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Re: Clever s*ds - help required please!!

#1241 Post by giraffe » Thu Jan 09, 2014 10:51 pm

Might be something like Everyman's business is no-one's business? I would have thought every and man would be separate words though. Are the others well known?

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#1242 Post by giraffe » Thu Jan 09, 2014 10:52 pm

I've just found on google:
Everybody's business is nobody's business.

http://english.al/proverb/everybodys-bu ... -business/

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#1243 Post by LAT » Thu Jan 09, 2014 11:05 pm

Thank you very much! :D

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#1244 Post by SparkOut » Sat May 03, 2014 10:53 pm

Can anyone remember the theme tune for the 1980s TV programme Treasure Houses, hosted by Mark Curry?

I had a feeling it was part of the Lieutenant Kijé suite by Prokofiev, but can't identify it in listening. Any ideas?

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#1245 Post by giraffe » Wed May 21, 2014 1:30 pm

My mum has just got her ancient computer back from the repair man, and has paid him about the same as the cost of a new computer. :roll: It is worse than before he took it away. :roll:

The start up screen isn't filling the monitor screen. Does anyone know how to make it fill it?

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#1246 Post by LAT » Fri Jul 04, 2014 12:21 am

Somehow I seem to have swapped what a few of my keys produce.
Instead of @ I am getting " and vice versa.

The pound sign gives me # And # gives me \
But so does \

I am very confused. Can anyone help me get it back how it should be? I don't seem to have a pound sign at all. :(

PS, my keyboard language does say it is set to English UK

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#1247 Post by giraffe » Fri Jul 04, 2014 12:27 am

Sounds like it is set to a foreign keyboard, I wonder if it has to be set in more than one place. Like you can adjust the volume in two places for most things.

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#1248 Post by LAT » Fri Jul 04, 2014 12:32 am

It's very weird. A bit like when we were in France once and I was using the hotel computer. That took a bit of figuring out too. The comma was an uppercase option which made me wonder if they don't use it as often as we would. :?

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#1249 Post by Bunnylump » Fri Jul 04, 2014 10:30 am

Just Googled that and it says that even if you have changed it (or checked it once) then it might still have it set as default. So you need to change the default setting. But I don't know how to do that!
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#1250 Post by eirian » Fri Jul 04, 2014 1:15 pm

I presume you have tried restarting your pc?
I know I've had this problem in the past but can't remember what I did to solve it - other than I'm pretty sure it was accidental!
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#1251 Post by LAT » Fri Jul 04, 2014 1:17 pm

No this was definitely something that had suddenly happened, nothing to do with default settings but I think I have sorted it now. Something like alt and shift I think. I had obviously inadvertently pressed them together yesterday evening. I eventually found a solution.
Thanks anyway.

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#1252 Post by Laura » Fri Aug 15, 2014 11:52 am

Does anyone know anything about pensions for self-employed people? Or health insurance for if you're self employed and unable to work because of illness?

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#1253 Post by Bunnylump » Sat Aug 23, 2014 11:20 pm

The short answer to this is NO (sorry, finance is not my thing!) but D has taken out a Stakeholder pension to supplement all the completely useless pension schemes which he had previously. So it might be worth checking them out. I think they are quite straightforward to use.

The other thing is to be very wary of insurance policies which allegedly cover sickness. He had one for years which cost us a fortune, but when we looked at the small print it had exclusions for virtually everything you could care to name. So we gave up on that and saved money in a separate account instead to cover for emergencies.

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#1254 Post by clvrlad » Tue Nov 25, 2014 7:13 pm

Hi
to all the programming clever sods
im interested in python theres lots of free guides on line
which one(s) would you suggest were best


the back story is i've said yes to doing something at work and writing a program to do it for me would be easier in the long run than doing it my self every few months
I looked around for free programming languages (the version of c I dug out was on 3.5" floppys)and python looked best came with the easy to learn/similar to C (and yes the floppy's do give the age of the last time i seriously sat and did C programming around '98 i think)
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#1255 Post by Biscuit » Tue Nov 25, 2014 7:41 pm

my touchscreen computer screen has stopped being touchscreen and I can't work out how to mend it - has anyone else had this problem

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#1256 Post by clvrlad » Wed Nov 26, 2014 11:14 pm

which pc/touch screen is it?
EDIT
http://community.acer.com/t5/Notebooks- ... 123/page/4
is a solution some acer users have found to work

Steps:
1. Windows+X
2. Device Manager
3. Human Interface Devices
4. HID - Compliant Touchscreen
5. Right Click to Disable
6. Right Click again to Enable
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#1257 Post by Scurra » Wed Nov 26, 2014 11:35 pm

clvrlad wrote:Hi
to all the programming clever sods
im interested in python theres lots of free guides on line
which one(s) would you suggest were best
I can't really help, sorry. I've heard good things about http://www.codecademy.com/ but I haven't done any of their courses myself.
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#1258 Post by Bunnylump » Sun Nov 30, 2014 12:10 am

Right, I need some clever crafty / sewing people this time. K needs some costumes and props for her school play, and like a twit I found my self volunteering to make things.

She needs: 6 merry men outfits (I think I can do these)
One Robin Hood outfit which needs to be more elaborate (any ideas?)
A golden cudgel (which must not be capable of hurting when it hits other students!)
Five guard outfits - the suggestion is that it might look like they are wearing CHAIN MAIL. Anyone got any suggestions on how to achieve this, cheaply, please?
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#1259 Post by Scurra » Sun Nov 30, 2014 12:14 am

I believe that knitting is a common solution for chain mail, since it's light and moderately convincing.
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#1260 Post by Bunnylump » Sun Nov 30, 2014 12:19 am

Oh dear. LAT - HEEEELLLLLPPPPPP!! :lol:

Good idea though. Thank you.
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