Completely OT - bedtime for children

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Thanks for missing the point as usual.

[Mark]

Ever tried getting non-hungry children to sleep?

;-)

[Mark]

That wouldn't be an incentive. Maybe my youngest will have a go if I can find something with a hard disk in it.

;-)

[Mark]

Quite. Particularly in this case since the homework was set on Friday to be handed in on Monday.

[Bob Eager]

Computer Science. Specifically, I teach a load of stuff, specialising in OS theory.

[Bob Eager]

Other son is like that...!

[Dave Liquorice]

More likely the recipent of the request won't understand what the problem is, "It opens OK on here", "no one else has complained".

[dennis]

I don't think I missed the point, however from what you posted it appears you did.

It costs too much. Windows admin is cheap, unix is not.

[dennis]

XP is unsuitable for a safety critical application. It is used successfully for many security applications.

[Dave Liquorice]

More of case of moving at a pace that she is capable of working at rather than that of the whole class. The primary school works to the pupils abilty as well so there is some cumulative affect.

Being one of the smallest, if not the smallest, secondary school in the country the ratio is quite good. I think the whole year is less than 40 pupils might be less than 30 and that is split into two sets.

[dennis]

That's normal. Nothing to worry about.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Hahahaha!

[The Natural Philosopher]

That's normal

That's what is so worrying...

[dennis]

There are free readers for the office formats on the M$ site. I think they can even save in older formats.

There are also filters to import the new stuff into older office programs.

[dennis]

Its a good job this isn't a linux group, you would get some serious stick for suggesting some things don't work in linux. You will also get loads of people telling you its easy but no information on how to do it.

[dennis]

Well as you replied to my post about "most people" I thought you had missed the point and tried to help you out, but I guess you missed that point too.

[Clive George]

Yes, I know they no longer exist, and I think this is probably a good thing. Was just wondering if you'd had experience with them.

[John Williamson]

Ah, you've looked in the comp.os.linux.advocacy group, then. ;-)

Incidentally, I've had problems getting Linux to even recognise that either of my Windows based smartphones even exists, never mind connect to them. It's even worse using Bluetooth...

[Bob Eager]

No, but my wife fulminates about them....!

[Dave Liquorice]

That run on Mac, Linux, BSD, OS/2 etc?