@ssolie

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Surely it is possible to do both !

@Mikey_C

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I got my first Amiga in 1994, so that makes you quite an old newbie

@rwo

Drivers for webcam, specifically the Philips TouCam would be my vote.

These devices can be used very effectively with a telescope for planetary imaging.


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@salass00

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Make that 6.

I had heard of Latex before but never knew what it did. It sounds like something I could use.

Also cute but sadly no longer here. two very strange looking kittens ;o)





Bill.


PS. They were dogs not cats BTW.

Here's Zena again.




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@Raziel

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So did IBrowse


Bill.


PS. Typing is difficult. I had a DIY accident yesterday and today they covered my right arm in plaster It hurts a lot less but I am now having to do everythig one handed.

@AmiKit

Well if you want cute, here's my Zena



[Also way OT]

Bill

@Ferry

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Also bear in mind that that also fails until you download another third party MCC, something like HotkeyString.mcc (on Linux ATM so can't check).



Bill.

@alexw

Thanks, done it already


Bill.

> It is just a blank box that doesn't work in IBrowse ?


I managed to download the mpg file despite the site being extremely Amiga-unfriendly.

It took AGES and that is with broadband, I doubt if anyone using dial up could even contemplate waiting. A long time for something that may not work or not.

Once the file is [eventually] downloaded DVPlayer handles it perfectly :o)

VERY NICE.

Pink Floyd sets it off, then I see it is dedicated to one of my all time heroes, Carl Sagan.

A pity the Floyd music gets faded out just at the crescendo to be replaced by a moron with a webcam with some non-music. Why on earth did they put that bit in ?

I wonder where they managed to find somewhere with so little light-pollution to film the constellation of Orion so well without an orange glow to it. That is the big problem with astronomy in the 20th and 21st centuries you cannot see stars for all the glare and clutter from too much over-lighting.

The last time I saw skies like that was in the middle of a desert in South Africa, see http://www.eavesweb.plus.com/southernskies/

Now the WWW is a bit faster I should upload higher res images some day.

Incidentally the lunar eclipse last night was very good BTW, for once the weather was clear in the UK :o)
Of course that is just local stuff!

With the exception of M31 *, everything you can see with the naked eye - even with no light pollution - is in our own galaxy.

As Douglas Adams said "Space is Big", I used that comment when I did some astronomy lectures. No matter how much you put numbers to things and understand the maths, they just aren't big enough. Especially when the word "billion" gets downgraded by a factor of a 1000 now and again.


Nice vid when you eventually get to download it.
Maybe a bit dumbed down and gee-whizz but then that is what you tend to expect these days just to grab peoples atention.

I enjoyed it.


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* PS. Just thought, in the southern hemisphere the Magellanic Clouds are external to our own system, but only just.

PPS. Who is SlimJim BTW ?

@Outcast

It is just a blank box that doesn't work in IBrowse ?

What is it meant to be ?

What is the point of posting links that do not work in amiga browsers ?

Bill.

@Billsey


Very good and very true.

Except for numbers 6 and 8 because I am the person that still doesn't have a mobile phone - nor want one !

I am still trying to figure out what real cards are, what an odd concept


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@Billsey

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Maybe not. But then not many of the robotomized masses use Amigas either

In my area I think I may be the only one left still using Amigas, I am definately the "Owner of a Lonely Amiga".

Hopefully if new hardware comes about a few more can try out Hyperion's "Wonderous Coding". But at the moment the Amiga situation just seems to go round and around like a huge "Roundabout" and we are all waiting so long on this "Long Distance Runaround".

Until then I guess we will just have to read all those "Tales of Topographic Speculation" on AWN


Bill.


PS. Anyone too young to know of YES will be totally confused, so please ignore the above :o)

@Billsey

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Speaking of YES, I always thought Eyetech and Amiga should have used "Going for the One" to launch the Amiga One


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@ssolie

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My A-One seems to run without it. What does powerpc.lib do BTW ?


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@ZeroG

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Thank goodness. What a lousy piece of software it was.
You couldn't do anything with it, it crashed your system all the time.

Much better off without it !

Bill.

@Spirantho



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Yes but how many applications use Locale to use distances in miles or kilometers ? Most applications used on a computer deal with inches or cm.

One exception may be GB Route but then the miles are hardcoded in and do not use locale !

Likewise in Digital Universe distances are in light years as using mm for the distances of astronomical objects would be rather silly.

Most applications when using units out of everyday range, eg inches or cm, will use the approproate units hardcoded, it is just ones using locale that can give the wrong results.

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Likewise, I know my weight in stones but when buying food or anything else always work in metric - confusing isn't it

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I am trying to recall the unit that was once obvioulsy wrong when using an aplication with the UK locale, I can deal with both systems quite happily.

It must have been something involving temperature and Farenheight which was peculier. No one under the age of my long deceased granny uses F for temperatures in the UK now.


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@Chris


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It never could but it was worse before as it kept on using old fashioned imperial units like Farenheight, BTUs and other things no one uses anymore.

If it could cope with contextual units like pints and miles but keep units like cm where appropriate it would be great. But it can't.

On the whole unless you are over 90 I think the metric settng is more relevant in the UK, after all anyone who did any science at school will tend to use metric units anyway.

Only in the USA do they still insist on using old "British" units in the modern era


Bill.

Added later:
Almost forgot. Download CountryEdit from Aminet, you can then set a lot of things manually, I did that when I found previous versions of Locale forced me to use Imperial units, so changed them myself.

@Chris


I saw similar in Somerfield today !

They had a leg of lamb at a "reduced" price which of course was past its sell by date.

They had newer ones on offer for cheaper, guess which I bought.