Paid Members Surf Digby Posted January 27, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted January 27, 2013 I'll have a bash. Â surf_digby@yahoo.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members JohnnyChimpo Posted January 27, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted January 27, 2013 Thanks surf. Email sent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Ford Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Laptop help anyone? Â I've got a laptop that's struggling to play streamed media (I think that's the right term...I'm a computer moron). Essentially, it plays files that are downloaded to iTunes ok, but if I stream anything on You Tube or "other sites ) it stutters and stalls. It even does this if I wait for the whole video bar to go grey before I hit play. It's only started doing this over the last 6 months. Any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Callum1993 Posted January 27, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted January 27, 2013 Me and a few of the boys have just booked to go to Ibiza in July for a week. Anyone else been? Any good? What can we expect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MungoChutney Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Right guys looking for the I.T. savvy to help me out here. I work for a small charitiable organisation, meaning we're always skint and looking to save money. Anyway, we're needing to purchase a new netbook for some basic stuff like spreadsheets, word processing and emailing etc. We've found a couple of decent ones in our price range but obviously they only come with the minimum of software laoded. Â Here's the thing: we've looked at buying Microsoft office but obviously the Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members SpursRiot2012 Posted January 28, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted January 28, 2013 What? OpenOffice is free, isn't it? Â It's not that great, to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted January 28, 2013 Moderators Share Posted January 28, 2013 Hah.. Yeah. It's a free download so you shouldn't be paying anything for it. Â It works, I guess. But you get what you pay for and it's a bit shit really. It is compatible with all the standard MS file formats though, so you may as well give it a go and if you don't like it you can always go Microsoft in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MungoChutney Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Ah, I see. Quick check and it seems to come on a disc which I guess is why they're charging for it. Might be worth downloading then and then getting Office in a month or so to help balance the books a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members unfitfinlay Posted January 28, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted January 28, 2013 I only really use the Word Processing package but LibreOffice seems to be the best free, Office Suite right now. OpenOffice does the job but it isn't great and doesn't seem to have been updated in ages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Chilly McFreeze Posted January 28, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted January 28, 2013 Ah, I see. Quick check and it seems to come on a disc which I guess is why they're charging for it. Might be worth downloading then and then getting Office in a month or so to help balance the books a bit. Â Yeah, due to the way the Gnu license works, it's fairly common to see open source projects get stuck on a disc and sold on Ebay. I used to work on an open source Flight Simulator, and it was a right pain trying to stop that sort of thing. As long as they provide the source code with the disc though, and openly state it's freely downloadable, it's all legit. Â But yeah, Open office is decent for the odd home use, but for the office environment, it would be far too unreliable, with little support when things go wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiefdave Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 I work for a small charitiable organisation, meaning we're always skint and looking to save money. Â Register with this lot and you can get all your software on the cheap if it's a charity. CTX Â Only thing to watch out for is you can only place one order every 2 years or something like that so make sure you get everything in one go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forrest Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 I fear this may be too specialist for even the UKFF hive-mind, but I'm hoping a binary geek may be present to answer it. Â I'm looking to convert binary files to WAV format so I can put it through an audio editor. Seeing as I have no experience with binary outside of a long-forgotten 1-hour module in Standard Grade computing, I really have no idea how to implement this. Could someone with a knowledge of binary give me a run-through of the binary basics, how I would go about converting the files to WAV and what programs I would need? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenryck Pilchards Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 I fear this may be too specialist for even the UKFF hive-mind, but I'm hoping a binary geek may be present to answer it. I'm looking to convert binary files to WAV format so I can put it through an audio editor. Seeing as I have no experience with binary outside of a long-forgotten 1-hour module in Standard Grade computing, I really have no idea how to implement this. Could someone with a knowledge of binary give me a run-through of the binary basics, how I would go about converting the files to WAV and what programs I would need?  01001001001000000110100001100001011101100110010100100000011011100110111101110100 001000000110011101101111011101000010000001100001001000000110001101101100011101010 110010100101110001000000101010001110010011110010010000001100001001000000111010001 100101011000110110100001111001001000000110011001101111011100100111010101101101001 01110 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 I fear this may be too specialist for even the UKFF hive-mind, but I'm hoping a binary geek may be present to answer it. I'm looking to convert binary files to WAV format so I can put it through an audio editor. Seeing as I have no experience with binary outside of a long-forgotten 1-hour module in Standard Grade computing, I really have no idea how to implement this. Could someone with a knowledge of binary give me a run-through of the binary basics, how I would go about converting the files to WAV and what programs I would need?  Why? Honest question, I'm struggling to understand the need and therefore the solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted January 29, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted January 29, 2013 I know I'm about five years late for the party, but are there any decent MP3 blogs still going these days? Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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