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From: Woody on 12 Mar 2010 10:23 On 12/03/2010 15:11, T i m wrote: > The woman then explained that "they didn't have such technology at her > regular branch and daughter thought, "feck, what have they got then, a > slate and a stick" ! ;-) If you have ever seen normal banking software, a slate and a stick would be an upgrade. -- Woody
From: T i m on 12 Mar 2010 11:31 On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:23:34 +0000, Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: >On 12/03/2010 15:11, T i m wrote: > >> The woman then explained that "they didn't have such technology at her >> regular branch and daughter thought, "feck, what have they got then, a >> slate and a stick" ! ;-) > >If you have ever seen normal banking software, a slate and a stick would >be an upgrade. ;-) It's amazing what can be done with simple software though, in the right hands. Daughter has just edited some 200 photos and made an album for the Mrs's 60th surprise birthday recently. Irfanview (basic picture editor) and Windows Paint and she has managed stuff you would assume only doable with the likes of Photoshop. Stuff like adding the side to an entire scene that was cropped off on the original photo (including an arm!) and more basic things removing creases and general cleaning. I wish we had known someone who knew Photoshop who could have taught her as I assume some of the stuff would have been quicker and / or easier using that? I did send her a link to Gimp, it being free and possibly a stepping stone between what she's used to and Photoshop but she didn't have the time at the time to lose productivity. The thing is she only needs to be shown once, and generally only the core concepts at that and she's away. Unfortunately, like many of her age / background (brought up with technical stuff) it's difficult to get her to RTFM. Cheers, T i m
From: Woody on 12 Mar 2010 11:40 On 12/03/2010 16:31, T i m wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:23:34 +0000, Woody<usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> > wrote: > >> On 12/03/2010 15:11, T i m wrote: >> >>> The woman then explained that "they didn't have such technology at her >>> regular branch and daughter thought, "feck, what have they got then, a >>> slate and a stick" ! ;-) >> >> If you have ever seen normal banking software, a slate and a stick would >> be an upgrade. > > ;-) > > It's amazing what can be done with simple software though, in the > right hands. It is, but this isn't simple software. This is quite complicated software made many times worse because it was built entirely to specifications. ie: someone said 'here is a list of features that it must have, go and write it'. It was written and every feature was ticked off one by one. > The thing is she only needs to be shown once, and generally only the > core concepts at that and she's away. Unfortunately, like many of her > age / background (brought up with technical stuff) it's difficult to > get her to RTFM. It is difficult to get almost everyone to RTFM which is why no-one really WTFM any more! -- Woody
From: Jim on 12 Mar 2010 11:54 On 2010-03-12, T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: >> >>Are you currently in Windows by any chance? >> > > I'm nearly always in Windows Jim and this fairly old version of Agent. > ;-) That'll be it (the Window aspect). On a MacOS X machine if you control-click a link that's surrounded by <>'s there's a very good chance it will work, even if it's split over several lines. Jim -- http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk http://twitter.com/GreyAreaUK "[Cocaine] is addictive and probably quite bad for you if you have too much. But the same applies to Battenburg cake, and no one seems to freak out about that, do they?" The Daily Mash
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 12 Mar 2010 12:03
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:54:15 +0000, Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: >On 2010-03-12, T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: >>> >>>Are you currently in Windows by any chance? >>> >> >> I'm nearly always in Windows Jim and this fairly old version of Agent. >> ;-) > >That'll be it (the Window aspect). On a MacOS X machine if you control-click >a link that's surrounded by <>'s there's a very good chance it will work, >even if it's split over several lines. It's an Agent failing, nowt to do with Windows per se. Cheers - Jaimie -- haiku are easy all you do is stop at the seventeenth syllab |