This is the first cartoon (or anything else) that was scanned, colored, and uploaded from my new computer- which has a new scanner/printer and a new Wacom Intuos on it.
It’s taken all day… ALL DAY… to get the thing up and running. Thanks much to John Beckham of Memphis Computer Shop for all the hard work and good nature. (Yes, Allan, you may certainly tell everyone that you are Hubris’ computer supplier. You are. But John’s my computer supplier. You live too far for house calls.)
New systems make me nuts. I’ve done some work on my laptop and finally sort of gotten used to it. Now I’ve got to do it all over again with this thing. The Wacom tablet doesn’t feel like my old one, the screen looks different, the scanner is definitely different. It’s a whole new world, and I’m just old enough to resent that.
On the other hand, I have a neat new computer. So what the heck am I moaning about?
Now… how the heck do I get spellcheck turned off? It’s making me nuts. The last time I had to do this was, like, seven years ago. I don’t remember how.
Ah, the JOYS of high tech.
I did some unending techcall stuff today; the sort of unpaid stuff you do for a friend. I can commensurate, Greg.
Um, I gotta give Paste and Bob some points for thinking… or not thinking… but. Don’t you usually need a permit or license to run some rivers? Plus Paste is that ‘under legal age’ thing…
Greg – Most software problems can be fixed with a hammer.
That’s usually how I get spell check to turn off (that, and Skype).
Ah. Dunno how to turn off spell check. Google it.
So … I’m Hurbis’ and The Bucket’s computer supplier? Sweet… but, uh, do they live in the same town?
Only if they’re being read in the same town… It’s all relative.
LoL
So … for me, they live where I WISH I lived … a COUNTY (that has a landmass of 1314 square miles, and a population of 59,000) with small towns.
I wanna go ‘home’ there. (Though for me, “home” is a city of 367,000 called London, Ontario.) and Huron County is where I’d “LIKE’ to be, while I’m stuck in the 5th largest city in North America.
Ah. The smell of a new story arc…
Hardware is what you want to kick but shouldn’t.
Software is what you want to kick but can’t.
Greg: Turning off spell check.
It depends on what program you’re using, since several of them, like Word, Internet Explorer and Firefox have their own spellcheck functions.
For Firefox:
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-use-firefox-spell-checker?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Using+the+spell+checker
Internet Explorer 10 under Windows 7:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie10-windows_7/how-to-disable-spell-checker-in-internet-explorer/6a90d72a-6383-4d27-811e-f041c30d6a13
Microsoft Office programs:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937422