Re: ADM FWD Re: [SaF] Meaning of these terms
Uproar.com and Iwin.com are part of a larger company called Flipside, which is based in New York and owned by multinational entertainment conglomerate Vivendi Universal, owner of (among MANY other things) the video-game character Crash Bandicoot. http://corporate.uproar.com/index.asp (lotsa luck getting this to display properly in Netscape...) -- BOB
Re: ADM FWD Re: [SaF] Meaning of these terms
On Mon, 28 May 2001 14:37:17 CDT, Alan S. Harrell replied to me, in part: http://corporate.uproar.com/index.asp (lotsa luck getting this to display properly in Netscape...) Isn't Vivendi the group that recently purchased mp3.com? Yep -- sale closed last week: http://www.vivendi.com/servlet/com.coteba.ipresse.communique2? support=6code=725 (CP onto one line) -- BOB
Re: [SaF] Street Map Of DC
On Tue, 08 May 2001 10:07:09 EDT, Marsha Graham replied to Peace, in part: How about http://www.mapquest.com Or here's one directly to D.C. [gosh-awful long generated url sliced] This'un puts ya smackdab in Dubya-Land (inside the Ellipse) Amazing how many restaurants are that close to the W.Hguess we couldn't have blamed Mr Clinton in one respect :-P -- BOB
Re: [SaF] Font = credits, TZ
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 00:40:15 PDT, Ben Cooper wrote: [to me:] What I'm after is the font used in its closing credits. See if the font found at this site looks like the one you're looking for- http://www.thetzsite.com/pages/windows.html Yep, that's the guy. Bernhard Modern. Thanks. -- BOB
[SaF] Font = credits, TZ
I'm sure enough of you remember The Twilight Zone. (If not, here in the States, Sci-Fi occasionally carries it, usually as a marathon around selected holidays.) What I'm after is the font used in its closing credits. It's allegedly a proprietary product, but that's about all I know about it, not its proper name, etc. -- BOB
[SaF] Funny signs (was stain problem)
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 16:33:04 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, in part: I love the Burma Shave sayings. I used to read them when I was a kid on drives with my folks. I thought they had all disappeared but a few years back I saw a set on an old country road while visiting Missouri. Brings back happy memories. I also saw a sign for a Swop Meet, had a good laugh. If you like misspelled (or any humorous) signs, go here: http://www.humoroftheday.com/gallery/gallery.htm Tons of pictures... The Burma-Shave signs are celebrated on a SLEW of sites. E.g.: http://seniors-site.com/funstuff/burma.html http://www.outwestnewspaper.com/burmashave.html http://www.nidlink.com/~dgookin/burma_shave/ http://www.two-lane.com/burmashave.html -- BOB
Re: [SaF] Classical Gas, Not
On Sun, 8 Apr 2001 13:18:20 PDT, Daniel Quackenbush wrote, in part: I might have found the song I was looking for. It might be "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag." It might be this song because it was playing during a battle helicopter scene in Vietnam. I'm not sure it's the song because I can't find an MP3 or a sample. If anybody knows where one is, I would appreciate it. I don't know why all these years I thought it was "Classical Gas." A great song from Country Joe McDonald, popularized by the classic film, "Woodstock." Is a RealAudio clip OK? http://www.countryjoe.com/feelmus.htm -- BOB
Re: [SaF] ...Sugar in the morning...
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001 11:13:52 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "...Sugar in the morning, sugar in the evening, sugar at suppertime ..." Anyone know who sings that song? I know it's an oldie! "Sugartime", made in (ah believe) 1956 by the McGuire Sisters. You can still find their records at the larger and online retailers. Here's an online place that's got 'em: http://www.singers.com/jazz/vintage/mcguire.html -- BOB
Re: [SaF] ADM FWD Re: [pop3] Caught in the Crosswinds
On 31 Mar 2001 21:57:49 UTC, "schergs" wrote, in part: Has anyone else had any experiences with HotPOP or SoftHome and, if so, I'd like to hear about them - either off list or on. I receive Don Fitzpatrick's list from [EMAIL PROTECTED], have had it coming to a softhome addy since February, this is a five-day-a-week list, NO probs whatsoever. Likewise with Gabe Helou's list from [EMAIL PROTECTED], his is every day. -- BOB
[SaF] Usenet server - post, NOT read?
A while back somebody (I forget who) tipped me off to a Usenet server which accepted posts to a rather-large number of groups (I'm not ASS-uming the binary ones to be included), but which does NOT open groups for reading! Allegedly one can access this server in the usual way with Netscape, which I use. Anybody know about this? -- BOB FRABLE, currently in Easton, PA
Re: [SaF] Usenet server - post, NOT read?
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 21:32:19 CST, Alan S. Harrell replied to me: Anybody know about this? NewsOne http://newsone.net/ I heard about that earlier (prolly in this list!!), but that's a Web-based service; the server I'm looking for, has been around for a considerable number of years, and as I said, can be used with Netscape Newsgroup (and ostensibly other newsreaders as well) -- sorry to confuse you -- wherein it can be added as a server, but then one can only post messages, not read them. -- BOB
Re: [SaF] Entemann's (sp?)
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 15:34:36 EST, Peace wrote: Can someone help me find the Entenmann's (cakes and cookies manufacturer) web site? I've found sites for their parent company, Bestfoods (http://www.bestfoods.com/), which has an Entenmann's product incorporated in the title page but no page for that brand (they also own Skippy peanut butter, Knorr soups, and Hellmann's [real] mayonnaise). Bestfoods was recently acquired by, but not merged into, the far-larger international conglomerate Unilever (http://www.unilever.com/), and their brands listing makes no mention of Entenmann's. Sorry about that... -- BOB
Re: [SaF] Entemann's (sp?)
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:24:55 EST, Leslie Pearson wrote: I found this page with contact information for Entemann's: http://www.bestfoods.com/contact.shtml and this one with a history http://www.bestfoods.com/profile_history_entenmanns.shtml Thanks, for myself and the orig. poster, Peace. I seem to have forgotten Thomas' English Muffins, a favorite of our family, also falls under Bestfoods. I'll bookmark that first page... -- BOB
Re: [SaF] Lyrics to Muhammad Ali's fight song
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 07:19:12 UTC*, Andrew Vieira wrote: Thanks. I knew that "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" was Ali's slogan, but I thought that there was a song with that line, too. Maybe it is just a poem, but all I'm interested in is how it goes. There actually was (a song, that is), but Ali had very little to do with it, unless you count that it was about him. It was "Black Superman - Muhammad Ali", a number one hit in Britain and a top 20 hit here in the States in 1976, by reggae singer Johnny Wakelin. Probably not exactly what you were looking for (and enough people I know forgot about it because WABC didn't play it in New York) but it does exist nonetheless, and can unfortunately only be found on the "Have A Nice Day/Have A Nice Decade" CD's from Rhino Records. Its lyrics are here, on a site by a Todd Peach: http://www.thepeaches.com/music/nicedecade/BlackSupermanMuhammadAli.txt (the above should all be one line) -- BOB *Universal Time, Coordinated
Re: [SaF] Fonts installed with win98
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 14:54:41 EST, Cherie wrote: there is a list somewhere of the fonts that come with win98..does anyone know where the list is?? Open Windows Explorer and go to directory c:\Windows\Fonts Make sure your View is set to Details If you're using the original flavor of W98, the fonts that came with it should have the date stamp "05/11/1998 8:01 PM" -- BOB
Re: [SaF] Brenda Spencer
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:52:40 CST Southworth, Leasa M wrote: [snip] hey guys...I'm interested in articles concerning this shooting. I don't remember this one so I'm guessing that it's not one of the more recent ones... Anyone have any links? Perusing the San Diego Union-Tribune's page on the Santana incident, linked from a Yahoo! News "full coverage" page, I came across one that tells quite a bit on Spencer: http://www2.uniontrib.com/news/metro/santana/20010309-_1n9spencer.htm l (there is an underline _ after the quad nine, and of course it should *awl* be on the same line) -- BOB
Re: [SaF] TV episodes on-line
On Fri, 09 Mar 2001 18:39:04 +0800 George [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: Can we view some TV episodes on-line now? Not with the common 56k connection in most cases. Allegedly there was one company that was trying to improve that situation, but I think they either weren't a free service, or their quality was/is no better than Real or Windows Media. If you have broadband, which I suppose is available on some level in that part of the world (western Pacific rim), I can think of only one company here in the States that might be of help, http://www.LikeTelevision.com/. -- BOB
Re: [SaF] Logo
On Fri, 09 Mar 2001 23:14:35 EST Béatrice Hartz wrote: Hi Alan: thank you for your answer. The first address doesn't enter, the second does. What can be wrong with the first one? Saludos, Béatrice. He left out the hyphen in "logo-foundation" in the first URL, that's what. Try again: http://el.www.media.mit.edu/groups/logo-foundation/products/software.html Like he said, it should *awl* be on one line. -- BOB FRABLE (FRAY-bull), currently in Easton, Pennsylvania USA
Re: [SaF] Identify actors in commercials?
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 18:14:39 CST, Alan S. Harrell wrote, in part: My finds above are pretty paltry. Is there any particular commercial where you are trying to find the name of the actor or actress? Well, NetZero, a no-longer-completely-free Internet access service I used until recently, has been employing this particularly cute, shapely spokesperson... I am not sure what contacting the company directly would accomplish. -- BOB
Re: [SaF] Biorythms
On Sat, 03 Mar 2001 05:30:07 (Sri Lankan time), Shirley Silva wrote: Where could I download software to calculate biorythms? I mean the coloured graphs. Here's some places to look: http://www.retrodesigns.com/UniBio/ (shareware, about $ 30.00 US) http://www.arakni.com/biorhythm/biowin.html (shareware, $ 12.00 US) http://web-ace.freeyellow.com/bio.html (shareware, $ 5.00 US, caution he sends it as an attachment!) http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/street/vn53/bio.htm (commercial, UKP 19.99, this might be easier than the US folks) Hope this helps. -- BOB FRABLE, currently in Easton, Pennsylvania USA
Re: [SaF] Biorythms
AHA! Knew I'd find a freebie on this somewhere: http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cbc.htm -- BOB
Re: [SaF] DOS program: Is it in this ZIP?
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 05:01:10 CST, Alan S. Harrell replied to me: I believe the shareware PKZip 2.50 will do all you ask and more. Read the features here: http://www.pkware.com/catalog/zipdos.html Pretty expensive for a DOS program. Must you do this from DOS? Not if I already have it! :-) I'm a batch-file person from way back. But thanks for askin'... -- BOB
[SaF] DOS program: Is it in this ZIP?
I am looking for a simple DOS program that has two parameters, the name of a ZIP (compressed) file, and the name of a file which might be compressed within that ZIP file, that returns the truth about the latter being contained within the former as the DOS variable "errorlevel". The thinking here is that if a file already exists within the ZIP of the same name as a file I would have added to the ZIP, I could discard the file rather than waste the time of adding it again. TIA -- BOB
Re: [SaF] Greetings
To Valerie Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This sounds like Coumadin[R] which is a U.S. trademark for warfarin, an anti-coagulant. http://www.coumadin.com/ Very informative site, both for consumers and professionals. -- BOB
[SaF] AOL uninstall executable, v5.0
Can you folks direct me to a way to extract the uninstall executable file "aolunins.exe" from a CD of version 5.0 of AOL? The sooner I clean A-Oh-Hell! from this God-forsaken machine, the better! -- BOB
Re: [SaF] Latin Q Again
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 10:16:08 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's why I couldn't find it! I have/had no clue how to get there! Is that a URL? alt.language.latin ?? How do I get there from here? (Sounds like a good song name, eh!?) Try entering "news:alt.language.latin" without the quotes into your AOL browser and see what happens. If you don't get, for instance, a listing of messages to read, and additional browser features to facilitate posting of messages, then the browser is NOT equipped to handle USENET newsgroups, and you will have to go to (and possibly register for an account at) www.deja.com or www.remarq.com or some other site that does facilitate reading and posting USENET messages. USENET has, alas, been sadly forgotten by the Net-access business in the last ten or so years...they seemed to think chat rooms made it obsolete, or some such "Choonk"... -- BOB
[SaF] test
test -- BOB FRABLE, currently in Easton, PA slowly saying bye-bye to Ju-NO!
Re: [SaF] Plain text looks like linked text in Netscape
Resending because of a small problem between Juno and Netscape, described in a separate msg sent to a bunch of places. On Fri, 02 Feb 2001 20:46:29 PST, Ed Bockelman wrote: Look for a link that wasn't closed. [etc.] Nope, no mismatches. Must be something else. -- BOB
Re: [SaF] In anticipation of Alan leaving us all alone next week..
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 20:04:34 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can we set up an emergency chat room for SeekNFinders just in case we get lost and scared and huddling in the corners?? Oh sakes, Peace, can't Curt Davis or George Lunt help out? Or Ben Cooper?? -- BOB
[SaF] Plain text looks like linked text in Netscape
Well, it's just happened in one of my local files: something got screwed up when I edited an HTML file (in a text editor), and now the plain text is underlined and the same color as text inside links. Isn't there a site (other than Netscape) that shows how to alleviate this? -- BOB FRABLE, currently in Easton, PA slowly saying bye-bye to Ju-NO!
[SaF] None-of-the-above as a political option
With the US presidential contest now history, I would like to locate any scholarly research into the possibility of "none of the above" as an option in elections of this or compareable gravity. My hunch on this, is that your likely sources will include some of the major US universities, and at least one political "think tank". -- BOB
Re: [SaF] Yiddish for Pamela?
Nancy + Alan: Chris says thank you! -- BOB
[SaF] Yiddish for Pamela?
An Internet friend of my youngest brother asked him last night if he could find the Yiddish equivalent of the first name Pamela, which as you might imagine got passed along to me8-P I'm not worried about the Hebrew spelling, as it would be a bear to replicate in a list where ASCII is the norm...:-/ Thanx -- BOB
[SaF] All-numeric, no-dot IP's
One thing that has always puzzled me, is how SPAMMERS (and they're the only ones that do it AFAIK) come up with those digital URL's, e.g.: http://2024561414/ * Are these arrived at by doing a simple math formula with their real, numeric IP address? * If this becomes an auto-link, as it does in Juno, don't click on it, I don't claim to know anything about it...numbers used for illustration only!! -- BOB
Re: [SaF] 3 in 1 -----track ISP, find ISP , and track stats
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000 13:59:14 pst, Ed Bockelman wrote, in part, ah believe to c.l. avery: 3. I need to findthe *exact* location to the Real Audio *free* Player download I'll let someone else help you with this one. I don't think RealNetworks wants to give such an address to anybody. They want to be able to log and verify who requests their players, because there are U.S. government regulations pertaining to computer technologies which, unfortunately, limit where and to whom their (and, really, anybody's) software can be provided. out of curiousity --- when you all want to play an audio file and you click on it on someone's website --- WHAT media player pops up automatically for YOU on YOUR computer... ?? That isn't determined by what's installed on your machine, only by the creator of the website. Not every player plays every kind of media file. -- BOB FRABLE, currently in Easton, PA
Re: [SaF] email address
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:45:47 Hong Kong Standard Time, George asked: I'm looking for the email address of the Human Resource Department of HP Co. in Palo Alto. Anyone know? Seems to me someone asked this before, but anyhoo, Hewlett-Packard (I'm making an ASS-umption here...), has a Web page for corporate communications, http://www.hp.com/ghp/assist/general.html. They do not publicize addresses for departments. -- BOB FRABLE, currently in Easton, Pennsylvania USA
Re: [SaF] Digital clocks with military capability
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 07:21:26 cst, Alan S. Harrell wrote: [to me:] H... a little bigger than a 45-record... anything bigger? I am not sure what you mean, but the digital clock this company sells "can be seen from a 100 feet." It also does 12/24 time. http://www.etimesystems.com/clocks/ They have several other digital clocks to consider. Yeah, this'll work. Thanks. -- BOB
Re: [SaF] Digital clocks with military capability
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 16:07:54 cst, Alan S. Harrell wrote, to me: How does this product look to you: http://shop.store.yahoo.com/jandr/st-2640.html H... a little bigger than a 45-record... anything bigger? -- BOB
Re: [SaF] Digital clocks with military capability
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 16:07:54 cst, Alan S. Harrell wrote, to me: How does this product look to you: http://shop.store.yahoo.com/jandr/st-2640.html H... a little bigger than a 45-record... anything bigger? -- BOB
[SaF] Number (as opposed to Word) Finder
My mother, and other women she knows, are into these "Word Finder" paperbacks they have in *AWL* the major chain stores. You know, find the words hidden in an X-by-Y grid of letters, 24 pages or more full of 'em. Well, mother came to me a few days ago and said she wanted to get a "Number Finder" book. Apparently in much the same vein, 'cept what you're trying to find are numbers, or more correct- ly, strings of specific digits. Says she wants to give it to a longtime woman friend for her birthday, around Thanksgiving. "Ookay..." The local chains (CVS, RiteAid, the Marts, et al.) have so far been of minimal help. I was planning to visit the New York City area over the weekend, a place where the hard-to-find in terms of printed materials could be found. Any ideas? -- BOB
[SaF] Small clock app(let)
I am looking for a small digital clock program that would be controllable from the taskbar, adjustable as to size of digits, and programmable as to time zone, including UTC. TIA -- BOB
[SaF] Full-screen message
Members of my family are of less-than-perfect hearing (the parents specifically), so what I was thinking about today was a program to generate a short, quick, large-type message that fills the computer screen, and then exit when a key is pushed. So, say, I use the run command on the start menu, and enter [name] "some message" and click OK, that sort of thing. Ideas? -- BOB
Re: [SaF] Software to detect use of phone line?
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 19:55:24 cdt, Alan S. Harrell wrote: On 13 Sep 2000, 19:18, Sarah L. Green wrote: No idea who Phil is. Me either. Brian, just WHO is this Phil guy? BG [snickers] I think I let this question get away from me. I don't remember the exact question being asked, but just perhaps the person making the original query might visit the following site: Call Wave http://www.callwave.com/ Am I warm with that? No, Callwave enables you to take calls while online, using any telephone-service company's call-forwarding feature. It is an :adware: product, which is a significant issue in and of itself. We use that here, altho I am starting to think it's causing problems with our machine. The situation I described was: Person A (whoever) is using the line for a voice call, perhaps in an area nowhere(s) near the PC, and Person B at the PC wonders why (for example) Juno is telling him "Juno cannot detect a dial tone..." et al. -- BOB == Consider colons as quote delimiters, and NADER ==
Re: [SaF] Software to detect use of phone line?
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 19:18:43 cdt, Sarah L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No idea who Phil is. However, 43-443 is a Line-in-use indicator and is listed for $19.99. (Page 37 of the new catalog. Enjoy! http://www.radioshack.com/ Interesting...but we'd have to figure out where to put it on the rather-unique table we keep the 'puter on. -- BOB == Consider NADER ==
Re: [SaF] Software to detect use of phone line?
Don't be so sure with "The Shack", BLJ. I went looking for a replacement printer ribbon there a month or so ago, and found out that most of their ribbon products had been discontinued. So far no answers at radioshack.com...I left a message with their product support, I'll letcha know... On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 01:20:12 mdt, Brian L. Johnson wrote [to me]: I believe the best solution is in hardware, not software. Radio Shack has a little line-in-use indicator that plugs into your phone line, and the LED flashes when the line is in use... Bet Phil could tell you the exact part # g -- BOB == Consider NADER ==
[SaF] Software to detect use of phone line?
I am in need of some means to detect when our (one) phone line is being used while any of the family is using the PC, but is not online (we already have Internet Answering Machine and our phone co.'s call forwarding to catch attempts to call us when we =are= on). Very often someone in the family will take the portable phone somewhere out of earshot of the person using the computer, =ergo= he or she is grossly unaware of the true status of the line until Juno, for example, tells them that it could not detect a dial tone. I am going on the supposition that should such a means exist, it is likely in the nature of a small program that can be loaded at Windoze startup. TIA -- BOB == Consider NADER ==
Re: [SaF] Adult or Not
Don't mind me, I just had a power spike, well *after* the storm passed... On Tue, 1 Aug 2000 21:30:13 cdt, Alan S. Harrell wrote, in part: You can file a complaint with the BBS as well: http://www.bbs.com/ What does a German manufacturer best known for high-performance car wheels, have to do with a plane trip from Guam to Japan, Alan? -- BOB
[SaF] Link-checking software
Looking for a link-checker I can use on *locally-saved* html pages. I've only been able to find one ($ 50.00) shareware product so far. I'd like for it to be able to work on both http and ftp/file links. -- BOB
Re: [SaF] Link-checking software
Thanks for *awl* your suggestions. Seeker and Ben, I'm going to check out each of the ones you mentioned. -- BOB
Re: [SaF] Countries on the Internet
On 22 Jun 2000 03:16:55 utc, Alan S. Harrell wrote: [to Shashi Chopra:] International E-mail Accessibility http://www.nsrc.org/codes/country-codes.html Be sure and first read the Description of the Codes before you scroll down to the countries list. In fact it is a good idea to click all the links in the Index and read those through. A warning to some of you with Netscape: if you see a link called "World Map", DON'T click it, there is a problem with a related (Java?) applet connected with this map which causes the browser to hang when on this (map) page; I have already reported this to the site's maintainer. -- BOB FRABLE, currently in Easton, PA
