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Funny, but not nearly as funny as all the comments, there are some REALLY sick folks out there (and they lack that sixth sense...humor)

First, to answer your comments. I actually don't think your page is ugly -- it's got a nice, clean look to it -- but you've got to admit that it's incredibly simplistic, and I did say "and/or" when I made the comment about the pages. Like I said, doing a page like that is very trivial, so I can see why people like yourself don't understand why people use WYSIWYG tools for non-trivial pages.

About your content vs. design argument, I have to ask, "What's wrong with having both?"

Just to see the kind of output it created, I decided to recreate your web page using FrontPage 2000. And no, I didn't import your page into FP2K, I wrote my own from the ground up. Some notes about the process:

• I began soon after the beginning of the Pacers-Bucks game tonight, and i finished before the start of the second half. This included actually watching the game, and taking a call from a pal (Wanted some help downloading RedHat 6.0 and what he needed to do to burn it onto a CD and install it, heh.). Any typing necessary was done by myself, except only for cutting and pasting your descriptions (e.g., "- a small hit counter for web pages, to be used with ssi.")
• I'm not sure where your complaint about superfluous table creation in WYSIWYG editors comes from. You can take a look at my version of your page at http://members.tripod.com/turnipfarm/jcs.htm. Go ahead and view the source, and you'll see that there are no more tables in my document than in yours. And whaddaya know, no frames either.
• I inserted the HTML 4.0 DOCTYPE declaration (transitional) into your page, then ran it through the W3C validator. The validator had a field day with errors on your page.
• I ran the page that FP2K created through the W3C validator, and the only two errors that appeared were (1) the page had no DTD, and (2) a Bold end tag was situated by itself within an anchor container. This second thing happened 4 times. I don't know whether or not you can tell FP2K to always insert the doctype, I just fixed it instead of looking. As for the second problem, it's a known bug within the FrontPage beta, so I would imagine that they'll fix it. Either way, both problems were fixed in under 3 minutes. So much for producing non-compliant HTML.
• The readability of the HTML output by FP2K was very good (I just stuck to the defaults, although I could've had it produce differently formatted code.) By contrast, the readability of your HTML was very poor. I'd much prefer to maintain pages output by FP2K.

As for my own pages, they're all at client sites, and I'm not going to divulge my client list. Whether or not I know anything about page design doesn't change my point about the list of web pages that I posted; i.e., it's not going to make any of them less simplistic and/or less ugly. I'm not making any claims to be the God of HTML, just making an observation that the ones in this thread who seemed aggressively against WYSIWYG tools all had ugly and/or simplistic web pages. (Actually, that's not quite true -- I do have some personal pages that I've thrown up just to let some friends download music samples -- all done in vi only, and very ugly, I might add.

ESR's HTML Hell Page? Damn, I thought that was his home page. Talk about ugly! (Hey you cretins! I'm talking about his page, not his picture! Sheesh! ;-) )

Feel free to use that W3C-validated page I created if you want. You just need to take out that damned JavaScript block that Tripod automagically inserts into pages. Likewise, I'll take that page down right away if you'd prefer (all the links on it still point to your site) -- I just wanted to let you see what kind of HTML that FrontPage 2000 was spitting out.

Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com

I've pre-ordered Bleem! for a few reasons. It does indeed look better than the real PlayStation because it supports hardware acceleration. Filtered textures at 1024x768 beats the non-filtered 320x224 of the PlayStation. Also, games can run at higher frame rates thanks to the greater fill rate of PC 3D accelerators. Having virtual memory cards is nice too; having to swap cards in and out or shuffle data around can be a pain.

This certainly isn't a PlayStation replacement though. It by no means runs all the games, and some that do run have flaws of one kind or another. Anyway, the whole experience of sitting with the PlayStation controller in hand in front of the TV is lost.

The biggest reason I'm buying Bleem! is just because it's a very cool technical achievement and I think the people concerned deserve some payback for their hard work. Randy Linden is an extremely nice guy and a talented programmer.

By the way, the whole thing is written in x86 assembly. That, coupled with its use of DirectX for sound and graphics likely make it tough to port to Linux.

If you're interested in Bleem!'s compatibility, here's a shameless plug for my little webpage listing the games I've tried. I have another 11 games to add to the page (been busy with work and Rollercoaster Tycoon :-) ).

http://members.tripod.com/bleemgraham/

Everybody knows email and sendmail is GNU, so Linux should say that they are the @ in your email adress. It would be reinforced very well whenever someone types in an email adress or gives out there's - you get free advertising right next to their name. Mine is Linux is the future. The future is now. (I did it with word for irony - see metatag) - I didn't see it before, but there is also a cool logo that has a cute japanimation woman holding a stuffed and very happy tux. Didn't Microshaft steel icons from Apple? Forget about the desktop - go for business - tell them that linux is bigger than the Internet and they will have to turn to it if they want to stay in business. The key is business, because who has a Win computer other than they want to be able to bring stuff from work. "The business of America is business" -Grover Cleveland

Great! Now if they could only get R5 out sometime soon. I've been waiting for the new release rather than updating the KDE beta-1 packages that MkLinux ships with. It's getting to the point where none of the new KDE apps will compile on my system.

Speaking of which, I'd appreciate it if people could take a look at my site of RPMs for LinuxPPC and MkLinux. (KDE apps and some other stuff.) I've been seeing a bunch of failed downloads in the log and hoping I could get some feedback on what's happening. Warning - it's temporarily running on a IIci with NetPresenz while my Linux box is being repaired so it won't take much to /. it. Thanks!

Attempting to get the whole document.

Should be avaliable at:
http://members.tripod.com/~crystalake/tie/paper. html

Which, if you prefer a clickable link, is here.

Hope I can get it all down...

Actually I wasn't raised catholic. I was raised Armstrongite. This site gives a good idea of what this cult did.

The Mars Society was mentioned in this article. Check out it's website at www.marssociety.org.
KaOs

Many RA files are just G.728 files with funny headers, so you can use any G.728 decoder on them. Here is the source to one: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/local/mosaic/common/o mega/Web/groups/AI/areas/ speech/systems/ldcelp/