So far I have found that OpenOffice (the open source alternative to Microsoft Office) is very easy to use for most basic purposes. It is fine for opening existing documents or spreadsheets and editing them, or printing them. It is also fine for creating new straightforward documents and spreadsheets. The trouble starts with anything a […]
Entries Tagged as 'Computing'
Computer Lessons
January 30th, 2007 · Comments Off on Computer Lessons · Technology
I had a visit today from the Mother and Godmother so I could give tem some lessons in how to set their website up. Talk about bridging the generation gap! I’m not sure who had the biggest culture shock – them coming to terms with file transfers, image re-sizing and database structure or me trying […]
Bad server
December 16th, 2006 · Comments Off on Bad server · Technology
I love the announcement at the Joggle site: The server was down this week because it was infected with bad software and had to be punished.
Safe Mode
November 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off on Safe Mode · Technology
What I learned today was something which saved me a lot of grief with my computer. I put the hard drive from the old PC in the new one as a slave drive and copied everything across, but a few directories would not copy. I kept getting an ‘Access Denied’ message on the ‘My Documents’ […]
New computers
November 23rd, 2006 · 9 Comments · Technology
No matter how much better a new computer is than the old one in terms of storage, memory, speed, etc. there always seems to be as much pain as there is pleasure in getting it up and running. The first thing to do with a new PC is obviously to take it apart before even […]
Tags: Computing
Computer still dead…
November 21st, 2006 · Comments Off on Computer still dead… · Technology
Despite trying a couple of things at the suggestion of the timelord guru blogger up in Stratford-on-Avon the PC still refuses to function. Not his fault, I think it is beyond help so I shall have to reluctantly go out and get something newer and better. I have to persuade Jayne that I didn’t deliberately […]
Disaster!
November 19th, 2006 · Comments Off on Disaster! · Technology
My PC has finally packed up. It is an ex-computer. It is not even any good as a paperweight because its too big. Bugger!
What’s going on?
November 13th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Technology
At about 8pm or thereabouts I lost connection to this server. A few minutes ago it all came back again, but I find that 3 posts I wrote this evening have disappeared. I can only assume the server crashed and there was some sort of restore from backup. If that is the case then they […]
No Comment
October 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off on No Comment · Technology
I don’t think comments are working here at the moment. It might be connected to the problem B4L is having with its forum – I think we share the same host, and if they have botched a php upgrade it could be affecting me too. I don’t know how long it has been like this […]
Duke Nukem
October 15th, 2006 · Comments Off on Duke Nukem · Technology
If there is one reason above all others why I have not written much here for a few days, it has to be Duke Nukem. The other day I found out about EDUke32 and downloaded it. This is a re-write of Duke Nukem for Windows XP/2000 and its brilliant. You have to have your original […]
