True, but people also crash into cars.

Agreed.

ION my boss (who's now leaving) set up some displays in the practice waiting areas. These are basically large screen TVs connected to small form factor PCs and a 3G dongle. The idea was that the computers would be linked to the practice website from which they would receive a feed. The screens would display three slides that rotated from a selection of 60+ slides, with the fourth quarter a scrolling live feed. The website could be updated from any terminal and the results would be instantaneous. He had problems getting it to work and then gave up as he was leaving. Hence for the past nine months, they've just sat there unused.

I offered to get it all going again by simplifying everything. I created a powerpoint presentaion which had four tiles of info per slide. I could leave it on a continuous slide show loop.

Hiccups: no wireless keyboard/mouse ( they've gone "missing"), hence had to use a standard keyboard and mouse, the wires were too short; major hassle in accessing the units which were tightly tucked behind the screens; ubuntu - the system boots straight into the web program without any way around it.
The last is the biggest problem since I've not used linux since knoppix came out. I haven't bothered with linux ever since my thread got closed on a linux forum for asking the best distro to use for my machine (apparently breached the rules yet countless threads did so too and weren't locked).

I now either have to learn to use ubuntu or install Vista on the machines. Or buy windows 7.

Quickest solution - get some smallish USB sticks (I think Tesco will sell you a pack of 4 4GB ones for like 15 quid), install whatever OS & slide viewer you like on them, then boot the SFF PC's off them?

(if all you're doing is 4 straight slides, save them out of powerpoint as PNG/JPG, then you use run pretty much any free ware slideshow app to display them - eve a basic one will allow you to set some form of transition)

Jon

F**king CHC Scotia!!!!
If you were a normal airline you go bust through incompetence!

The rationale behind using powerpoint is that I can easily re-edit slides as required to update the info. I have plenty of USB sticks from drug reps but didn't have them to hand.

Last night, two drunken friends thought it'd be hilarious to sit on my bonnet, and then write 'arse print x' in that dust that's in the rain and air at the moment.
Well, I say written in the dust, it was actually carved through into the paint.
So I've had to spend about 3 hours on the car that I hadn't planned on.
Also - looked for the large drying towel to dry my car with.
Discover my father's taken it to France as it dries faster on a boat than a cotton towel.

Arses! I feel your pain. This is why I cringe when I see people write stuff in the dust/dirt on cars - it damages the paintwork.

Which drying towel do you use? About a year ago I switched to the Dri-U-Kwik one which doesn't leave lint everywhere like the normal plush ones do.

It's just a large blue MF towel that was on special at cleanyourcar.co.uk. Not bad, but I have a smaller yellow one that's really thick (two deep pile layers stitched back to back) that is just brilliant. Again - no real branding, picked it up for a fiver IIRC at Beaulieu.

xD memory cards! Gah!

I bought my mother the Fuji F11 when it first came out as a wedding anniversary present. She doesn't use it much but needs it for tomorrow. She didn't realise the memory card was full. I took the memory card home only to find I have nothing in the house that will accept it. I can't even find my F50 camera which would have accepted it.

So either she has to buy another card or she will have to try to transfer everything herself.

Euro Finals Night - Why the fook do they not put anything decent on for those of us who don't give a sh!t about football? I would (just about) forgive the fact that they put it on both BBC and ITV, but all the other channels gave up as well - a choice of Chick Flicks or Unreality TV, no thanks!

I resorted to thumbing through my DVD collection - on the plus side, I ended up watching Fight Club again and rediscovered what a great film that really was! Superb.

Sunday night tv is always [LIFTED] anyway, so no change there.

Went to a pub for lunch a couple of days ago. A woman at a nearby table didn't have an issue with changing a nappy at the table!

Somebody used a key to write a huge "L" on the bonnet of my old Passat, went through the paint, primer and into the metal.

In Germany, having to scrape off crystalised ice from the bonnet left marks down to the primer, which couldn't be polished out.

I guess because they knkow that it's going to be a ratings loser by comparison.

I had that removing re-frozen snow from my roof. Gutted. I should have just let it smash into the people behind me on the motorway like so many other drivers do!