Todays top tip

[Clive George]

Climbing through broken glass is a lot more likely to hurt than breaking the glass and opening the frame. So yes, they do a bit.

[Tim Streater]

Ha! Me too neither :-)

[Tim Streater]

You can break the glass but then the window handle is still locked so you can't reach in and just turn it. You have to insert a small screwdriver blade in the lock where you would otherwise put the key, and turn that.

[Bod]

Don't burglars just jemmy a window open, which would break the catch?

[charles]

The Keyboard, I'm using , bought aboutb a year ago, doesn't have Windows?Key - but then, I bought it especially because it hasn't one. It has a RISC OS gearwheel instead!

[spuorgelgoog]

I was taught how to produce justified text on an non-justifying typewriter, and centring, and vertical centring. It all involved typing a rough first and counting lines and characters and dividing into lines per page and then retyping it all ...

Ruled tabulations were my downfall though.

Owain

[charles]

We had an IBM Typesetting computer in the department that did all the counting for the operator. It was still a very skilled job.

[tim...]

(in summer) I leave mine in the locked, slightly open, position

locking the handle lessen the risk of someone jigging the frame to knock the handle out of the plate

FTAOD, I am not on the ground floor :-)

tim

[ARW]

Well the third Fiat van did not break down. I did however catch a button on the driver's door panel when setting up the electric wing mirrors - a new feature to me as it was not available on the other vans - one that that pulls in the the wing mirrors for you.

This caused the passenger side wing mirror to fall off and smash on the floor.

[S Viemeister]

Me, too. At Skerry's College in Edinburgh.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

I guess that's difficult if they're like modern doors with 7 point locks. I'd just kick in the PVC door and enter through the centre of it. PVC doors are a piece of shit, and here's an example:

[Tim Watts]

We had a brand new Fiat 131 in 1976.

Within 2 years it was rusty.

The fuse box kept burning fuse holders out - so we had to remove it, open it up (bastard - it was a rats nest inside) and rewire to a spare fuse.

The auto choke was a bitch for flooding.

It never started in the rain - gallows of WD40 was used on that bastard.

[spuorgelgoog]

Someone I knew had to learn to type to Jimmy Shand records to develop an even rhythm

Owain

[meow2222]

I remember when cut & paste were literal, then type it all out.

NT

[S Viemeister]

When I was there, they used Sousa marches. I taught some of the girls to syncopate... (Drove the instructor nuts.)

[Huge]

Well, it looks professional to someone who isn't a professional.

(I worked for Xerox Tech Pubs for 8 years at one point.)

But I take your point.

Nonetheless, the vast majority of end-user computing needs could be adequately met with a machine of a specification that was current about

20 years ago.

[Huge]

That's how my wife learned. On a typewriter with blank keycaps.

[Huge]

*GRIN*

[Tim Streater]

Not a proper UPVC double-glazed window, they don't.

[Jim White]

[snip]

Posh. Mine's still got a little green acorn. :-p