A long time ago someone round here recommended a small but comprehensive
program which could sit on a desktop. I lost it when the HD died, can anyone
remember it or suggest a substitute?

Mary

On Sat, 4 Oct 2008 14:20:10 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:

A long time ago someone round here recommended a small but comprehensive
program which could sit on a desktop. I lost it when the HD died, can anyone
remember it or suggest a substitute?

Mary


Programme for doing what ?

"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
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A long time ago someone round here recommended a small but comprehensive
program which could sit on a desktop. I lost it when the HD died, can
anyone remember it or suggest a substitute?

Mary

Don't know which one you are after, but a quick google brought a few - e.g.
http://joshmadison.com/article/convert-for-windows/, or
http://www.esbconsult.com.au/esbcalc/esbunitconv.htm

HTH.

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On Sat, 4 Oct 2008 14:20:10 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:

A long time ago someone round here recommended a small but comprehensive
program which could sit on a desktop. I lost it when the HD died, can anyone
remember it or suggest a substitute?

Mary


Programme for doing what ?
conversions perhaps :-)
Google will convert most things like Litres into gallons and feet inches
into Metres type "12 gallons in litres" and you get the answer only
works if you are on line though :-)
12 Imperial gallons = 54.5531025 litres

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On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:34:59 +0100, Kevin
wrote:

wrote:
On Sat, 4 Oct 2008 14:20:10 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:

A long time ago someone round here recommended a small but comprehensive
program which could sit on a desktop. I lost it when the HD died, can anyone
remember it or suggest a substitute?

Mary


Programme for doing what ?

conversions perhaps :-)


Or converting a desktop perhaps :-) Well she did ask for a Desktop
Conversion Tool .
A bit more info would have helped

Mary Fisher wrote:
A long time ago someone round here recommended a small but comprehensive
program which could sit on a desktop. I lost it when the HD died, can anyone
remember it or suggest a substitute?

Mary



http://joshmadison.com/article/convert-for-windows

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On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:34:59 +0100, Kevin
wrote:

wrote:
On Sat, 4 Oct 2008 14:20:10 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:

A long time ago someone round here recommended a small but comprehensive
program which could sit on a desktop. I lost it when the HD died, can anyone
remember it or suggest a substitute?

Mary

Programme for doing what ?

conversions perhaps :-)


Or converting a desktop perhaps :-) Well she did ask for a Desktop
Conversion Tool .
A bit more info would have helped



it would have helped loads :-)

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On Sat, 4 Oct 2008 14:20:10 +0100, in uk.d-i-y "Mary Fisher"
wrote:

A long time ago someone round here recommended a small but comprehensive
program which could sit on a desktop. I lost it when the HD died, can anyone
remember it or suggest a substitute?

Linux?

"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
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A long time ago someone round here recommended a small but comprehensive
program which could sit on a desktop. I lost it when the HD died, can
anyone remember it or suggest a substitute?

If you add a leg to each corner depending on the length of those legs you
can convert
your desktop in to a coffee table or a full height dinning table
Or even a computer table but make sure you know what operating system you're
using otherwise it may well fall over.

On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 11:20:09 UTC, Huge wrote:

Indeed. What you need is the Unix "units" program;

[huge@anubis ~]: units
you have: feet3
you want: litres
* 2.831685e+01
/ 3.531467e-02
you have: kiloparsec
you want: nanometer
* 3.085678e+28
/ 3.240779e-29
you have: chain2
you want: hectare
* 4.046856e-02
/ 2.471054e+01
you have:

And so on ...

My favourite is attoparsecs per microfortnight...

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On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:59:57 UTC, Huge wrote:

On 2008-10-06, Bob Eager wrote:
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 11:20:09 UTC, Huge wrote:

Indeed. What you need is the Unix "units" program;

[huge@anubis ~]: units
you have: feet3
you want: litres
* 2.831685e+01
/ 3.531467e-02
you have: kiloparsec
you want: nanometer
* 3.085678e+28
/ 3.240779e-29
you have: chain2
you want: hectare
* 4.046856e-02
/ 2.471054e+01
you have:

And so on ...

My favourite is attoparsecs per microfortnight...

Ooh, 'units' is cleverer than I thought;

[huge@anubis ~]: units
you have: attoparsec/microfortnight
you want: mph
* 5.706402e-02
/ 1.752418e+01

Hmmm..yes. I just use it as (near as dammit) an inch per second..!

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On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:02:26 +0000, Bob Eager wrote:

On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:59:57 UTC, Huge wrote:

On 2008-10-06, Bob Eager wrote:
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 11:20:09 UTC, Huge
wrote:

Indeed. What you need is the Unix "units" program;

[huge@anubis ~]: units
you have: feet3
you want: litres
* 2.831685e+01
/ 3.531467e-02
you have: kiloparsec
you want: nanometer
* 3.085678e+28
/ 3.240779e-29
you have: chain2
you want: hectare
* 4.046856e-02
/ 2.471054e+01
you have:

And so on ...

My favourite is attoparsecs per microfortnight...

Ooh, 'units' is cleverer than I thought;

[huge@anubis ~]: units
you have: attoparsec/microfortnight
you want: mph
* 5.706402e-02
/ 1.752418e+01

Hmmm..yes. I just use it as (near as dammit) an inch per second..!

Same here. But Google is equally clever. I just filled up and zeroed the
trip meter last time I filled up. My car has done 356.4miles in the
meantime and I had to replace 53.5 litres of petrol.

In the Google search box:
"356.4 miles per 53.5 litres in miles per imperial gallon"

answer:
"(356.4 miles) per (53.5 litres) = 30.2846195 miles per Imperial gallon"

or even:
Q: "(17 pi)^2 GBP in USD"
A: "((17 * pi)^2) British pounds = 4 932.50949 U.S. dollars"

"Bob Eager" wrote in message
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My favourite is attoparsecs per microfortnight...


I seem to recall that some Kernel Tuning parameters on some minicomputer OS
( VMS, perhaps? ) was specified in microfortnights.

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On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 16:05:00 UTC, "Ron Lowe"
ronATlowe-famlyDOTmeDOTukSPURIOUS wrote:

"Bob Eager" wrote in message
...

My favourite is attoparsecs per microfortnight...

I seem to recall that some Kernel Tuning parameters on some minicomputer OS
( VMS, perhaps? ) was specified in microfortnights.

That's correct (and where I got it from originally). Actually, it was
only one of them...the delay for the system to wait for the operator to
correct a time of day...

hang on...just start a VAX...here we are..

SYSBOOTSH TIMEP
TIMEPROMPTWAIT 65535 65535 0 65535
uFortnight

That's it..
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"Bob Eager" wrote in message
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On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 16:05:00 UTC, "Ron Lowe"
ronATlowe-famlyDOTmeDOTukSPURIOUS wrote:

"Bob Eager" wrote in message
...

My favourite is attoparsecs per microfortnight...

I seem to recall that some Kernel Tuning parameters on some minicomputer
OS
( VMS, perhaps? ) was specified in microfortnights.

That's correct (and where I got it from originally). Actually, it was
only one of them...the delay for the system to wait for the operator to
correct a time of day...

hang on...just start a VAX...here we are..

SYSBOOTSH TIMEP
TIMEPROMPTWAIT 65535 65535 0 65535
uFortnight

That's it..
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Long time VMS guru



I teach at the training centre of a multi-national oilfield service company.
The units in common use in the oil industry are old Imperial Units ( depth
in feet, pressures in PSI, diameters in inches, due to the US influence ).

There are, however, some units I've only ever seen in the oil industry:

Fluid Density: PPTF ( PSI per Thousand Feet ).
Fluid Density: PPG ( Pounds per Gallon )
Fluid Viscosity: Seconds ( time to flow a US quart of fluid through a Marsh
Funnel ).
Pipe Weight: PPF ( pounds per foot ).
are some that come immediately to mind.

It's always amusing to introduce new-hires to this strange world, when they
are fresh out of SI-based education.

Sometimes, I introduce them jokingly to the fff system, and quote
accelerations in "furlongs per square fortnight".

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