[time-nuts] John Vig elected President of IEEE

Chuck Harris cfharris at erols.com
Mon Dec 10 15:34:31 EST 2007


Neon John wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:36:19 -0500, Chuck Harris <cfharris at erols.com> wrote:
> 
>> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>> In message <001901c83b60$30880960$0800a8c0 at pc52>, "Tom Van Baak" writes:
>>>
>>>> Right click and SaveAs this 7.4 MB PPT file to your PC:
>>>>
>>>> Quartz Resonator & Oscillator Tutorial
>>>> http://www.ieee-uffc.org/freqcontrol/tutorials/vig3/vig3.ppt
>>>>
>>>> Then open the 298 page document with PowerPoint and
>>>> print as "note pages".
>>> I wish somebody could make a pdf of that, I don't have (and don't
>>> want!) access to Powerpoint[1].
>> Sure you do, it is called: "OpenOffice.org" ;-)
> 
> Just wasted a couple of hours trying to get that POS to generate a .doc file that my
> fax software could recognize.  I finally had to load MS Turd.  Not quite ready for
> prime time.

On the contrary, it is very ready for prime time.  Your fax program
is probably the one that is wrong.

-Chuck Harris



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