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(...) Whoops, I found it. It was hiding on my C: drive. :-P The tool is called wwwis, it is written in Perl, and it can be found at: (URL) - jsproat (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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| | Looking for util to set IMG size in HTML
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Hey all, I'm looking for a quick'n'dirty tool which will scan my HTML and modify the IMG tags to properly reflect the image dimensions. Does anyone know where I can get such a thing? I think I've seen one somewhere implemented in Perl, but I could (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: markup syntax for member pages
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) We aim to amuse. (...) Hmm. Makes a little more sense now. (...) The trouble is that they will still ask how the "elite" people get their special powers to do formatting, and whine when their malformed efforts (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | No Reply-To: in Eudora Pro??
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Help! :) I'm trying to activate the Reply-To: field in Eudora Pro 4.2. I looked over the manual and the only entry in the index is showing its use in filters for incoming messages. I looked in help and also looked over the options. I see no way of (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: markup syntax for member pages
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(...) Correctamundo - that sucks. (...) Well there's always Suz :') Sorry, couldn't resist. Keep in mind that it's a huuuuuge bonus if this (...) Agreed. (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: markup syntax for member pages
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(...) LOL!!! OK, I shouldn't've crossposted to .off-topic.geek without giving a link (with that weird URL thing I do) to the top-level node in the thread, explaining what this was all about. Here's that: (URL) one clean way to do lines like your (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: markup syntax for member pages
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Todd Lehman wrote in several messages ... (...) ... (...) [Todd], {I} must have (missed the start <of this>, but why)? _All_ you're doing is (forcing) people l{i}ke me to write <[pre>-processors] to remove the [garbage] that (you{'}<ve)> let (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: markup syntax for member pages
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(...) OK Ed, I just quickly went back to my History file in my web browser and checked the original source...it does indeed let you change formatting right in the middle of a sentence like that -- although it will not properly abut the comma against (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: markup syntax for member pages
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(...) LOL!!! OK, I guess some things in DOS, like \ instead of /, are more disgusting than (...) Oh heck, sure -- that makes perfect sense there! :) In fact, I'm sure those letters must be common keys for those command in lots of word processors. (C (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: markup syntax for member pages
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(...) I'm in shock. I guess you were never as DOS based as I was. B I and C were the keys in Word Perfect( and several other Dos based word processors) for those exact commands (usually with the <ALT> or <CTRL> key). (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: markup syntax for member pages
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(...) Whoops -- ambiguity alert again... Darn it, when will I learn to write?! By "it" in "if it fit in nicely," I meant whatever markup is chosen for member-pages, not the one mentioned three nodes up on the thread. (Darn antecedents! :-) --Todd (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: markup syntax for member pages
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(...) Huh?! Why? It's the most disgusting thing I've ever seen! A single character in column 1 to modify the entire line? That's somewhat intuitive for *, ], and >, but for b and i and c it's pathetic. (...) Chell specking would be fun. Anyway, it (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: markup syntax for member pages
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(...) Reconsider not considering it. And add spell checking as well. To those of you who read my posts, spellchecking would be a welcome relief (you don't need to search Dejanews for proof). And I'd love to be able to format text in posts to LUGNET. (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: markup syntax for member pages
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(...) Hmm, interesting, I just sort-of half-randomly stumbled onto yet another markup format... It goes like this: You type text as paragraphs separated by blank lines, and you put special characters in column 1 if you want to do something special (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Jeeves
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(...) Sure it did, it pointed to fibblesnork... close enough for me. (...) I wouldn't know, it's not as big a problem for me as it is for some. :-) (25 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Digital Photography
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(...) Hrmmm.... do you mean digital video? Dunno about that, but digital still cameras surpassed 640x480 a LONG time ago. (25 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Digital Photography
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(...) Wow -- I wonder if their technology 18 years ago was up to par with the digital video cameras on the market today? Knowing the tricks Sony can pull, I suspect it probably was. Anyone know the story on higher-res (> 640x480x24bit) digital (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Jeeves
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(...) which LEGO website is the best! (...) someone who has the same name as you. Steve (25 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Jeeves
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I just ran across this while sniffing around the Yahoo message boards to see what rumors were extant about my old company... (1) (URL) this query: (URL) found a few new things and some stale links. Ed Boxer gets a mention! For egoboo I tried this (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Traffic icon and link
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(...) OK, there's now a little honeycomb-dots icon thingy for the top bar -- it says "Traffic" beneath the icon, and it takes you to the /news/traffic/ page. It automatigically appears at the top of any of the newer pages in the system (that is, (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Text::Query
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(...) No, it's using a homebrew. I probably should look into Text::Query though, if it's loaded with callbacks and/or easy member-function overloading. What I threw together isn't very smart about word roots, and it isn't very fast either. But it (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jun-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Tan color again?
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(...) Well, whatever the case, I just used that module for a CGI script at work. I *really* like it. Espcially, in that you can construct query strings approaching the usefulness of boolean algebra, but with a less wordy syntax. I noticed (1) that (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jun-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: True Geekness
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(...) Well, one reason is that that /news/groups/ page is obsolescent, but as soon as some meaningful icon for the traffic/activity page comes to mind, then it'll probably appear in a whole bunch of places. --Todd (25 years ago, 29-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Web Site Announcement and HTML question.
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I have been working on redesigning my Web page (again I know) with a better tool. Everything looks good and seems to work great except for one thing. I have a Menu at the top of my page that has Hypertext links to sections of my homepage. These (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Tasty!
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(...) Because if it were green, you wouldn't know when to stop mowing your lawn. (...) Everyone knows the moon is made of cheese, Gromit. (...) Heh. Someone told me about "Dante II: Damnation Bugaloo" where the Tootsie-Pop Owl, whilst suffering in (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Fun with JAVA
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(...) Hmmm... C++ uses generally the same syntax, and it can reference the Java API... That *must* mean... nah. The things that make Java Java, are not available in Javascript. These things include but aren't limited to: object-oriented (1) (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Fun with JAVA
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(...) That's interesting. I've had many things crash Netscape for me -- Quicktime 3.0, Shockwave, HTML, etc. -- but never Java. Do you visit particularly bad applets? Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: What is "powerful"?
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(...) Boot up time issues aren't unique to Windows. I was always annoyed at how long OS/2 took to boot up at work. Now that I use AIX on an RS/6000, Windows and OS/2 start up instantly by comparison, though a large part of the slowness of AIX (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Fun with JAVA
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Sproaticus wrote in message <376FD969.C35EB4B5@g...es.com>... (...) It uses generally the same syntax, and on netscape, it can reference the java api (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Fun with JAVA
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Jasper Janssen wrote in message <377cbc95.9819689@lu...et.com>... (...) That reminds me, I once heard it was possible for javascript to file out a filename in the file area of the form(maybe with C:\windows\cookies) (In a hidden window , of (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Perl rules!
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(...) It's no toy. (...) It's not a good language to teach Computer Science with. BTW, there is arguably never any "right" way. Just different ways to do things that either work correctly or don't work correctly -- or perform correctly but (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Fun with JAVA
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(...) Java crashes Nutscrape. Javascript doesn't. (...) In my client, all it can do is open a mailto: window, or send an email with the contents of a form _after_ you click a button, IIRC. (...) Except crashing the computer. Jasper (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: X-Face: usage?
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(...) Hehe. It's kinda cool to have it as an option, yes, but you should be ab;le to turn it off ;) Jasper (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Perl rules!
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(...) The problem with perl, I am told, is that it's also incredibly easy to do things exactly the wrong way. In fact, it's vastly easier than to do it the right way. Just like in any other language, of course, but in perl, "there is always more (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Good image-format converters
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(...) I use ThumbsPlus, which is my personal favorite image managing package. Worth every penny. (URL) is good too, and I have used that before. Both do batch processing. (25 years ago, 27-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Good image-format converters
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Does anyone know of any good(windows) programs that can convert graphics from the .bmp to .gif or .jpg format. Or how do you make pov output a gif or jpg. -- webpage: (URL) AIM:Qbwiz -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 G! d- s--:- a---- (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: What is "powerful"?
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(...) Anyone planning on taking a look at the $199 iToaster? (URL) only "bad" thing seems to be that you have to use their ISP, and it is $19.99 per month, which I guess is kinda average, but certainly a lot more than I pay (nothing). If there were (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: What is "powerful"?
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(...) Isn't "progress" great? ;-) (...) Well, chalk that behavior up as being courtesy of your operating system vendor. They want booting and every other normal aspect of computing to be slower and slower each year so that you need to buy faster and (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Tasty!
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(...) Actually, wouldn't that be a pizza calling to order another pizza? (...) It's too bad - that legal letter should have said to use the term "Lego brand bricks". I have a feeling this was a reactive response rather than a proactive one. Has (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jun-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | anyone ordered stuff from x10.com?
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(URL) from the fact that this place seems to always be running "hurry up and buy it before it goes off sale in 2 days" promotions, their stuff looks pretty cool. My friends and I ordered a few of their "free" firecracker home automation kits the (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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