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Last night, I was looking at a road sign and could see that Leeds was 13 miles away, Stoke was 13 miles away and Leek was 10 miles away. Unfortunately it was too dark to see how far it was to Manchester. Can you help me?

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27 miles

Oops! That was wrong. Sorry Greebo.

28 miles

Well done, Whisky!

I make it to be 3*number of letters minus 2.
Leeds 5*3-2=13
Stoke 5*3-2=13
Leek 4*3-2=10
So Manchester 10*3-2=28

Trust ing Netscape to crash and force me to restart my computer 3 seconds after I noticed Greebo online!

Seems the company I w*rk for have decided to stop using IE - some license has expired, and they haven't renewed it! I HATE NETSCAPE!

Or 3 points for each consonent and two for each vowel
MNCHSTR 3 x 7 = 21
AEE 2 x 3 = 6

21 + 6 = 27


are we both right?

Insufficient information

It is in Greebo's mind what the rules are.

Please Greebo? Maybe both are valid?

Now now Titania, it's not that serious I'm sure everything will turn out all right in the end

PS. Look behind you I'm catching up with you

Hi Titania! It's nice to hear someone complaining about Netscape. It makes a pleasant change from slagging off Microsoft.

What a nasty trick played on you, Titania, Net of all things. Maybe you can try Opera?

I'm afraid I wouldn't know how the set up the way through proxy-servers and firewalls and stuff - tried installing a Messenger once, but failed - and since the IT-dept. sits 10 floors down from me I rarely run into them and don't really know anyone well enough to ask (we're not supposed to install anything at all unless it comes from them, but...) *shrugs*

...and as for IE vs Netscape I find that N. crashes a couple of times each day, something that rarely happened with IE, N. is slower because of all the plug-ins for variuos stuff, and I haven't been able to find any keyboard commands for things like refreshing/reloading or change the size of the window or...

Titania, you can't be that ignorant, or have they deliberatly stripped your net?

For changing window size use the button in the upper right corner with the two squares, between the "underscore" and the "cross".
Use your mouse to drag the window to the size you want.

There should be a "refresh" button on the "navigation" toolbar.
Go "view", "show", and put a mark on "navigation toolbar".

Unless your local BOFH has hidden those things

I thought it was:

Leeds = 4 letters + 1 = 13 miles

Stoke = 4 letters + 1 = 13 miles

Leek = 4 letters = 10 miles

So Manchester = 4 letters + 6 letters at a value of 3 miles each = 28 miles

Oh, well...

I said 'keyboard commands' Marjin - I rarely use the mouse if I can avoid it!

I didn't know you prefer fingerspitzengefuhl above a mousearm

Try Alt V R (after each other).