Hi Gangue,
Here we go, 1 foot (30cms) of white stuff (snow) outside, and temperatures
around minus 10 here in Scotland!
On the Arachne front, 1.69 is at least consistent, it just shuts
down any time I try to do anything on "auto-pilot" using scripts and
or anything other than ALT D or normal connect. It won't even go direct
from "Get New Mail" and do that without an error. Oh well!
To-night is Hogmanay here in Scotland, when we celebrate the coming of a
New Year with a drink or two (or three or four 8>] ) and especially at
the "bells" as the old year is rung out and the new year rung in.
Underneath all the celebrations though, it is traditional to make a
toast in the first few minutes of the New Year, one especially for
"Absent Friends"
for those friends who are not with you because of illness, distance, or
who have passed over in the previous year. This year I will be thinking
of all my "Friends I've never met" at that time and thanking you for
your help and support over the year. Feel free to join me wherever you
are at a few minutes into the New Year your time.
Other Browsers continue to intrigue me. Found "Enigma" which is a windoze
product, runs in about 1.8Mb, supports Jscript and does quite a
crediatble job, BUT seems to have a problem with either LFN or
third-level pages, not sure which. Will not access anything like
www.something.com/melevans/tartan/page1.html
so it's not happy with images held in an image sub-directory. Copes with
most other stuff though. I suspect it's LFN might be the problem. Would
appear to be a good one though for a Windoze machine with a small HDD.
That with the Poco e-mailer would be a pretty good choice for a full
facility suite in a small HDD.
Tried Netscape 6.0 also. Now that's a winbloat and a half, BUT it is
excellent, and I like just about everything I've tried on it so far. The
new Composer is good for a freebie product, and switches between four
edit modes with a single clickable toolbar, gives you HTML direct,
WYSIWYG edit, Some TAGS displayed (a la Dreamweaver) or ALL TAGS
displayed again like Dreamweaver but messier. Worth playing with a bit
more I would suspect, especially for anyone who wants to do and learn
HTML from the start so that you do hand coding as well as WYSIWYG stuff.
Looks like it has the instant up-date from one to the other as did
AOLpress before it, one of my favourite quickie HTML editors. (still use
it for quick layouts, it's so easy!) It's big though, really needs a 2Gb
or above HDD to do anything sensible with it and leave space for
anything else. If you had to select one and only one program that would
cover browse, e-mail, html edit, diall-ups, fax and so on, this really
has to be worth playing with if you're stuck with doze.
Silly Season on the news front here. Easyjet (budget Airline) runs out
of de-icer and strands over 1000 passengers, some for up to three days.
They give 'em a few numbers to call, no real help to find food or
alternative accomodation, just a sort of well it's a budget airline
type of response. Then they get uptight and upset when one of their
"passengers" whose been in a transit lounge bar for over 17 hours gets
too much to drink and starts telling the staff a few home truths. Poor
guy ends up in jail charged with public order offences despite
assurances by other passengers that staff have been abusive when asked
about delay and when they can expect to get off the ground. I wonder
why it is ALWAYS perceived that someone "doing a job" must be in the
right, even although evryone else involved in a situation like this
except the staff and the police perceive exacly the opposite. You never
hear of the Police supporting the passengers by insisting the airline
arrange food and accomodation, do you?
Take care all, have a good New Year, speak to you all again then!
Regards
Mel and Ella
