23 June 2009
When you are spending over 4 hours at a time...
...on the ’phone with a girl, in intelligent conversation, & getting good practical results, does that mean thimgs are getting serious? (-:
18 June 2009
Want 20kg of stuff taken to or brought from the ’States?
It looks like I will be visiting the USA shortly (bouncing through Sydney en route), & will only require about one suitcase full of gear. The airline says that I’m allowed 2 such, total mass 23kg (50lb) for each case. So... convince me! Make an offer! (-:
05 June 2009
Sick of paying $1.80 a minute for international calls?
(plus a 40c flagfall?)
Try fring, which installed & works on my (Symbian OS) Nokia E63, then open your Skype account through it. Skype calls to US cell-phones are 2.7c per minute.
My Virgin $29 cap includes only 20MB of data per month for the ’phone itself, which is not an enormous amount of talking, but OTOH, the most I’ve used in a month sans fring/Skype is 1MB, & I can boost that quota by 50MB for $5 (or 300MB for $10).
Pull a figure out of the air, & call that 4200 kilobits per minute, so about 90 minutes of talking for $5, or 5.25c per minute for data, plus 2.7c for Skype time, gives ≈8c, which certainly beats 180c per minute.
If I wanted to yak for 9 hours a month, that works out to 4.45c per minute.
The wonders of modern technology... (-:
Try fring, which installed & works on my (Symbian OS) Nokia E63, then open your Skype account through it. Skype calls to US cell-phones are 2.7c per minute.
My Virgin $29 cap includes only 20MB of data per month for the ’phone itself, which is not an enormous amount of talking, but OTOH, the most I’ve used in a month sans fring/Skype is 1MB, & I can boost that quota by 50MB for $5 (or 300MB for $10).
Pull a figure out of the air, & call that 4200 kilobits per minute, so about 90 minutes of talking for $5, or 5.25c per minute for data, plus 2.7c for Skype time, gives ≈8c, which certainly beats 180c per minute.
If I wanted to yak for 9 hours a month, that works out to 4.45c per minute.
The wonders of modern technology... (-:
04 June 2009
Bouncey air-ticket prices
I’ve been watching air tickets this week, ’coz I need to take a trip to the ’States.
I lined up a deal I liked on Monday, but didn’t have $$$ available. On Tuesday, the flight was going to be $600 more, but by shifting it away 2 days, I could contain the increase to $100.
Money was made available, appeared in the account 9PM Tuesday — by which time the price had risen another $100 or so. So I bit. By “risen another $100,” that refers only the main drag on United. Qantas, in second place, had risen over $200. Canadiar, ex 3rd place (now 5th) had risen $350.
Was SMSed this morning to be told that the transaction had bounced. Grrr. Rang up, queried, the support girl retried the transaction. It worked. The price had not changed overnight. Yay!
Around noon today, the United price fell $280. Nih! )-:
Meanwhile, Qantas has risen another $100 (by about $300 for 3rd & 4th slots), Canadair had escalated another $500.
Skype: this has been fun, talking to people all over the planet (including Thailand, Ghana, several US states, the UK, Adelaide, Sydney, Launceston) for free. Oddly enough, I can Skype a mobile (cell) phone (Verizon, they call it “wireless” phone service) in the USA for 2.7c a minute, but my own costs 16c a minute. They can call me for (USD) 23c a minute cell-to-mobile, I can call them mobile-to-cell for 40c flagfall plus $1.80 a minute. What?
Random travel tip: if you travel on a TransWA road coach, sit in the 16th seat, as that often has a cigarette-lighter socket. Make sure your laptop’s adaptor eats 24v as well, though, not the more mundane 12v (really, 9v to 13.8v), as 24v is what the coach provides. Mobile Internet connection (Virgin, Optus-based) works well through most small towns but seldom in between. Yes, I have Skyped the USA en route up Greenmount Hill. (-:
Random money tip: if you use an Aussie credit card in the USA, you get binged a 3.6% conversion fee. ANZ have a neat debit-card kind of thing with no fee at all. A pair of cards costs $11 (so you can keep one in A Safe Place), & the initial deposit is unfeed (converted at the opening-date currency rate); top-ups are binged 1.5%. You can visit a website & instantly see what’s left, the precise conversion rates used (on top-ups), etc.
I lined up a deal I liked on Monday, but didn’t have $$$ available. On Tuesday, the flight was going to be $600 more, but by shifting it away 2 days, I could contain the increase to $100.
Money was made available, appeared in the account 9PM Tuesday — by which time the price had risen another $100 or so. So I bit. By “risen another $100,” that refers only the main drag on United. Qantas, in second place, had risen over $200. Canadiar, ex 3rd place (now 5th) had risen $350.
Was SMSed this morning to be told that the transaction had bounced. Grrr. Rang up, queried, the support girl retried the transaction. It worked. The price had not changed overnight. Yay!
Around noon today, the United price fell $280. Nih! )-:
Meanwhile, Qantas has risen another $100 (by about $300 for 3rd & 4th slots), Canadair had escalated another $500.
Skype: this has been fun, talking to people all over the planet (including Thailand, Ghana, several US states, the UK, Adelaide, Sydney, Launceston) for free. Oddly enough, I can Skype a mobile (cell) phone (Verizon, they call it “wireless” phone service) in the USA for 2.7c a minute, but my own costs 16c a minute. They can call me for (USD) 23c a minute cell-to-mobile, I can call them mobile-to-cell for 40c flagfall plus $1.80 a minute. What?
Random travel tip: if you travel on a TransWA road coach, sit in the 16th seat, as that often has a cigarette-lighter socket. Make sure your laptop’s adaptor eats 24v as well, though, not the more mundane 12v (really, 9v to 13.8v), as 24v is what the coach provides. Mobile Internet connection (Virgin, Optus-based) works well through most small towns but seldom in between. Yes, I have Skyped the USA en route up Greenmount Hill. (-:
Random money tip: if you use an Aussie credit card in the USA, you get binged a 3.6% conversion fee. ANZ have a neat debit-card kind of thing with no fee at all. A pair of cards costs $11 (so you can keep one in A Safe Place), & the initial deposit is unfeed (converted at the opening-date currency rate); top-ups are binged 1.5%. You can visit a website & instantly see what’s left, the precise conversion rates used (on top-ups), etc.
01 June 2009
Where do you go to see dozens of minis racing?
Why, Albany, of course!
No, not Albany, state of New York. Albany, state of Western Australia.
There were also sundry Cortinas buzzing around on Sunday, even a Jaguar sedan, plus some seriously antique rally cars.
Girlfriend would have liked it, born in the Year of the Tiger (like me, Leon the Lion), drives on the wrong side of the road (as for York Street here, other streets they used both sides), has Jaguar Avenue running west from the town of Leon, which is 150km NW of her town (about half a Geraldton but a bit more spread out, has some excellent lakes, less sand, less double-gees, fairly close to the other side of the planet from here). If you like coincidences, she was born one day after & two timezones east of me.
The Albany Car Classic started off a bit damp, but it had stopped raining, was sunny & nearly dry by noon.
Wasn’t today a miserable winter day? Bright sunshine, 19.7°C... (-:
No, not Albany, state of New York. Albany, state of Western Australia.
There were also sundry Cortinas buzzing around on Sunday, even a Jaguar sedan, plus some seriously antique rally cars.
Girlfriend would have liked it, born in the Year of the Tiger (like me, Leon the Lion), drives on the wrong side of the road (as for York Street here, other streets they used both sides), has Jaguar Avenue running west from the town of Leon, which is 150km NW of her town (about half a Geraldton but a bit more spread out, has some excellent lakes, less sand, less double-gees, fairly close to the other side of the planet from here). If you like coincidences, she was born one day after & two timezones east of me.
The Albany Car Classic started off a bit damp, but it had stopped raining, was sunny & nearly dry by noon.
Wasn’t today a miserable winter day? Bright sunshine, 19.7°C... (-:
17 May 2009
Different, better ’fridges
When designing (RAPS) remote area power systems (which gains new importance when considering a US financial expert’s recent advice on LateLine: “Now is the time to get a farm & a gun.”), the single biggest load is invariably refrigeration (often more than half of the entire demand).
UK researchers have discovered new properties of magnetic refrigeration cores which are typically 20-30% more efficient than traditional adiabatic methods.
On top of this, the development of a “spin battery,” which captures energy using Magnetic Tunnel Junction devices — which can be built precisely enough to potentially replace computer hard drives — may have decimated the single most expensive & difficult-to-manage (& heaviest) component of a RAPS.
There are a number of other developments in wind-power systems (particularly the rotors, implying that these improvements require no changes to or replacement of generators or towers) which hint that a distributed (“community”) apporach to energy may prove to be much more efficient & robust than today’s massive fossil-fueled generators & extensive power grids.
UK researchers have discovered new properties of magnetic refrigeration cores which are typically 20-30% more efficient than traditional adiabatic methods.
On top of this, the development of a “spin battery,” which captures energy using Magnetic Tunnel Junction devices — which can be built precisely enough to potentially replace computer hard drives — may have decimated the single most expensive & difficult-to-manage (& heaviest) component of a RAPS.
There are a number of other developments in wind-power systems (particularly the rotors, implying that these improvements require no changes to or replacement of generators or towers) which hint that a distributed (“community”) apporach to energy may prove to be much more efficient & robust than today’s massive fossil-fueled generators & extensive power grids.
15 May 2009
David Gerrold quote
After discovering that ADRs cost more to treat than the original medications, that they are the prime cause of malpractice suits, & the 4th most common cause of death, I ran across this David Gerrold statement:
Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.(Adverse Drug Reactions)
28 April 2009
Simply Psycho
I recently uncovered a couple of Personality Disorders (which, unfortunately, are not yet safe to explain in detail). You could summarise them in vaguely slangish terms as “Control Freak.”
One of them (possibly both of them) results in fear of intimacy (yes, genuine intimacy, not mere sex). I have watched another person with the same Disorders drive their spouse to suicide, trash the lives of at least 3 other people (driving one of those to prepare for suicide twice), basically because they dread intimacy, so are more than willing to lie about stuff to protect themselves against the possibility of experiencing real intimacy.
Another probable symptom is frequently speaking ambiguously or cryptically, which breeds insecurity in their victims.
Chronically being late or forgetting things is a slightly more subtle way of asserting control.
Ironically, another prevalent symptom is acting the victim — utterly failing to recognise their own responsibility, so blaming others for every unwanted event. Speaking from personal experience, this gets much more than a little wearing after a decade or so...
Pushing situations into a chaotic state. Being able to actually get (& do) things right these days is an amazingly good change. One of many.
Making excuses about absolutely everything. Being mysteriously unable to do obvious & simple things. Unreasonable fear of things like competition or dependency. The list goes on.
It all sounds quite mysterious as phrased, but when it’s safe to openly explain these Disorders, it will all become clear. Sometimes too clear.
One of them (possibly both of them) results in fear of intimacy (yes, genuine intimacy, not mere sex). I have watched another person with the same Disorders drive their spouse to suicide, trash the lives of at least 3 other people (driving one of those to prepare for suicide twice), basically because they dread intimacy, so are more than willing to lie about stuff to protect themselves against the possibility of experiencing real intimacy.
Another probable symptom is frequently speaking ambiguously or cryptically, which breeds insecurity in their victims.
Chronically being late or forgetting things is a slightly more subtle way of asserting control.
Ironically, another prevalent symptom is acting the victim — utterly failing to recognise their own responsibility, so blaming others for every unwanted event. Speaking from personal experience, this gets much more than a little wearing after a decade or so...
Pushing situations into a chaotic state. Being able to actually get (& do) things right these days is an amazingly good change. One of many.
Making excuses about absolutely everything. Being mysteriously unable to do obvious & simple things. Unreasonable fear of things like competition or dependency. The list goes on.
It all sounds quite mysterious as phrased, but when it’s safe to openly explain these Disorders, it will all become clear. Sometimes too clear.
27 April 2009
Nokia E63 phone claims to run Safari
From the Apache logs:
Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.2; U; Series60/3.1 NokiaE63-3/100.21.110; Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 ) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413
This was using the web browser between Burswood & Vic Park stations. The phone was included with a Virgin contract, is full QWERTY keyboard, good (for a plastic brick) sound including MP3, fairly good colour video.
Their broadband USB thingy works fairly well in my laptop. I did a little wvdial setup akin to Pia’s, which was klunky & slow on Day One, but fine afterwards (including Sunday afternoon).
The ping times suck, as you might expect (≈500ms) but the actual throughput (including on sites highly unlikely to be cached for the general public by Virgin) seems to be fine. Their 5GB a month is a fairly reasonable quota ($34 on top of a phone plan) even for most ADSL these days, & they clamp it to ≈128kb rather than charging you for excess traffic.
Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.2; U; Series60/3.1 NokiaE63-3/100.21.110; Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 ) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413
This was using the web browser between Burswood & Vic Park stations. The phone was included with a Virgin contract, is full QWERTY keyboard, good (for a plastic brick) sound including MP3, fairly good colour video.
Their broadband USB thingy works fairly well in my laptop. I did a little wvdial setup akin to Pia’s, which was klunky & slow on Day One, but fine afterwards (including Sunday afternoon).
The ping times suck, as you might expect (≈500ms) but the actual throughput (including on sites highly unlikely to be cached for the general public by Virgin) seems to be fine. Their 5GB a month is a fairly reasonable quota ($34 on top of a phone plan) even for most ADSL these days, & they clamp it to ≈128kb rather than charging you for excess traffic.
25 April 2009
Aren’t children wonderful...?
A little boy went up to his father & asked: “Dad, where did my intelligence come from?”
He replied, “Well, son, you must have got it from your Mum, ’coz I still have mine.”
A doctor examining a woman who had been rushed to Emergency at hospital, took the husband aside & said, “I don’t like the looks of your wife at all.”
“Me neither, doc,” he said, “But she’s a great cook & really good with the kids.”
An elderly man seeks a wizard to ask him if he can remove a curse he’s been living with for the last 40 years. The wizard responds, “Maybe; but you’ll have to tell me the exact words that were used to put the curse on you.”
The old man replies with no hesitation, “I now pronounce you man and wife.”
[the laugh of those who have suffered time with a passive-aggressive personality disordered (PAPD) spouse will have a thoughtful tone to it, ditto the next one]
Moe: “My wife got me believing in religion.”
Joe: “Yeah? Really?”
Moe: “Yeah. Until I married her I didn’t believe in Hell.”
[doubters are advised to look up the conditions of eternal life, & invert them for a clear picture of Hell: There will be complete distrust, in absolutely everything. There will be danger. There will be turmoil. If you think about it, we value people & situations for what they don’t do: no betrayal or manipulation, no danger, peace in place of turmoil.]
A man is recovering from surgery when the surgical nurse appears & asks him how he is feeling.
“I’m OK, but I didn’t like the four letter-word the doctor used in surgery,” he answered.
“What did he say?” asked the nurse.
“Oops!”
Please ekscuse Johnny from being absent from Maths on Jan. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, and also 33.
Please excuse Jamie for being. It was his father’s fault.
[this one was obviously well-behaved. not.] Please excuse my daughter for being late. Her broom won’t start so I had to send it back to Salem for repair.
A man was imprisoned, but he really wanted to get out, so he dug a hole under the ground until he game out in a school playground. He was really happy about his escape, so he shouted, “I am free!” A little girl replied, “So what? I’m five. I’m older.”
A police officer saw a lady with a penguin. He said. “Take him to the zoo.”
The next day he saw the same lady with the same penguin & said, “I thought I told you to take him to the Zoo.”
She said, “I did. He loved it. Today were going to Rottnest.”
[devised by Dellianna, age 9, then localised]
He replied, “Well, son, you must have got it from your Mum, ’coz I still have mine.”
A doctor examining a woman who had been rushed to Emergency at hospital, took the husband aside & said, “I don’t like the looks of your wife at all.”
“Me neither, doc,” he said, “But she’s a great cook & really good with the kids.”
An elderly man seeks a wizard to ask him if he can remove a curse he’s been living with for the last 40 years. The wizard responds, “Maybe; but you’ll have to tell me the exact words that were used to put the curse on you.”
The old man replies with no hesitation, “I now pronounce you man and wife.”
[the laugh of those who have suffered time with a passive-aggressive personality disordered (PAPD) spouse will have a thoughtful tone to it, ditto the next one]
Moe: “My wife got me believing in religion.”
Joe: “Yeah? Really?”
Moe: “Yeah. Until I married her I didn’t believe in Hell.”
[doubters are advised to look up the conditions of eternal life, & invert them for a clear picture of Hell: There will be complete distrust, in absolutely everything. There will be danger. There will be turmoil. If you think about it, we value people & situations for what they don’t do: no betrayal or manipulation, no danger, peace in place of turmoil.]
A man is recovering from surgery when the surgical nurse appears & asks him how he is feeling.
“I’m OK, but I didn’t like the four letter-word the doctor used in surgery,” he answered.
“What did he say?” asked the nurse.
“Oops!”
Please ekscuse Johnny from being absent from Maths on Jan. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, and also 33.
Please excuse Jamie for being. It was his father’s fault.
[this one was obviously well-behaved. not.] Please excuse my daughter for being late. Her broom won’t start so I had to send it back to Salem for repair.
A man was imprisoned, but he really wanted to get out, so he dug a hole under the ground until he game out in a school playground. He was really happy about his escape, so he shouted, “I am free!” A little girl replied, “So what? I’m five. I’m older.”
A police officer saw a lady with a penguin. He said. “Take him to the zoo.”
The next day he saw the same lady with the same penguin & said, “I thought I told you to take him to the Zoo.”
She said, “I did. He loved it. Today were going to Rottnest.”
[devised by Dellianna, age 9, then localised]
21 April 2009
PermaCulture intro this weekend $80/$100
Want to grow your own food with out using nasty chemicals & pesticides? Want to adopt a more eco-friendly lifestyle? Want to meet & connect with people interested in creating a sustainable future? Heard about permaculture & want to know more?
What is Permaculture?
Permaculture is a worldview which opens people up to the vision of a sustainable future. In this introduction you will learn about intelligent organic gardening & design principles as well as issues surrounding sustainable behaviour!
Permaculture is much more than just growing your own food, it is about skill sharing, using resources wisely & connecting with your community. It incorporates everyone, & encourages diversity, whilst empowering individuals into self sufficiency & resilience.
This info session runs this weekend (25/26 April) at CityFarm Perth, adjacent the Claisebrook train station in East Perth, or 11/12 July, running from 10AM to 4PM in either session.
Cost is $80 for concession, $100 for other, special deal for Uni students, which works out at $8 an hour full price, which compares favourably for normal course prices (starting at about $20 an hour & work upwards steeply). For more information, contact Sparkles via sparklemerchant at yahoo spot com spot au.
Speaking from personal experience, the contrasting presentations by Sparkles & her man Jeremy will be both informative & entertaining.
What is Permaculture?
Permaculture is a worldview which opens people up to the vision of a sustainable future. In this introduction you will learn about intelligent organic gardening & design principles as well as issues surrounding sustainable behaviour!
Permaculture is much more than just growing your own food, it is about skill sharing, using resources wisely & connecting with your community. It incorporates everyone, & encourages diversity, whilst empowering individuals into self sufficiency & resilience.
This info session runs this weekend (25/26 April) at CityFarm Perth, adjacent the Claisebrook train station in East Perth, or 11/12 July, running from 10AM to 4PM in either session.
Cost is $80 for concession, $100 for other, special deal for Uni students, which works out at $8 an hour full price, which compares favourably for normal course prices (starting at about $20 an hour & work upwards steeply). For more information, contact Sparkles via sparklemerchant at yahoo spot com spot au.
Speaking from personal experience, the contrasting presentations by Sparkles & her man Jeremy will be both informative & entertaining.
13 April 2009
Free PCs available in Perth
If you live in or about Perth & have a definite use for a free PC, a number of them will become available this week.
- All will have CRT (not flat/LCD) screens;
- Available processors vary, from about 600MHz up to about 2GHz;
- Available RAM varies from 128MB to 512MB, mostly DDR2 (retails for $15/24/35 for ½/1/2GB)
- Available hard drives (all IDE, 160GB for $85) vary from a few to a few tens of GB, will arrive with a clean KUbuntu 9.04 installation;
- All will have keyboard & mouse;
- Email me <leon at cyberknights spot com spot au> if interested.
06 April 2009
Good quality hot chocolate
There is a supermarket & coffee shop in South Perth, at the corner of Angelo & Coode Streets named “Scutti, a taste of Europe.”
I was pleased, after wandering in there one day while waiting for a bus, to find good-quality hot chocolate on the shelves, at slightly better than Woolworths/Coles/IGA prices. Vittoria Dark Chocochino.
I was even more pleased, while examining it, to be told by the supermarket staff that this was used by the coffee shop.
Making some up is simple, as the container has a spinnable shut/shake/open setting, so one simply shakes enough into a mug, adds hot water, then white stuff. When I use Harvey Fresh whipping cream, the result is a pleasantly “American” creamy chocolate taste.
Yum!
Use & recommend! (-:
I was pleased, after wandering in there one day while waiting for a bus, to find good-quality hot chocolate on the shelves, at slightly better than Woolworths/Coles/IGA prices. Vittoria Dark Chocochino.
I was even more pleased, while examining it, to be told by the supermarket staff that this was used by the coffee shop.
Making some up is simple, as the container has a spinnable shut/shake/open setting, so one simply shakes enough into a mug, adds hot water, then white stuff. When I use Harvey Fresh whipping cream, the result is a pleasantly “American” creamy chocolate taste.
Yum!
Use & recommend! (-:
01 April 2009
MS-Windows is a four-letter word
The word in question is WAIT.
I needed to update OpenOffice Writer on two MS-Windows 2000 Pro machines today, from 2.2 to 3.0.1 in order to take advantage of a particular corrected feature which makes 3-fold brochures possible (almost easy) when printed out on an ordinary A4 printer.
Because MS-Windows software has intermingled sort-of dependencies, I first needed to update a virus scanner version, then (on one machine) Java, then OpenOffice. While I was there, I updated (on one machine) or added (another machine) The GIMP.
The virus scanner update failed on one machine. The machines are same make, model & specifications. The error message (at least there was one) was singularly useless. Running an MS-Windows workstation on-line, sans virus scanner, is essentially software suicide. So I hunted around to find another suitable virus scanner. 20 minutes after finding it, all done.
Then I updated Java, which would not start until after the scanner update.
Then I updated/installed The GIMP. Flawless. Maybe 10 minutes.
Then I updated OpenOffice. 35 minutes later... done.
Total elapsed time to update 2 machines: 2½ hours. The stuff which was software interlocked was extensive & often confusing.
Same updates here (already done) would have been a one-liner urpmi command, maybe 5-7 minutes.
I needed to update OpenOffice Writer on two MS-Windows 2000 Pro machines today, from 2.2 to 3.0.1 in order to take advantage of a particular corrected feature which makes 3-fold brochures possible (almost easy) when printed out on an ordinary A4 printer.
Because MS-Windows software has intermingled sort-of dependencies, I first needed to update a virus scanner version, then (on one machine) Java, then OpenOffice. While I was there, I updated (on one machine) or added (another machine) The GIMP.
The virus scanner update failed on one machine. The machines are same make, model & specifications. The error message (at least there was one) was singularly useless. Running an MS-Windows workstation on-line, sans virus scanner, is essentially software suicide. So I hunted around to find another suitable virus scanner. 20 minutes after finding it, all done.
Then I updated Java, which would not start until after the scanner update.
Then I updated/installed The GIMP. Flawless. Maybe 10 minutes.
Then I updated OpenOffice. 35 minutes later... done.
Total elapsed time to update 2 machines: 2½ hours. The stuff which was software interlocked was extensive & often confusing.
Same updates here (already done) would have been a one-liner urpmi command, maybe 5-7 minutes.
Disorienting documents
Today, a woman working on an MS-Windows XP workstation in an adjoining room was sent an MS-Word 2007 document. LookOut was sore confused about what to do with it, & her MS-Word 2003 application refused to deal with it. So she forwarded the email to me.
It went out through a Perth-based ISP, in through a different Perth-based ISP, arrived on my server in Melville. I fetched it back through those ISPs again to East Perth.
Saving the .docx file from KMail on my Mandriva 2009.0 Linux-based laptop, then opening it with OpenOffice Writer 3.0.1 worked, so I SaveAs’d it as an MS-Word 2003 .doc file, then exported it as a PDF, & sent those back... where they wound up on a virtual host in Malaga.
She fetched the email back to East Perth, was then able to read & edit the document.
So... a document assembled in Microsoft Word under Microsoft Windows could not be read using Microsoft Word under Microsoft Windows, but could be read under a non-Microsoft application under a non-Microsoft operating system, repaired, then returned to Microsoft Word under Microsoft Windows to be read & edited.
Well... I felt disoriented after that... (-:
It went out through a Perth-based ISP, in through a different Perth-based ISP, arrived on my server in Melville. I fetched it back through those ISPs again to East Perth.
Saving the .docx file from KMail on my Mandriva 2009.0 Linux-based laptop, then opening it with OpenOffice Writer 3.0.1 worked, so I SaveAs’d it as an MS-Word 2003 .doc file, then exported it as a PDF, & sent those back... where they wound up on a virtual host in Malaga.
She fetched the email back to East Perth, was then able to read & edit the document.
So... a document assembled in Microsoft Word under Microsoft Windows could not be read using Microsoft Word under Microsoft Windows, but could be read under a non-Microsoft application under a non-Microsoft operating system, repaired, then returned to Microsoft Word under Microsoft Windows to be read & edited.
Well... I felt disoriented after that... (-:
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