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Comment on UK Royal Mail stamps on Linux lovers by John

John — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:30:11 +0000

Hmm, I haven’t used this service for some time … I wonder have they broken it again on Linux too?

Comment on UK Royal Mail stamps on Linux lovers by Freak

Freak — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:50:15 +0000

Those of us on Windows who prefer the more security-aware Foxit Reader now have the same problem after the Royal Mail’s “upgrade”. How ironic that “for security reasons” we must use very specific browsers to access the Royal Mail’s services, but if we want to print unmangled labels we must install Adobe Reader, now officially the world’s most exploited application.

Comment on Wanted – a tea cosy for our house by John

John — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:27:49 +0000

Thanks – I’ve had one call as a result of a referral from a manufacturer.

I wonder why there are so many more installers in the south of England when it’s colder in the north?

Comment on Wanted – a tea cosy for our house by Richard Walkem

Richard Walkem — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:25:19 +0000

Hi Robert,

If you have not already done so, I would recommend that you contact some suppliers. Some of these have nationwide installation networks. Maybe try JUB or Wetherby Building Systems. I’ve no direct experience of either.

Hope that helps,
Richard

Comment on New features prove a hit with users of OpenOffice.org by Leif Lodahl

Leif Lodahl — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:26:37 +0000

Hi John,
Is it possible to optain individual statistics for localized builts?

The marketing website is still linking to Good-day.net who claims that yesterday was December 31th.

best,
Leif

Comment on Wanted – a tea cosy for our house by Andy Kerr

Andy Kerr — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:19:29 +0000

Hi Robert. Sounds like a fantastic project. Thought you might like to know that if you put ‘accredited ewi installer’ into Google, your post here is 3rd and 4th in the results list!

I’ll have a wee dig about and see if I can get any info for you – suspect you’re better connected than I am on the subject, however.

Best of luck anyway.

Andy & Polly

Comment on A tale of two whys by willow too

willow too — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:14:51 +0000

You can see it by following the reference to the “Why Microsoft” link above. It is in one of the boxes with quotes from MS friendlies.

Comment on A tale of two whys by John

John — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:53:02 +0000

I’d be interested in a link to that quote. Our experience is that 10 hours is way too high.

John

Comment on A tale of two whys by willow too

willow too — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:44:44 +0000

The claim by a “proficient” MS Office user that it took “several hours … a week for a month” gave me a good laugh.

You should be quoting that. According to a Microsoft endorsed comment a proficient MS Office user can convert to OOo with around 10 hours of learning. That learning does not require formal “training” so is low cost and no obstacle at all to conversion.

Comment on Para-sites flourish – search engines turn a blind eye by Meall Dubh » Blog Archive » A small victory against the para-sites

Meall Dubh » Blog Archive » A small victory against the para-sites — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:52:09 +0000

[...] this ruling, Sun Microsystems has scored a victory against one operator of para-sites – sites which extract money from naive people searching for OpenOffice.org – a free [...]