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(...) as far as I can tell, mozilla has no problems showing any kind of fonts - though I never bothered to install to many. What X server are you using? As a rule, font problems are related to xfs, and not to the application... (...) nope, no tricks (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Mozilla (was: Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer)
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(...) I can't get TrueType fonts to display correctly in Mozilla (a build from two nights ago). Do they work for you? I'm specifying 'times new roman' and 'courier new' and 'arial' for the three fonts (serif, monospace, and sans- serif, (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I never used IE, and I will probably never will - unless they come out with IE for linux and then I'll give it a shot. I used to use NN and my MOC browser :P but now I've switched to mozilla, and I'm _very_ happy with it :) (...) errr... I'm (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'm amazed by how w3m can handle mouse clicks like that. :) Also pretty great to be able to pipe stdin to it. I wish it would keep stdin open like more does, though, to feed it streaming data. :) I had a lot of problems getting the popup menus (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Have you looked at w3m? It seems like a better Lynx than Lynx.... (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I love Linux, I hate Windows, but I have yet to see any Linux web browser other than Lynx which even comes remotely close to MSIE5 in how well it works. Netscape sucks, Mozilla sucks. But -- Mozilla will get better, and it will squash MSIE in (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Won't even be noticed here at UTK since we sold our souls to Cisco long, long ago. Unless they stop making 10/100 nics, in which case I would happily switch us over to Intel anyway. (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Which browser are you using on Linux that you would call "better" than IE5? Seriously. Every time time I try some flavor of Netscape product for Linux it just ends up making me run screaming back to browsing on Windows. In fact, I would rather (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Nice headline: "3Com Announces Plans to Accelerate Growth". That's going to be interesting here at BU too -- we've got a lot of 3com stuff.... (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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just in case some of you other admins hadn't heard... 3com's getting out of the high end networking business... this is a huge deal for me, since our entire backbone is 3com... all the way from switches to hubs to nics (esp atm nics) thought maybe (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:17:44 GMT "Larry Pieniazek" <lar@voyager.net> wrote concerning 'Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer': (...) it's true that the app base is not as big, yet... but considering what I use my home win95 for - basicly browsing (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Mike, (...) Hmm... Sounds like most of the classes in college that I have had recently. :) (...) Thank you, sir! :) I am looking forward to it, especially since I am fairly new to all of this admin stuff, I have pretty much learned everything on the (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I know it does not fit, but there is a internet madness right now here in Turkey, and every major isp gives free pcs to anyone who signs a three year contract (20 to 50$ per month depending on the configuration). Besides, other isps, who (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) New Horizons is a fairly large chain training place. Our local Computer Learning Center recently bought a NH franchise. The training can be really good or really bad, it depends mostly on the instructor but also on the quality of your fellow (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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While we're off-topic, lemme just quickly complain about the way MS's content-generation "tools" use "Microsoft Latin-1" instead of the actual ISO 8859-1 Latin-1 character set. Urg. (URL) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) 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)
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(...) I don't think very many of these things are.... (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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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)
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