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(...) Worked! Thanks. Thanks also for not ranting about how MS was braindead in how they did resize... I think under X you can just go in and modify properties directly to get size and position to change. (...) Good thing the first thing worked as (...) (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Might not work in this case, but this has worked for me before in similar cases: Alt-Tab to the app so it gets focus; then use Alt-Space-S to resize and hold down the Right Arrow key for a second, then the Down Arrow key for a second, then hit (...) (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Under windows 95, I've got an application window that's gone missing. That is, I can maximise it, and I can minimise it, but when I do a non maximised restore, it's not there. I think it somehow got either its size set to 0 or its position sent off (...) (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'm having trouble parsing the above paragraph taken as a whole in light of reality unless you're being deliberately mouthpieceish/obtuse. Here are a few tidbits. MS has a track record of doing things to screw other companies over. It goes (...) (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) My understanding is that very little of it is based on Navigator code at this point. Early versions of Mozilla were, but then the developers decided that there was too much cruft and started over from scratch, this time with A Plan. This is (...) (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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[reposting and crossposting to .geek to get a wider audience] [f-ups to .geek] (...) (URL) the source: (URL) - The very first update takes the latest avid.cgi message number and subtracts 20 from it and starts reading messages based on *that*, (...) (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek) !
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(URL) images were taken by the NEAR probe orbiting the asteroid Eros. It's kinda eerie, watching an animation of a rock a quarter-bilion miles away. :-, Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek) !
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(...) Yeah, it does. Thanks. So what that probably means is that within a year or so we'll have a version of mozilla that ultra-geeks know and love, maybe within 5 years we'll get some media hype, then we'll see normal people move over to it, some (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 20:29:30 GMT Mike Stanley <cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com> wrote concerning 'Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer': (...) I think you're misunderstanding the point. Mozilla (the browser Todd is referring to) is _not_ written or sold by (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) You repeat this over and over again, as if simply stating it will somehow make it more obvious and more true. Mozilla may turn out to be more than a browser. But who is making it? (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Okay, my bad. It looks like it does support sftp; it just doesn't call it that. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I would try to do so. Mine worked like a champ very first time, though, so I don't know how great I would be in helping to diagnose your situation. BTW, the verion I'm using won't tell me a version number (arg >:-P spit fume), but it was (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:52:50 GMT "Sproaticus" <jsproat@io.com> wrote concerning 'Re: X server for windows': (...) since we're talking about my wife's computer, it has the LanWorkplacePro installed there... I tried to use it's X but it wouldn't (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yes indeed. (URL) Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org Quotes 'R' Us ---> (URL) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 05:38:15 GMT mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) wrote concerning 'Re: X server for windows': (...) cool - that sounds like it might do the trick... have any how-to's off-hand? :) Dan (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) (URL) that I haven't actually tried that yet (still waiting for my DSL line so I don't have to X over a *!@#^& 33.6 modem.) I'm currently using Novell's Lan Workplace Pro which has a very decent X server in the package. ...Why won't vim work (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I believe that because I believe Mozilla that will, in the long run (if it hasn't already), attract better and more dedicated programmers, designers, and testers to work on it than MSIE. (...) Mozilla != Netscape (...) Mozilla != Netscape (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Wait, your messages have demarcation between when you're lying and when you're telling the truth? What ASCII character code is that? I want to be able to tell too! ++Lar (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'm really curious as to why you believe that. Really. If Netscape were interested in or capable of producing an IE-killer browser, why haven't they done it already? Given the almost universally agreed-upon crappiness of Communicator 4.7 what (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Different than that. You can use SSH to set up "poor man's vpn". I'm too tired to think hard about it right now :) but the end result is your computer thinks it has a new network interface with an IP address on a private (10.x.x.x) network. (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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