, about the XChange suite and
not just Quill, though the enquiry centred on Quill.
Patents have a limited life, it is a pity copyright doesn't too.
John Taylor
On 5 Nov 2005, at 10:23, gwicks wrote:
The status of the GD2 Quill version is a little obscure. As far as
I know it
is currently only
How is copyright applied when it belongs to a corporate identity, eg.
Psion or Microsoft?
My spell checker accepts Microsoft, but it doesn't accept Unix. I
wonder why?
John Taylor.
On 5 Nov 2005, at 23:34, Colin Parsons wrote:
John Taylor wrote:
Geoff
Quanta approached Psion years ago
Yes Phoebus UNIX is right.
I must have an old brit english dictionary.
John.
On 6 Nov 2005, at 16:48, Phoebus R. Dokos (Φοίβος Ρ.
Ντόκος) wrote:
Την Sun, 06 Nov 2005 11:40:19 -0500,ο(η) John Taylor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] έγραψε:
Malcom
I am on a Unix based machine.
I was spell checking
When ever Erling Jacobsen did an update to Quill he gave it to Quanta
Library.
John Taylor
On 8 Nov 2005, at 00:33, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
Anyway, anybody know why the new Quill is supposed to be Quanta-only?
Marcel
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address who then forwarded it to me.
now he is using Yahoo mail but that has limitations when including
attachments.
If anyone has any information I can use it would be very helpful.
Happy New Year to one and all.
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find this useful sometime.
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make rules for other people.
Who decides what is right and what is wrong in English?
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I know everyone on here would deplore political correctness.
The last few days have seen an avalanche of grammar corrections.
Correcting other peoples faults is a very satisfying occupation.
And the most beautiful words in the English language are I told you
so.
John Taylor
On 30 May 2006
Lynn Truss missed this one.
Get the family to punctuate: Woman without her man is nothing
John.
On 1 Jun 2006, at 01:22, Tony Firshman wrote:
Laurence Reeves wrote:
snip
A la TF,
A le TF surely (8-)#
I deplore the loss of meaning specificity that a missed
apostrophe causes
Per
I don't think so, my daughter has my copy, but where is the
apostrophe in shouldnt?
John.
On 1 Jun 2006, at 10:24, P Witte wrote:
John Taylor writes:
Lynn Truss missed this one.
Get the family to punctuate: Woman without her man is nothing
Shouldnt that be: Lynne Truss? Missed
Roy
Every now and again this board indulges in bouts of mental gymnastics.
You have taken part in the past, but not this time.
Why then are you complaining.
John T.
On 5 Jun 2006, at 23:34, Roy wood wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn
Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
SNIP
No ?. Sorry!
John T.
On 6 Jun 2006, at 09:52, John Taylor wrote:
Roy
Every now and again this board indulges in bouts of mental gymnastics.
You have taken part in the past, but not this time.
Why then are you complaining.
John T.
On 5 Jun 2006, at 23:34, Roy wood wrote
Thanks Roy.
The next time we argue will be the first.
I was tempted and I fell.
John.
On 6 Jun 2006, at 19:11, Roy wood wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John
Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Roy
Every now and again this board indulges in bouts of mental
gymnastics.
You have
Dilwyn
The Quanta Library was included in the Welcome Book with occasional
revisions issued loose.
I lost mine years ago.
John Taylor
On 25 Nov 2008, at 20:48, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
I may one, somewhere ...
Was it supplied in binder of some type ? Just so I know what to
look out
Hi Geoff
Why not do as Tony suggests, but try this host
Best regards, John Taylor.
On 8 Feb 2009, at 20:03, Geoff Wicks wrote:
The Just Words! website is due to close in a weeks time.
The site host, Lycos, is cutting out all unprofitable activities,
and although they promised site
Hi John
There was nothing wrong with my envelope and I have already re-used it.
John Taylor
On 6 Mar 2009, at 12:06, John Gilpin wrote:
I am concerned about the number of emails I am receiving concerning
the state of the Envelopes I use for sending out QUANTA Magazines. I
shall make
John
With the Gold Card connecting pins on your left and looking down at
the card, the battery is the red square block nearest the bottom.
Look at it closely. It has four pins, one at each corner.
The top Right hand corner should be marked +
The bottom Left hand corner, which is diagonally
produced by the manufacturers.
They are available in Mac or PC versions.
John Taylor
On 26 Oct 2009, at 14:49, gdgqler wrote:
On 26 Oct 2009, at 14:43, Darren Branagh wrote:
Good point Dil, never used this one myself.
Plus, for Mac users with a bang up to date Mac (ie. not me!) if you
have
.
The whole idea horrifies me.
John Taylor (another long term lurker.)
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Norman Dunbar
If you are using an Intel Mac this little prog will add another function to
your print menu so that you can make A5 PDF Booklets from A4 Open Office
documents.
http://web.mac.com/vogelbusch/Site/Programs/Eintr%C3%A4ge/2007/12/6_Create_Booklet_1.0.1.html
John Taylor
you Urs for kicking my fragile memory back a whole decade.
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.
That is how they always do it.
Bob got the blame for closing when he did.
I heard, he had cardiac problems and that he was being treated by the US
Medicare.
I used to send him boxes of English tea, then the letters stopped.
I too would like to know about him.
John Taylor
What do I know about Derby?
It's where they say Twosdee.
Just outside Derby its Twosdee, ducks,
Just down the road in Nottingham they say Shintin Duck.
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be the subject of a David Lean
film. Do you like steam trains (8-)#
I was born in the same room as my mother in the village post office,
Rhydlewis, Wales. Again unusual but not nearly as romantic as yours.
Tony
Like Topsy, I just growed..
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The QL must be very much alive.
The used Jan Jones book sold for £23 on eBay.
Quanta sold them, new, for £8
JJ got £5 and Quanta paid for the reprint out of their £3.
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I have received my March Quanta magazine and it includes two copies of the
Income Expenditure A/C.
Pages 35 36, but there is no copy of the Balance Sheet.
This may be a One Off, but I doubt it, as pages 35 36 are back to back.
John Taylor
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Please use
committee@qua...@org.uk
Sorry John, but that is not a proper email address.
I tried the suffix dotorgdotuk, I hope that works.
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or reject
them.
The very idea that the constitution needs to be altered has not been thought
through.
The committee would do well to use this board to find out just what changes are
required, or are acceptable.
John Taylor
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On 22 Mar 2011, at 16:57, Geoff Wicks wrote:
A Quanta member has sent the committee some suggestions for amending the
constitution to provide for the situation where an AGM is inquorate.
I raised this question at the 2008 AGM and John Mason said that proxy votes
count towards a quorum.
On 22 Mar 2011, at 18:43, Geoff Wicks wrote:
--
From: John Taylor j_taylo...@btinternet.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 6:18 PM
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Quorums
On 22 Mar 2011, at 16:57, Geoff Wicks wrote
started so I'll
finish.
George
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The Charities Commission ruling on a member leaving the room is that the debate
should continue, but voting must wait until the member returns.
John
shed.
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Congratulations Urs.
On Monday we celebrated our 53rd year of Holy Dedlock.
After four children, eight grandchildren, five houses and numerous squabbles,
we have lot to look back on.
You have a lovely family, you have a lot to look forward to and enjoy.
With all best wishes,
John Taylor
On 20 Aug 2011, at 12:04, Tony Firshman wrote:
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
.
Previous reprints were organised (I think) by Phil Borman and possibly John
Taylor.
There is an email to this list by John Taylor on 7/3/11:
The QL must be very much alive.
The used Jan Jones book sold for £23 on eBay.
Quanta sold them, new, for £8
JJ got £5 and Quanta paid
think the Quanta committee paid someone to do a limited number of photocopied
versions.
The quality was abominable.
Therefore I think this can be ignored.
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I received copy of the mail from John.
The senders address is John's, thegilpins at btinternetdot com.
I noticed that the reply address is different to the senders address.
I did not reply though.
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finding them work with out knowing he existed.
Sadly missed, I feel grateful for having known him.
May God bless you and keep you Bill.
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Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman
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Thank you Tony.
John
On 20 Mar 2013, at 21:06, Tony Firshman t...@firshman.co.uk wrote:
On Wednesday, March 27, 2013, Ian Burkinshaw wrote:
Thankyou to everybody for correcting my grammer, I am now considered told
off.
so I had better not tell you of for your spelling of 'grammar'
then (8-)#
Now then
I was surprised that Lynn Truss did not include this one.
A woman without her man, is nothing.
A woman, without her, man is nothing.
Now I am happy to hand this board back to the QL Pedants
John Taylor.
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fear, GST was the second assembler, then it is best forgotten.
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to manage as too many member pushed or
pulled in different directions.
It was always Bill’s claim that Quanta needed a ”Benevolent Dictator"
Bill was never a Dictator.
May he recover as we owe him so much.
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be
again.
You have three months to sort out the mess, and by that I mean, find
the right people, elect them, then support them
Launching QL2005 could be a start.
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are too deeply ingrained in the
current committee, it has become a little closed shop or mutual
admiration society.
For a healthy active committee you have got to have conflict. The
members must believe in what they are doing even if the others disagree.
John Taylor
Jim and John
You have missed the point of my post.
I would have had an agreement, a simpler one, not something dreamt up
by an amateur lawyer who is trying to impress.
What I am still trying to say is, put a proposal before the committee
and all they see is problems.
Opportunities don't seem to
Tony
Non Contributing = Thou Shalt Not Pay.
Indiscriminate does not include using apostrophe's ' as quotation marks.
John Taylor writing as nobody in particular.
On Tuesday, November 30, 2004, at 12:33 PM, Tony Firshman wrote:
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 at 11:23:47, John Taylor wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL
On Monday, December 13, 2004, at 10:52 PM, Tony Firshman wrote:
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 at 19:13:38, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
What I really want is a QuBIDE, but SWMBO has curtailed any futher
oldecomputer related orders until finances improve :(
I have one for sale - bigger
On Monday, December 13, 2004, at 11:40 AM, John Hall wrote:
I'm not sure what you mean by 'levels'.
I meant levels of emission At the time very little was understood as
to what would constitute acceptable levels of emission.
I wrote to the Board of Trade and the MP Malcolm Rifkin ( recommended
Merry Christmas to all.
have fun and try this.
http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/
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, or the printer, still has the files.
John Taylor
On Thursday, December 23, 2004, at 12:28 PM, john mason wrote:
I notice that Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED], on Friday 17 Dec
2004 20:48:19 -0500, suggested that consideration be given to a
further reprint of QL SuperBASIC by Jan Jones -
Sounds a good idea
, but it needed saying. The secretary has
asked for nominations for the three officers and up to six other
committee members.
Is anybody doing anything?
John Taylor
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this argument is pointless as there are second hand
copies available. Rich has got three and doubtless there are many more
that could be made available.
Quanta has one copy left and, if I remember rightly, has not sold one
in the last five years. How many requests have we had?
John Taylor
On Friday
.
This appears to be standard practice and the Quanta publication was no
exception.
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John Gilpin
Don't get excited John.
John Mason wrote to me and because he put QLUser in the subject line it
was re-routed into my QLUser folder.
I then replied to QLUser.
Sorry. I have sent a copy to John Mason, but I agree with you, the
project is a NoNo.
John Taylor
Tarquin
Quanta is still affiliated to BACC as the insurance cover has to be
obtained through them.
John Gilpin should have the details.
I attended several of the BACC AGM's and found them very disappointing.
As Chairman of ACCUS you should be able to attend,
Try it. I wish you luck.
John Taylor
It nose bee four two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever rong.
Eye halve run this poem threw it
I am shure your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew!
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QL is 2! (See page two of Quanta)
I can see why they used an exclamation mark, no one thought it would
last that long.
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at a pre-arranged
price per copy.
I prefer the printed A5 copy. A4 increases the printing cost and the
postage, and does not confer any great benefits.
This topic has been discussed several times at committee meetings, but
they always forget why they turned it down last time.
John Taylor
I have just received this One Liner from Mrs Newell/
"Sorry to say Bill passed away this afternoon. Bit raw at the moment so write
more latter.”
What can I add?
John Taylor
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the best.
John Taylor.
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