Not normally sybject to personal flames but
>Two big crunchy gear levers, bull bars, aircon, the lot!
>They look like they will go through any wall they can't get over!
Ah yes - bull bars, that necessary fashion accessory for the wannabee 4x4
brigade - absolutely necessary in these days of r
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001 23:04:15 +0100
Arachne4Dos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Think about it Yyyeuch. Logon to MacDonalds and have the smell of a
>big mac wafting through the house. Or the French Fromage Society
>site? Or worst of the lot, what about your local City Council Garbage
>Department site?
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:07:51 +
"Ron Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>PLEA: Does anyone have a self-contained, "place it in a subdirectory",
>script for a webpage hitcounter that just counts hits. One that is able
>to count Arachne/Bobcat/Net-Tamer etc., as well as the others ?
>That doesn
nk my machine
is slower than before - possibly a symptom of windows 95 bloating till it
barfs - I;ll let you know *when* it does ;-(
PS - have ram prices plummeted as they have here in the UK?
I got 32meg about 9 moths ago for £28.
Yesterday I bought a 128meg sdram module for £30. Go compute!
Cheers -
Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Must be something to do with the british sense of humour hehehe
I think if you read some of douglas adams' work you'd be ROFL!
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/8418/
try this - "here i am, brain the size of a planet and all they do is ask me
to open door
Hi all,
I like the CSS support and noticed the mouseovers straight away. After
dumping my job as a research chemist, I now work for a bunch of new media
lot called Sift, and am building a website which uses CSS extensively for
display attributes (will be 'live' - though boring - shortly). Its
sur
kage.
>Some serious bugs in original 1.70 package were just fixed.
PS Copying arachne.cfg resulted in a perfectly working system - no glitches
with dial-up settings!
Rest of folder contents will have to wait...
Neil Smith.
In an online world without walls, who needs Gates and Windows?
Visit my
>Don't PCI motherboards have only two or three slots as PCI slots and the
rest
ISA slots?
No, that's VLB - the slots are connected directly to the cpu and aren't
'buffered' so they're limited to 2 or 3 slots max, usually running only up
to 33mhz for electrical stability. Rest *will* be ISA slots,
; - that'll
list the manufacturer if it was made in the last 5-10 years.
PS - been a while since I posted so happy new year to all of you on the
list.
Bye,
Neil Smith.
>Date: Sat, 6 Jan 01 10:03:01
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Howard Schwartz)
>Subject: Re: Requirements for Internet Ra
list:
fat16/32 filesystems, parallel (laplink) and serial null modem cables, hard
drives and preparation, cdrom drivers, DOS bootdisk images and an
(apparently) complete list of alternate DOSes
well worth a look.
Neil Smith.
In an online world without walls, who needs Gates and Windows?
Visit my
On Sat, 02 Dec 2000 18:41:58 -000
Mike Millen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Does any UK Arachne user connect to the Internet via Freeserve?
>I'm pretty sure the problem is with DNSs.
>They say that these are assigned dynamically and I don't need to
>know them (yeah, right :).
Working TCP/IP config
Michael, Clarence, and others doing the development of
Arachne - in the words of star trek - live long and prosper!
Neil Smith.
In an online world without walls, who needs Gates and Windows?
Visit my home site for more info : http://www.fresh-toast.com/welcome.htm
ecause it takes an age to load. Current idea is 4 thumbnails per
page, each clickable for a larger image. Any more & page load time goes over
*my* preference of 5-10 seconds.
Thanks for any views, suggestions or flames!
(Is it me or has this group been plagued by a swarm of Neils, Neils'
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:57:15 -0700 (MST)
Steve Linux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
As a dial-up user with a large phone bill, if I were to receive *lots* of
spam, wouldn't I have to pay to download the messages, and again to send a
reply? Is there any way to set up the spam filter to delete file
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Florian Xaver wrote:
> Today I tried xpdf and I think it is very good. Is there such a tool to
> convert TXT or HTML files to pdf?
Have you got the 'convert' command on your system? Can then use command
groff to pre-process & format the text file:
groff -ps 16bit.txt (Ou
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 0:32:51 +0800
Joerg Bartels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> worried:
Subject: Re: Re: Problem with hd after umsdos-Linux
>Strange. BIOS shows 545meg, but DR-DOS shows 518.
>BIOS shows 1057 cylinders, but DR-DOS shows 526.
>Is this a big-harddrive issue?
No, 545meg is a decimal number -
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000 00:31:38 +0200 (CEST)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) said:
Subject: Final words on TSX 32bit OS
>I personally find that Linux is VERY friendly.
>the only problem is that at first the many options are irritating ...
>but I have to admit that I like THAT way much better,
On Mon, 02 Oct 2000 21:13:47 +
"Chuck McGill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>It was suggested that I go to setup and manually enter my video setup.
>I had accepted Arachne's suggestion to run with vesa 800x600. I have
>been very satisfied with this setup except for the lost 1/5 th of
>my screen.
>Herbert Valliant wrote:
> I have been trying to install Arachne 1.66 without much success.
> After dial up, login and pressing F7 I get after a long pause
> "PPP link is down, driver is not installed"
If the login proceeds OK then fails, there's one thing I found that would
cause this problem re
>Several modem manufacturers are out of business. Right now I can
> think of two very-well known modem
>manufacturers that are out of business: Practical Peripherals and
>Cardinal Technologies.
>You forgot the big one, Hayes.
Motorola who made my modem, stopped doing consumer modems 18 months
>Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 23:03:57 +
>From: "Chuck McGill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>At present Arachne fills about 4/5ths of my screen from right to left.
>The question is how do I get her to fill the screen?
Do you mean get rid of the toolbar up the side?
Use * key to toggle fullscreen mode.
In
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 23:01:55 -0400
neil tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Subject: modems
> I have come to the conclusion that I have a winmodem. What type of
> modem should I get for Arachne? I don't want anything too fancy or
> expensive. Is an external one ok?
> Thanks
>Certainly an exte
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:15:27 +0300, Cristian Burneci wrote:
> Hello
> I've got two questions.
> First: I have just resigned my present job for another one
Hurray - me too! Nice, innit?
> and one of the
> unpleasant side effects is that I am going to lose the email account I am
> using right no
Ooops! Some confusion here, I wasn't precise enough : The discussion I had
referred to css support by Netscape / IE. Arachne doesn't support css, but
it can be induced to silently ignore it. Any html blocks without a font
specified for arachne will go to the default font, whatever that is, and I
s
>Subject: http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/schluter/doc/tags/
>Arachne displays this CSSed page fine. Note the alternative versions for
non-Java and non-frames...
Looking over the source for that page, I found css mentioned only in the
meta tags.
These are descriptive tags used primarily by search
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000 18:44:20 +0200
"Florian Xaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wondered:
- Does Arachne and DOSLYNX support
-
- ?
Arachne doesn't support those tags, but it will happily ignore em, the text
and effects might go to the font (if specified) in the HTML, else arachne
will use the current
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 06:09:28 -0400 (EDT)
"Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Linux runs on 486, but I wouldn't attempt to run GNOME or KDE.
I might wish disagree with that last statement (in the nicest possible way
! )
Linux runs fine on my Cx486/100 w/ 36M ram. That's with *KDE* - the
Another one for you then is the 'Whois' utility to perform owner
identification of web sites (or to determine if a domain name is available).
This one's in the UK, hosted by uklinux.net:
http://www.uklinux.net/whois
A very bare page - the whois query is all that's on it. It returns all the
stand
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000 23:42:12 -0400
"Clarence Verge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Your problem won't be solved by new ikons - the color translation
>palette for mono CGA has to be fixed. This will probably get done
>before the end of the year. It's a long story. :(
Thanks, Clarence. I thought that
I have a question (again) about arachne / CGA - See summary of thread below
After trying it on my (colour!) 486 as well as the mono 286 laptop, I find I
still have the same problem, ie disappearing , non-clickable icons where I
know they should be. This *includes* the back & forward buttons for
na
That 'old' chestnut! Back to what karen wanted: I don't know a lot about
customising arachne in this way, but if we can specify 'talk.sys' driver as
below ($$talk$$), then is there any reason why that cfg line couldn't be
adapted
to send the output to karen's speech program, and / or on to the pr
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000 22:27:22 -0500
"Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>EDIT.COM has much better features than PICO, IMHO.
Tru, you'll hear no argument from me!
> The disadvantage of EDIT.COM is that it cannot function all by itself as a
"stand-alone", because it requires QBASIC in ord
Edit came with Qbasic as external editor. I didna know that, always wondered
why qbasic was still included in MSDos.
Just for comparison then, PICO comes as the built-in editor with the
text-based Linux email software PINE, and is similarly equipped to perform
basic editing stand-alone. In common
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000 10:45:32 +0800
Joerg Bartels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Subject: Steven: CMOS-crash with BASICLinux!
>I tryed to make a bootdisk for a Corel-Linux installation under BASICLinux
>dd if=cdrom/Corel/Boot/boot1440.img of=dev/fd0 with cdromdrive mounted
>to cdrom and fd0 mounted to
On Sat, 02 Sep 2000 09:44:54 -0400
"Dev Teelucksingh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Subject: DOS and the future (and why I use DOS :-) )
>While Linux is great (I have it installed as a secondary OS on my machine),
> it is more complex than DOS (although DOS experience is a plus
> when using the Bash
AFAIK As far as I know
TGIF Thank God It's Friday
Favoured by Garfield-toting secretaries.
In the UK I've also heard POETS-day :
'Piss off early, tomorrow's saturday'
well, you know that feeling...
In a world without walls, who needs windows?
Visit my home site for more info:
http://ww
s my fault anyway, as I may have re-edited the mail first (badly!)
before sending to the list.
Sorry again.
Z.
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 04:15:52 -0400
From: "Clarence Verge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Subject: Now straying wildly : Arachne CGA and skips
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000 0
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 22:33:13 +
J. J. Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Subject: Re: On topic : Arachne CGA
>Neil's been dumpster diving!
Totally right - all you could see were a pair of feet sticking out. In the
closest my employers come to something like christmas, they threw out all
their last
>Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 16:55:45
>From: "Dale Mentzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Spammer service ad
I can confirm receipt of that spam from that bulk email lot.
The fact that it came to Dale as well suggests that either we have both
subscribed to some site on the web & they've passed on deta
Clarence + fellow posters-
Sorry to be caught using Outlook for this - Came home a bit fuzzy...bin
away for a few days, thats why the delay in responding, on account of my
brother getting married yesterday - you know the stuff, family occasion,
free bar (!!!), long sobbing sessions by our mum etc
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000 19:03:19
Dale Mentzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Steven's instruction in the README file are "mount -o loop baslinux
>/mnt" and that appears to have worked. What is the signifigance of
>the "-o" switch or argument in the command?
The -o specifies additional mount options.
I
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000 21:43:24 +0800
Joerg Bartels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I found that I could mount my cdrom with
>mount /dev/hdb /cdrom (cdrom is not in the
>kernel?) with BasicLinux. I know that is only
>newbie hacking (is there a better way?) but
>it works for me. So I think may be I could
>
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