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2001-03-07 Thread Jerry Kubeck
Anyone able to offer this gentleman some help? Thanks Jerry >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Mar 06 04:56:28 2001 X-Originating-IP: [203.108.0.57] From: "John Ballou" [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 09:54:09 - Mime-Version: 1.0 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Mar 2001

Re: (non-Linux) web page monitors?

2001-03-07 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
Bob, This can be easily done with a short shell script that takes a copy of the original page, and diff's it against the current page. If it is different, it e-mails you, makes a copy of the changed page, then runs the diff against that page. If you want to do it remotely, you set it up to

(non-Linux) web page monitors?

2001-03-07 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, This may have a non-Linux answer, but here goes. I want to monitor some web pages for changes, and be notified when a specified page changes. Are there any notification services on the web, or packages I can add to my Linux box, to email beep, etc. when the page has been updated? Of

Re: (non-Linux) web page monitors?

2001-03-07 Thread Ray Cote
Of course you want to be polite about this since hitting somebody's web page every few seconds is going to get them ticked off so You can run the shell script as recommended by Ken, but run it from inside a cron that runs 1 or 2 times per day. You could also write a Perl script that just

DNS equiv of traceroute?

2001-03-07 Thread Paul Lussier
Hi all, Anyone ever heard of anything that gives similar info about DNS queries to what traceroute gives for network paths? In debugging DNS issues, I'd like to know what servers my DNS lookups are hitting to make sure things are set up correctly. For instance, I'd like to test that when

Re: Stupid HTML Tricks (or I hate HTML :)

2001-03-07 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: Could you describe where the 'tt/tt' tags would go? In practical terms, there is no real consistancy across browsers, OSes, and versions thereof as to how table formatting is handled. Some things will work some way, others, other ways. If you are

Re: Stupid HTML Tricks (or I hate HTML :)

2001-03-07 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 13:49:43 EST Kenneth E. Lussier said: You didn't *ASK* for alternatives, you asked for a specific means to a specific end. While that is true, Ben could have opted to provide me with other useful alternatives rather than begin lecturing and pontificating on

Re: Stupid HTML Tricks (or I hate HTML :)

2001-03-07 Thread Paul Lussier
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 05:19:46PM -0500, Tom Rauschenbach wrote: Oh I agree with this so much it makes me angry that this ever comes up. A well crafted HTML document could be correctly rendered with a text to speech engine for example, with no loss of information. An emphasis tag could just

Re: Stupid HTML Tricks (or I hate HTML :)

2001-03-07 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 12:27:55 EST Benjamin Scott said: My recommendation would be to put the text as plain old text in the table, with a generic graphic icon for the button next to it. Most web sites do it this way. Now you know why. :-) Now why couldn't you have suggested

Re: Fwd:

2001-03-07 Thread Mark Komarinski
http://www.linux-laptop.net/dell.html This is *the* site for getting Laptops set up with Linux. It's really a collection of user's web sites that have information. Often, there is more than one web page devoted to your particular laptop (The Dell Inspiration 5000E has 4 different sites). -Mark

Re: Stupid HTML Tricks (or I hate HTML :)

2001-03-07 Thread Niall Kavanagh
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: This is all done within a perl CGI program. But it doesn't seem to be a perl problem, since I can't even figure out how to create the static HTML code to accomplish this task. Anyone have any ideas? Use CSS to define how the buttons should look,

Re: (non-Linux) web page monitors?

2001-03-07 Thread mod+gnhlug
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Re: Stupid HTML Tricks (or I hate HTML :)

2001-03-07 Thread Paul Lussier
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 05:03:03PM -0500, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: Put the button text inside 'tt/tt' or some other monospacing element. The text will not be as pretty, but oh well.. You could probably play games with styles and typefaces to specify a monospaced typeface that is more

Re: Stupid HTML Tricks (or I hate HTML :)

2001-03-07 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
You didn't *ASK* for alternatives, you asked for a specific means to a specific end. Next time, be more generic, would ya? ;-) Kenny Paul Lussier wrote: In a message dated: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 12:27:55 EST Benjamin Scott said: My recommendation would be to put the text as plain old text

Re: Stupid HTML Tricks (or I hate HTML :)

2001-03-07 Thread Paul Lussier
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 05:00:29PM -0500, Benjamin Scott wrote: The world should stop trying to make web pages look the same everywhere they display. HTML is designed to allow the *user* to control the presentation of hypertext marked up by the author. Web pages are *supposed* to look