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Morticia
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« Reply #7621 on: 11:12:52, 21-09-2008 » |
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Thanks for that, Ron. That wouldn't strain the Mort purse strings too much. Someone has just suggested that it is a simple repair job but I'm not convinced because they don't really know anything about computers  One day it will just go and then I'll be up a gum tree. |
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« Reply #7622 on: 11:23:11, 21-09-2008 » |
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I have a 15" flatscreen at home and a 17" at work, I don't think it's necessary to go bigger than that on a PC unless you are using it a lot to sit back and watch dvds. I find larger screens (of which we have two at work) cause me to have eye strain.
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #7623 on: 11:24:53, 21-09-2008 » |
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Flat screens tend not to give folk headaches anything like as much as the old CRT monitors either, so it's probably worth doing anyway, Mort,
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« Reply #7624 on: 13:43:31, 21-09-2008 » |
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Thanks for that, Ron. That wouldn't strain the Mort purse strings too much. Someone has just suggested that it is a simple repair job but I'm not convinced because they don't really know anything about computers One day it will just go and then I'll be up a gum tree. I'm not sure the warranty even on a laptop would cover the damage that might be incurred if the machine were used from the branches of a Eucalyptus camaldulensis! Perhaps Ollie can advise? |
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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« Reply #7625 on: 13:49:11, 21-09-2008 » |
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Gah! Why didn't I think of it before, Kitty? My monitor has obviously been slowly eaten for months now. Little tinker.  |
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« Reply #7626 on: 15:03:05, 21-09-2008 » |
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Moi aussie Really??! I thought you lived near Liverpool ...  I can never open those toothbrush things either. |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #7627 on: 15:12:04, 21-09-2008 » |
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Thanks for that, Ron. That wouldn't strain the Mort purse strings too much. Someone has just suggested that it is a simple repair job but I'm not convinced because they don't really know anything about computers One day it will just go and then I'll be up a gum tree. I'm not sure the warranty even on a laptop would cover the damage that might be incurred if the machine were used from the branches of a Eucalyptus camaldulensis! Perhaps Ollie can advise? Being up a gum tree would indeed be a trickyish business for us humans I think since they tend to go for height if my memory serves and don't have all that many branches lower down. So getting up in the first place wouldn't be that easy and once up there getting down would involve a bit of a jump. |
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« Reply #7628 on: 15:16:00, 21-09-2008 » |
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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« Reply #7629 on: 15:59:26, 21-09-2008 » |
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Moi aussie Really??! I thought you lived near Liverpool ... Oh dear - now shall I edit it, or leave it for the amusement of people like tinners? I think I'll leave it. |
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« Reply #7632 on: 10:12:29, 22-09-2008 » |
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Being up a gum tree would indeed be a trickyish business for us humans I think since they tend to go for height if my memory serves and don't have all that many branches lower down. So getting up in the first place wouldn't be that easy and once up there getting down would involve a bit of a jump.
Conscious that this is quite a tangent but I'll feed the tangent anyway... Yes - I have one in my front garden that I planted about 3 years ago when it was about 6 inches high. It's now competing with the house opposite for vertical one-upmanship, and I'm not sure even a squirrel could climb it without experiencing something close to bungee jumping. Or the lawn. In high winds it almost taps the heads of passers-by. |
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"Two wrongs don't make a right. But three rights do make a left." - Rohan Candappa
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« Reply #7633 on: 10:28:37, 22-09-2008 » |
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There are plenty of eucalyptus trees in Peru: an introduction that has spread prolifically, even in the wilds of the Andes, as here (which also gives a good idea of the spindly height they can attain). |
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« Reply #7634 on: 10:31:49, 22-09-2008 » |
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A member of the the band I play in, has moved to Chile for work purposes. He goes to the Andes, where apperantly, the skiing is very good. He is quite lucky really, he has that on the one side, and the coast on another. I don t suppose they are very far apart.
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