Windows server NT, Win 95 boot, Super Adaptec EZSCSI

[woodsmoke]

While downsizing I discovered that I still have the original diskettes! :0

It is illegal to give them away but I would be glad to send the box that used to contain them free to anyone who is abstractly interested in the historical items. Again, the box is rather kewl and is of historical significance in and of itself.

However, I'd need a physical address so if one wants to communicate with me by personal message I would be glad to send the historically significant empty box.

woodcan'tbelievehekeptthisstuffbuthe'sjustahardwar ekindaguysmoke

[GreyGeek]

LOL!!

I would be surprised if the floppies were not getting brittle (loss of plasticizers over the years) and the magnetic Iron oxide (Fe++) getting flaky or oxidizing to rust (Fe+++).

Is any app around that even runs on them? (Except for Pong and Doom )

[woodsmoke]

Umm I beg to DIFFER oh wise geek one!

I found them in the process of moving Mavica images that I captured over a DECADE ago to my hard drive.

WHY would you want THOSE ...they are so LOW RES...you might ask?

Very simple...they look just fine in a presentation!

And I am busily "chunking" my normal fifty minute lectures, and editing them with more of my personal images, into something that an on-line student having to tear themselves away from playing video games AT HOME...to view.. lol

One must always look the horse in the mouth to count the teeth instead of trusting a "supposed" expert who is making money from promoting that bigger is always better.

An example being ... try to send a lrge e-mail attachment using your Gmail account. it will immediately pop it out to the Gmail cloud...and guess what...there are many COLLEGES which just will NOT interact with "the cloud"... and supposedly all those educated people are Sooooooo "forward thinking"... according to them!

It took me getting REPLIES from colleges asking me to please save my .pdfs in a much lower resolution so that they could view them to realize just HOW FAR BEHIND THE TIMES many universities are.

And THAT ... ALSO ...actually EXPOSES what the "normal applicant" sends. LOL...

Anyway... I still have several very old machines that I fire up to run Tiny Linux on but I ran the floppies in them and the OSs are still there.

woodoldschoolfuturistsmoke

[woodsmoke]

I APOLOGIZE I just typed "floppies" not floppies they are the "diskettes".
woodsorrysmoke

[GreyGeek]

You got me wondering about that Family History doc I wrote 8 years ago using LO. So, I went looking, both to find it and to see if it runs in LO 5. It does, and it looks perfect! But, I was wrong. It wasn't 253 pages, it was 279 pages.

[woodsmoke]

Very cool!
The first book that I published for someone else was a Family History. Instead of cash I said that I'd do it for a complete C-64 system and Star printer, printed the book in their "near letter quality font" and when I took it to the printer he was astonished that I had adjusted the "gutters". lol lotsa fun.

But that is a very nice family history, you are to be commended for it.

woodlikesitsmoke

[GreyGeek]

It took almost a year to write. My wife wrote the basic chapters in Kwrite using her source documents and I imported them into the LO master doc and edit them for spelling, grammar and punctuation., and sized and placed the pictures, which I had previously scanned and enhanced. While the TOC was simply linked to header styles the index was linked to specific words manually. I purchased the HP LaserJect P1606dn duplex laser printer specifically to print on both sides of a page. Most of the photos and scanned documents were not in color so a color duplex laser wasn't necessary (or affordable at the time).

As a husband and wife project I equate it to paper hanging! I.E., not something I'd recommend a couple to do together.

Most people are not aware of the F4 button in LO. It connects to a world of DB POWER and form integration!

[woodsmoke]

Cool gg!! yes, even though my first inconvenience only proofread the MS that was a "situation" in and of itself!

on my Neon machine LO 5

a wired Microsoft keyboard

F4 nothing
CTRL - F4 nothing
Superkey - F4 nothing
Alt - F4 closes the document.

Methinks that the Grey One has invoked things on his keyboard using the power of ...



woodonlyhas.5mmpencilssmoke

[GreyGeek]

I suspect that you have not installed LibreOffice Base. In the following graphic you can see what opens up when I press the F4 key. Also, I used "Options" to show the LibreOffice Base Configuration GUI. What I haven't shown you is the use of linked tables to set up parent and child forms that, when created, automatically create navigation controls!



EDIT: Also, it includes a tool which looks and works similar to MS's Jet.

[woodsmoke]

Hi your geekness

I do, indeed have the following installed

libreoffice
libreoffice-base
libreoffice-base-core
libreoffice-base-drivers

Oh and as an aside I tried to set up my gmail account in it and it didn't work as usual.

woodafullfeaturedkindaguysmoke lol

[GreyGeek]

Hi your geekness

I do, indeed have the following installed

libreoffice
libreoffice-base
libreoffice-base-core
libreoffice-base-drivers

Oh and as an aside I tried to set up my gmail account in it and it didn't work as usual.

woodafullfeaturedkindaguysmoke lol

All I can say is that it is probably a good thing that the gmail setup failed!

Did you go through "Tools --> Options" to enable database pools?

[woodsmoke]

Yes,

Tools/options/LibreOffice Base/Databases/Registered Databases/ Bibliography - /home/woodsmoke/.config/libreoffice/4/user/database/biblio.odb

woodneeksacoolstaffsmoke lol

[GreyGeek]

And F4 still doesn't display what I show in the image I posted?

[woodsmoke]

nope

woodnopesmokw

[GreyGeek]

What keyboard setting are you using?
I am using the "Acer | Acer Laptop" setting. (Obviously I am running an Acer laptop )