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On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 20:10:36 GMT "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote concerning 'Re: gnome-terminal colors': (...) Well, take a look at rxvt - I think it's installed by default in RH 6.1... one sec, yup, it is - though it's ver 2.6 instead of (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Uhm, Hmm, I dunno. It's what's installed by default from RHL6.1 when I click the terminal icon at the bottom of the panel, and I like it. What others should I try? Looks like xterm is somewhat configurable but I haven't read its manpage (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 19:46:51 GMT "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote concerning 'Re: gnome-terminal colors': (...) display... but now I must ask why are you using gnome-term anyhow? :P (...) that's always a good idea... may I ask what it is? (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well, I'm not exactly trying to do anything weird, but I would like arbitrary- colored text to display properly on a white background. Here's what I'm doing: (URL) get that to work, I had to tell it to make red-on-black text, gray-on-black (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I've never been able to read white-on-black (or gray-on-black) text comfortably at small point sizes, due to the way raster CRT displays scan. White-on-black characters are constructed like this: _______ _(_______)_ (_) (_) (_)_______ (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 17:08:53 GMT mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) wrote concerning 'Re: gnome-terminal colors': (...) I have to agree to that, but some people just have to be different :P Dan Boger - Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'm pretty sure God meant for terminals to be white-on-black. (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 01:53:22 GMT "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote concerning 'gnome-terminal colors': (...) I'm not sure why, but I can't recreate your problem... it seems to work fine for me, unless you're trying to do something weird with (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Anybody figured out any good settings for gnome-terminal which support black text upon a white background but still work OK with both ANSI color escape sequences and Curses(ncurses)? To make things to work, I've had to use Custom/Custom in the (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Thanks for the tips, I'm going to start with Learning Perl and then move into the CGI book if needed (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) hotmail or yahoo mail to check it for you, and access their sites from the web... I haven't tried it myself, so I cannot give you any more directions... sorry. Dan (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Mostly safe, yes. I've used mailstart.com - it works. I also have my Yahoo! mail account setup to check my 3 main non-Yahoo! addresses. I prefer to use Yahoo! now, mainly because I like the interface and I actually use it for dealing with a (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi Julie, you might see if you email provider is offering a web based option. At the university, they set up a web based email access that all you have to do is has internet access and use a browser to load the web site. You can set any computer (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I've seen sites where you can join up and access your email from a different computer. Is it a good/safe thing to do? I'm going away soon and I'd like to keep up with my emails from my parents computer. Any advice is appreciated. Here is one site I (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) f:News:host-lugnet.c...eneral.snm (...) How about In the Newsgroup window doing a View | Messages | New. That should only show the new messages and get rid of old, read threads. Paul (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Ray Sanders wrote ages ago, but I've been away: (...) Same here. One thing that could possibly work is deleting the lugnet.general.snm (I think) file in the lugnet.com subfolder of the news subfolder of the Netscape user folder (good grief, that's (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Bill Vaughn. And now I'm not sure he was a project manager. *sigh* the brain's rotting away here... -- -Steven "Nothin' But Net!" (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Agreed. As [oh, geez, I can'r remember his name now - MS database project manager guy at a conference I attended] said, "sure, there's a time to move up from Access. That time is when the second user will need to connect." -- -Steven "Nothin' (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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If you're talking large scale commercial you need a RDBMS, nothing else will scale big enough (well, maybe IMS but that's pretty trailing edge at this point, you need a CICS/MVS box to drive it) And from among the RDBMS's your choices are basically (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'm using MySQL. It has it's limitations (I bet Larry will expand on that) but it's open-source and free (in most cases). For a comercial project I would use Oracle (which is about as far from free as you can get with databases). KL (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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