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If you find that you are spending a lot of time looking up sets by name or number -- fiddling with URLs, bookmarks, search boxes, etc. -- then here's a little (and I mean little!) utility which might help save you time. It's tentatively called (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Itty-bitty LEGO set looker-upper
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(...) a more full sized browser window open, and I like the larger pictures). I do like the arrangement of the data better than the Pause DB. Have you considered changing Pause to list the data across the top in a similar format (or at least have an (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Great! Thanks for this! Questions: - Do you know how to make the window stay on top under MS Windows? This would be most useful so that whenever I want the window is there. - Do you know how to add a set number typein to the system tray under (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) I don't know of any way, no, but in a former life I used to do lots of Win32 GUI programming, so I'm going to bet that it's possible that there's a tool out there somewhere (something akin to WinSpy++) that would let a user choose a window and (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Oya, definitely. It's partly a prototype and experiment at simpler presentation. Here's a mock-up screenshot, for example, which Suzanne made earlier this year: (URL) she's away at ToyFair in NYC this week I'll be alternating between final (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) I know it's doable in NS because I've seen it done to me by certain obnoxious sites that I had the misfortune to visit. I don't know how, though. (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) IIRC, there are actually 2 layers of the always-on-top property for windows in Win32 -- one which is local to the application and one in which the application itself is entirely above other applications. (I think one of these is in the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Itty-bitty LEGO set looker-upper
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) logo images such that they can be cached). I'd also prefer to see as much space as possible made for the set image (one reason I won't be using the new looker-upper is the smaller image). (...) and (...) the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Good question, This was one of those sites that relaunched the same window as soon as you killed it so I was so busy trying to figure out how to kill it without taking all of NS down (I had important stuff in other windows) that I didn't (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Itty-bitty LEGO set looker-upper
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(...) only kinda related, I wrote a little perl script to do command line lookups to the database... both for windowz and for linux. That way, if I don't have a browser open, I can still lookup sets all the expert WAMALUG people refer to by (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) well, the thing is, you need to close the window the pops up before it loads anything at all... if you're too slow, it loads the js that tells it to reopen the window when you close the current one... or, (untested), you could turn off java in (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) You could certainly post it right here if you wanted. --Todd (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) well, it's available at: (URL) requires you have perl installed, and LWP::Simple. :) Dan Dan Boger - Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences dan@giccs.georgetown.edu ICQ: 1130750 Georgetown University Medical Center (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) I run a big screen too (1600x1200) but I usually have so many windows open doing all different things that screen real estate is still usually pretty tight, and most of the time an itty bitty picture or a half- or quarter- size picture is all (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) QuickSet seems like a nifty thing. I have one big problem with it, unfortunately. This is with IE5. Once launched, the QuickSet window becomes the target window for any URL that gets launched from a non-browser application. For example, if I (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) wow! I didn't know you could do that - that's cool... but it only works on the quicksearch, not in the mail search? (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) what it probably is, I don't thin IE honors the "_blank" name for new windows. Unlike NN, which opens a new window every time the target is _blank, IE must not do that. So every time an app tries to open a new window, IE thinks it means the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) At home I run 1600x1200, but don't tend to have too much going on at the same time. At work, I run 1280x1024, but use the Common Desktop Environment so I have 6 different virtual screens, Netscape gets one, work gets another, etc. Really keeps (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Wow, that's a very strange browser bug. (How did you launch it, BTW? With one of the 4 main launchers, or one of the 4 alternative links for non- JavaScript browsers?) (...) Hmm, MSIE5 doesn't have the right-click "Back" option? (I always (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Eudora bug rears its ugly head again
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(...) Say, Dan, you must be running the same buggy newsreader/mailer that Tim Courtney is having trouble with...? (It's a flavor of Eudora, and it botches the References header on every post -- putting your reply in the wrong spot.) --Todd (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm just replying to the msgs I'm getting (at home, eudora beta 4.3)... Anything I can do to fix it, or should I just reply from emacs? (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I don't think there's anything you can do to fix it -- except to complain to the authors. Tim sent them a few mails about it already and they seemed completely clueless, but maybe you'll have better luck...? Ya, I'd recommend using emacs and (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Itty-bitty LEGO set looker-upper
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(...) someday? This looks very usable--might even cause several personal Lego set databases to go out-of-use. One thing that I would like is for the actual personal data to be stored on my own computer. A directory on my computer to store this (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:59:15 GMT "Kevin Salm" <kdsalm@dreamscape.com> wrote concerning 'Re: Itty-bitty LEGO set looker-upper': (...) I'm not sure if a web site can (or should) access files directly on my computer... but how about having an (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) That would be great for security type issues I guess. Other than that I can't see any reason that the info off of the server would be a good thing. What happens when you move computers, or have more than one computer? I wouldn't be suprised to (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Emacs (was: Re: Eudora bug rears its ugly head again)
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(...) Do you mean the (somewhat oldish) RMAIL mail reader in Emacs or the full news/mail reader Gnus? I find that Emacs/Gnus is great for reading LUGNET news groups off the NNTP server. I don't use the mail/news gateway, as I prefer not to have my (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Emacs (was: Re: Eudora bug rears its ugly head again)
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(...) I actually use MEW here, it's very very nice... basicly working as a frontend to mh. (...) heh, as I get about 300 msgs a day anyhow, it doesn't make much of a difference... that's why TheGreatHand created filters :) when I want, I just go to (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Emacs (was: Re: Eudora bug rears its ugly head again)
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(...) I haven't seen that, but I wonder if what Emacs means by "nov line" is "news overview line"? (That would make sense too, if it croaks while fetching new articles.) Does it tell you which group it's downloading while it's doing that? If I knew (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Itty-bitty LEGO set looker-upper
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(...) BTW, related to above, there's one other URL worth mentioning: (URL) - QuickSet launcher - launches itty bitty dedicated window with self-contained search box. qs.js - QuickSet search - issues a pop-up-prompt search box, then launches itty (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) I've done both, but I can't say I've rigorously checked for this annoyance in all cases. (...) I'm sure it does. I just never use that function from the context menu, so I didn't think of it. So this situation is downgraded from an annoyance (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Ok, well, the best thing I can recommend then in that case is checking the "Navigation" checkbox before launching the utility. That way, you'll get a "Back" button for that window. (Unfortunately, I don't have MSIE5 to test this out and (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Emacs (was: Re: Eudora bug rears its ugly head again)
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(...) Yep, "nov line" is definitively news overview line". (...) It normally happens while downloading the unread messages in some large group. I've tried to manually telnet to the NNTP server to retrieve the nov lines, but I found nothing (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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