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I use NovaHosting in VA. Base accounts start at 9.95, decent disk space for 14.95,: POP accounts, SSH, CGI, etc. They were cheaper than pair, I've had good success with them for the last year. (URL) Lambrecht wrote in message ... (...) SSI (...) (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Tripods CGI capability is a bit of joke. You're forced to use their specialized scripts and can't load your own PERL modules. -Rob. Franklin W. Cain wrote in message ... (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I recommend IO.COM, especially if you already have a dial-up connection. Fairly cheap for the low-volume sites, and you get CGI and SSI and PHP and MySQL and all that jazz, and their tech support is awesome. I have a telnet account, which (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I would imagine so... Do you have any friends or relatives with a fast net connection and a CD-ROM burner? (...) Personally, I use Java (Sun's JDK 1.2 slapped onto Visual Cafe 3.0c to be precise) and Perl, and I occasionally backslide into (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Have you looked at Tripod ("(URL) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'd tend to agree with you on that. VT100 with half duplex continually sends screen updates with every keystroke (1), after which it needs to render the escape codes (termcap?) properly. Server performance would take a serious hit, both in (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well I can highly recommend Pair networks ( (URL) ) which is where I have (URL) and (URL) and it is where LUGNET is hosted. Its quite possible it is more than you want to spend though. To get SSI and CGI scripts enabled you need at least a (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can cheaply get web space with SSI and CGI-scripts enabled? Case Western Reserve University will give me web space next year, but without the extra goodies I want/need to make my site easier to maintain. (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I see them in the correct form for charset=iso-8859-1, which is what you're using. :) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Heheh.. Mine has that ü thing also, as well as ç,ö,þ,ð,ý and Ý (I know, you even can't see the last four in correct form..:-) selÇuk gÖre ..:-) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Is it even possible? My researches so far have not turned up a product, and in thinking about the problem, the VT100 protocol stream is richer than HTML, in some ways of looking at it. We are trying to determine the feasibility of replacing client (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Fun with squirm
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(...) way) too small for me under linux... [ -> .admin.general ] (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Won't work like that, 'cause Squid is pretty strict about the validity of hostnames. (Technically, they shouldn't start with a number, either, but I guess it's not that strict.) You could use something like "q7121", though. (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hey, that's pretty cool! (I'm not using squirm but I can imagine how it works from your description.) What happens if you do this?-- regexi (2 URLs) #!/bin/sh echo -ne "Location: (URL) type in, say, ^7121 --Todd (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I'm using the squirm redirector together with squid to block banner ads. Netscape Navigator for Unix tries to load any URL which you paste into the browser window. So, select a URL, then middle-click on your browser window, and poof, you're there. (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well, I just downloaded and installed M16 and tried to recreate the crash I was getting before - couldn't do it. All I did before was select all the text from the end of your post to the end of your sig and hit backspace and WHAM! it would (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Editing Member Pages & Netscape
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(...) I haven't had a problem with crashing in quite a while, although the speed seems to vary from day to day. Unfortunately, I think they've got a long way to go before it's Done. (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) thought (...) You're right - I probably am being overly critical of 6 considering its preview status. I downloaded the latest build of mozilla and tried repeatedly to respond to this message with it but it kept crashing. Otherwise it did seem (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Remember, it's not a released product yet. The current daily builds of mozilla are much better. Expect a big improvement from the next Netscape beta. (24 years ago, 10-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'm glad that it isn't just me who found Netscape6 ridiculously slow. I thought it might be the fact I'm running on a p166, and perhaps it was geared towards a higher platform. But even simple things like scrolling my messages in my inbox (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I know we've all seen the ads for the Xcam and Xcam2 from X10.com around the web, but has anyone around here actually used one? I ask because I just ordered a DVD Anywhere from X10.com yesterday so I can send mp3's and maybe video from my computer (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yah! Get a bunch of those convention "My name is ___" tags, scribble their names in the blanks, and staple the tags onto the individual ants. Superglue might work too. This is how I straightened out my school of candiru -- except since the (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) (Looking at long string of discussion) I'm sorry I mentioned it. That should have been "Let's not *discuss* the Apple ][..." The horror...the horror...(where was Martin Sheen when I needed him)... Bruce (should I mention the horrors of drawing (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Graphics Programming on the Apple II (was: Wow! This guy is good!)
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(...) I agree that the underlying hardware is completely different, but the net result of having subpixels is similar, and leads to remarkably similar software solutions. (So much so that I hope it counts as prior art, 'cause it is an interesting (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Graphics Programming on the Apple II (was: Wow! This guy is good!)
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(...) MS's Cleartype and the way Woz did Apple ]['s hires graphics mode are a world apart, actually. And the Apple ]['s 1/2-pixel horizontal shifting was the same on color monitors as green/black monitors -- that is, from the same video signal if (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Graphics Programming on the Apple II (was: Wow! This guy is good!)
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I'm not a TV engineer, but I recall the Apple ][ color distribution was made possible by a trick that used the luminance signal to gate an oscillating chroma signal. The transition from 1 to 0 (or from 0 to 1) was the key that produced a color (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Graphics Programming on the Apple II (was: Wow! This guy is good!)
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(...) Check this out: (URL). The "pixels" as you describe above aren't really whole pixels at all; rather they are subpixels, much like the red, green, and blue subpixels on a LCD display. This is exactly the concept Microsoft's Cleartype takes (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Mein Gott! Someone who actually remembers graphics programming on the Apple II! But I remember things a little differently. A pixel was defined in a rather slippery fashion in Apple II "high-resolution" graphics. A pixel was either one bit or (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ohh, lets. No drawing one-pixel wide white lines -- one lone pixel is either blue or yellow, depending if it's in an even or odd column. (This is due to the techniques Microsoft invented 20 years later for their ClearType technology...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I don't believe that there is a standard limit for name length, although I could be wrong. However, there is a clear specification for hostnames: they must begin with a letter, followed by any number and combination of letters or numbers or (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Full disclosure: I have heard anecdotally that PCI modems can work, and it certainly seems logical. However, I don't have any experience with them myself. (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah. It is a USR 56K Faxmodem (cost almost twice as much as the USR 56K Winmodem) and dosent require Win to operate. But the RH compatability stated that PCI modems were not supported under RH 6.2. However based on your information I will try (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Are you positive that it's not a winmodem? There's no particular reason why a PCI "real" modem wouldn't work. (...) :) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Kevin, Matt, Tom: Thanks for your help with my Linux questions. It turns out that my modem is not supported under Linux because it is a PCI card. So an ISA or external modem 'upgrade' is in the works. Once I switch over I imagine installation should (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) See the Serial HOWTO for setting up serial ports. You should do this in your boot process. I use Slackware and the setup scripts are in /etc/rc.d but Redhat is different. You'll want to run setserial in your boot process. Lots of examples are (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Weird. I have not used in Compac's in many moons, we are using Dell's here. Gateway is pretty good as well. I have had problems with Hewett Packard computers, and Packard Bells, but that is just me. Some had good experiences with certain (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) :-) I've tried accessing various configuration menus and restarted the system many times. But the CD-ROM was still unavailable. What finally appeared to do the work, though, was simply opening the CD drive and poking on the read head slightly, (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) get a (...) part. (...) hours (...) I (...) (I (...) see (...) Russian (...) I (...) Institute (...) major (...) require... Wow, I could never imagine getting that many language classes, although I wish I could have picked up German, since (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Sysadmins needed at BU
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Hey Boston-area geeks: we need to hire some more people in our group here at Boston University. We work with various flavors of *nix, primarily Solaris, IRIX, and Linux. (Experience in any of those would be good.) It's a really fun and low-stress (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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