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GStree wrote:Hello Hello ! is there anybody there ?
Nope, nobody at all! Sorry, Gordon, but you’ll just have to get used to talking to yourself. 
GStree wrote:Well at this moment instead of being in sunny Spain with a serious water shortage we are at home with too much ! So much so that our garden got flooded when a water drainage pipe that runs through our property got blocked up. I am still in the midst of sorting that out and did a quick walk around the garden with the old handheld camcorder. https://youtu.be/hrqeRuo8-68
Lovely (the video footage, not the flooding)!
I’m not surprised! It’s very frustrating when you don’t know how to fix something because you don’t know why it went wrong in the first place.
Press the Insert (or Ins) key on your keyboard to toggle ‘Overtype’ mode on or off.
They don’t make ’em like that any more! (I’m not sure that they could.)
William wrote:I clicked on the picture at top left twice and got a huge image. There is even a representation of text on the page of the book.
There’s also a representation of text on the page in the picture at top right. (In both cases the first click takes you to the Postimages page, so the second click is actually on the larger image on that page rather than the thumbnail image displayed here.)
I have just given Bing Image Creator the following prompt:
A painting of a lady in a blue dress, the colour vivid against a purple lavender field, reading to a small elephant, with a Roman aqueduct in the distance.
Here are the results:
William wrote:Is there any way to recover the 1024 pixel version from behind the scenes please?
I think the original version should still be available for download when you sign in to your Microsoft Bing account.
I find Anthony Howe’s kinetic sculpture considerably more impressive than his chickens!
https://youtu.be/fC6XZLbBr-s
Wow, talk about poorly written!
Why Everyone in the UK Are …
None of other gift seems to be more versatile than this one.
Oh, and I’m not terribly convinced about its environmental credentials, either! The reminder
Do NOT forget tear off the protective transparent film on the surface.
seems rather at odds with the claim
It is made of 100% steel material without any plastic pollution.
I don’t think I’ll be buying a set of these.
If you’re doing your own printing and the sheet size is at least as big as the page size, there will only be a risk of graphics getting cut off if you’re printing borderless (where the entire page image is slightly stretched to ensure that there are no white edges).
For commercial printing, you would normally publish as PDF and the resultant file would be printed on a larger sheet for subsequent trimming. In this scenario, the ‘TrimBox’ size would be the same as the page size (e.g. 210 mm by 297 mm for an A4 page) and the ‘BleedBox’ size would be slightly bigger than that (e.g. 216 mm by 303 mm for a 3 mm bleed all around an A4 page). It follows that any elements which are close to the TrimBox edges are at risk of being trimmed off.
As far as I’m aware, running the computer via the power adapter/charger should — all other things being equal — work whether the battery is dead or not, which suggests that other things are not all equal! A broken power switch does sound like a possibility.
William wrote:Plugging in the power lead, which works fine on this computer, on the computer with the problem produced the effect of the orange light for the power input being on for a few seconds, then off for a few seconds, so I am wondering if that means something, like either that it is trickle charging or that there is a fault.
From http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c06328250.pdf (for HP Stream 11 Laptop PC, Model numbers 11-ak0xxx, 11-ak1xxx):
AC adapter and battery light
● White: The AC adapter is connected and the battery is fully charged.
● Blinking white: The AC adapter is disconnected and the battery has reached a low battery level.
● Amber: The AC adapter is connected and the battery is charging.
● Off: The battery is not charging.
In other words, you’ve managed to get the battery charging intermittently.
William wrote:The STREAM computer does not have feet as such. but two long, about 6 inches or so, grey rubber strips. They do not obviously come out, so maybe there is a way to do it, perhaps needing a special tool, or maybe they are glued in so that the computer is regarded as being "as is" and if it fails then that is that.
Those long rubber strips are the ‘feet’. They’re not glued in, you just need to free up one end and pull!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opm8Me78tOY
Once you’ve done that, you should be able to unscrew the Phillips screws (assuming you have a suitable screwdriver!) but the rest of the battery replacement procedure looks as though it isn’t for the faint-hearted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_5zg6CAwTc
William wrote:I am using the 14 inch HP computer which I normally only use if I am using Affinity software or High-Logic software.
Thank you.
William wrote:The chargers are the same, so I only keep the one that came first, the one that came with the STREAM computer, out and in use.
That makes sense — which is, of course, just another way of saying that that’s what I would do, too!
William wrote:At present I am wondering about how to construct a perspective view of pillars that are equally spaced in the real world.
Starting with a vanishing point or two, draw some construction lines radiating from it/them. Draw vertical lines for the left and right edges of the pillars, and then draw a base and a cap for the bottom and top (respectively) of each pillar.
You can use construction lines to get the spacing right, too, but it’s probably easier to use a calculator such as the one provided on this page:
https://www.theproblemsite.com/educatio … horizontal
William wrote:The same power supply cable with its black box works fine with this computer. It is the one that came with the STREAM computer. I have the one that came with this computer.
The STREAM computer being the faulty one with the 11.6″ screen, correct? What computer are you using now, and why aren’t you using the power supply that came with it?
Thanks for your helpful note, Walter. I suspect that trying to install from any remote location is just asking for trouble! In fact, I tend to avoid even installing directly from a program disc, preferring instead to copy its entire contents to a folder on the hard drive so that I can run ‘setup.exe’ from there.
pberk wrote:Alfred .. Seems to me it is the power supply if nothing lights up? But you seem to think it's the battery. Why do you think its the battery?
You’re probably right about the power supply, Paul. I wrote about the battery because William brought up the question of access to it, but even if the battery won’t hold any charge things should still light up if the PSU is OK.
That one seems to be designed for use with an HP Chromebook. The following HP support page explains how to test the power supply and, if necessary, order a suitable replacement:
https://support.hp.com/gb-en/document/i … 1382278-16
William wrote:Thank you for the link to the video. The faulty computer is not the same model. It is a 10 inch or 11 inch screen and does not seem to have any access to the battery, no screws anywhere as far as I can tell. It looks completely sealed, though maybe that is not actually the situation.
The power supply lead works fine on this machine.
The computer has S T R E A M on the top.
From underneath,
Model 11-ak0506sa
I wondered about your previous references to a 10″ screen, William, since it always struck me as an unusual and rather small size. The HP Stream Laptop 11-ak0506sa screen size is specified as 11.6″, which is a standard size for a small laptop or ‘subnotebook’.
In order to replace the battery you would need to remove the screws that hold the back panel in place, but those screws may be hidden by rubber feet that need removing first. Please see step 4 on the following page:
https://www.hp.com/gb-en/shop/tech-take … eplacement
You’re welcome, Alan. All sorted now, I hope!
pberk wrote:But what for?
So that you can have a ball, obviously! 
Lisa wrote:I'm trying to transfer my WebPlus X8 and DrawPlus X8 from my old laptop to a new one but have so far not had any success. If possible can I please have the download link for both?
Please check your email.
kevinbecken wrote:I discovered Inkscape (freeware) has the function I need, and will output to svg. Svg to pdf online translation, and open pdf in PagePlus. Seems long winded but it does work well and it's only something I seldom need.
A good find, Kevin! Inkscape may not have the friendliest of user interfaces, but it is quite feature-rich (especially for a free product).
Go to the timeline, click on the Video track and Ctrl-click on the Audio track so that both are selected. Now you can right-click and choose ‘Link and Group > Link’ to link them together again.
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