Feb/12 06:42 | Feb29:
Tony Firshman wrote, on 29/Feb/12 06:38 | Feb29:
I managed to get to the main product page. This URL will save one L O N
G step:
http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/bespoke/bespoke7.jsp?ICID=I-RASP-HPBLOF-0015&bespokepage=farnell/en_UK/promot
Tony Firshman wrote, on 29/Feb/12 06:38 | Feb29:
I managed to get to the main product page. This URL will save one L O N
G step:
http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/bespoke/bespoke7.jsp?ICID=I-RASP-HPBLOF-0015&bespokepage=farnell/en_UK/promotions/raspberryPi.jsp
A purchase of over £45 has
Tony Firshman wrote, on 29/Feb/12 06:30 | Feb29:
Tony Firshman wrote, on 29/Feb/12 06:16 | Feb29:
Lee Privett wrote, on 28/Feb/12 10:28 | Feb28:
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Bryan Horstmann
wrote:
Just received this:-
The Raspberry Pi Foundation will be making a big (and very positive
Tony Firshman wrote, on 29/Feb/12 06:16 | Feb29:
Lee Privett wrote, on 28/Feb/12 10:28 | Feb28:
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Bryan Horstmann wrote:
Just received this:-
The Raspberry Pi Foundation will be making a big (and very positive)
announcement that just might interest you at
Lee Privett wrote, on 28/Feb/12 10:28 | Feb28:
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Bryan Horstmann wrote:
Just received this:-
The Raspberry Pi Foundation will be making a big (and very positive)
announcement that just might interest you at 0600h GMT on Wednesday 29
February 2012. Come towww.r
Rod H wrote, on 26/Feb/12 21:54 | Feb26:
From: dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:35:49 +
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] New to the forum
I don't know if your Trump Card has the "format ram1_,mdv1_" command -
part of the Tony Tebby toolkits on interfa
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 26/Feb/12 21:35 | Feb26:
I don't know if your Trump Card has the "format ram1_,mdv1_" command -
part of the Tony Tebby toolkits on interfaces.
Minor typo, no comma in it, between ram1_ and mdv1_ and the underscore
after the 'mdv1' is optional.
Whoops yes. I typed it *so*
Rod H wrote, on 26/Feb/12 21:32 | Feb26:
Rod/
I have a stack of boxed QLs and some have acquired issues over the years -
mainly with the microdrives becoming unreliable. I recently acquired an
additional 10 QLs, 5 working and 5 non, and have been parceling them out to
users, new and old, i
Rod H wrote, on 26/Feb/12 21:01 | Feb26:
Rod/
Hello,
This is my first time on the QL forum so please be gentle.
Welcome indeed.
There is a separate 'Forum' which I am sure others will tell you about.
This we call the 'Mailing List'.
I've recently dug out my QL gear to sadly find that the y
George Gwilt wrote, on 18/Feb/12 10:14 | Feb18:
On 18 Feb 2012, at 08:17, Rich Mellor wrote:
Can anyone still read PC formatted 5.25" disks and convert it onto a 3.5" disk?
I have a 5 1/4" disk drive. Also PC Conqueror is able to read these disks in PC
format. Xover should then be able to
On Feb 1, at 13:56 | Feb1, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> Peter Graf wrote:
>> I have decided to pass on the QL-SD project to Adrian Ives. Adrian has
>> received all my schematics, partslists, files for PCB manufacture,
>> source code and a small number of PCB prototypes. He is entitled to
>> release the
On Jan 24, at 20:13 | Jan24, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Dilwyn/
> Oh, that already happens. I didn't want to put that email address onto this
> public list.
>
> I haven't encouraged the use of the tesco address for quite some time now but
> people still use it to contact me (actually, there will b
On Jan 24, at 17:03 | Jan24, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Dilwyn/
> I see that Tesco have taken the decision to closedown their dial-up and
> associated internet services end of next month.
>
> They say that, for now at least, their email addresses will continue. As I
> have a Tesco email address I su
On Jan 17, at 17:16 | Jan17, Ralf Reköndt wrote:
>
> From: "Tony Firshman"
>
>> The *only* good things about it were the the look and feel.
>>
>> It suffered from keybounce. They produced a replacement chip for the 8049.
>> That did cure keybounc
On Jan 17, at 12:21 | Jan17, Bob Spelten wrote:
> Op Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:13:45 +0100 schreef Rich Mellor
> :
>
>> The SPEM keyboard interface is also interesting - would be nice to get some
>> photos of this for the QL WIki - does it plug into the ROM port?
>>
> In one of the pictures you can
On Jan 17, at 12:17 | Jan17, Antonio Giusa wrote:
>
> On 17/gen/2012, at 12:13, Rich Mellor wrote:
>>
>>
>> The SPEM keyboard interface is also interesting - would be nice to get some
>> photos of this for the QL WIki - does it plug into the ROM port?
>>
>
> The SPEM keyboard has no interfa
On Jan 15, at 13:31 | Jan15, David Tubbs wrote:
> At 11:08 14/01/2012 +, you wrote:
>> Does anyone know if it would be possible to reformat a WIN1_ partition on a
>> Qubide hard disk without losing the other partitions?
>>
>> It looks like the member's WIN1_ has a corrupt directory, with re
On Jan 14, at 13:09 | Jan14, Bob Spelten wrote:
> Op Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:08:45 +0100 schreef Dilwyn Jones
> :
>
>> Does anyone know if it would be possible to reformat a WIN1_ partition on a
>> Qubide hard disk without losing the other partitions?
>>
> The ZERO option of the Partition program
On Jan 14, at 11:08 | Jan14, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> Does anyone know if it would be possible to reformat a WIN1_ partition on a
> Qubide hard disk without losing the other partitions?
It was a long long time ago now when I made my 23 partition backup disk, but I
am pretty sure partition_exe can
On 12 Jan 2012, at 15:18, Dave Park wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Dilwyn Jones
> wrote:
>> From: "Rich Mellor"
>> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 12:27 AM
>> To:
>> Subject: [Ql-Users] QXT-640 Revived
>>
>>> I have managed to revive a Sandy QXT-640 computer - and have listed it
On Jan 10, at 13:12 | Jan10, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
> Tony Firshman wrote:
>>>> Pedant (8-)#
>>>> (Pot calling the kettle black).
>>>> Tony
>>>
>>> Why the sudden outbreak of "testy" emails ;-)?
>>>
>> Not at al
On Jan 10, at 12:17 | Jan10, Geoff Wicks wrote:
>
>
> --
> From: "Tony Firshman"
> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 9:30 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Test
>
>> Pedant (8-)#
>> (Pot calling
On Jan 10, at 09:37 | Jan10, Ade Vickers wrote:
> Tony Firshman wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 10, at 09:11 | Jan10, Ade Vickers wrote:
>>
>>> Tony Firshman wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> That reminds me of a shaggy dog story (slightly amen
On Jan 10, at 09:11 | Jan10, Ade Vickers wrote:
> Tony Firshman wrote:
>
>>
>> That reminds me of a shaggy dog story (slightly amended) as
>> to why there was a dead person in the shower surrounded by
>> empty shampoo bottles:
>>
>> 1 Wet hair
On Jan 9, at 20:26 | Jan9, Billy wrote:
> On 09/01/2012 19:42, Norman Dunbar wrote:
Please ignore this.
>>
>> I always have problems with these types of emails. For example, if I ignore
>> it, I have in actual fact followed the instructions to the letter and in
>> doing so, cannot possibl
On Jan 9, at 19:42 | Jan9, Norman Dunbar wrote:
>>> Please ignore this.
>
> I always have problems with these types of emails. For example, if I ignore
> it, I have in actual fact followed the instructions to the letter and in
> doing so, cannot possibly have ignored it!
>
> I once had an "ar
On Jan 9, at 15:27 | Jan9, Arnould wrote:
>> I have said this before but Laurence Reeves was a master of
>> this sort of programming. His QL Forth was under 4k of
>> machine code I think.
>>
>> Tony
>>
>
> Why "was"?
>
(8-)#
Slip of the brain.
In today's bloated environment there se
On Jan 6, at 14:06 | Jan6, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> Tony Firshman wrote:
>>
>> Anyway Ben (my son) gave me one for Christmas. A great moment and an amazing
>> gift.
>> The magnetic card reader roller was "mush" as an American enthusiast told me
>> it wo
I have used QL parts for numerous repairs in the past. One that springs to
mind is a dead central heating timer in the 90s. A microdrive power transistor
was *perfect* to replace a similar dead one in the timer.
The heat sinks were used on the replacement power amps for an 80s Copeman-Hart
anal
On Jan 3, at 16:35 | Jan3, Bryan Horstmann wrote:
>
>
>
> I see that Raspberrypi are putting the first 10 boards on ebay.
... and the current bid on #10 is over £2000!
>
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On Jan 3, at 16:17 | Jan3, Norman Dunbar wrote:
Norman/
>
>
>
Ah - it is a bit Lilliput/Blefuscu-like isn't it!
Don't throw rotten eggs anyone!
>> I suppose it is that M$ products default to top quoting. Interestingly all
>> the mailers I have ever used (Turnpike, Thunderbird and Apple Mail
On Jan 3, at 13:02 | Jan3, Norman Dunbar wrote:
Norman/
> On 26/12/11 15:15, alf...@juno.com wrote:
>
>> When THAT happens, it is necessary to spend 5-to-10 minutes (maybe, it
>> took a longer time -- who can remember?) pressing the button which tells
>> the printer to CLEAR its print jets (wha
On Dec 28, at 10:19 | Dec28, Tobias Fröschle wrote:
> Am 26.12.2011 12:25, schrieb George Gwilt:
>> I have just used QD to examine a file with the longest possible name. The
>> name was actually
>> ram1_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456_wda. Although QD displayed the
>> contents of the file corr
On Dec 22, at 15:40 | Dec22, George Gwilt wrote:
> How many people have a password for this list?
>
> I do not appear to have one.
> ]
I presume you mean for the admin interface.
Not me any more.
I know Quanta have one years ago as I used it once to get the list email
addresses for my TF Serv
On Dec 16, at 16:47 | Dec16, Geoff Wicks wrote:
> This is totally off topic, but worth telling.
>
> The best two typos I ever made were in the same document. It was way back
> during my probation days when we had to use typewriters and stencils
> (remember those).
>
> I had prepared a summary
On Dec 16, at 12:12 | Dec16, Jochen Merz wrote:
>
>
> Tony Firshman schrieb:
>>
>> On Dec 15, at 14:17 | Dec15, Norman Dunbar wrote:
>>
>>> On 15/12/11 13:59, Geoff Wicks wrote:
>>>> The QL Today
>>>> team took up the challenge and
On Dec 15, at 14:17 | Dec15, Norman Dunbar wrote:
> On 15/12/11 13:59, Geoff Wicks wrote:
>> The QL Today
>> team took up the challenge and I don't think we have ever done such a
>> quick proofread.
> Is now a bad time to mention some errors then? ;-)
>
>
None for met yet.
... unless
On Dec 13, at 22:21 | Dec13, Darren Branagh wrote:
> Hi Alison,
>
> Just when I was getting used to being one of only two QL users still in
> Ireland, you had to come along :))
>
> Where about where you originally from? I'm willing to guess Northern
> Ireland...??
>
> We have a former Appl
On Dec 7, at 17:10 | Dec7, Billy wrote:
>
>
>
TOny
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On Dec 6, at 15:57 | Dec6, Bryan Horstmann wrote:
>
>
> On 20/11/2011 10:17, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
>> QaLendar 2012
>>
>> My annual offering of the QaLendar (QL themed calendar) is now available to
>> download free from my website. Filled with QL themed pictures, it is
>> available in two form
On Dec 6, at 10:33 | Dec6, Bryan Horstmann wrote:
> On 06/12/2011 07:55, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
>>> I finally got around to testing this. I created a test spreadsheet using
>>> the Psion Abacus for DOS. I saved the file as a transfer file (.abt).
>>> Changed the extension to _abt, and moved it o
On Dec 5, at 14:35 | Dec5, Mark Martin wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Tony Firshman wrote:
>
>> I will copy the files if you want.It is all less than about 100mb I
>> expect, but getting it to a downloadable file will be interesting.
>> I suspect I w
On Dec 4, at 20:15 | Dec4, Mark Martin wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Tony Firshman wrote:
>
>> Now that is interesting. I run a Linux server full time.
>> Mind you the *whole* point really about shuttung down QBBS is to save
>> power (8-)#
>> I recko
On Dec 4, at 19:48 | Dec4, Mark Martin wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Tony Firshman wrote:
>
>>
>> On Dec 4, at 18:08 | Dec4, Mark Martin wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Tony Firshman
>> wrote:
>>>&
On Dec 4, at 19:24 | Dec4, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
On Dec 3, at 23:05 | Dec3, Darren Branagh wrote:
> Can you post a few pics of the set up before you retire it fully, just
for
> posterity?
The machine is not dying - simply the phone connection.
It has all my files o
On Dec 4, at 18:08 | Dec4, Mark Martin wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Tony Firshman wrote:
>
>>
>> On Dec 3, at 23:05 | Dec3, Darren Branagh wrote:
>>
>>> Can you post a few pics of the set up before you retire it fully, just
>> for
>
On Dec 3, at 23:05 | Dec3, Darren Branagh wrote:
> I think thats really very, very sad
>
> yet a sign of the times...
>
> Can you post a few pics of the set up before you retire it fully, just for
> posterity?
The machine is not dying - simply the phone connection.
It has all my files on
On Dec 3, at 09:59 | Dec3, j...@supanet.com wrote:
>
> Do you want t encourage mote QLers?
>
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mote
Great slip of the fingers. I suppose the QL scene is getting smaller but
(8-)#
Tony
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On Dec 2, at 00:21 | Dec2, Tony Firshman wrote:
>
> On Dec 1, at 22:12 | Dec1, Derek Stewart wrote:
>
>> On Tue 29 Nov 2011 19:44:24 GMT, Tony Firshman wrote:
>>
>>> My BBS main disk died today.
>>> I am mightily glad that the system boots primarily
On Dec 1, at 22:12 | Dec1, Derek Stewart wrote:
> On Tue 29 Nov 2011 19:44:24 GMT, Tony Firshman wrote:
>
>> My BBS main disk died today.
>> I am mightily glad that the system boots primarily off romdisq - it made
>> life so much easier.
>>
>> The 23 dail
My BBS main disk died today.
I am mightily glad that the system boots primarily off romdisq - it made life
so much easier.
The 23 daily backup partitions on a separate HD should have all been OK, but
some were not.
I found one that was and all is restored with a 296mb partition on a 20GB HD,
al
On Nov 25, at 17:54 | Nov25, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
>> Please give the procedure for converting Abacus files under
>> Psion 4 (DOS) to Abacus files running on QL (QDOS) and QPC2.
> The above is a query received by Quanta Helpline. Does anyone have experience
> of transferring between these systems
On Oct 10, at 10:06 | Oct10, gdgqler wrote:
George/
> I use QPC2 on Windows XP on VMware on an Apple Mac. If I am in QPC2 I can put
> a floppy in the reader and it is instantly available, as flp2. If I attach
> some other device I get a window asking whether I want the device attached to
> th
On Oct 10, at 09:43 | Oct10, Stephen Usher wrote:
> On 09/10/2011 23:37, Tony Firshman wrote:
>> Nope - all they needed to do was to program it better. Laurence
>> Reeves proved with Hermes you could get working code with the 8049.
>> It's only issue was it was not
On Oct 9, at 22:28 | Oct9, Stephen Usher wrote:
> On 07/10/2011 20:05, peet vanpeebles wrote:
>
>> To be fair Apple products have a had a checkered reliability as well.
>> I've fixed a number of ibooks. Not mention the faults with older
>> ipods or phones with no signal. Or the top of range liqu
On Oct 9, at 22:21 | Oct9, Stephen Usher wrote:
> On 07/10/2011 19:48, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
>> With, the QL, at the time of manufacture, it was the lack of a floppy
>> disk drive (in favour of the micro drives).
>
> Erm, yes, there was the lack of a floppy drive, but then there was the
> fooli
On Oct 9, at 18:52 | Oct9, Bryan Horstmann wrote:
> On 09/10/2011 10:32, Tony Firshman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Thanks Dave. But I don't understand "current focus". Can you explain a
>>> bit please as I struggle with the techhie bit
On 9 Oct 2011, at 10:22, Bryan Horstmann wrote:
> On 09/10/2011 09:39, Dave Walker wrote:
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-
>>> boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Horstmann
>>> Sent: 09 October 2011 08:51
>>> To: ql-us...@q-v-d.
On Sep 24, at 14:16 | Sep24, ql wrote:
> Am 24.09.2011 um 13:55 schrieb Tony Firshman :
>> I didn't last until the end, but I especially liked the obviously
>> intentional reflection of Urs in the screen.
> Beside the official topic there are so many other "things&q
On Sep 24, at 13:08 | Sep24, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> Urs Koenig wrote:
>
>> Today I gave the DVD a go under Microsoft Windows 8. Yes, 8 not 7. I have
>> the Developer Preview version (an alpha version) running in Oracle's
>> VirtualBox on my PC. Here's a short video of how the DVD "does" under
>>
On Sep 18, at 19:39 | Sep18, Jochen Merz wrote:
>> Without a 'home' link that is the worng decision in my opinion.
> Too late now anyway …
>
Indeed. It is easy though to keep a DVD directory window open.
Did you make the key layout on the disk physically, or simply use individual
images? I s
On Sep 18, at 19:05 | Sep18, Jochen Merz wrote:
>
>> George Gwilt has already said yes.
>> I tried again with mine (Lion 10.7) and it also works fine, under Firefox.
>> One cannot follow Jochen's suggestion if using MSIE (8-)
> Still IE bashing? Well, it did the job, and it comes with every Win
On Sep 18, at 16:14 | Sep18, thorsten herbert wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just a fast question upfront subscribing to QL Today. Does the DVD work well
> On OS X?
>
George Gwilt has already said yes.
I tried again with mine (Lion 10.7) and it also works fine, under Firefox.
One cannot follow Jochen's
On Sep 18, at 11:35 | Sep18, Rich Mellor wrote:
> On 18/09/2011 07:43, Jochen Merz wrote:
>> Hi Malcolm,
>>
>>> Arrived in London, too, on Saturday 17th September 2011.
>> Very fast this time.
>>
>>> Tried the DVD on my desktop PC, and was not able to auto-start. From
>>> directory, then saw fi
On 18 Sep 2011, at 09:14, gdgqler wrote:
>
> On 18 Sep 2011, at 08:18, Tony Firshman wrote:
>
>>>> Tried the DVD on my desktop PC, and was not able to auto-start. From
>>>> directory, then saw files on the disc, yet no content.
>>>> Turned off
On Sep 18, at 07:43 | Sep18, Jochen Merz wrote:
> Hi Malcolm,
>
>> Arrived in London, too, on Saturday 17th September 2011.
> Very fast this time.
Mine too.
>> Tried the DVD on my desktop PC, and was not able to auto-start. From
>> directory, then saw files on the disc, yet no content.
>> Turned
On Sep 15, at 10:18 | Sep15, gdgqler wrote:
>
> On 14 Sep 2011, at 20:30, Tony Firshman wrote:
>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 14 Sep 2011, at 12:48, François Van Emelen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Never had a problem either but you need a working version o
On Sep 14, at 15:20 | Sep14, gdgqler wrote:
>
> On 14 Sep 2011, at 12:48, François Van Emelen wrote:
>
>> Never had a problem either but you need a working version of 'unzip' first
>> ... and to get hold of one can be a problem for non-QLers.
>
> The program I prepared which allows a user to
When I use my Usb floppy under mac vmware it becomes B: and can be used as
flp2 under qemulator.
Tony
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Does anyone use Word for HTML's?
>>>
>> I agree with your sentiments absolutely.
>> However when one gets given a complex word file each week for my church's
>> website it is the only practicable way when the designer *demands* html (8-(#
>>
>> It works but is horrendous code.
On Aug 19, at 21:18 | Aug19, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
> In message , Tony
> Firshman writes
>>
>> On Aug 15, at 21:23 | Aug15, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
>>
>>> In message <003201cc5b75$bfd154d0$6402a8c0@baerchen>, Ralf Reköndt
>>> writes
>>>
On 18 Aug 2011, at 15:49, Norman Dunbar wrote:
> On 18/08/11 15:07, Tony Firshman wrote:
>> I wonder if there is a method that would work for Firefox/Mac - I would very
>> much prefer this.
>
> In Firefox,
>
> Edit->Preferences (or Tools->Preferen
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