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Perhaps they mean surface water drainage, that goes go into the nearest river, rather than the foul water sewage system...
Not that it says that on the bottle.
I do find badly written signs and instructions quite entertaining, (better than being slightly depressing I suppose). The local private school had a sign on the gate which read: 'Please ensure gate is closed when entering or departing.' which I found hilarious. My kids won't be going there even if I could afford it!

Hello Iain,

"do find badly written signs and instructions quite entertaining,"

I had severe sense of humour failure yesterday when trying to install Microsoft Office on my new computer.
The installation had progressed about 25% when it came up with an error message which said 'Cannot find such and such file, please see if you can locate it on your computer'. Initially I assumed it was a file in Windows but failed to locate it. So down to Google to see if I could find it, which proved fruitless, but it is apparently a common error. Tried about three of the suggested fixes to no avail. Finally went into the installation disc and viewed the content to find the very file the disc said it couldn't find. What I could also see was that it needed an un zip programme to open it, which I had yet to install. Did that and the installation completed normally.
If the error originally said 'Can't open such and such file ' or similar I would have saved a couple of hours and my blood pressure.

Alec

If no luck with MS Office try installing Open Office (www.openoffice.org) for free instead and ask for a refund on MS Office. It'll read and write the same file formats and is near enough identical.

Alec wrote:Hello Iain,

"do find badly written signs and instructions quite entertaining,"

I had severe sense of humour failure yesterday when trying to install Microsoft Office on my new computer.
The installation had progressed about 25% when it came up with an error message which said 'Cannot find such and such file, please see if you can locate it on your computer'. Initially I assumed it was a file in Windows but failed to locate it. So down to Google to see if I could find it, which proved fruitless, but it is apparently a common error. Tried about three of the suggested fixes to no avail. Finally went into the installation disc and viewed the content to find the very file the disc said it couldn't find. What I could also see was that it needed an un zip programme to open it, which I had yet to install. Did that and the installation completed normally.
If the error originally said 'Can't open such and such file ' or similar I would have saved a couple of hours and my blood pressure.

Alec

Hello Dp,

thanks for that, however, as I said it did install after that. How is that Microsoft charge so much for their programmes yet someone else provides a similar one for free? I don't begrudge paying for programmes in general but MS stuff seems very expensive given the size of their market?

Alec

Bill Gates didn't get rich by giving software away!
Look for open source software, there is plenty, and it's free, written by people who like programming for some reason, I hated it with a passion!

Hello Marky,

I understand that, and although I have downloaded free software, I feel rather guilty in some way. I use AVG internet security and pay for it rather than use their freeware.
The issue to me with Microsoft is that the material that the software is distributed in costs peanuts; I accept that there is a huge amount of work in producing it, and providing support but yet there are such basic errors n what they provide (I'm sure the majority of their customers are not computer engineers). They continually provide new operating systems that are a revamp of the older ones but require more and more resources to run them. I understand that Windows 8 is gong to be quite different but I'm still on XP and would have been happy to stick with Windows 98 if other programmes would still work with it?

Slightly off topic by now?

Alec