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Nah, I don't like youtube. I much prefer a proper book that I can mark with post it notes etc and reference back and forth.

Glib bollocks like this is to make the person saying it feel better rather than any genuine interaction with the subject. What they really mean is...

They're worse than those who are genuinely stupid. I have sympathy for the genuinely stupid, but utter contempt for those you describe. I know...

you may be bettr off on you tube, I dont think they do an idiots guide to gimp :rofl: but you never know... Seriously, I dont think there is a...

I have been trying things out on GIMP and it feels quite like PS. Perhaps a good book will speed things up for me but I daren't google GIMP. :)

That assumes that the choices are either in-depth technical information or the Ladybird version and nothing in between. As I said previously, the...

Fair enough, it has been a while. (Actually quite a while I guess). Has it got better? I found it a nice environment in which to work at the time...

I think that is a little harsh. There's a lot of planks out there but there's far more bright people who are just too lazy, distracted or...

Erm, I am a currently employed civil servant... And yes, things have changed quite a lot based on your description, most of which I don't recognize....

Better than the nether regions.

Or he goes shopping for ladies' undergarments in the Netherlands.

You may have dated yourself a little there

Adolf Hitler was the top man in the National Socialist German Workers Party. The Daily Mail is a newspaper. Try not to get too hung up on...

Who better to use the no true Scotsman fallacy? Thank you.

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. But as ever, they weren't proper socialists and the next time it will work... It wasn't a requirement but...

The Reith Lectures this morning on this sort of topic. Worth listening to

To be pedantic (who me?) the Russian revolution was more exactly communism. Stalin's counter revolution returned it to something else, most...

Our school chemistry lab had clear glass bottles containing various acids, these had a glass tapered stopper, machined to give a tight fit. We soon...

Rockets made from matches and cooking foil. Definitely for outdoor use only.

But as the left likes to say, that wasn't proper socialism. For some bizarre reason they still believe the next time we try it, it will be a success....

There is a PhotoGimp plugin which apparently makes GIMP look and feel more like PS. I have been using Paintshop which I am finding pretty decent -...

er, is it too late to say "Don't try this at home" ?

The Abacus version? :P:

Rob uses Firestone and seems to like it. I'm still grimly clinging to the rotting corpse of Picassa.

If we're going down this road, then liquid nitrogen droplets on a slate benchtop and dry ice pellets mixed with Fairy liquid in a sink with the taps...

As Noggin said, it needs to be packed tightly.

If you can get the stuff that has not been treated with a fire suppressant.

I use quite a few "mobile apps" on my laptop. With fingers like mine, a full size keyboard is far easier to use.

Hey great I'm a Gnu or do I mean a guru. I'm definitely not anyway.

Glad to have been of assistance. Its currently working for me. I think you need to go on a Microsoft equivalent of Google Play store. But who knows...