Tim May wrote:
My friends and I have been joking for a while about how we'll need to
buy 22-inch LCD monitors, like the Apple Cinema Display, just to be able
to see content that isn't advertising.
You mean you don't have a 21 monitor already? I was wondering at
what resolution you
On Tuesday, August 7, 2001, at 08:57 AM, Eric Murray wrote:
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 11:51:57AM -0400, Riad S. Wahby wrote:
Ray Dillinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Simple answer: turn off javascript and java. It is generally not
used except to make ads more annoying.
Certain browsers
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 11:51:57AM -0400, Riad S. Wahby wrote:
Ray Dillinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Simple answer: turn off javascript and java. It is generally not
used except to make ads more annoying.
Certain browsers (*ahem* Konqueror) allow you to just disable the
window.open()
On Tuesday, August 7, 2001, at 12:10 PM, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Tim May wrote:
My friends and I have been joking for a while about how we'll need to
buy 22-inch LCD monitors, like the Apple Cinema Display, just to be
able
to see content that isn't advertising.
You mean you don't
Ray Dillinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some of us still use it, but we tend not to recommend it to
anyone - it has become fairly obscure and, to be honest, lots
of webpages suck pretty hard when viewed through lynx. I
find it particularly handy though as a route around some
firewalls.
From: Tim May[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Just a note about what's happening with Web advertising.
Went to a site, www.imdb.com, to check something about a film. Up popped
a doubleclick.net ad. In front of the main page, obscuring it. I clicked
the close box. Up popped a _different_ ad.
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Petro wrote:
(I'm surprised no one has urged me to use Lynx. Is it still being used?)
For very limited values of used, yes.
Not often, and not by many, but I'd bet it will build under OS X.
More than you may think. I personally use it, and I know at
At 12:34 PM 8/7/01 -0700, Tim May wrote:
Interestingly, about 15-20 years ago there was much talk of the 3M
machine: a megapixel display, a megabyte of memory, and a million
instructions per second.
I heard about it as the 1-M machine, with same qualifications.
It had to have virtual memory
At 02:10 PM 8/7/01 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:
At some point, junkbuster or equivalent will just become a must
have.
Of course the top two browser builders won't build it into their next
releases...
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Ray Dillinger wrote:
Some of us still use it, but we tend not to recommend it to
anyone - it has become fairly obscure and, to be honest, lots
of webpages suck pretty hard when viewed through lynx. I
Have you tried using Links?
find it particularly handy though as a
At 9:22 AM -0700 8/7/01, Tim May wrote:
(I'm surprised no one has urged me to use Lynx. Is it still being used?)
For very limited values of used, yes.
Not often, and not by many, but I'd bet it will build under OS X.
--
http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/psp7761121.html
It is
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Tim May wrote:
(I'm surprised no one has urged me to use Lynx. Is it still being used?)
Some of us still use it, but we tend not to recommend it to
anyone - it has become fairly obscure and, to be honest, lots
of webpages suck pretty hard when viewed through lynx. I
find
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Tim May wrote:
( I expect 98% of the readers here have no idea what a Symbolics is or
was.)
Heh. I would cheerfully commit a felony or two to get my hands
on a Symbolics Ivory chip fabbed using modern technology and running
at a GHz or so. When I was a student, we had
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Tim May wrote:
To all who have contributed ideas about turning off Java, blah blah, l
wasn't really _complaining_ about my personal situation. I was noting
the bizarre world of online advertising in which the right third of a
page is filled with ads, the top third is
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Tim May wrote:
(I'm surprised no one has urged me to use Lynx. Is it still being used?)
Oh yes. If you can't use it with Lynx, it's probably low on content. Though
I've been meaning to change to one of the www modes on top of Emacs. I hear
some of them handle Unicode better
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Tim May wrote:
(Ads could be tied-in to the content, with some light crypto or copright
protection. A circumvention of this liight crypto could be a DMCA
violation. I would not be surprised to see this already impicated in the
DVD cases: that 5 minute period of trailors
On Wednesday, August 8, 2001, at 11:44 AM, Ray Dillinger wrote:
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Tim May wrote:
(Ads could be tied-in to the content, with some light crypto or
copright
protection. A circumvention of this liight crypto could be a DMCA
violation. I would not be surprised to see this
Tim May[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote
On Wednesday, August 8, 2001, at 11:44 AM, Ray Dillinger wrote:
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Tim May wrote:
(Ads could be tied-in to the content, with some light crypto or
copright
protection. A circumvention of this liight crypto could be a DMCA
,[ On Wed, Aug 08, at 12:41PM, Subcommander Bob wrote: ]--
| Can anyone recommend a better tool?
| For wintel?
`[ End Quote ]---
It isnt for wintel proper, but you can run wget under cygwin
(cygwin.com) and use wget -m which will give you a full mirror
At 10:41 PM 8/7/01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(I'm surprised no one has urged me to use Lynx. Is it still being
used?)
For very limited values of used, yes.
Declan once gave a lynx command line that would download a website
(recursing) less the images, of course. I found it didn't
On 8 Aug 2001, at 12:41, Subcommander Bob wrote:
Declan once gave a lynx command line that would download a website
(recursing) less the images, of course. I found it didn't preserve
file names or directory hierarchy, so it was less useful for mirroring
sites I anticipated being oppressed.
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:06:05AM -0700, Tim May wrote:
(Ads could be tied-in to the content, with some light crypto or copright
protection. A circumvention of this liight crypto could be a DMCA
violation. I would not be surprised to see this already impicated in the
DVD cases: that 5
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some discs disable the FF button and the menu button. You can still skip
the ads, but you have to skip each ad individually (with the chapter skip
button). I recall usenet discussions citing 6 - 8 ads at the beginning of
some discs.
I've not had that
in the player. Fortunately,
most DVD's don't have this annoying feature.
- -Original Message-
From: Trei, Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 12:29 PM
To: 'Tim May'
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Advertisements on Web Pages
Tim May[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Tim May wrote:
Just a note about what's happening with Web advertising.
Went to a site, www.imdb.com, to check something about a film. Up popped
a doubleclick.net ad. In front of the main page, obscuring it. I clicked
the close box. Up popped a _different_ ad. I clicked
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