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Yours, Taddy, (the Lancashire Luddite). |
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That is the way to go...gradual learning....though I think you have left that a bit late.:D
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Just ask the kids, or failing that hit it with something, works for me!:D mind you, the hitting it bit gets pricey. :eek: |
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Did you ever get around to replacing the PC that is running XP?
If you're using a pc that is running XP since back in the day then its morethanlikely you should just buy a new pc! After 5 mins of using a newer pc you will be like... wow this is so much faster. XP is a serious security risk. Do not use it online. 7 by now is prob under the same catagory as it is also longer officialy supported by microsoft. Quote:
you can just make your own bootable USB stick of linux! Even this might not be good enough for the PC taddy was talking about because the hardware is going to be so old that its possible even the version of linux xtra provide might be too heavy. Might be better going for lubuntu -- but then again. The learning curve might be too steep for someone that is thinking "do i really need a new pc" when they are using a pc so old that it still has XP installed. I dunno. |
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There speaks a man who knows his stuff.
Restless, Taddy is just in Baby school where computers are concerned.....and I say this respectfully because it is where we all started. He even calls himself The Luddite. |
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Mate, I was right with you to this point (see above), the Tadmeister, is worse than me & that's by his own admission, so I think the answer to your question & suggestions is probably a big fat Nope! :D |
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you can just make your own bootable USB stick of linux!
Even this might not be good enough for the PC taddy was talking about because the hardware is going to be so old that its possible even the version of linux xtra provide might be too heavy. Might be better going for lubuntu --but then again. The learning curve might be too steep for someone that is thinking "do i really need a new pc" when they are using a pc so old that it still has XP installed. I dunno.[/QUOTE] HaHa, USB stick of Linux, Linux extra to heavy, lupuntu--but. I have not a clue what you are trying to tell but thank you anyway. I shall just put another shovel full of coal into the boiler that supplies the steam that operates my XP machine, at least for the time being. I think that it is now time that I was back on my allotment, (no electronics needed). Thank you all for trying to help, Your's the Lancashire Luddite. |
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what I want to know Taddy is...where are you getting the coal?
Can't be from the railway embankment as the trains stopped running to Huncoat when God was in short trousers....around the same time the NCB shop at the bottom of burnley Rd closed. I did tell him that he was talking a language that was foreign to you! |
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Hazel seems to recall the N.C.B. shop being on the left hand side of Little Blackburn Road, lower down than Wardleworths bookshop but will stand to be corrected; Maybe Atarah can help on this one.
As to your question "where are you getting your coal"? Wilkinson's of Great Harwood have been supplying our needs since we had a solid fuel stove fitted seven or eight years ago, burning only (smokeless) coal I must add, in case my Friendly neighbourhood busybody is reading this. You are right about "Restless's" post being a foreign language to me but then again it does not matter, my steam powered XP device serves me well enough at the moment. Your's, Glad to be a Luddite. |
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I used to walk down Burnley Road every school day on my way home.....and there was a coal shop at the bottom of Burnley Rd......it had baskets of different grades and types of coal in the window......now I thought it was the NCB shop, but I could be wrong...after all this would be in the region of 60+ years....I went to Peel Park until I was 11.....so Hazel could be right...but I know the shop advertised the NCB....it had the logo in the window.
Anyway as long as you get the fuel to keep your steam generated machine going...all is good. |
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In the late forties’ early fifties, we (on Belfield road) got our coal from a guy called Matison, or Mathison. He had his business across from Mosley’s bakery on Jacob Street.
Then we got electric fires fitted, so no reason for coal. I also seem to recall early sixties, that somebody took a photo of Accrington from the top of the coppice in the forties with all the smoke in the atmosphere, and then mid-sixties and my what a difference there was. Cheers |
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i was thinking lubuntu but then perhaps might even have to go to Puppy linux or DSL :D
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I have not a clue what you are trying to tell but thank you anyway. I shall just put another shovel full of coal into the boiler that supplies the steam that operates my XP machine, at least for the time being. I think that it is now time that I was back on my allotment, (no electronics needed). Thank you all for trying to help, Your's the Lancashire Luddite.[/QUOTE] |
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My son and grandson turned up yesterday whilst I was firing up the boiler for my steam operated, belt driven computer.It is about time that you got shut of this and updated it; I can get you a brand new all singing all dancing set up for less than £500 my lad said;
I almost (ALMOST) agreed, until I found out that was purely for the hardware. When I questioned about "Windows Office Word",Google Earth, Etc, Oh that is a whole new ball game he said, they will cost over and above the £500. at this my Luddite skills kicked in (ABSOLUTELY NO CHANCE), I gasped. By Eck I came very close to abandoning my ultra Luddite principles. |
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