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2004 / Graphics apps
« on: February 06, 2004, 05:21:14 PM »
Thanks friends,
I just amuse myself with an occasional fantasy.
ejc
I just amuse myself with an occasional fantasy.
ejc
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2004 / Graphics apps
« on: February 04, 2004, 06:47:04 AM »
Hi Kelly,
Yes, I had missed that item, thanks.
As they say, the only thing constant is change
Peace
ejc
Yes, I had missed that item, thanks.
As they say, the only thing constant is change
Peace
ejc
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2004 / Graphics apps
« on: February 03, 2004, 04:10:53 PM »
Hi,
I am a home user - still on OS 9 (tho. I have OS X). Infrequently I "play" with a graphics app. Bought CorelSuite at a knock-down price a few years ago. It crashes occasionally - probably because I break the rules. But it seems not too bad - and contained an excellent tutorial.
When people are asked to nominate a graphics app. in forums (fora?) nobody seems to nominate Corel. I sometimes wonder why?
Anybody care to comment?
BTW (and OT) I still like a DTP app. (originally developed for the Atari, and still regularly updated) "Calamus" which functions under an emulator on the Mac, and native under Wintel.
Peace
ejc
I am a home user - still on OS 9 (tho. I have OS X). Infrequently I "play" with a graphics app. Bought CorelSuite at a knock-down price a few years ago. It crashes occasionally - probably because I break the rules. But it seems not too bad - and contained an excellent tutorial.
When people are asked to nominate a graphics app. in forums (fora?) nobody seems to nominate Corel. I sometimes wonder why?
Anybody care to comment?
BTW (and OT) I still like a DTP app. (originally developed for the Atari, and still regularly updated) "Calamus" which functions under an emulator on the Mac, and native under Wintel.
Peace
ejc
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2004 / Dirty keyboard/Mac 8500
« on: February 01, 2004, 03:20:01 PM »
Thank you everybody.
Bernie, your offer is truly generous but I suspect that postal charges from the USA to Switzerland would be not inconsiderable - and at present (fingers crossed) my keyboard is OK. Each time I begin a session I ask myself "How much longer?"
Peace
ejc
Bernie, your offer is truly generous but I suspect that postal charges from the USA to Switzerland would be not inconsiderable - and at present (fingers crossed) my keyboard is OK. Each time I begin a session I ask myself "How much longer?"
Peace
ejc
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2004 / Dirty keyboard/Mac 8500
« on: January 31, 2004, 03:39:18 PM »
Hi,
I presume that keyboard cleaning is an old topic, nevertheless I would appreciate help.
Peace.
I presume that keyboard cleaning is an old topic, nevertheless I would appreciate help.
Peace.
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2004 / Very OT: I love you in 10 languages
« on: January 30, 2004, 10:55:53 PM »
Hi,
Your referenced site gives "Russian - Ya tebya liubliu".
By chance I have met quite a few Russians over the years. Their alphabet is, of course cyrillic, but if a Russian speaks the phrase "I love you" it comes out as "Ya lyublyu tibya". Even allowing for the change into Roman characters one can see that their word order is not the same as your source.
Peace
eric j
Your referenced site gives "Russian - Ya tebya liubliu".
By chance I have met quite a few Russians over the years. Their alphabet is, of course cyrillic, but if a Russian speaks the phrase "I love you" it comes out as "Ya lyublyu tibya". Even allowing for the change into Roman characters one can see that their word order is not the same as your source.
Peace
eric j
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2003 / OT - Thinking of flying into Heathrow today?
« on: October 26, 2003, 07:27:59 PM »
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Hi Highmac,
Interesting for me to learn that Coventry is now the home of R-R Aero Engines. I worked in Parkside 1949 to 1955. It was then Armstrong Siddeley Engines - later subsumed into R-R. It's not improbable you never heard of Armstrong Siddeley - I go back a long way.
It was my first industrial experience after graduating. Lots of fun, and hard work too. Still have an old buddy from these times in Coventry.
Now live and work for a company making recip. compressors in Switzerland.
Here mechanical engineers still enjoy some respect!
Regards
ejc
Hi Highmac,
Interesting for me to learn that Coventry is now the home of R-R Aero Engines. I worked in Parkside 1949 to 1955. It was then Armstrong Siddeley Engines - later subsumed into R-R. It's not improbable you never heard of Armstrong Siddeley - I go back a long way.
It was my first industrial experience after graduating. Lots of fun, and hard work too. Still have an old buddy from these times in Coventry.
Now live and work for a company making recip. compressors in Switzerland.
Here mechanical engineers still enjoy some respect!
Regards
ejc
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2003 / Commodore to be relaunched...
« on: July 19, 2003, 04:33:50 PM »
Hi Atari folks,
I still have my ST 1040 with 19" B/W screen. Pin-sharp. Nothing equals it for clarity. Anybody else here used Calamus? Wonderful DTP prog. Still being upgraded. Now available for Windows also - for thise who have not yet seen the light.
Excellent word processors are still (as far as I know) available.
My Atari laser printer responds much faster than printers with other systems.
Sad that Atari's marketing was so poor. However tgere is still a core of users in Germany, many of whom use Calamus on a Mac via an emulator (MagiCMac).
As others will know, the OS is on a chip. Very fast start-up
The desktop is similar to the Mac, but I employ a prog. to give me direct access to whichever app. I want to use. Who really needs a desktop? All I want is a start-up screen that asks:
Work with words?
Work with numbers?
Work with graphics?
Work with the Internet?
or,
Choose a file.
AND
A pin-sharp B/W large screen!!!
Nearly all of my work is B/W - and I suspect that, power users aside (whom I suspect comprise the majority of contributors to sites like this - excellent though they are) the world of PC users is like me - the silent majority - who are dragged, kicking and screaming - helplessly into the maze of bloat that constitutes today's PC market.
Sorry, I have ranted like this in the past. It's a topic close to my heart.
Peace
euc
I still have my ST 1040 with 19" B/W screen. Pin-sharp. Nothing equals it for clarity. Anybody else here used Calamus? Wonderful DTP prog. Still being upgraded. Now available for Windows also - for thise who have not yet seen the light.
Excellent word processors are still (as far as I know) available.
My Atari laser printer responds much faster than printers with other systems.
Sad that Atari's marketing was so poor. However tgere is still a core of users in Germany, many of whom use Calamus on a Mac via an emulator (MagiCMac).
As others will know, the OS is on a chip. Very fast start-up
The desktop is similar to the Mac, but I employ a prog. to give me direct access to whichever app. I want to use. Who really needs a desktop? All I want is a start-up screen that asks:
Work with words?
Work with numbers?
Work with graphics?
Work with the Internet?
or,
Choose a file.
AND
A pin-sharp B/W large screen!!!
Nearly all of my work is B/W - and I suspect that, power users aside (whom I suspect comprise the majority of contributors to sites like this - excellent though they are) the world of PC users is like me - the silent majority - who are dragged, kicking and screaming - helplessly into the maze of bloat that constitutes today's PC market.
Sorry, I have ranted like this in the past. It's a topic close to my heart.
Peace
euc
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2003 / doc. compression Mac to Windows
« on: July 11, 2003, 06:19:35 PM »
Hi folks,
One of my Windows clients wants me to compress a report (Word doc) created on my Mac so that he can download it more swiftly when he is away from his company server. He says it takes forever when he is travelling. Asks can I zip it?
Anybody able to offer help?
Thanks
ejc
One of my Windows clients wants me to compress a report (Word doc) created on my Mac so that he can download it more swiftly when he is away from his company server. He says it takes forever when he is travelling. Asks can I zip it?
Anybody able to offer help?
Thanks
ejc
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2003 / Virus W32.Bugbear.B@mm
« on: June 26, 2003, 04:46:36 AM »
I want to say huge "Thankyou" to the wonderful people who contribute to this site.
As a longtime Mac owner with only limited knowledge of systems, I was really concerned that I was unwittingly causing nuisance to others.
Now my mind is at rest thanks to my Mac and Techsuvivors.
Peace
ejc
As a longtime Mac owner with only limited knowledge of systems, I was really concerned that I was unwittingly causing nuisance to others.
Now my mind is at rest thanks to my Mac and Techsuvivors.
Peace
ejc
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2003 / Virus W32.Bugbear.B@mm
« on: June 25, 2003, 09:54:18 AM »
Kelly,
Many thanks for the information.
Must go now. will re-visit later.
ejc
Many thanks for the information.
Must go now. will re-visit later.
ejc
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2003 / Virus W32.Bugbear.B@mm
« on: June 25, 2003, 09:37:11 AM »
The Word Doc cotained some stuff, copied and pasted, from some technical, trade news sites on the Web. As far as I know they are bona fide trade mags and I have used them with the same procedure many times before.
But what about the recipient with no attachment?
ejc
But what about the recipient with no attachment?
ejc
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2003 / Virus W32.Bugbear.B@mm
« on: June 25, 2003, 09:23:29 AM »
Kelly,
Both recipients reciived the mail under my name but from an address that is not mine!
ejc
Both recipients reciived the mail under my name but from an address that is not mine!
ejc
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2003 / Virus W32.Bugbear.B@mm
« on: June 25, 2003, 09:11:49 AM »
Kelly,
Another refipient, to whom I sent no attachment also detected a virus, but did not inform me of its name.
Thanks
ejc
Another refipient, to whom I sent no attachment also detected a virus, but did not inform me of its name.
Thanks
ejc