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Email: rickman@argonet.co.uk ICQ: AOL: Yahoo:	Username: JohnR Realname: John Rickman About me: History of machines - BBC-B, Arch310, RPC700, Iyonix, A9, most recent purchase A7000+ paid 40 gbp at SW show - hoping to run old Acorn games on to keep the children away from my Iyonix:-) Homepage: http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/ Face/Logo: Comments posted: 61 (show all)

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On Firefox port updated to release number eight:

I have been using this new version for several hours. It appears to be stable and faster than the version from January this year. Download and install was easy and without any problems. My thanks to Peter for his continuing support for this browser. JohnR on 30/8/09 9:05PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

On Richard Brown takes over day-to-day running of ISP Orpheus:

Perhaps it's a cost saving - the drobe hosted riscos.org.uk is still working JohnR on 30/6/09 12:09PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

On Five tips for ROL over the next five years:

I've used Aemulor from the beginning. Apart from a few 28M limit problems it has been trouble free and virtually invisible in operation. Here is the complete list of what I use it for. Publish+ and Tablemate I would class as essential; EFFCAT and SuperGram I would miss; the rest I could manage without. !Chords !Meteors !ColourMap !MineHunt !CrossStar !PDCAT !D2Font !PREMIER !Dilo !Publish+ !Dis-le !smbserver !Dis-leII !Snapper !Drummer !SuperGram !Dungeon !TableMate !EFFCAT !TemplEd !EFFmanual !Trace !effTTT !TransDDF !Equasor !TransFSI !Fresco !TransIMP !GraphDraw !TransPCD !ImageFS !TransRTF !LinkCheck !TranTIFF+ !WordWorks JohnR on 29/5/09 3:18PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

On Recent developments have left me feeling...:

A vote for Dave Holden provides an opportunity to "spoil your ballot paper" when you don't agree with any of the other candidates. What has puzzled me for sometime is the two-tone colour system. Ie the pink and the blue colours on the bars. A key would help. JohnR on 30/4/09 9:47AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

On OCR tool STRing updated:

Unfortunately running !STRing on my Iyonix v5.14 gives Message: Internal error: abort on data transfer at &20765DA0. JohnR on 29/4/09 11:01AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

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