Re: Blue on monitor screen

2000-03-12 Thread Eric S. Emerson
Clarence Verge wrote: Eric S. Emerson wrote: The left side of the screen starts out with normal color, but as the trace continues toward the the right it picks up more blue. And, when it approaches the right side of the screen the colors are overwhelmed with blue. Also, the horizontal

arachne-digest V1 #1035

2000-03-12 Thread arachne-digest
arachne-digest Sunday, March 12 2000 Volume 01 : Number 1035 -- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 08:47:04 +0100 (MET) From: Bernie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Charset in insight Sam Heywood wrote: I don't know how

First posting

2000-03-12 Thread Kali McLaughlin
Dear egroup: I have been reading for a couple of days and dare to weigh in on a couple of the running issues: Sympathies with Willy on registration ..I have been added to my boyfiriends list of bad jokes: " I have this girlfried who is so gullible that she sent money to somone called

Re: Arachne - Free Internet ISPs ?

2000-03-12 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 15:23:26 -0500 (EST), Norman C. Leet wrote: There are a growing number of "Free Internet ISPs" showing up in recent months, however they all seem to require Windows 95/98 as a pre-requisite (to support the advertising scheme, I would suppose). Juno email is one of the

Re: First posting

2000-03-12 Thread Willy Danielle Hoogstraten
Hi, On Sat, 11 Mar 2000 17:44:31 +, Kali McLaughlin wrote: Sympathies with Willy on registration ...I have been added to my boyfiriends list of bad jokes: " I have this girlfried who is so gullible that she sent money to somone called *Network Fiction* in the Czech Republic!"

Re: Blue on monitor screen

2000-03-12 Thread Roger Turk
Eric, If your monitor does not have a degaussing button on the back, you can make a degausser by taking a circular metal (magnetic) ring about 8-inches in outside diameter, winding it with insulated wire and connecting the wire to a dry cell battery, i.e., making it an electromagnet. Pass

Re: Blue on monitor screen

2000-03-12 Thread Clarence Verge
Eric S. Emerson wrote: I had come across the idea of degaussing somewhere before but I don't recall exactly how to perform it. I think I saw a wire running around the circumference of the screen which is supposed to perform the degaussing function. Hi Eric; The degaussing coil is like you

Re: First posting

2000-03-12 Thread Clarence Verge
Kali McLaughlin wrote: *** I cant get arachne to recognise any of the EGA card/screen combinations that I have. This is a shame as I actually run Windows just for the Hercules drivers that you can get. I dont have mains power, and a colour screen uses more power than the 486 DX33 box I am

Re: Blue on monitor screen

2000-03-12 Thread Dale Mentzer
On 12 Mar 00 at 16:04, Eric S. Emerson wrote: Hi Clarence, Thanks for the suggestion. I have had the monitor turned off and disconnected many times but it never affected the picture quality. I had come across the idea of degaussing somewhere before but I don't recall exactly how to

Re: Blue on monitor screen

2000-03-12 Thread Dale Mentzer
On 12 Mar 00 at 14:37, Roger Turk wrote: This reminds me of two things: In the early days of color TV, RCA was using a poor grade of solder in the pins on their tubes which would break down after a couple of years. An *honest* repairman told me that more new tubes were sold when all they

Re: Blue on monitor screen

2000-03-12 Thread Dale Mentzer
On 12 Mar 00 at 14:03, Clarence Verge wrote: Eric S. Emerson wrote: The left side of the screen starts out with normal color, but as the trace continues toward the the right it picks up more blue. And, when it approaches the right side of the screen the colors are overwhelmed with blue.

Re: Charset in insight

2000-03-12 Thread Bernie
Sam Heywood wrote: I don't know how you and the other folks on this list who do your emails in various languages can deal with the problem. I use the "standard" US "ASCII" table, therefor I never have any problems with diffrent languages. (å, ä and ö are in the US "ASCII" table). The only

Re: Charset in insight

2000-03-12 Thread Gregory J. Feig
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 08:47:04 +0100 (MET), Bernie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip-- I wouldn't, as of yesterday my monitor thinks most things are supposed to be blue :( Any ideas on what might be wrong with it are appriciated, I'm still looking for the guarantee. Bernie

Re: Charset in insight

2000-03-12 Thread Howard Eisenberger
ISO 8859-1 National Character Set FAQ [condensed] Michael K. Gschwind [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. Which coding should I use for accented characters? Use the internationally standardized ISO-8859-1 character set to type accented

Charset in insight (LONG, possibly OT)

2000-03-12 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi "Samuel W. Heywood" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SH With the American ISO that I am using, HTML entity values are SH not the same as ascii values. Sorry ... but I'm not able to understand this sentence ... :) SH By HTML entity values I am speaking of the ALT + NUMs as referenced in SH

Re: Blue on monitor screen

2000-03-12 Thread Eric S. Emerson
Bernie wrote: snip I wouldn't, as of yesterday my monitor thinks most things are supposed to be blue :( Any ideas on what might be wrong with it are appriciated, I'm still looking for the guarantee. snip //Bernie http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ... Hi Bernie, I

Re: In Army value of cosine can reach 4.

2000-03-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
Actually, the value of cosine can reach or exceed 4, if you're using complex numbers.

Re: arachne-digest V1 #1032

2000-03-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
Hi, Michael: It seems to me that keeping the bad guys out is preferable to trying to throw them out after they are in. And if you have some sort of existing force to resist an invasion, it might make the bad guys think twice about trying to come in. Henry Carmichael Remember the Prague

Re: Charset in insight

2000-03-12 Thread Bernie
Gregy wrote: I wouldn't, as of yesterday my monitor thinks most things are supposed to be blue :( Any ideas on what might be wrong with it are appriciated, I'm still looking for the guarantee. Bernie do the usual.check your settings..check with another monitor.check with

Re: Charset in insight

2000-03-12 Thread Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton
At 02:33 12/03/00 -0800, you wrote: On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 08:47:04 +0100 (MET), Bernie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wouldn't, as of yesterday my monitor thinks most things are supposed to be blue :( Any ideas on what might be wrong with it are appriciated, I'm still looking for the guarantee.

Re: Blue on monitor screen

2000-03-12 Thread Dale Mentzer
On 12 Mar 00 at 11:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a similar problem (I think). My screen likes to go all blue occassionally. If I bang on it, it comes back teh way it is supposed to be. The only explanation I have is the monitor is going bad (mine is like 6 years old) and the red

Newbie Post Test

2000-03-12 Thread Norman C. Leet
Just a newbie making a test post to the arachne mailing list. -Norm

Re: Blue on monitor screen

2000-03-12 Thread Clarence Verge
Eric S. Emerson wrote: The left side of the screen starts out with normal color, but as the trace continues toward the the right it picks up more blue. And, when it approaches the right side of the screen the colors are overwhelmed with blue. Also, the horizontal size is slightly affected.

Re: Blue on monitor screen

2000-03-12 Thread Roger Turk
Dale Mentzer wrote: This sounds similar to a Packard Bell VGA monitor I got from someones trash a couple of years ago. On this one, the blue was intermittent. Banging on it would cause it to work erratically. If you are comfortable opening the monitor and working around the high voltages

Arachne - Free Internet ISPs ?

2000-03-12 Thread Norman C. Leet
There are a growing number of "Free Internet ISPs" showing up in recent months, however they all seem to require Windows 95/98 as a pre-requisite (to support the advertising scheme, I would suppose). Has anyone come across a "free ISP" that can accessed via Arachne from a DOS based machine?