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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 ... (...) (25 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 (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Have you looked at Tripod ("(URL) (25 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.publish, 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 (...) (25 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. (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I use Corel PhotoPaint 8 (for Windows), and I'm quite happy with it. As far as I can tell, it has all the same functions as PhotoShop. (Most, if not all, Adobe PhotoShop plugins work with PhotoPaint too) --Bram Bram (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I was wondering what people would think of that one. I kind of envisioned him on the summit of a mountain. That one was the first one I did and I thought it'd look pretty cool, the dark clouds behind an evil guy. (...) Thanks. Wilson (25 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Speaking of paying nothing -- Corel's PhotoPaint [1] for Linux will be a free download Any Day Now. (Sometime this summer.) The full CorelDraw suite will be for pay, but the Photoshop-clone component will be free. $500 will buy an awful lot of (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.publish)
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Hey Wilson, Nice job with these! You got them looking pretty smooth. I really need to get Photoshop. (I've been telling myself that for about six months now.) My silly MGI PhotoSuite is worth what I paid for it (i.e. nothing). I especially like the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) from a bit too high jpg compression?) (25 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.publish)
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This is what the original post should look like. In the past couple of months, I've been taking various pictures of different backgrounds, specifically for these pictures. Last night, after playing around with Photoshop for a long time, I finally (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I had half of it(#4) done with a video-Cam like I did for #'s 1-3 and some of the "Olde" pictures. So the upshot is I have it written out but I can do so much better with my new camera (Casio QV2000), so I am rebuilding/reshooting all the (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jun-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Yeah, I agree; the effects and captions give it character. But, me and Shiri are wondering, what happened to Chap. 4? Been into the sippin' whiskey again, or something? ;-) -Chris (and Shiri) (25 years ago, 17-Jun-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) <grin> Since you asked so nicely, I did and I'm glad I did! Great job, I had some very good laughs over that...the pictures look great, and the effects + talking add a lot!! Awesome! -Shiri (25 years ago, 17-Jun-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) No worries, Kev. Fixed it in secs. Sorry Shiri, hope you find time to look again. <grin> Best DaveG (25 years ago, 17-Jun-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Oops! I know what broke the pictures. All files uploaded to the brickshelf gallery get forced to lowercase (for estetics). There was a bug a few days ago in the upload code that forgot to lowercase the files you uploaded. When I discovered (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jun-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) :-( -Shiri (25 years ago, 17-Jun-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Yes, in an ideal world, I'd like to see all the instructions available for download in a single printable (PDF?) document. However, I expect TLG would want to host that themselves (if at all). If they did, a high quality set data base which, (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Wow, I'm more impressed than I thought I'd be. Pricing is a little whacky on some elements in some colors, but that comes from Lego looking at a grey brick as the same as a red brick since they probably cost them the same to make. Doubt it'll (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad)
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