You still around?

MM^^<--just wondering

his royal hyperhandedness is still a regular here.

;-)


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"Mountain Mike^^" <shucks@sorry.com> wrote in message
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"Thor" <man@arms.com> wrote in message
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How could he miss him???

;-)

"Mountain Mike^^" <shucks@sorry.com> wrote in news:1043a37rf836m50
@corp.supernews.com:

Yup, still here. Been working a bit more than usual at three different
jobs plus I still have school, so I don't reply as much as I used to. I
get home and check and there are 10 questions and Thor has already answered
8 of them flawlessly, so I figure I'll just save the bandwith and time to
repeat Thor

Also I'm working on my site, http://demonlag.com and that's taking a ton of
time to set up.

You also may miss me because I don't post through Supernews anymore, I now
post through Octanews because they are far faster and way cheaper than
Supernews, but with no where near the spam filtering. So yes, I'm around.

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DeMoN LaG wrote:

Just a note: Checked your site and it's almost unreadable, (blue on black), in
both Netscape 4.80 and IE 6. The journal part is OK.

Thought you might want to know.

P.S.: I can appreciate life in NJ---grew up in Millburn, Army Signal Corps
basic training at Sea Girt. California has it beat all to hell!

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V W Wall <vwall@DEADearthlink.net> wrote in
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Blue on black!? This is the CSS I'm using to style it:
body {color: white; background-color: black}

In both IE6 and Mozilla FireFox nightlies I see white text on a black
background. Are you sure you aren't loading a custom stylesheet that is
overriding mine?

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"DeMoN LaG" <n@a> wrote in message
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White text on black background for me, only blue is the links, and we both
know that color is set on my end. :-)

"Douglas A. Shrader" <dshrader@nospam.com> wrote in
news:1045g88p533cl20@corp.supernews.com:

Which isn't technically true, as I could very easily say:
A {color: red;}
A:visited {color:yellow;}

And make it whatever color I want. But in this case, you are correct as I
don't believe it's necessary to style my links.
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"DeMoN LaG" <n@a> wrote in message
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If you did style them you wouldn't use IE's default colors anyway.

DeMoN LaG wrote:
Using Netscape 7.1 it's OK as you say. Netscape 4.8 shows the heading
not centered (all text is set left). Once I removed Proximitron from
IE 6, it was OK. It's also OK on MyIE2.

Visited links ars so dark as to be almost invisible on even the
correct renderings. You might consider litening up the background.
The journal is OK, but I suppose you're using the "canned" format.

Hope we soon get over the browser wars! I have to keep IE to get
Microsoft sites, and I use Netscape 4.8 for most everything else.
I know it's not the best, but I'm too lazy to change. Will try
FireFox when I get a round toit.

Virg Wall

V W Wall wrote:
Tho they seem to be heating up a bit with the new ones out.

Me too, including silly folks who just do their pages for viewing in IE.

V W Wall <vwall@DEADearthlink.net> wrote in news:4042D2DA.EA70A684
@DEADearthlink.net:

Netscape 4.8 requires a half million work around hacks to get CSS to work
at all, and I don't quite care if it shows right in that browser. Anyone
using a Netscape product should upgrade to a Gecko based product, Netscape
4.8 is a PITA anyway.

I'll see if I can't reinstall Proxomitron and see what it is stripping from
the page that is causing IE to show it incorrectly.

I'll consider changing the visited link color. I like white on black, as
it's very easy to read for most people, as opposed to black on white.

Once you use FireFox, you won't want to go back to Netscape 4.8

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Plato <|@|.|> wrote in news:4042d429$0$63578$45beb828@newscene.com:

I found a really odd quirk in IE. Using a doctype that puts IE into
standards mode, having a DIV with text-align: center defined, nested inside
a DIV with text-align: center defined, the nested DIVs text is shifted
about 75% to the right. Both DIVs have a width of 100%, so both end up
encompassing the entire view, but the second DIV ends up being shifted to
the right by a ton for no reason I can find. From what I see, the CSS I
used conforms to the W3C's CSS standard, the HTML is 100% valid HTML4.0
markup, but IE botches the job (both Opera and Gecko browsers show it
right). This actually made me spend another 15 minutes designing a
workaround. I wish I could send to Microsoft:

Bill for services rendered:
..25 hours * $30/hr = $7.50
Reason:
Crappy bug in your web browser that I have to work around

But I feel that would end up getting me no where

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V W Wall <vwall@DEADearthlink.net> wrote in news:4042D2DA.EA70A684
@DEADearthlink.net:

Here's one for ya-

http://www.fament.com/supermom/aroundtuit.gif

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bambam wrote:
I get aroundtuit!

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PS: I am beginning to think I ought to bite the bullet and re-arrange
my computing set-up. I'm still using Windows98FE with most of the
MS updates. No problem with crashes, and it is set up to boot to
Linux RH9 directly from within Windows with a .pif shortcut. Just
recently had a problem trying to use my son's router to get DSL.
I know Win98FE has network connection problems, but there are
supposed to be third party programs that work with it.

I still use a lot of old DOS programs, some of which I wrote in
pre-Windows days, so easy access to DOS is important. They all
work with DOS 7.x, so that's not a problem if I keep FAT32.

Was thinking of setting up a WinXP computer as a second system.
I know I could dual boot XP with 98, but that's a bit much.

Another need for a "Round Tuit"!

VW

DeMoN LaG wrote:
I agree entirely, but it works fine with my bank's site, and my two stock broker
accounts. I use it for e-mail and news groups just out of laziness, where it
work well enough. It at least avoids some of the MS security problems.
I have Netscape 7.1, Mozilla and Opera. It's just a matter of moving everything
that's on N 4.8 now.

I keep Prox on IE because I often use it for big-charts.com, which has
dozens of ads that Prox eliminates, cutting the time in half. There
are many sites that Proximitron messes up, even when it's set to "By
Pass". I think Thor found the same problem.
Just don't use that format for anything you think people might want to print.
Now that bam-bam directed me to a Roundtuit, I'll give it a try.
What makes a good e-mail--news reader complement to FireFox?
I have X-news, but it seems overly complex.

Virg Wall

V W Wall <vwall@DEADearthlink.net> wrote in news:40438A52.98BE6CA8
@DEADearthlink.net:

Xnews is simple once you figure it out, takes about a week or two to get
used to it though.

As for printing, it's real simple, just make another set of style rules
that apply to printed documents.

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On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 19:09:04 +0000, V W Wall wrote:

Like DeMon I recon you should stick with Xnews, it is the best.
If you really can´t stand Xnews any longer Thunderbird is the natural
partner for FireFox-

http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

I haven´t personally tried it yet but have heard some very good reports.

Lastly is 40tude Dialog, very highly recommended in alt.comp.freeware-

http://www.40tude.com/dialog/

bambam wrote:
It just seems to be more than I really need. I found the manual
I'd d/l'd some time ago, but didn't get very far in it.
Your "Roundtuit" worked. I've since installed Firefox, fixed
the icon problem, and installed Thunderbird. All seems well.
I'm using TB for this, as you can see.
I already have 9 browsers and 8 e-mail/newsreaders. My Win98FE
seem to work fine, even with several open, but it's probably
time to stop. :-)

Thanks all for the inputs. There have been some good comments
in grc.techtalk, one of Steve Gibson's ng's on news.grc.com.

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