Morning again David,
I wrote :
Don't ask questions then!
Whoops! Apologies.
What I meant to type was Don't join a discussion if you don't want
comments/correction/further discussion on the points you raise.
Sorry.
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Geting even more spooky now. I'm doing nothing different to last time, and
yet you are now able to read my posts from the web interface easily.
Beats me!
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single long paragraph - which it so far appears that he is
the only one who is having thins problem.
Wonder what's going on?
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was 'under
attack'. I shall attempt to refrain in future from using words that may
cause confusion.
Will learned counsel for the defence please inform the court what he is
defending.
The less than sensible ? Linux ? Or Norman Dunbar ?
You suggested that you knew not what tools Linux had to offer
but text and basic
html tags. The idiots refuse to even *consider* that they are doing
anything worng.
Yes, I get a few of those at work, not from TomTom. They come in as
attachments and the main email itself is totally blank.
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Norman Dunbar wrote:
David Tubbs wrote:
Please stop, it was enough effort to write a response to Malcolm's request.
Ok.no worries.
I was not seeking guidence or solutions to problems long past.
Don't ask questions then!
I admit no knowledge of Linux, am grateful to have avoided a basis
at work (Outlook) a copy from my online sent
items to see what it looks like.
What email client do you use?
Does anyone else have difficulties reading my previous email?
I shall forward you a copy from Thunderbird privately. Let me know what
you receive please.
I'm puzzled.
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know, but you should perhaps check the small print?
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whether or not it's worth adding another 512 MB of RAM.
I suspect it might well be.
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) and the optics seem to lose the
plot!
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seconds for a full screen.
I've never had that problem under Windows and not yet under Linux/Wine.
It's a most interesting problem though!
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and it kept exactly the
same time.
Same problems with the mouse movement being delayed and button clicks as well,
plus the repeating keys in this version as well.
Appreciate all your help so far - thanks.
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That obviously should all be on one line!
I'm ordering one for myself!
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in the SuperBasic listing to
something other then PW or PL (plus the calling lines too of course) and see if
that makes any difference.
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Morning Marcel,
Could you (and anybody else having increased cursor blink frequency)
run this Basic program? Tell me what values it's printing (47 to 50 is
normal).
I'll give it a go tonight when I get home.
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, it started varying again.
The first run was a 3 that is ot a typo.
I have just run it again and it started with 40, then repeated 50 a few
dozen times before I CTRL-SPACEd it.
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and
helpful we are in the QL community. I have help from yourself and from Marcel -
and why should he bother, QPC is a Windows program after all - but he is still
helping.
It is all very much appreciated. Thank you.
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, CPU flat lines at 100% - so your set up is not likely to be the cause.
Better get it unplugged now - I'll get shot for having unauthorised devices
plugged in!
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suspect it will be fine. Wine might not be all that big a problem
though - but who knows!
I love this bit - I'm sure you meant MB by the way!
512GB RAM
The 7 screen might be a tad small for my aging eyes though!
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load times. It could be down to the Windows build we use
here at the agency - slightly customised for 'security' purposes!
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. I even thought about mounting the dd image as a
loopback device as well - but that would fail too as there is no registered
ql5a file system! (yet!)
Thanks for taking time to reply.
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sectors. So no joy there either.
None of these made any attempt to access the floppy. Giving full rights
to /dev/fd0 didn't change things either.
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Hi Wolfgang,
Perhaps using a PC formatted floppy is a way around this, for now?
Just tried that as well, nothing works. dir flp1_ gives me a stat of the
win drive and dir dos1_ (a:\ is configured as dos1_ on startup) gives me
0/0 sectors.
:-(
Cheers,
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access!) which I
am currenlty studying.
Maybe, if I can figure it out, I'll be able to get a ql5a file system
module written!
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Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
As to Norman, I've been using QPC under Wine for quite some time now.
I know - I read your article in QL Today recently to see what problems
you have had with it. You didn't mention the repeating key problem but
did mention extreme slowness.
How on Earth did you get
QPC.
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minutes to load Windows. Completely
unworkable I'm afraid.
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
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Hi Marcel,
IIRC that might be a design limitation of Windows (and perhaps most
other OSes) but probably not of the Core Duo chip.
I wasn't sure whether it was the chip ir the OS. Thanks for the confirmation.
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with a DOS extender. Never got anything to work properly. :-(
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Since when is there a Linux version of QemuLator?
http://qemulator.createweb.de/
I suspect it's not the same one though!!!
:-)
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core to pay attention!
An interesting design I thought when I read it.
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(and a read!)
and will check back tomorrow to see if I have stirred up a nest of
hornets, or if I actually have had a (rare) good idea!
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are!)
I don't know, political correctness eh? Who needs it! :-)
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the radiator that did it and doesn't
want to know.
He will not be getting paid I suspect!
Good luck.
Cheers,
Norman.
PS. Check Slow Gold source code for hooking in an interrupt handler.
Also, there was a caps lock indicator program (Quanta?) a few years
back. I think that did a similar thing
do get an advice of increasing costs before my
invoice is due.
I'll be watching!
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had a problem so far. This doens't mean that I won't suffer
in the future - thanks for the heads up.
... especially as 123 is now cheaper.
I have not yet tried 123, but if 1 and 1 do give problems, I shall.
Thanks.
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kindly allow webmail to be accessed and used!
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mailbox of far less space that each one from 1 1.
Just my current opinion based on my dealings with them - they have been most
helpful and prompt to reply to my emails and support queries.
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some years back - nothing new under the sun is
there?
A main difference is that they didn't invent the use of the spring
inside the lock.
Who needs a spring when you have gravity?
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in one's hand :o)
END RANT.
I don't do PC I'm afraid (actually, I'm not afraid) - I call a spayed a cat
that's been to the vets! (ok that was a tidied up version !)
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Hi John, (In Wales)
Before I vote, I'm waiting to read what we get when we Dunbar-it!
Dunbar IT - that's my company name :o)
As for my thoughts on the matter - see my previous rant, I think that should
cover it.
Cheers,
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)
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Hi Malcolm,
Whereas ALL ql_users, as we know, are very erudite ... :-)
Indeed we are !
Norman. (Back from Egypt, and only slightly burned.)
Umm ... it must have been hot ... !
Yes it was. 14 days all of which were 40 degrees (C) plus, or, in old money,
over 104 degrees F.
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a bit 'staid' at times.
Now that we tend to drift ever so slightly off topic from time to time, it
feels more homely and fun. Anyone disagree?
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me - which you didn't :o)
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... using LRUN, seems to clear the BASIC memory area of
a windrive$ variable that I have just obtained from user input.
Try MRUN whihc does a MERGE and doesn't/shouldn't clear your variables -
assuming I'm remembering correctly of course.
Cheers,
Norman
under it ?
I'm pretty sure QPC does, but I have a vague recollection of Marcel posting
something here a while back about Vista. I can't remember what though !
Cheers,
Norman.
PS. My spell chequer thinks your surname is wrong and should be 'Badman
) but the internal format was never documented (as far
as I know). I'm sure someone could figure it out ...
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?
:o)
I thought something similar when I read that article this morning !
Let's hope that it is a very successful venture indeed.
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even employed the head man
from IBM's wafer research. Since then, nothing.
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to be trusted.
I wouldn't trust mine any further than I could throw it.
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I don't know what happened to the link, best to cut and paste. Clicking on it
takes you to the 1 and 1 email system. How strange. When I pasted it in, it
pasted as text and does show the proper location. It seems broken when
displayed in HTML. :o(
Sorry.
Norman
contrived there Dilwyn - must try harder next time.
The reason I run QPC on my PC is because we should alway stry to better
ourselves, so I'm bettering my PC :o)
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Tony,
Sarah turns taps off so hard they *do* start dripping as the
washer gets destroyed.
Ah, now that's probably going too far !
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is there
only for throwing.
One spare - for looking to see where the other one landed !
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to tell me this - but they sent it to the closed account. Eh
A quick word with customer services sorted that out, however, I'm no
longer wioth Demon and I need to check that all is well here too.
I'd hate to be cut off again.
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Norman Dunbar wrote:
Well, if you are reading this, I might as well try to make it interesting !
It works, it works - hooray !
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Morning Malcolm,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is a TV then, Norman ?
A TV is like a monitor, except it doesn't have the same resolution. :o( Every
home should have one - although, nowadays, it seems that every room has to have
one !
All QL's are capable of driving a colour monitor
.
A TV will do for testing :o)
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of assorted power supplies and QL 'Feet' and a TV cable.
I intend to see if they work, if so, these have been lying around unused for at
least 10 years, possibly closer to 15 !
It will be interesting to see what transpires.
Of course, I now need a TV to test them !
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doing some time back.
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for the off topic-ness.
However, I should hopefully get my office set up soon (when the router arrives)
and once that is done, I can get back to writing assembly articles for outr
esteemed magazine :o)
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downstairs and now we have two
wireless networks.
Who knows, it might just work. I hope so because downstairs is my office with
the main PC, printer etc - so we want to keep all that IT stuff out of site.
Time will tell.
Thanks for the URL though - very useful.
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. I'll check it and see. It certainly looks like that's
how it works for the wireless anyway.
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router. Oh hum !
Thanks for your help.
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After that email, I think you might be :o)
BIG SNIP
So, rejoice with *me*, but believe in your *own* systems
Greetings to all,
And I'll have a pint of what John has been drinking please :o)
Hope you are well (now) John !
Cheers,
Norman [in new house
' at the moment. I'm getting about
300 of these on a daily basis.
Today, however, it is different. They are now arriving in German whereas before
they were in English. Oh hum !
Anyway, back on topic. I'm afraid that I don't have any 'bits' for you at
present, but happy hunting.
Cheers,
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to Firefox, and the rest is history!
So, Q40, even if not registered has been in use and Samsung could be asked to
refrain. :o)
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'@,ucompany.demon.co.uk.
Spammers know this. When I first created the account many many years ago, I
logged on to find my first spam - literally 5 minutes after creating the
account. I still get lots of emails for 'george'. Still, the spam trap can get
at them easily !
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with an email (as yet
unread) on the subject too.
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parsed and tokenised whihc
takes a bit of time.
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and swapping
over time.
That works out at 29,166 minutes and 40 seconds. That is 486 hours, 6 minutes
and 40 seconds or 20 days 6 hours 6 minutes and 40 seconds of continual time.
That's a hell of a lot of cartridge labels too :o)
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wiki' two words, no quotes - Google picked it first.
That was yesterday though !
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and I'm not swapping that for anything, it's far too good!
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Dilwyn goes strainght over when he reads that !)
How many people are willing to contribute to these information resources
by the way?
I'll do some as and when I can - as usual.
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Not if the rest of the spelling in your email is anything to go by!!!
I suspect that I'll never be a wizard, I'm not very good at spelling!
Cheers,
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PS. I just thought, Roy Wood and Wizard - I'll bet you've never heard that one
before - so apologies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm just a simple country lad but could I point out that the water in
your radiators is most definitly NOT plastic
The last time I drained down the system, it looked like plastic, I can assure
you of that. Very nasty !
I suspect it had been in there from day one
and are not connected to earth in any way. In fact, the entire
water system in the house is plastic.
Beware as not being earthed can be catastrophic.
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on coloured paper that was, at least back then, very difficult to
photo copy. I'm told, because I never actually tried, that they (a) come out
all black with black text and (b) use up all your [employer's] toner !
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' - aspecially as we will soon be moving house.
On the other hand, I work as an Oracle DBA in my 'real life' - you should see
how much 'stuff' I have for that !
Still, all a part of the fun !
Of course :o)
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have issued an edict about
this very subject, Vista will, apparently, trash you iPod operating system in
one way or another. There's a message somewhere on the Apple web site (or
similar) - sorry I can be more specific than that.
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that
is in a directory on my PATH, then it fails to open because it is not in the
current directory (that I have cd'd to).
The PTH driver is similar to PATH on *nix. Use it for finding and execution
binaries, not for opening files, directory listings or saving datat files.
HTH
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*Basic listing :
DEF PROC ABCdef
...
END DEF abcdef
At the END DEF, the 'abcdef' will be changed to 'ABCdef'.
(I think the above is correct - my organic RAM is failing these days !)
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. It looks like a 'generic' 68K simulator - I
wonder if SMSQE would run on it :o) (I expect not - too many hardware problems
no doubt).
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of an (Amiga based?) MC68000 processor instructions.
If anyone wany a copy of same (in zipped format) please contact me at Norman
(at) Dunbar (hyphen) IT (dot) co (dot) uk with a self addressed email (!) and
I'll attempt to send a copy back in return. *** If that's ok with the editors
of QL Today
PS. With regards to how much work it is to convert an article to pdf, for
example, see my write up in a recent QL Today. Copies available from me too.
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to upload the current version. Plus my QDOS
Internals web site is way behind on updates - need I go on.
It's not easy enjoying writing software for a 'hobby' computer :o(
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Norman at Dunbar-it.co.uk wrote:
Steady Peter, steady :o)
Shouldn't your reminder better go to the one who started this myriad
programmers, personal note and talk is cheap stuff? o:-)
Actually, I meant to put 'steady everyone'. Apologies for 'picking' on you
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