[A-list] Re: MicroSnot

2003-08-14 Thread J J Young
TheRegister at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32196.html included the following wording: leveraging client dominance in order to gain share in the server market Exploiter, of course, is the client that is dominant. It never was the browser wars. The money was in servers.

[A-list] Sneaky virus poses as email from sysadmin

2003-08-14 Thread J J Young
Details of the worm recently sent to the Arachne List are here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/32136.html The article ends: Apple and GNU/Linux users need have no fear. As is so often the case, they're immune from the latest Windows nasty. A call to arms? ;-) Cheers, Jake

[A-list] Use of [A-list]

2003-08-11 Thread J J Young
Funny, I received a mail from someone who is regularly receiving (from other sources) several of the worms aimed at Lookout Express users, an example of which was mailed to the Arachne List recently. Funny, because she had searched for references to the message title commonly used by this worm,

[A-list] Re: How might I best reply to this?

2003-08-07 Thread J J Young
Hello Sam, You may recall the run-in I had with a major UK supermarket and its website a couple of years ago. I spoke to one of their guys, who was quite dismissive when I said the site was useless to many blind users, but at least he was available, which was not the case with the lamentable

[A-list] Re: Looking for a text string search program

2003-08-02 Thread J J Young
Hello Sam, For Win32 ducking there's Zip Search from: http://www.fullcircuit.com/ZipSrch.zip 207kB freeware, linked from: http://www.fullcircuit.com/index.htm#soft Its helpfile states: The program unzips each *.zip file in the selected directory (or directories if ‘include sub-directories’

[A-list] Re: your account acoavhav

2003-08-02 Thread J J Young
Received the following crap from [EMAIL PROTECTED] The attached message.zip contains message.html which has the This program cannot be run in DOS mode. tell-tale. Regards, Jake Young X-From_: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 01 19:49:00 2003

[A-list] Re: Arachne vs Lynx table loading time

2003-07-29 Thread J J Young
Two (or was it three?) summers ago when I was finding a use for a laptop with no hard drive by running Arachne in a RAM-drive, I used huge Slashdot pages for testing. From my grey-matter RAM-drive I recall that on another machine with Win3.11, Internet Explorer 3 couldn't load the page while

[A-list] Re: PCMCIA DOS driver found :-(

2003-06-22 Thread J J Young
Hello Bastiaan, This is what I did a year or so ago, having found that pre-Win95 enabling of PCMCIA seems to be an expensive wish. First, I found CardWiz socket services for Win3.1 at: http://www.datorintensiven.se/dinew/drivers/iqnote/cardwiz.zip linked from near the end of

[A-list] Re: Digital camera and card reader

2003-06-13 Thread J J Young
Hello Bastiaan, Eighteen months ago I got a parallel port Datafab compact flash card reader/writer from an eBay auction. They were being sold off at that time, and there are none on eBay right now. I guess anyone needing to transfer and check digicam snaps in the field is expected to use a

[A-list] Re: Saving a web page

2003-06-06 Thread J J Young
Best regards, Jake Young === On 2003-06-05 at 02:26:00 Christof wrote: === snipped stuff similar to that written about by Jondo at AQC over the past year or so c) If there are more than 10 files with the same beginning or the file system of the site is more complex (recursion needed,

[A-list] Re: Saving a web page

2003-06-05 Thread J J Young
=== On 2003-06-04 at 20:54:00 Glenn McCorkle wrote: === Since most of the images we encounter on the web are named in LFN format. It will be next to imposible to do it in DOS. That is why Arachne must save the files into the cache in 8.3 format. 8 numerical digits and a 3 character file

Re: arachne-digest V1 #2092

2003-04-12 Thread J J Young
Ray, see: http://www.welchco.com/02/14/01/60/99/11/2903.HTM where there are a couple of free lunch variants. According to the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia used the phrase (in Latin) in 1934. Looking around, I see this mayor certainly

Re: Re: Email viruses in MIME encoded attachments

2003-03-31 Thread J J Young
Hello again Sam, === On 2003-03-30 at 12:36:00 you wrote: === Thanks for your reply, Jake. My Nettamer inbox is over 2MB. Unlike an Arachne inbox which in its raw form consists of individual text files, a Nettamer inbox in its raw form consists of just one very long concatenated text

Re: Email viruses in MIME encoded attachments

2003-03-30 Thread J J Young
Hello Sam, === On 2003-03-29 at 23:55:00 you wrote: === I have noticed that F-prot AV will discover, flag, identify, and report any MIME-encoded email attachments containing viruses in messages received by Arachne's email client, even if the the attachment has not yet been decoded and

Re: Kuwait incubators

2003-03-01 Thread J J Young
=== On 2003-02-28 at 23:14:00 L.D. wrote: === Jake, that's the correct approach to take. : I'm not so sure. The CSM article cites the appearance of the false story in the Daily Telegraph, an establishment national newspaper in the UK, mockingly called the Torygraph as a nod to its

Re: Kuwait incubators

2003-02-28 Thread J J Young
=== On 2003-02-28 at 19:02:00 L.D.Best wrote: === Whether or not the story were true, I would feel far better if recognized legit sources provided the information on the purported crime or hoax, whichever it might be. The Christian Science Monitor is still considered authorative and

Re: International law???

2003-02-26 Thread J J Young
From the Washington File at http://usinfo.state.gov Q: Ari, you said yesterday that if we go to war with Iraq, the Iraqi leadership, including Saddam Hussein, would be a legitimate target under international law. Does this mean that if we go to war with Iraq our leadership would be a legitimate

Re: International law???

2003-02-26 Thread J J Young
Hmmm, the tale-end of my earlier message was removed: there were intervening lines each commencing with a period. From the Washington File at http://usinfo.state.gov Q: Ari, is the U.S. government prepared to offer compensation to Derek Bond, the 72-year-old British man who spent three weeks in

Re: Lost...?

2003-01-25 Thread J J Young
Sam H commented: I don't know why the dark beers tend to be so much more expensive than the amber ones. Apart from the factor of charging what the market will stand, Guiness spent a small fortune on developing their Widget... but you'll only find one in a can. Did Ruddles ever make its way to

Re: Newsletters HTML

2003-01-21 Thread J J Young
Hello Bastiaan, Often these images which have to be downloaded are used to ascertain that the mail has been read, and by whom. If I get spam which I decide to check out, and it seems to have an identifier, I'll alter it so someone else gets their email address passed on to the spammers. A

Re: Legal Logic ???

2003-01-18 Thread J J Young
Bob wrote: In the desire to legally protect intellectual property, here's a good idea gone bad ... snipped American companies were the first to trademark common turns of phrase in their advertising copy. The 3 Ms: Micro$oft, McDonalds and Monsanto need reining in. I searched for a local

Re: OT: Granny Oakley

2003-01-18 Thread J J Young
Roger quoted: Army and marine sources, who do not wish to be identified, privately state, We could use a grandmother like that! Still finding nothing funny about people being killed, I'd hope that the armed forces of your great nation had as their principal aim the preservation of life. This

Re: OT: weapons

2003-01-16 Thread J J Young
Sorry Roger, I must have had a humour bypass, I don't find this funny at all. Make your point using fictional events, not the recent death of a man who (I hear) was not wearing body armour but went to the assistance of his colleagues under attack (who were wearing body armour). The men being

Re: failue of Arachne on Logitech.com

2002-03-03 Thread J. J. Young
TT wrote Dear Glenn: I tried everything, still cannot use Logitech site with Arachne I didn't try latest Arachne yet Is that the fault Glenn, I wrote them telling them their site design was bad Not-Glenn here Been there, done that Compaq, more recently, is as bad JavaScript Blech Take

Re: mission impossible?

2002-01-13 Thread J. J. Young
Mel, I've been able to access UKonline for FTP upload from another ISP. The same goes for LineOne, but I hardly used that account and it's now been vaporized w/o a word of warning. In fact, they went to the trouble of phoning me to tell me I could still use the account, and the next time I tried

Re: OT: XP DOS [was Re: crap]

2001-12-09 Thread J. J. Young
See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23223.html and the relation between the most efficient virus propagation utilities ever devised by human intellectual failure and the MPAS industry. Jake

Re: winmodems

2001-12-08 Thread J. J. Young
L.D. wrote: How are the rest of you doing at survival plans for the holidays? Haven't yet assembled the pudding ingredients. It's pressure-cooked in an alumin(i)um mo(u)ld shaped like a Sputnik... or cannonball for those of a more Dickensian outlook. Looks great when it's flamed with brandy and

Re: Tesco

2001-11-26 Thread J. J. Young
I can't believe anyone actually purchases Marmite or willingly eats it on a crumpet or otherwise. Vile stuff. Actually, a gentleman licks it off his crumpet, and other gentlemen don't question his actions. ;-) Jake

Google reveals more of the hidden Web

2001-11-10 Thread J. J. Young
Word and other formats are now being converted: http://www.searchenginewatch.com/searchday/01/sd1031-google-files.html Hope Bill doesn't throw his rattle out of the cradle. Jake

Re: Mithgol's Align=middle HTML tag

2001-11-09 Thread J. J. Young
[capitals used for emphasis] Image alignment may be left, right, top, MIDDLE and bottom e.g. img src=some.png align=middle. Netscape added texttop, absmiddle, baseline and absbottom. Explorer added CENTER. For table cell contents there's horizontal alignment left, CENTER, right e.g. td

Re: HTML standards - long (was: Unofficial Arachne Buglist updated)

2001-11-09 Thread J. J. Young
Steve wrote (before the List hiatus): If you write your code to the standard, then it's a problem with the browser if it's not rendered correctly. In order to accomodate as many browsers as possible, I write to 4.0 Transitional without CSS. I believe in the any-browser philosophy, and I

Re: Unofficial Arachne Buglist updated

2001-11-01 Thread J. J. Young
Steve wrote: I've done web pages professionally, as well as personally, and I've never had any complaints that my pages (which of course all contained the required DTD) didn't work with one type of browser or other. 'of course', 'required'... h. Nevertheless, it's good to hear of a

Re: How is the phone in CZ?

2001-11-01 Thread J. J. Young
Second: Quick doesn't offer a proxy server. Are these available from other providers? Do a search for Fravia and see what he says. You'll then search for free proxy server and probably use one in the Far East. The well-known anonymizer proxies are usually too busy. Regards, Jake

Re: How is the phone in CZ?

2001-11-01 Thread J. J. Young
Second: Quick doesn't offer a proxy server. Are these available from other providers? Do a search for Fravia and see what he says. You'll then search for free proxy server and probably use one in the Far East. The well-known anonymizer proxies are usually too busy.

Re: Unofficial Arachne Buglist updated

2001-10-30 Thread J. J. Young
anarkissed wrote: I see I should insert the !doc type header Just use it when validating, then delete it. There are documented instances of the biggest baddest browser tripping up when it's included, but not otherwise. Oh dear, I'm encouraging you to accommodate Explorer's shortcomings. W3C

Re: Unofficial Arachne Buglist updated

2001-10-30 Thread J. J. Young
I/me/moi wrote: anarkissed wrote: I see I should insert the !doc type header Just use it when validating, then delete it. I see now you can apply your own choice of Doctype, and upload from your own machine if using a browser with that capability. Good stuff! Jake

Re: Alexander Graham and stuff

2001-10-29 Thread J. J. Young
Mel wrote: It is a bit strange to see kids playing soccer who are blind and they are listening where the ball is because it has a bell suspended inside it! I've actually participated in such a game once with a blindfold. It was interesting to find out how people being blind can play sports.

(OT) Windows XP

2001-10-28 Thread J. J. Young
Microsoft has launched its new Windows XP operating system. The system promises fewer computer crashes and will allow users to delete data from their hard drive. Reliably reported at: http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/10/25/xp.london.launch/index.html Regards, Jake (experienced an earth

Re: sac

2001-10-16 Thread J. J. Young
Dale wrote: On 16 Oct 01 at 22:11, Jake wrote: The base is still there, but the U2s are gone or mothballed; satellite technology made them unnecessary. The venerable English Electric Canberra is currently flying photo-recon over Afghanistan. The USAF used these aircraft at one time: decades

Re: sac

2001-10-15 Thread J. J. Young
The base is still there, but the U2s are gone or mothballed; satellite technology made them unnecessary. The venerable English Electric Canberra is currently flying photo-recon over Afghanistan. The USAF used these aircraft at one time: decades ago. Jake

Re: Fly Your Flag

2001-10-12 Thread J. J. Young
I have a feeling that here in Warwickshire in the centre of England if I was to fly the Union Jack (none of this Union Flag Politicaly Correct nonsence) from the halyard on my radio mast, I could look forward to a snotty letter from the local council telling me to take it down. I was going

Re: cheap stuff but good

2001-08-29 Thread J. J. Young
trywww.starsurplus.com for one. It requires JavaScript. If you just want to look: http://www.starsurplus.com/action.lasso?-database=starcustomers-response=index.lasso-add

Re: (OT) Duchess of Padua

2001-08-28 Thread J. J. Young
L.D. wrote: Jake, luv ... You neglected to explain to uninitiated, non-Brits, that Ernest [It's not Earnest, is it???] was slang for gay ... which makes the Irish playwright's story even more fun to experience, what with the cross dressing and all. G Earnest, Ernest, potato, tomato...

Re: is it just me?

2001-08-28 Thread J. J. Young
More unfortunately, page authors can't be arsed to test their product and get it right in the first place. The stricter markup of XML gives an opening to small-footprint browsers that don't need all the in-built error correcting of the exterminator. Jake [No great fan of Netscape]

(OT) Duchess of Padua

2001-08-27 Thread J. J. Young
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1458121719 I have no connection with the selling of this book. Regards, Jake

Re: DOTnavyDOTmil

2001-08-27 Thread J. J. Young
From: Williams, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: J. J. Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Software Archives The archive has been removed. V/R, Mark A. Williams WebMaster: SPAWARSYSCEN Charleston, Norfolk Office http://www.norfolk.navy.mil DON IT Umbrella Program http

Re: (OT) Duchess of Padua

2001-08-27 Thread J. J. Young
Or wrote: whats so special about that book? You've not been infected with Seek Hey's Kingdom of Padua meme? It's a play by Oscar Wilde -- thanks to a few minutes searching I am now informed it's not very good. Meanwhile, Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is on TV (1952 film). Very

Re: Where again do we get xmsdsk?

2001-08-20 Thread J. J. Young
But I thought we had a down on Simtel. Why not get it from close by: ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/vol/2/simtelnet/msdos/ramdisk/furd19_i.zip Jake From http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/4825.shtml dummy... At 12:02 20-8-01 +0200, you wrote: can anyone please repost the download location for xmsdsk/emsdsk?

Re: Where again do we get xmsdsk?

2001-08-20 Thread J. J. Young
where there also is dungdrag.zip, which you won't be able to do without once you've got it...) -- Harry Potter for an older generation? :-) Jake

Re: mail

2001-08-19 Thread J. J. Young
If the MIME attachments received by your wife's email client cannot be decoded, then I would suspect that there is something really wrong with her email client. Hehe. The last Magistr I received came from LookOut (of course) and FoxMail for Win3.1x wouldn't save _all_ the attachment. A

Photo CDs

2001-08-14 Thread J. J. Young
Having experienced a Fuji processed photo CD which was unreadable with DOS and Win3.1 software, I was interested to learn that Kodak consider their toes are being trodden on. They complained that Microsoft designed Windows XP unfairly, giving preference to its own software and links to

Re: PDF2TXT

2001-08-13 Thread J. J. Young
Does anyone know of a free DOS program that will convert PDF files to text? Sam, go to: http://www.geocities.com/rlcgreen/txtms03.htm#misctxt and scroll down further to find Xpdf - Toolkit for extracting text/information/images from Adobe PDF files.. I've not used it, preferring to save my HDD

Re: PDF2TXT

2001-08-13 Thread J. J. Young
How do you use the google service? If Google finds a PDF it will offer to extract the text for you. I don't know whether this is dependent on detecting whether your browser is sans the required plugin. If you find an online PDF you want the text from, you could try feeding its URL to Google to

Re: The rescue a laptop sagas

2001-08-10 Thread J. J. Young
Would like advice on a couple of things. I want to use this machine for some on caravan site HTML work, so I will need a DOS based HTML editor of some kind, preferably one that's not as pedantic as using the built in arachne thing. Anyone recommend a good one? Boxer is one of those

Re: tesco.com

2001-08-08 Thread J. J. Young
I have no use for their service, but I sent them a congratulatory note anyway. You might want to give them some positive feedback too. g Did _before_ that before the original post... BUT: The service was announced (with other stuff) in an in-store promotional leaflet, and says the service is

Re: Don't yell ... MS Word .DOC

2001-08-07 Thread J. J. Young
Thomas wrote: Why do you/we want RTF on the WWW? Its advantage is in sharing documents with non-Netizens (who get their secretaries to write a Word doc and attach it to an email). I remember when I first got a CD drive and was annoyed at the number of HTML pages on magazine disks, with no

Re: Don't yell ... MS Word .DOC

2001-08-07 Thread J. J. Young
Thomas wrote: There is an open-source program, wvWare, to convert MS-Word .doc to HTML. I don't know if they've done everything for DOS, though I remember seeing it in the NetBSD packages collection, and it was also available for OS/2, so it would in all likelihood be available for all Unixes,

Re: Don't yell ... MS Word .DOC

2001-08-06 Thread J. J. Young
L.D. wrote: Very important good thing about view: It will print to a file!! I like its file deletion, though the file menu is clumsy, and beeps at me when I'm against the end stops. Probably better to associate it with a file manager, but I prefer other viwers/editors for general use in DOS. In

tesco.com

2001-08-06 Thread J. J. Young
A year or so after I was given short shrift by someone on the Tesco web team for complaining that their site sent Arachne to a bad browser whinge page... they seem to have got it mainly right. See: http://www.tesco.com/access/about.htm They're still the M$ of the supermarket world. Jake

SirCam [was Re: Arachne image rendering problem]

2001-08-03 Thread J. J. Young
On 31/07/01 Sam W.H. wrote: BTW, can you help point out to us any other interesting targets downrange which might not be as easily discernible as the more obvious ones that keep popping up? We need to scope them out. Some copies of email attachments infected with the prolific SirCam worm

Re: Arachne image rendering problem

2001-07-31 Thread J. J. Young
Glenn wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 17:47:39 +, Bastiaan Edelman wrote: Adding to this wishlist: would be nice if files could be stored with their original name... so no 69378546.gif but pistol-1.gif. The problem with that is: Many, many pages we visit on the net have files of the same name.

Re: non-compliant png file?

2001-07-31 Thread J. J. Young
Bernie wrote: But if you all think back a few months (or a year?) we've already gone over this at some other site. That time it was also some sort of graph in PNG format that got extremly strange in Arachne. And no, I still don't understand it. That was me... looking at http://www.advfn.com (you

Re: Qube - first impression

2001-07-31 Thread J. J. Young
G, it wants 15 bit or more color depth and faster than 66MHz. I'll get in touch and see if there's a Padua Peasant permutation. Jake

Re: Arachne image rendering problem

2001-07-29 Thread J. J. Young
Please take a look at the URL named below: http://personal.inet.fi/koti/sherlock/WW/kenneth.html This page displays a collection of 10 very antique pistols with a write-up and an excellent color JPG image of each. The page does not take very long to be loaded in Arachne. Argghh... it's over

Re: English Pound sign

2001-07-29 Thread J. J. Young
Laurie (a bloke) wrote: Hi All, Mel, Jake etc, Have you got a working Pound sigh in Arachne ? PC normaly is OK but just noticed the Pound sign isn't working in Arachne. Laurie I'm sure Mel's never seen one [being a Scot] :-) Activate the keyboard map in Local Settings [while muttering This

Re: Kodak CD and Arachne

2001-07-22 Thread J. J. Young
I wrote a few weeks ago about a CD of photos produced by some Fuji process. What was strange was that the folders of JPEGs couldn't be seen by DOS and Win3.1 graphics apps and file managers. I don't know how this could be, but it's very annoying! Jake

Re: The Elks?

2001-07-20 Thread J. J. Young
Might this Elk song have something to do with Chernobyl fallout? On a less gloomy note, I got this IIRC from an Arachne-user's site... maybe Ben Hood's friend Catfish: Noo, toodie wee well meg dee chocolate mooose. Step oone, geet a five-pound block oof chocolate. 5 lb. chocolate hefted onto

Re: Saving downloaded pages [was Re: downloading

2001-07-18 Thread J. J. Young
Use an older version (1.64 or 1.66) with a *working* cache index, and save the cache contents. When you want to view the saved page(s), copy the saved files into the emptied cache. There are easier ways to accomplish this with Win3.1x software, but I'm not sure how pure you want to be :-) Jake,

Printers for DOS [was Re: Questions]

2001-07-18 Thread J. J. Young
Lars wrote: Next time you buy a printer, make sure there is a set-up program for DOS included. ;-) Hmm... somehow I doubt that there's one with new printers. I hope it's still the case with Brother laser printers. If not, the models from a few years ago are regularly advertised and the

Re: POP3 - Can anyone deal

2001-07-18 Thread J. J. Young
On 15/07/01 Thomas wrote: Now I wonder, has anybody hit a snag downloading mail with Outlook Express? I hear of such problems frequently, and hence heard of http://www.mail2web.com Jake, Do those problems you hear of occur with Outlook Express as the sending software, or as the receiving

Re: COM/IP

2001-07-18 Thread J. J. Young
Dan wrote: I am one of those dedicated DOS users, with his favorite DOS games. I have a DOS game that plays well when shelled from arachne and can be played via modem or direct null modem. Here is the question. Is there a way to play the game live, via telnet, like com/ip allows in windows

Re: POP3 - Can anyone deal

2001-07-18 Thread J. J. Young
Sam H wrote: Merely filtering out HTML email would not stop the KAK worm from getting through and infecting your machine if you open the message by using Outlook Express and with JavaScript enabled. Are you saying OE leaps into action when it sees scripting it recognizes within the body of a

Re: Now you can shoot me, a plea from the condemned.

2001-07-13 Thread J. J. Young
Sam wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:2:38 +0800, J. J. Young wrote: A detachment of vestel virgins are girding their loins as I write. Jake: Either you committed a very serious typo or a most embarrassing Freudian slip as you wrote. Of course I know you really meant to say guarding their lions

Simtel

2001-07-13 Thread J. J. Young
I had a problem with not being able to download from Simtel today. There was a speedy response pointing me to a discussion board where a solution for Opera users was given. It's to do with not enabling the referrer -- Arachne has the same option. At other sites I've had a page thrown up

Re: POP3 - Can anyone deal

2001-07-12 Thread J. J. Young
Try http://www.mail2web.com for deleting those sticky mails. No JavaScript! BTW, Laurie, the program I'd seen the other day was Checkmail, much smaller than the proggy recommended by Crapserve, but is also for Windows (of greater or lesser clarity) and is from 1996.

Re: Now you can shoot me, a plea from the condemned.

2001-07-12 Thread J. J. Young
The sentence may be carried out in a private chamber reserved for such purposes in the tower of the castle overlooking the Kingdom of Padua. Sir Winston Churchill once said If you have to kill a man, it doesn't hurt to be polite. Sam Heywood A detachment of vestel virgins are girding their

A pointer for the clueless

2001-07-12 Thread J. J. Young
7 reasons why HTML e-mail is EVIL!!! http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml Shows the Outlook Express options dialog so the clueless may take the first steps towards redemption. Elsewhere at this site is useful guidance on fluid table design.

Re: [SurvPC] editor for DOS

2001-07-11 Thread J. J. Young
Phew, the Boxer editor has a good bag of tricks. http://www.boxersoftware.com/pgbdos.htm -- including sorting; copying columns; copying to/from Windows clipboard; multiple clipboards; multiple undo; highlighting your HTML tags; global searchreplace for when you need to change _all_ those URLs;

Free Windows software from Bardon

2001-07-08 Thread J. J. Young
http://www.bardon.com/otherproducts.htm SmilerShell has the best command line you've ever seen, as if the plain-vanilla DOS prompt was enhanced by lots of handy utilities. -- 16 and 32-bit versions. Also: fax software for all Windows. Don't shoot the messenger, Jake

Re: Email POP3 problems.

2001-07-08 Thread J. J. Young
Answering Laurie: These are technical people right. I've sent 2 emails containing the Arachne brouser tag at the bottom of each message. Oooh, a big can of worms! They are there to answer so many queries a day; funnel us down the pipe that best suits them and their commercial partners; and

re:dosboot

2001-06-30 Thread J. J. Young
Neil wrote: ...which brings me to another question. For copying .txt files I press F4 then ctl+kb, ctl+kk, ctl+kc (here it shifts up a line) and I never get to copy the whole thing I add some carriage returns and/or junk text to extend the foot of a document before copypaste, to ensure

Re: Smart Tags

2001-06-28 Thread J. J. Young
Ron wrote: Come on people, what would one need to include in a web page to divert IE6 to a upgrade to Arachne page ? This does more. Simply give the same destination i.e. window.location for all JavaScript enabled browsers if you wish. Have fun! Jake

Re: Smart Tags

2001-06-28 Thread J. J. Young
M$ have stepped back from Smart Tags, due to external feedback. See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/20033.html

Re: My browser, my way

2001-06-27 Thread J. J. Young
Clarence wrote: I'd like to read more of that newsletter. Ah, copyright. I rarely get over to http://www.htmlgoodies.com but I should think issue 136 is there, in more bloated form, at: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/letters/136.html (maybe not yet). In the plain text email version: --The author

Re: Not dumb enough for Smart Tags

2001-06-27 Thread J. J. Young
G McC wrote: Thanks J.J. However, If I understand correctly All of this applies only to users of IE6 Do you *really* think that anyong here on *this* list is STUPID enough to be using that piece-of-crap??? ;-) Maybe in two years' time IE6 will look the lesser of all the then-current

Not dumb enough for Smart Tags

2001-06-26 Thread J. J. Young
The Beast of Redmond wants to plaster links over everyone else's webpages for users of IE6. Sportingly, you can turn off the smart tags, and make a bit of a protest at the same time. Maybe all such pages will disappear from MSN search results? From:

My browser, my way

2001-06-26 Thread J. J. Young
From the current HTML-Goodies newsletter: No one has ever asked me what I want in a browser. If anyone ever did, I'd probably say something like this: I want the BACK, FORWARD, STOP, etc., buttons moveable. I want them on the right side actually. It would be better if they weren't there at

Re: M$.gov.uk

2001-06-25 Thread J. J. Young
Sam wrote: Safeguards should be legislated into place to prevent government from competing with free enterprise. Unfortunately, they see M$ e-Government as a system they can sell on to other countries. Our Prime Minister requires a facilitator whenever he poses in front of a PC. Attempting to

M$.gov.uk

2001-06-24 Thread J. J. Young
The post below from ZDNet-UK succinctly tells it how it is in the UK. Until recently we had Govt sites that were easy to access. No more :-( Jake quote A, poor Microsoft! They've gone to such trouble, designing an Operating System into which all the required components (firewall etc) to

Re: Dynamic font size

2001-06-17 Thread J. J. Young
http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/ttf2pcx/index.html Just came across this -- it converts TTF to PCX and has an antialias option i.e. smoothing the outline with gray pixels. There are too many errors with the TTF conversion gizmo available from Arachne Labs, so this may be a usable alternative for

Re: Sunday Salsa 17th June 2001

2001-06-17 Thread J. J. Young
Mel wrote: Arachne: There was a discussion some time ago as to whether Arachen supported any of the event handlers such as onclick, onmouseover and so on? Since there is now some limted CSS support, does anyone know if any of these work in Arachne also? They are officially a jscript/IE thing, but

Re: If you really want a good address book....

2001-06-13 Thread J. J. Young
Clarence wrote: But is it INVISIBLE ? I wouldn't mind adding asterisks or numbers to the start of each entry to indicate current hotness , but I don't want to SEE AAarachne or 11Google. G Add your hotness indicators within HTML quotes e.g. !-- 1a -- before each entry, then use RPSORT to

Re: If you really want a good address book....

2001-06-13 Thread J. J. Young
Add your hotness indicators within HTML quotes e.g. !-- 1a -- before each entry, then use RPSORT to sort the entries, based on the column the indicator is located at. Up to you whether or not you delete the indicators from the final hotlist page: the quotes will stop 'em displaying.

Re: Hotlist

2001-06-12 Thread J. J. Young
Sacha wrote: the hotlist manager has deleted more than my half hotlist with links adresses etc. Commiserations! I've had the same thing happen with other browsers, despite (in some cases) warnings. In future may I recommend that you use the hotlist only as a temporary location, and regularly

Re: Lynx and Graphics

2001-06-12 Thread J. J. Young
Joerg wrote: In last months, I watched JS disappearing from online shopping systems at the sites of some big German companies. If this is a new trend, it seems to good to be true. Is there similiar thing in other countries? Yes! Maybe http://www.useit.com is having an impact, instead of being

Re: Arachne Rogues Gallery download failed

2001-06-12 Thread J. J. Young
Glenn wrote: Did anyone notice how I did the body of the gallery ??? http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/ar-gal.htm (BODY bgcolor=gray background=file://strobo.gif text=#ff) The background image is actually a file on your own HDD. (in your arachne_main_directory) So. Only Arachne

Re: Dynamic font size

2001-06-11 Thread J. J. Young
Arachne uses pictures for the fonts, not a description. So, if you use one size smaller scaling (same screen resolution) you substitute the set one size smaller except for font size=1 which will have to be the same as size=2. There isn't the wide range of sizing available with True Type Fonts. An

Re: Dynamic font size

2001-06-11 Thread J. J. Young
Or wrote Another solution that would, however, cause Arachne to increase in size, is to add afew more font sets below and above the current scale of fonts. snipped Exactly! My own partial solution for my own machine was to make my own fontset combining Arial and Times New Roman to closely

Re: Lynx and Graphics

2001-06-10 Thread J. J. Young
Sam assured me: As I generally go images off I really ought to give Lynx a try. How much HDD space does it require? The download for Doug Kaufman's recent Lynx386 for DOS version is a zip file of 1,455,601 bytes. This is version 2.8.4, dev.14. It does SSL and it does https very nicely.

Re: where did all the good floppy disks go?

2001-06-10 Thread J. J. Young
It would be nice to get some inside info. on who is still making a decent attempt to produce decent floppies. I use the Select brand, made in Belgium. Occasionally I wish I'd scandisked *new* floppies before use, and I've had a box that's not been formatted, but they must be over 95% OK. But not

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