I just had one of those little victories today that isn't life changing but still it represents a victory of sorts. It's sort of in the category of I finally fixed that annoying squeak in the car door.
I realise nobody but me would have noticed this, but bear with me.
In church we use a presentation program called Magicpoint for our songs and notices. We don't use that other "point" programme because it is way over loaded with featured for our needs (plus it costs real money whereas Magicpoint is totally Free and Open Source).
In the past, we had been able to use fancy fonts to pretty up the notices as well as the basic Arial font which we use for the songs. At some stage, following an upgrade to the projector computer the fancy fonts stopped working and then when I upgraded my own computer, they stopped working there also.
So it wasn't a big problem, which is why it's taken me so long to fix it.
I went back to the documentation of the program. I searched on the internet.
I did both of these things several times over. I read all the little "Readme" files and the "FAQ" files which nobody reads.
Then finally a hint in an obscure quality maintenance page on the Debian web-site (Debian is the flavour of the linux operating system that we use on the church computers). Four years ago, someone had noted that there seemed to be a problem with fonts in magicpoint.
So I thought, "What if the problem is in the Debian package?" Then I downloaded the original source from the magicpoint site, compiled it and installed it and- woo hoo!- it works! :hat:
I repeated the process with the projector computer with exactly the same results.
So now i can vary fonts on the notices. I wouldn't change them on the songs because it looks better to have them look alike.
Like I said, nobody will notice this huge leap forward. But it makes me feel better to know I fixed that niggling problem.
Now to fix the dripping taps!
Doesn't it feel good to make that kind of progress? I've been cleaning closets, cupboards and drawers over the last couple of weeks. No one else can see it, but I feel good knowing it's done!
ReplyDeleteInteresting comparison, Lois!We had to do similar stuff when rearranging our church contents last week. All the cleaning, sorting, endless vacuuming of newly exposed carpet etc... nobody notices it but it has to be done to make the final product work.
ReplyDeleteI didn't mean to make light of your work, it just seems that no one notices a thing that is running well, they only notice it when it stops. No one notices when something is tidy, they only notice it when it's difficult to find things.I finished fixing my stove by the way - that's all done. Now for the molding around the front door, replacing some windows (that will be an education!) and tiling the floors. I'm tired already just thinking about it!
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting to note how some of the most important jobs or services only get noticed in their absence. Your saga with the different hardware stores is an example of that- we only notice good service (mostly) when compared with none-existent service.Many years ago I was an engineer responsible for the sewerage processing of the city of Wollongong. It was one of those services which is literally essential to life and health, but who even thinks about it until there's a problem? Our experiences with rearranging the church have been interesting. We run a bookshop as part of the ministry here. Our regular customers who are not part of our church walk right past the newly relocated bookshop then stand in the middle of the building totally bewildered. We have to show them where we have moved it to. Newcomers and people coming to buy prams walk in and say "Wow! You sell books!"Human nature is an interesting animal!BlessingsKeith
ReplyDeleteI was telling my husband about this discussion. He said...Who is the person first missed who leaves the company? The CEO or the plumber?:lol:
ReplyDeleteLOL!Actually it would be the plumber who maintians the executive washroom :-D
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