[SLUG] Intro and a question

2004-05-23 Thread Gary Bennett
Hello, I subbed to SLUG last weekend, have read along for the week and thought it about time to introduce myself. My name's Gary, I'm a tad over 40 (but feel anything from 20 to 70 depending upon how much sleep I've had). My present system comprises a Celeron 400 with 128MB RAM and 12GB HDD

Re: [SLUG] ubuntu -help pls

2005-07-20 Thread Gary Bennett
On 7/21/05, Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/20/05, hana martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dr sir/madam, i bought PC AUTHORITY APRIL 2005 to get UBUNTU 4.10 , ,but not installed yet. now UBUNTU 5 has released, --where can i get a CD in SYDNEY ? --can i get INSTALL HELP via

Re: [SLUG] Secondhand Technical Books

2005-09-03 Thread Gary Bennett
On 9/4/05, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your local community library is a good start, thats were I first had achance to play with Linux. They had a Linux book that came with a CD andat the time I was having a dreadful time with Windows NT.Only thing missing was once I had Linux installed,

Re: [SLUG] Partitioning software

2005-09-07 Thread Gary Bennett
On 9/7/05, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am probably going to buy a lappy in the next few weeks and it willinevitably come with that toy OS on it.Having paid good money for it I am disinclined to blow it away totallyso I want to be able to cram it into a corner of the disk and give the

Re: [SLUG] Open Office conditional format question

2008-07-01 Thread Gary Bennett
On 7/2/08, Howard Lowndes wrote: I'm trying to set a date in an OO spreadsheet that is defined conditionally, but I am obviously doing something wrong. Here's what I think the conditional should look like but it results in the value of zero (= 30 Dec 1899) being passed into the cell:

Re: [SLUG] Open Office conditional format question

2008-07-02 Thread Gary Bennett
On 7/2/08, Howard Lowndes wrote: Gary Bennett wrote: On 7/2/08, Howard Lowndes wrote: I'm trying to set a date in an OO spreadsheet that is defined conditionally, but I am obviously doing something wrong. Here's what I think the conditional should look like but it results