 | | Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer
|
|
(...) needed to boot NT once to make sure the hardware wasn't damaged before reformatting the drive and putting a real OS (Linux) on it. Felt good. I also ran a free copy of Bill Gates's book _The_Road_Ahead_ through the paper shredder a few months (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: "Free" pcs anybody?
|
|
(...) I don't think very many of these things are.... (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: "Free" pcs anybody?
|
|
(...) yes, but the compuserve thing cost $700 over 3 years... it's not a deal. (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: "Free" pcs anybody?
|
|
(...) Didn't compusa/circuit city have the $400 rebate thing, if you sign up with compuserv? you get an emachine's PC, but you have to sign up for 3 years, I think....? Dan (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: "Free" pcs anybody?
|
|
I know that free-pc.com is gone (i was approved, but never got my machine after emachines bought them, bah) I don't know any off hand that are free.. but you might want to look at peoplepc.com i think they're like $25 a month. (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | New Horizons
|
|
To All, Well, AEI has finally gotten around to paying for my network administration classes, I am going to New Horizons: (URL) seem to be a pretty big organization. Does anyone know about this company, or have any experiences with it? Our Systems (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: What makes an acronym (was: Re: quick question)
|
|
Larry: (...) I manage with my "vi reference mug" - and daily use. Play well, Jacob PS: I don't use vi because it is better than emacs - it just happens to appear to be slightly more Jacob friendly. ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: What makes an acronym (was: Re: quick question)
|
|
"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:FrGuM6.6nH@lugnet.com... (...) letters (...) but (...) Well, as a card-carrying member of the organization that is the undisputed king of acronyms, just thought I would throw in my 200 Won (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | "Free" pcs anybody?
|
|
Hi geek friends!I'm visiting my parents and they are in desperate need of a new pc. I know certain online services were offering free pcs for signing up. Anybody know of any that are currently available?email me at tmj2015@yahoo.com if you can be of (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: atari 800 web server
|
|
(...) Except that one troll who obviously doesn't get it :) KL (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: atari 800 web server
|
|
(...) Submitted it. Rejected. Slashdot sucks. Better: (URL). (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: atari 800 web server
|
|
(...) It is now ready for prime time. I figured out how to get the terminal server to listen to port 80, and it doesn't bark garbage characters on that port. I moved it to work so it has some real bandwidth to play with. (URL)KL (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: atari 800 web server
|
|
(...) characters (...) One of the XIO commands in the BASIC source configures "light" translation among other htings. KL (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: atari 800 web server
|
|
(...) How'd you get around the ASCII->ATASCII conversion issue? Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: atari 800 web server
|
|
(...) Loch writes: (...) Ack! It's running at my house. The thought of my ISDN line getting slashdotted is bad :( I should probabaly move it to work during lunch. However, I did discover something cool. The terminal server listens on port 513 (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: atari 800 web server
|
|
(...) Wow, that makes it even cooler yet! You look just about ready for a Slashdot story submission! :) --Todd (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: atari 800 web server
|
|
Kevin, Wow, I have not seen an Atari 800 in years. Nice to see old technology still being used! Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> ssanburn@cleanweb.net Systems Administrator-Affiliated Engineers -> (URL) Page -> (URL) Page -> (URL) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: atari 800 web server
|
|
In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Kevin Loch writes: I just put up an info page about this with pictures: (URL) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: atari 800 web server
|
|
In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Kevin Loch writes: I just put up an info page about this with pictures: (URL) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards?
|
|
(...) As Brak's mother said, "I told you never trust a monkey!" (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards?
|
|
(...) You'd be much more likely to get something worthy of Shakespeare with a little conflict...say, six monkeys on *one* typewriter. eep eep, Lindsay (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: atari 800 web server
|
|
(...) Hah! I bet their admin is going to be scratching their head pretty hard over those hits :) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: atari 800 web server
|
|
(...) Aw, that's too easy to follow. :-) How about this?-- (URL) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: atari 800 web server
|
|
(...) Sorry -- that's because that should be: (URL) jadzia.com is somethin' else. (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: atari 800 web server
|
|
(...) Or my netpliance i-opener if and when it arrives :) Actually I 'm going into the storage room right now to try to find an old keyboard to go with the 486 I'm going to use as the port translator. KL (...) I get a permission denied message (...) (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: atari 800 web server
|
|
(...) thing with Netscape Navigator.) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: atari 800 web server
|
|
(...) Hmm. Maybe you need a 386 running linux to replace the terminal server.... PS: (URL) LWP::UserAgent; $browser = new LWP::UserAgent; $browser->agent("Hi Kevin/1.0 " . $browser->agent); $request = new HTTP::Request('GET', "(URL) = (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: atari 800 web server
|
|
(...) Oh yes, it's not the smallest web server, but it might just be the oldest web server. The atari 800 is 20 years old! KL (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.tele)
|
| |
| | Re: atari 800 web server
|
|
(...) server (...) Those 13 odd characters are coming from the terminal server. It is attempting to negotiate telnet options. I can't think of any way to filter them out, so I set the bgcolor to black :) It screws up the interpretation of the http (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | RE: atari 800 web server
|
|
(...) Not to one-up you, Kevin, but this guy at UMass has an even smaller server! (URL) Hmmm, can an RCX server be far off? Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (URL) ---...--- Reply to: rhempel at bmts (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.tele)
|
| |
| | Re: atari 800 web server
|
|
(...) Oh Beautiful Hack! Very nice!! (I get the same funny +128 characters that Matt got, but I'm sure you'll get that figured out. :) Say, what's the maximum transmission rate (uncompressed) over IR for an RCX brick? Could we expect an RCX version (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.tele)
|
| |
| | Re: Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards?
|
|
(...) mailing (...) Didn't think so! I was just checking ;) -Shiri (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: atari 800 web server
|
|
(...) That's awesome! (...) It's a security thing. Netscape doesn't let you access ports it knows a protocol for via a different protocol. This started with Navigator 3.0, I believe. (I think the security implications are limited to "might help (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards?
|
|
(...) :) Don't worry. We certainly do not. (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards?
|
|
(...) and don't list your e-mail addie anywhere!!except lugnet that is 8-) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards?
|
|
(...) Me either. I use the web interface for lugnet, and q'r'us (is the only mailing list I'm on... I hope Matthew doesn't give my addy to third-parties :-) (...) Now that hotmail added the "Bulk-mail" feature, it's so much easier for me to avoid (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | atari 800 web server
|
|
I just wrote a really really basic web server for my atari 800. It listens on it's serial port (9600 baud) for a CD, and spits out the html page and drops DTR. The serial port is connected to an old CS-210 terminal server which is set to listen on (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards?
|
|
(...) I try to avoid subscribing to mailing lists. That's what NNTP is for. :) (...) I mostly just add it to my procmail rules. I used to be very active in reporting these things, but it started to wear on me, y'know? (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards?
|
|
(...) yah, but won't it be a pain to resubscribe to all the mailing lists you read with a new email address every 30 days? I guess that could be automated as well... hmm.... Have you thought of filtering with ORBs or RBL? I havn't reached that point (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
| |
| | Re: Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards?
|
|
(...) Sure. It takes them a little while to find your address somewhere and stick you on lists. I've toyed with setting up a scheme whereby the addresses I use publicly auto-expire after 30 days... (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
