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Questions and Answers - Part 3

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15:38 / 05.09.06

I know what you mean Tabitha but if your friend finds out what he wants first the people in PC world will dort him out. I'm no great fan and know what you mean about their... ahem "customer services" but in fairness to them, if you give them a list of requirements they will sort you out.

16:50 / 05.09.06

Is there a utility whereby you can read powerpoint programmes?
Other than buying powerpoint?

17:11 / 05.09.06

pp viewer

There's also xnview if you need extra bits and bobs

17:12 / 05.09.06

Microsoft offers PowerPoint Viewer. Don't know how good it is, but it's worth a try...

17:13 / 05.09.06

Scratch that. Proinsias beat me to my answer by a minute.

17:22 / 05.09.06

Ah, thanks guys! (Such quick responses). Will do.

22:55 / 05.09.06

About the laptops: I bought one online from dell.com and it's been pretty good... apparently they've fixed that whole "bursting into flames" problem they had.

10:04 / 06.09.06

Where did the bar "93 Feet East" on Brick Lane get it's name?

15:07 / 06.09.06

Took an old pot of raspberry paint out last night from the back of a cupboard where it has hidden away since we moved in her. Did a wee bit of painting outside with it and put it back in the cupboard. This morning there is a pool of paint dripping down the shelves in the cupboard where the tin lives. Can only assume that somehow I punched a hole in the tin last night or something along those lines. Have washed all that paint (emulsion) off and fortunately cupboard doors stopped it spreading.;

However, there are several spots of varying sizes on the oatmeal stair carpet and in the hall too. It's emulsion paint, so it says on the tin anyway. Any suggestions for ways to remove the spots from a wool carpet? Some of them are now raspberry coloured comets' tails from where I sprayed them with carpet cleaner and rubbed them with a cloth this morning. It's fucked, isn't it?

16:29 / 06.09.06

Paint in carpet? Ew. Look here. Given that it's a wool carpet, I'd try warm water instead of hot first. (Emulsion paint is just polymer suspended in water, if it's really set you need to find a way to loosen the polymer - hot water might work then, but since wool and hot water can equal shrinking, I'd try the warm first.)

miss wonderstarr

17:50 / 06.09.06

I have been called "dude" on Barbelith quite a few times recently. Is "dude" gender-specific?

18:00 / 06.09.06

I have been called "dude" on Barbelith quite a few times recently. Is "dude" gender-specific?

Traditionally, the word "dude" referred only to men. But in the past ten years, it's evolved to be gender neutral, particularly amongst high school and college students (in America at least).

miss wonderstarr

18:03 / 06.09.06

Thanks; like "you guys" I suppose.

ONLY NICE THINGS

18:09 / 06.09.06

I use dude as epicene, for reference - I think it comes from myself and Mordant Carnival, originally - that is, on Barbelith, rather than evaaargh.

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

18:15 / 06.09.06

Would you prefer:

Dudie Dudette

I've been struggling to find the right Sopranos thread to ask on but does anyone know if they're planning on showing the knew Sopranos season on plain ole fashioned terrestrial channel 4 in the near future?

miss wonderstarr

20:23 / 06.09.06

I think Dean Martin played "Dude" in Rio Bravo, which is good enough for me really.

20:43 / 06.09.06

I call pretty much everyone dude. I did that before I joined Barbelith as well, which leads me to conclude that people who say 'dude' seek out other people who say 'dude' without really knowing how they're doing it or even that they're doing it at all.

16:26 / 07.09.06

It's also not always used as a direct address, but as a sort of interjection. Dude!

There's more at the link Reidcourchie posted (wikipedia article).

paranoidwriter waves hello

16:38 / 07.09.06

I've been struggling to find the right Sopranos thread to ask on but does anyone know if they're planning on showing the knew Sopranos season on plain ole fashioned terrestrial channel 4 in the near future?

Can't say for sure, but I think I saw an advert announcing the latest UK terrestial Sopranos season quite recently. It may have been for E4 though. However, I think they'll probably follow their usual pattern anyway, of putting (erm) cult TV stuff on E4 first, then waiting a bit before putting on C4 later, so I expect it to be part of the start of the Autumn terrestrial TV season, anytime soon.

That typed, I think sometimes they cross over slightly: one (with digital TV) might be able to (say) watch episode three on Ch4 and the final episode on E4 in a single day... er ... I think... But I don't have digital TV, so this is purely subjective and based on TV guides and viisits to friends who have digital.

And yeah, I can't wait for the next season either... And don't get me started on 'Lost'...

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

07:21 / 08.09.06

Cheers PW, I can just find no reference to it being on terrestrial.

All Acting Regiment

01:51 / 10.09.06

What is the "Llewellyn-Bowen's fallacy" referenced in the Islamophobia thread?

Also, isn't Christmas ace when you get older and you get to buy people presents for people, like these:

...but what exactly is supposed to be going on with this:

?

paranoidwriter waves hello

11:41 / 12.09.06

Legba, I think the bottom picture is from a certain author's children's edition of a 'Holy Grail' mystery set in a magical place called Le Chateau Rennes. The picture itself is called "Les bergers d'Arcadie".

I have a kind of request, rather than a question. I dropped a new blog-poo post in my MySpace page last night, and all today I keep getting different error/warning messages when I try to look at it.

It's been like that for quite a while now. I mean, I know sites go down for maintenance, but would someone please humour me very quickly and just literally try to view my MySpace blog? Please? I just want to see if anything is different from another terminal. Feel free to PM me.

Cheers.

14:20 / 12.09.06

So, I remember a while ago someone asked if there was a way of viewing barbelith so it doesn’t look like barbelith, so they could read it while they were at work, and it turned out that there was a way of doing that. But is there an easy way of viewing barbelith threads so they’re totally printer-friendly? I just want the text, but without the stripes and normal barb screen formatting. I’m a bit of a dunce with printers, but really I’d like to just be able to hit ‘print’ and quickly get an entire thread onto paper without cutting, pasting, fiddling with printer settings or any other sort of delay that might lead me to get caught by the fella that owns the printer.

Oh, also, I’m sure there used to be a thread for home improvement questions and DIY and stuff - can anyone remember what it was called? Or have I just imagined it, and so need to start a real one?

unheimlich manoeuvre

14:48 / 12.09.06

Oh, also, I’m sure there used to be a thread for home improvement questions and DIY and stuff - can anyone remember what it was called? Or have I just imagined it, and so need to start a real one?

This one, Bedhead?
DIY Thread

14:59 / 12.09.06

I remember a while ago someone asked if there was a way of viewing barbelith so it doesn’t look like barbelith

Not sure what was said before, but what I've found helps is:
Tools / Internet Options / Accessibility / ignore colors.

15:00 / 12.09.06

Wow, you superstar Valence! Thank you so much, dude.

I swear I tried searching first. I am teh inept.

15:13 / 12.09.06

Jub - also a superstar! - thanks. I just knew there’d be a colour-off button somewhere close to hand. But do you think there’s any way of getting the text to fill the full width of the paper when you print, rather than just staying in a narrow-ish column in the middle of the page?

15:23 / 12.09.06

PW: Tony Benn and "Br'ar" Rabbit's Magic Tricks comes in fine from here.

paranoidwriter waves hello

16:31 / 12.09.06

Cheers, grant.

I think maybe, I forgot the true purpose of my browser and 'puter's non-automatic, "refresh" button.

I didn't want to post again to explain. But wanted to say thanks for the info. Thanks.

Although, ironically, I now trust MySpace a bit more, again, which I probably shouldn't...Er...

Sorry... I dunno, eh?...

22:53 / 12.09.06

But do you think there’s any way of getting the text to fill the full width of the paper when you print, rather than just staying in a narrow-ish column in the middle of the page?

I second that question! I've been thinking of printing whole books from Project Gutenberg while at work, but the margins on their books are barely half a page wide...

00:23 / 13.09.06

Cntrl+A, Cntrl+C, open word processor->File->New, Cntrl+V

00:33 / 13.09.06

depending on your word processor, cut and paste may retain some of the original formatting.
if you use word, you should get a wee tab to the bottom right that has as one of it's right click options 'paste text only', or similar.

you want that option, unless of course you dont.

00:45 / 13.09.06

Well, the grant solution works fine on my word processor, but thanks for that too, Toksik. grant shames me with the simplicity of the answer. I’m such a dope.

(Tune in next week, when I ask barbelith how to ‘work’ my front door. Gah.)

02:30 / 13.09.06

Hmm... I think the problem with Gutenberg can't be fixed by the margins. There's line breaks between each line, so it may be impossible to fix easily...

Is there any way to remove line breaks on 896 pages at once?

pointless & uncalled for

06:11 / 13.09.06

Non paragraph format washing can be achieved by pasting into Notepad if the text you're pasting ever proves reticent or Microsoft continues to try to be "helpful".

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