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Originally posted by patybear:
To John Fowles:
With all due respect,Sir John-I found your replies in this thread to be a bit harsh.I didn't see the section enetitled,'about' either.(Oh silly me!) Does that make ME stupid also?
This isn't like you Sir John,
patybear
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Ur Umm As some of you might have expected I am not prepared to sit back and take unfair criticism without a detailed response so please bear with me
Patybear there seems to be huge amounts of confusion here.
You have publicly castigated me for the "harsh" tone of my "replies", I note your use of the plural.
I also noted that there is a possibility that some posts have been deleted. none by me I assure you
I declare that this is only my second reply
and despite what some may think I always try to be helpful even if some are averse to my tutorials
in this case I thought a timely reminder, sorry Ron, that there is a lot of good information scattered around Florian's site was justified as
some newer members may nor be aware of all features here hence ,my suggestion that GG and WC and yourself should be more adventurous I do not see how that could be interpreted as harsh.Moving on to To Ron's hyperlink criticism rather than reply to him by a PM I will instead for everybody's benefit state quite uniquivocably that as far as long links go I am always conscious that they do not always appear as intended ,indeed one of the plus points about this board compared to the Newsgroup is that hitherto I have found the UBB automatic handling of links as plain text converted to pukka hyperlinks is usually impeccable whereas the NG will often completely foul them up
If there is any doubt I usually use the excellent and free forwarding service provided by
http://www.notlong.com
to make snappy and easily remembered short hyperlinks such as:-
http://www.corfid.notlong.com
which directly opens the table showing the latest postings on all three forums here.
Because of my concern and following earlier criticism that my ocasional display of overlarge pictures created scrolling problems
especially for viewers persevering with old limited resolution monitors.
I routinely use the "preview" facility to try to avoid any problems .I was therefore very surprised at RMD's reaction and initially I failed to understand how he had a problem
In fact I made the following pair of screenshots using my favo(u)rite
freeware screen capture program(me)
screenhunter
Yes I can make my own short hyperlinks here quite nicely thank you
monitor set at 800 by 600 pixels
monitor set at 1024 by 768 pixels
So I maintain that it obviously was not that problem that caused Ron so much grief
No the key was in his latest reply where he admits to being one of the growing number of surfers intent on shooting down Microsoft by using Firefox. Frankly I am
almost 100% satisfied with Internet Exploder (and I have yet to try out IE7 that I have dutifully downloaded and understand features many of the better and newer features of Firefox.
What I do know is that I do a lot of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) operations to upload files to my websites and by far the nicest method is to configure and use Internet Explorer, and my researches so far indicate that Firefox is unable to do that without installing some obscure program or plugin.
Fortunately this computer has Firefox too so I tried opening this topic using Mozilla's creation
and found as I had begun to suspect another reason not to use firefox
image reduced in width from its original 942 pixels to 640 to avoid scrolling problem
Point of interest here I recently wanted to use Word to print a set of 2 inch square "thumnbnails " and discoverd that 1 inch equals 96 pixels so I used my favo(u)rite thumbnail program:-
BatchThumbs to rapidly make a batch of 192 pixels square "thumbnails" which worked a treat.
Obviously Firefox's putting the hyperlink all on one line whilst being pretty dumb means it was not possible to get a single screenshot of the whole thing but I think you'll get the picture (to coin a phrase!!)
I think the best thing to have come out of this discussion was by the topic starter who eruditely pointed out
QUOTE]Originally posted by RMD:
Quote:
Originally posted by Gitchigumee:
As to other remarks recently posted, I think we should all keep in mind the fact that we have much varied computer skills, and what may seem obvious to some, is not to others. It doesn't mean anyone is dumb, or anyone else is pretentious.
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then perhaps he could PM me with an explanation on how to circumvent the "wrap-around" differences between Mozilla Firefox and IE....no tutorials please. [/QUOTE]
Thus my answer Ron as I intimated above is Do Not Use Firefox!!!
as a student of good web page design a few years ago I am well aware that different browsers interpret HTML web page code differently but if Firefox is supposed to be thebee's knees
surely this problem should not arise
I am as I suspect Ron is using Firefox version 1.0 so just possibly version 2 does not feature this rificulous problem
OK regarding GG's comments
I unreservedly apologise if I am coming across as
pretentious
and I certainly do not think that anybody is in any way
dumbfor not having my long experience with computers, which goes back to my first brilliant self-assembled "Uncle Clive"
Sinclair ZX80 in 1981
I think I am a latent teacher and a large part of my enjoyment and thanks for still being alive is that I can try to impart some of my knowledge to others, as a way of paying back for all the computer and internet help that I have received over the years, hence my determination to write up relevant topics as tutorials that I appreciate some deride (most unfairly)
OK I must get off my soapbox now!!
John
There you got two superb freeware tips,a review of Firefox, a mission ststement and an apology.
what more do you want?!??
[ January 03, 2007, 18:07: Message edited by: johnfowles ]
- Borderstone
Usually I look for the vet before we leave incase we need one but did not get a chance the last time we went. People we asked on the street all tried to help us. It took a few stops to ask more people but finally found the vet in time. We love this little dog so much. Someone dumped her and we found her in the street dodging cars. We are prepared to pay a high price if she needs a vet when we are on the road. The vet and his staff were so awesome. Our dog needed quite a bit of medical attention and he only charged us $50. We definately had extra Angles watching over us that day. Anyway, this long story is trying to say that I am usually lucky and find nice people everywhere I go. My Phoenix experience remimded me there are still people out there who are really trying to make the world a better place by being kind. :D 
