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From: Kevin Karney mailto:kar...@me.com>>
Subject: A new website : Equation-of-Time.info<http://Equation-of-Time.info>
Date: 9 September 2018 at 01:38:22 GMT+2
To: tonylindisun--- via sundial
mailto:sundial@uni-koeln.de>>
Dear colleagues and friends
I have spent a l
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To: tonylindisun--- via sundial
Subject: A new website : Equation-of-Time.info
Dear colleagues and friends
I have spent a lot of time over the last few years in front of my computer
thinking about the Equation of Time. Recently my son asked where all the output
of my studies resided. At fir
urday, December 10, 2011 2:01 PM
Subject: New website with live webcam view of large sundial
Dear gnomonic world,
We are pleased to announce the public launch of our SundialCam website
http://sunny.astro.washington.edu
at which you can see a live image, updated once per minute (even at
night!
Dear gnomonic world,
We are pleased to announce the public launch of our SundialCam website
http://sunny.astro.washington.edu
at which you can see a live image, updated once per minute (even at
night!), of the large wall dial on the Physics/Astronomy Building of
the University of Wash
Another website worth to be visited is
http://europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=sundial,
which is yet only the beta-version with about 1200 items on sundials but will
increase the next months.
Best wishes
Karlheinz Schaldach
-Ursprüngliche Mitteilung-
Von: Wolfgang R. Dick
A
Hi Folks,
and thank you for your interesting writings.
You are also welcome to visit my website at
http://pc-calculator.110mb.com/gnomon/
"On the accuracy of a spherical gnomon's shadow readings"
Regards,
Aimo
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Hello group:
I would like to invite anyone interested in
dialing, and especially those interested in heliochronometers, to visit my new
web site http://atensundials.com . It is
mainly about these instruments, and has photos and descriptions of some that I
have designed and built.
Any f
o: Sundial List
Subject: Re: New Website
Hi Dave:
The instructions in my new Kodak digital camera say almost exactly what you
said about saving originals in TIFF. I tried it, but boy, they are huge
files!
John
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- Original Message -
From: "Dave Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jack Aubert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: New Website
> On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Jack
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Website: <http://www.sundialsculptures.com>
- Original Message -
From: "K. B. McHugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "John Carmichael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 10:27 AM
Subject: RE: New Website
> Thanks.
>
> Just a n
Apart from the potentially 'annoying' aspect of using Javascript pop-ups on
websites, one of the reasons that different people are experiencing various
problems is that your web-designer is not complying with the ECMA standards
for writing Javascript code. Without getting overly 'technical', the
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Jack Aubert wrote:
> At 09:46 AM 3/6/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >
> >Do any of you have any format preference (GIF or JPEG) for websites?
> >Should we change the graphics to JPEGs? Also, do you think the popups are
> >user-friendly?
>
> The JPEG algorithm for rendering pi
At 09:46 AM 3/6/2003 -0700, you wrote:
Do any of you have any format preference (GIF or JPEG) for
websites? Should we change the graphics to JPEGs? Also, do you
think the popups are user-friendly?
The JPEG algorithm for rendering pictures is technically a
"lossy" procedure in that when it co
Reply to : Bill Thayer
>> Popups are perceived as irritating by users only if (a) they pop up
on their own; (b) they are extraneous to the subject matter of the site.:
in sum, if they're spam. <<
Yes, the thing that really annoys me is something that 'pops up' when I
hover over a particular lin
On my G4 Mac, I don't see any "popup windows" using either Netscape
7.01 or Internet Explorer 5.1. I do have JavaScript enabled.
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Should we change the graphics to JPEGs? Also, do you think the
popups are user-friendly?
On my own website, after what I like to think was careful thought and
experiment, and feedback from the first users:
- JPG for all color photos
- GIF for all drawings, symbols, schematics; for anything
on.
Hope this helps.
Mac
Hello sundial surfers,
Kevin, my webmaster and I finally finished replacing that damn Types
and Prices PDF (in my new website at
<http://www.sundialsculptures.com>www.sundialsculptures.com) with
normal formatting. We used a series of popup windows and p
Hi John & all,
I think your site looks very nice now - and functional!
> Do any of you have any format preference (GIF or
> JPEG) for websites? Should we change the graphics to
> JPEGs? Also, do you think the popups are user-
> friendly?
My rule-of-thumb is:
- use JPG for photos, i.e. all pict
Hello sundial surfers,
Kevin, my webmaster and I finally finished replacing that damn
Types and Prices PDF (in my new website at www.sundialsculptures.com) with normal formatting. We used a series of popup windows
and put the graphics in GIF format.
Kevin says that the GIFs make a
JohnI can open all the pages saisfactorily except the one on
prices and types of sundial. I'd be glad to know whether you can view all of
my wesite without flaw. David BrownSundials.com
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I had no trouble with your site, but just remember that :
. All programs have bugs upon their backs to bite them. Little
bugs have smaller bugs, and so on ad infinitem ...
On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 07:55 AM, John Carmichael wrote:
I checked my website using the automatic 'V
Hi, John!
My personal site had a load of "errors", also... First off, I didn't have
the "required" tag at the beginning, to tell the validato just
which version of web code I thought I was running. Without that, it will
refuse to go any further. After fixing that, almost all my errors were
missi
te: <http://www.sundialsculptures.com>
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From: "Mr. D. Hunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 6:20 AM
Subject: Re: My New Website
>
> On Monday 6 Jan 2003 (19:07:38), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >
> John Carmichael wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> [...]
>
> Anyway, please have a look. I'm particularly interested if any of you have
> problems downloading the four PDF files that describe sundial functions at
> the bottom of the "Functions" page at
> http://www.sundialsculptures.com/content/functi
On Monday 6 Jan 2003 (19:07:38), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yes, we've thought of that and many other possible causes. The
> variables are endless (slow processors, bad internet servers, bad
> browsers, old programs, etc.) In any case, if people can't download
> PDFs from websites because they
Hi John,
Why don't you do both, ie. have pages that are normal html with
jpegs and pdf files for those that want them. Also, many pdf file
download problems are due to the following problems:
1. The pdf's haven't been optimized for web usage ( An option in
Acrobat )
2. The graphics are just
ures
925 E. Foothills Dr.
Tucson Arizona 85718
USA
Tel: 520-696-1709
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Website: <http://www.sundialsculptures.com>
- Original Message -
From: "Robert Hough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: My New Websit
es to
my system and opened them in Acrobat here, there were no problems. One
possibility is to suggest doing that and keep the PDF format.
Robert Hough
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From: "John Carmichael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 7:07 PM
Subject: Re:
Message text written by INTERNET:sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de
>Please try to stay with the pdf's if at all possible! The ability to zoom,
>by itself, is worth the difference in the formats...<
I'd support that comment... The problem might be that the sender or
recipient is not using 'real' Acrobat c
appears that
> some people's systems are causing the problem, but we are unable
to pinpoint
> the exact cause. Because of this, I'm going to scrap all the PDFs and
> replace them with traditional JPGS. (ugh!)
Please try to stay with the pdf's if at all possible! The ability to zoom,
by its
> Good to hear from you! I'm sorry about the download problem. It appears that
> some people's systems are causing the problem, but we are unable to pinpoint
> the exact cause. Because of this, I'm going to scrap all the PDFs and
> replace them with traditional JPGS. (ugh!)
Please try to stay wit
Thanks. David
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> Website: <http://www.sundialsculptures.com>
> - Original Message -
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To:
> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 10:04 AM
> Subject: Re: My New Website
>
> > I couldn't get the Sundial Types and Prices page to download. I
t: Monday, January 06, 2003 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: My New Website
> Hi John:
>
> Before you do that, you might ask those who had problems what version of
Acrobat they are using.
> If the version is too old that will cause problems.
>
> Brooke
>
> John Carmichael wrote:
>
Website: <http://www.sundialsculptures.com>
- Original Message -
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: My New Website
> I couldn't get the Sundial Types and Prices page to download. Is there a
> glitch, or is it me? Glad y
E. Foothills Dr.
Tucson Arizona 85718
USA
Tel: 520-696-1709
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Website: <http://www.sundialsculptures.com>
- Original Message -
From: Roger Bailey
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 9:59 AM
Subject: RE: My New Website
Hi John,
n time can be directly
read with an average accuracy of around 30 seconds all round the dial and the
EoT graph can be discarded!Brian AlbinsonJohn Carmichael
wrote:
Hello all,
After a huge amount of work, my new website is finally up
and running at www.s
average
accuracy of around 30 seconds all round the dial and the EoT graph can be
discarded!
Brian Albinson
John Carmichael wrote:
Hello all,
After a huge amount of work, my new website is finally
up and running at www.sundialsculptures.com
I was very lucky to find a
While I was rambling on above, I see that others were responding, and
mention a problem loading the Sundial Types and Prices pdf page.
I had no trouble with Netscape 7.01, which I used for most of the
exploration. However, with IE 6.0 and N 4.7, I did find problems similar
to those mentioned. I d
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, John Carmichael wrote:
> After a huge amount of work, my new website is finally up and running
> at www.sundialsculptures.com I was very lucky to find a competent
> webmaster who helped me put this together for a reasonable price. Good
> webmasters are rare (like
Great site John.
Couple of minor problems
"Sundial Types and Prices" page.
It says there are 4 pages, but I couldn't get past page 1 -
and it froze up - had to Ctrl - Alt - Del to get out of it. Tried it
a few times.
On the designs page, the "sun" picture looks as though the top
third
I couldn't get the Sundial Types and Prices page to download. Is there a
glitch, or is it me? Glad youi're still active, having met you at BSS
conference at Dunchurch (in 1999?). Have you got a photo of your Kitt Peak
dial from the air (or even from the ground)?
David Brown
51.05N 2.74W
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Hello all,
After a huge amount of work, my new website is finally up and
running at www.sundialsculptures.com
I was very lucky to find a competent webmaster who helped me
put this together for a reasonable price. Good webmasters are
rare (like good sundial makers). They must have knowledge
Fellow Shadow Watchers,
An old school friend in Canada put together a
website for me as a surprise gift - how original can one get? - beginning
mainly from pictures/biog' sent in response to a request for 'School
Reunion' items. Since then we've refined it a little alth
Hello all dialists!
My new website, "Sundial Sculptures by John L. Carmichael Jr.", is finally
completed and ready for your critical inspection. I did not realize how
difficult it would be to do this, which explains why it took so long. I
think, though, that it will constantly ch
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