Re: AMD-K6 Bogomips problem solved (sort of)

1999-01-19 Thread James Pollard
, why switch back? if not, why care about them unless it was just idle curiosity? -James Pollard

Re: shell scripts.

1999-01-19 Thread James Pollard
chooses programming over gui tools, and the same future-oriented user might well choose Perl over Bash shell programming. very good points, thanks for the discussion. -James Pollard

Re: shell scripts.

1999-01-18 Thread James Pollard
want to use some shell programming language over perl? especially since perl can run on almost any platform, so when whatever shell you are programming for fades away or when you switch from one platform to another, your perl scripts will live on. -James Pollard

Re: Just My 2 Cents

1998-12-08 Thread James Pollard
. this is also the way HotJava is supposed to work, but they charge like 300 dollars for the license to use it in other applications. if they had made it stand-alone and interfaceable from any application, perhaps we'd already have a tool like that. -James Pollard

navigator installed; want communicator

1998-12-07 Thread James Pollard
a fresh install, but i'd rather not kill my netscape install, because then i have to redo the settings, but i'm not familiar with other methods of upgrade besides using newer .deb files. how evil would it be to just fake a new .deb file by changing a couple strings in netscape4_4.0-12.deb? -James

Re: web design question

1998-11-21 Thread James Pollard
Quoting Matthew Parry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I was wondering whether it was possible to overlay text on to an image in HTML... specifying a background image for a table cell or something like that. I think I've seen it done before, but of course I can't find the website now.