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    in Tell us...!

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    If you're any thing like my household there are a number of chat clients in use - MSN, ICQ, AIM etc. Best way I found of keeping on top of all this is a neat little freebie package called "Trillian". You can get this from http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/.

     

    Ties all the chat packages together so you only need the 1 program running until a messgae come through - then it automatically fires up the relevant messenger prgorma for you.

    1/35th scale modelling - markings

    in Military Scale Models

    Posted

    Hope this is in the right location!

     

    Anyone else out there into 1/35th scale models?? If so - got a good source for 1/35th scale decals of British army markings of the sixties and seventies??? I'm just about to start on the Firing Line model of the Stalwart and need the markings to complete the model.

     

    TIA.

     

    Neil.

    Creating a database

    in Other Chatter

    Posted

    Neil

     

    Ah well I came unstuck in the first paragraph when you said "these include (in theory) using the meta tags of the documents themselves for dynamic searches".

     

    I do get confused between Access (which I take to be the database) & Excel (which I think of as the search engine & sifter out of data) but not sure if it's that clearcut. I have a book on Access but not sure if should be reading a book on Excel.

     

    No problem - meta tags in MS OFfice documents are tricky at the best of times! Seperation between the two applications is:

     

    Access is a relational database tool. It can perform advanced searches on data and data objects (incl. images) then report these back in a coherent document form. Other data objects include Excel sheets (not enitre workbooks) and flat text file (.txt, .csv etc)

     

    Excel is a spreadsheet primarily designed for advanced number crunching but with limited text abilities.

     

    Each document in Word is a line apart from the document code no. there are no columns. I was just hoping there was some way of plonking a pile of these Word bits & sliding a column line to split up each bit of info.

     

    It would be easy enough to column the Word info, then nice if I could plonk a column in bulk. But Word only allows line by line selections not columns. Or is there some way of columning the Word info so columns could be selected?

     

    Sorry for the dim questions.

     

    We all have to start learning somewhere :) Fair swap - you've shared much info from your knowledge, least I can do is reciprocate!!

     

    Maybe the easiest thing would be if you could send me a couple of the word documents you have together with a run-down on how you want the data to be accessed - I can set the basic DB up for you and return it with a blow-by-blow "how to" for what I've done and you can then take it from there. If this is OK with you send the info through in a zip file to artistsrifles@another.com

     

    I've got Office 2003 here - which version are you using so I can ensure you can read what comes back!!!

    Creating a database

    in Other Chatter

    Posted

    Aha - now you are in my territory as I'm an Oracle DBA by trade!!! :D

     

    As a home user - unless you have excess capacity on your machine (*), then the Access database is the best route to follow. You have a number of routes available here as regards sorting the documents - these include (in theory) using the meta tags of the documents themselves for dynamic searches.

    The basic method, I'd have used, starting from scratch, involves assigning unique keywords to the documents then assigning the document file names to these key words. However you say you have started using an Excel sheet - well you can either use the Excel sheet as a search reference or import the sheet into a table within Access and search via that.

    Sounds a bit confusing, I know, but with practice it gets a lot easier. If I can help you with the donkey work/setting up at all feel free to ask.

     

    (*) IF you do have excess capacity then you can down load Oracle 9 Lite/personal edition free from the http://www.oracle.com web site - this allows you to include the content of the Word documents within the data base itself.

    Any one own a Stalwart???

    in British Vehicles

    Posted

    Very interesting!!!!!!! Any thoughts/comments on owing/operating/repairing them - e.g.:

     

    Why's the Mk 1 a non-runner ???

    How much work is there in replacing the multi-plate clutch???

     

    TIA

     

    Any answers/feedback on these points at all ?????? Pretty Please!!!! :D

    Saracens

    in British Vehicles

    Posted

    :D just a few pointers,

    you will need a very trusty friend as visability is terrible too the rear and sides.

    if the engine stalls you lose brakes and steering,

    but they are great fun to drive and they make a lovely sound going down the road vroom vroom!!!!!!!!!!!

     

    Heh - the bit about visibility seems to be a trademark of all the 6-wheeled Alvis family :)

     

    I drove a Saracen once on a TAVR exercise way back in the seventies and could never have done it without a No. 2 in the turret telling me when to turn. Overtaking wasn't a problem - apart from the odd milk float :)

    Great fun to play with though.... If the wife Mk 1 wasn't so anti-guns I'd be tempted to have gone for one in lieu of the Stalwart!!!! (or a 432 - but thats another story!!)

    Conversion to 12 volt

    in Lubrication, Batteries & Electrics

    Posted

    Hi Neil

    It's usually cost and availability of parts.

     

    Thanks Degsy!!!

     

    Bear with me on this, I'm feeling my way into this potential minefield propor to investing my hard earned readies, is it really hard work to locate reasonably priced 24v spares given the amount of kit Phoney Tonies cronies have been decommissioning recently????

     

    TIA,

     

    Neil.

    Your family members in the WW2...

    in Other Chatter

    Posted

    During WW1 Grandad on mums side spent the war charging - literally -around the battlefields on a horse or limber as part of the Royal Horse Artillery. Story in the family says he was up for the VC during the Somme but the officer and witnesses were all killed before the commendation could be processed. Grandad would never talk about his experiences.

     

    During WWII my dad was in the Sixth Airborne inc. Op. Market Garden, his brother was a tail gunner in Bomber command first on Wellingtons then on Lancs - he was one of the few who survived a complete tour - whilst mums brother was in the Fleet Air Arm, I' m told he was the equivalent of a Wop/AG in Swordfish and was on the Taranto raid.

     

    Post WW2 Dad was also out in Palestine during the Stern gang times - some of you may have heard of the squaddies murdered whilst sleeping in the back of a truck in Jerusalem; some of those men were Dad's mates.

    Fortunately he was demobbed before the Korean "police action". On his return home he immediately joined the T.A in 10 Para and stayed there until the late sixties. Some 10 years after that I joined 215 Sqdrn RCT (VR) before following the family tradition of military insanity by transferring to the Artists Rifles where I served until 1980 when I was discharged P8 following an accident in training.

     

    Hows that for a quick potted history of the family???

    Any one own a Stalwart???

    in British Vehicles

    Posted

    Any one one here own a Stalwart at all???

    The great master plan is to be retired (at 50!!!) from whats left of the Ford Motor Co. this time next year and to invest in one of these beasties as a hobby to keep me out of trouble.

    To this end - and with a view to not walking in blind and getting a bank account full of trouble - I'm trying to learn as much about them as possibel!!

    I'm already subscribed to the Yahoo group dedicated to them and this has been an invaluable source of information.

    However if any one here has one and would like to share any info on maintenance, operations etc it would be much appreciated!

    This guy pulls no punches

    in American Vehicles

    Posted

    Yep, also had those guys. One called himsael Dr Acusa Wash, no specific questions or such. He wanted to buy and pay by cheque.

    Also the way it was written didn't sound like a MV type of buyer more like a Rolls Royce type.

     

    Just beware!!

     

    Had one of those last week puporting to be from the Foreign Investment desk of Nat West - quite aside from the odd grammar it seems I now live in the headquarters of Nat West bank. Yep - they'd actually got my home adress as the business address to refer to....... :? :?

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