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Dave, just checked again. The title of the first email was p irving8.jpg[01/12] but the message was an embedded and un-named attachment. I could not open it anyway. So I saved all 12 of them as 01, 02, — 11, and 12 in a folder.
I just tried renaming as 01.jpg, no luck opening, and then 01.pdf. Again could not open.
Never having seen the “Send later” button before, I rang the local ISP helpline just in case there were any problems. He said none, and had never seen the “Send later” in T-bird himself.
And I just needed to look at some pages of Phil Irving’s “Tuning for Speed” Oh! Well.
Les.
Right, problem No. 2 is solved. I should have tried earlier, but I just did a hard shutdown then started again.
Not only was I invited to send the previously saved messages, but normal service of “Send” button resumed.
The strange jpg’s are still a mystery.
Les.
Edp, I use CUT not COPY, as when the object is re-created in a clean sheet, the grouped, I can cut or copy it back to original drawing. If I did not CUT, It would have a double image with possiblity of problems later.
Les. (this added as attempt to EDIT caused a server error.)
Lee, I just posted another reply in my topic in the Linux section. After re-reading it, I thought I must add a comment, so clicked on EDIT. I was then taken to an internal server error message, Err 500 I think, so reporting as instructed. Cheers, Les
Duke, forget about Gimp. As I said before, I am lousy at software, and a new programme? No! I have tried Gimp a few times over the last decade or so, but it just leaves me pulling my hair out then closing it. Last time maybe 5 years ago, not again thanks.
I tried select line A, then holding ctrl whilst trying to add line B, no go. I tried with ALT, the same, likewise Tab, then F1, and F2. I found everything was very slow, and plenty of HDD noise! A quick save maybe, no File menu drop down. Then I spot many little figures (a bit like asterisks) populating the taskbar. WHAT? A 5sec press of PC’s OFF button fixes that. Restart, Libre office does a recovery, and everything is OK now. Goodness knows what was happening.
Unless a “try this, it will work” comes up, I will carry on as before. Slow, but it works. I have been using and improving with draw for more than 15 years, I just wish I knew a few more of its rules.
Ed, I have never used Excel, so that does not help me, but I will try some of the things mentioned in your link later. First I will complete this drawing, then play on an empty page with no costs if it screws up.
Les.
I suggested to Tamara that if the US were to drop thousands of preloaded tablets with pictorial comparisons of NK and SK, people could be stirred up. She immediately said not possible. They have no money, and are frightened to death (money is needed for any coup anywhere). She is correct, knowing something of the USSR and its satelites.
Just look at the soldiers etc when on parade in front of fat idiot. Yes, just LOOK. They are both frightened to death and heavily brain washed. I expect most DO believe the Kims are gods!
Frightening.
Les.
Tippon, perhaps an example. I am currently drawing the rear wheel centre of a Ducati (Cagiva), as I am modifying the bearing arrangement. I want to show the original above the centre line, and the modification below it, to fully illustrate the changes.
I start off with the upper half above the centre line of just the hub and bearing carrier. I then group that, then copy and flip vertically to create the complete bare hub plus carrier, with correct spacing, then add my centre line.
Next, I draw the half of original bearing on one side, CUT its parts to an open drawing, group them there, then cut them back into correct position. That can then be copied for the other side. Similarly, the modifications are done below the centre line and so on.
I find this useful for many things. I recently modified a clutch master cylinder, building it up in stages, where I was able to check it would work correctly over its full range, having regard to bleed holes etc.
I think I have tried using CTRL for multiple select/copy, but don’t think it worked. I WILL try that again.
It is only a few months since somebody here pointed out the use of F4, which has saved me loads of time already. I am a slow learner with programmes, but as each new bit is learned, it quickly gets used. I don’t expect to be proficient before it is my turn for the grim reaper, but I will keep asking stuff here until then!
Les.
Obviously this is down to XP or unpatched other windoze use, but is some of this made worse by the fact that ONLY XP can support some of the old (in computer terms) equipment which is still young in hardware terms?
Obviously if this is so, then as Dave says, it should be fully isolated from www access.
Les.
Steve, those speed cameras! I hate them. Those roads were all my race track once, but the speed cameras all appeared 20 years ago. I was over there (1997 probably) and took a friend for a drive. She had Parkinsons and had almost given up driving her motobility car, so we went around the Leek to Ashbourne area. Back in 1966, on a 500 Velo, that was on my route to work, and a real good blast each way. There is one sweeping bend which was cranked over and throttle near the stop. 1997, BIG HOARDINGS warning you, plus a 30 mph limit plus a speed camera. All that road was dotted with them.
When visiting N Staffs, I get off the M6 at the Stoke S junction, keep to a country road, then hit the A34, cameras right in my face. I hate the damn things!
The Crown Hotel in Stone was a 17th Centuary staging post. Big reputation, seem it has lost it now.
Just across from the Crown, up Mill Street, you find an old corn mill (on the TV a couple of years ago, Kevin’s homes programme). If you follow the stream exactly 2 miles, you will pass through what was my garden until 1996.
A great area with loads of history.
Les.
Duke, Stone is my home territory, so I would be interested to know which Hotel that is.
I will be there sometime very soon, my sister has just passed away, so a funeral beckons. I won’t be stopping at a hotel, but if anybody should ask, I could warn against.
Les.
Sorted. There was a quite simple “Boot options” or something similar in the settings, one of which was factory reset. It is now once more a virgin Chi-tablet. I will need to reinstall her details (Skype etc. whether or not she can find her history remains to be seen, but I think she has come to terms with not finding it.
Duke, yes, a chi tablet. It is an Allwinner A64 quad core. I have found the little pinhole which I assume is for factory reset. It seems to do a reboot, but nothing else.
A google search has little to say on the A64, but some other Allwinners appear to need a software reboot, which right now is over my head.
The browser is just “Browser”, so probably the AOSP as you suggest, all of which leaves me no wiser.
Les.
It seems there is another problem. At the login screen, it keeps flashing and rebuilding itself. No attempt to enter a PW works. It looks as if something bigger is going on. I think the next step is a factory reset. Of course, whilst that will delete stuff, if google do have the stuff, that should be there. I think permission required before I do a reset!
I copied your link onto my (Linux) PC, but once more google appeared to ME in Russian. I guess at some point, Tamara has logged in on my PC, so google defaults me to Russian. Damn and Blast!
Les.
Addendum. Tamara tells me that whilst they have not been told that the lad is autistic, the doctor has issued the prescription, so in that respect it is all kosher. Just the cost and uncertainty, but as I said, I will pass on the thoughts expressed here.
Les.
Many replies, quite interesting to read. Bob, I especially like your analysis:-
I personally believe that these conditions are evolution in action: a drive towards an “upgrade” in brain activity. The results will not be truly apparent for some time.
You may well be spot on, but probably not even me (who will live forever remember) will see the final result.
Back to the original matter of the child in Ukraine. I explained to Tamara Ed’s initial reply, when she told me he has already seen a speech therapist, but don’t know if it is ongoing.
It seems they can purchase the medication over there, but expensive. Hr 4,200 for one months treatment (injections), with the uncertainty of whether the stuff they get is real or just sugared water or why? Corruption and dishonest dealings are a way of life over there. To put that cost into focus, Tamara’s government pension there now amounts to Hr 1,300 per month, roughly $43, so treatment $140 per month) I will try to convey the thoughts espoused here, but I suspect the reply will again be “Can you get it, and how much?”
So anybody any sort of answer to those two questions?
Les.
Nothing to worry my pretty head about then. Good.
Les.
She probably did not hear me when I advised her to “go to the country” eight months ago, but it seems she hears me now. It should shut up the Scottish woman who said “I was voted to this position, you weren’t”. – and others offering similar comment.
On consideration, it is the ideal time; nothing significant can happen over Europe until their various elections (France) are out of the way. The previous likelihood of getting a bad brexit deal accepted by lib dems et al is receding.
Maybe it will get through to the labour PARTY that idiots with extreme left wing behaviour can not get the “ordinary working man” to actively vote for them. The biggest party in Europe won’t mean much when only the right wing Labour MPs get back in, those not first deselected.
“During the war” being staged in the Lords, “the Government should” have made the decision to remove all former politicians and ” send them back” for a proper Lords election. Only non-political appointees should be allowed in election free. Similarly of course, get rid of all Lords Spiritual, they have more than outlived their usefulness to the nation.
Les, who once more does not get a vote now he lives in the Isle of Man.
I am with Spedley on this one.
A pal rang me today and confided that he had a health issue (did not elucidate) and that he thought he ought to move on some of his stuff. He has a little 80 year old motor ‘bike that he was riding 50 years ago, plus a 1927 AJS that was his dad’s, A New Imperial, two single cylinder BMWs, A cammy Velo, two Triumphs, and a Scott. Maybe others I can’t recall. I MAY be getting one of those, one I was ogling at a recent visit. It was “given” to him, or more correctly, on permanent loan. If the donor agrees, it may well come my way.
I said I had wondered about thinning out some of my stuff (electronics stuff as well as bikes etc.), but had decided not to as I (also, Spedley) intend to live forever.
OLD Les.
Dave, you just missed your chance for this year, but only last week (or week before) there was a CAMRA event over here (Isle of Man) where I understand there were in excess of 200 craft beers. If you stay sober, plenty of things to see here, with a whole range of different areas to visit and views to see.
Cheers, Les.
It is over 50 years since I bought my first house. Mortgage or endowment? I took mortgage, BUT, I think back then an endowment could work quite well. It seems where Dave went wrong was using an agent. The insurance companies DIRECT were much better value.
My pal explained to me a few years ago that properly done, endowments could be winners, as the insurance companies would often “up” the benefits towards the end. They had a “with profits” element. However, they expected people to change or finish paying well before the final date. The company’s directors, family and friends would stick it out, then be quids in as they upped the benefits accrued because the others had dropped out early.
But I get the impression NOTHING is worthwhile today. Back when I started, interest rates tended to be fairly static for long periods, unlike recent times. I would hate to have to be in the market today. 25 years ago I suckered myself into taking a bridging loan. Disaster! I have deliberately NEVER attempted to work out what it cost me. I was in it at the time of the ERM debacle, when interest rates hit over 30%, and I was paying bank rate plus 3%. It should have only lasted a few months, but the market shut down the moment I took it, and it took a further seven years to sell the cottage. During that time, I moved back in and took a mortgage, having paid off the original 12 years previously.
The idea of a “fixed term for 2 years” was fortunately never even though of 50 years ago, just another grab money scam following the de-mutualising of all the mortgage companies. They were fantastic “businesses” before greed and Mrs T allowed that process.
Les.
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