Grainy pics? I had an amber monitor on my old 286, with Hercules Monochrome Graphics card. The end result with CompuShow wasn't too bad, though, better than CGA would have been.
My memories are fuzzy, could you provide some examples?;-)
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Hmm, I found the list of boards for my area. I recognize some names, but it's not alphabetized, and it's NOT Fire Escape's definitive list for the St. Louis area. Shame on them!
Who still includes those? I've not seen one in, oh, 6 or 7 years. Of course, I went Mac 8 years ago, so about the only ZIP files I've downloaded in recent years were UT maps.
Some web forums can have a sense of community, if the user base is small enough. I've long been active on the MacGamer.com forums, and it has some sense of community, since you see the same names all the time, but if you're not a Mac user and/or don't play games, you may not fit in there.
I used QWK packets, since by the time I started using offline message reading, I'd switched to the Mac, and there was no BlueWave client on the Mac. I used Alice for QWK packets, there were only two programs to choose from.
I got into offline reading about the time I started participating in the Babylon 5 forum on Fidonet. A lot nicer than the equivalent on Usenet, I think I can still remember a few people's names from there.
Man, I'm talking about the Babylon 5 Fidonet area and QWK packets while on Slashdot, while at home on a Friday night. Can I get any geekier?;-)
Telemate, HS-Link, WWIV: a real trip down memory lane. WWIV was really popular here in St. Louis for some reason, and there were over 500 local BBS's at one time. Fire Escape had her complete list of all boards, updated each and every month.
I didn't start BBSing until '92, so most boards were 2400 bps by then, with a few 9600's. I had a 2400/V.42bis modem, so I benefited from the newer modems without having the high speeds. I got 16k per minute with compressed files, but 3 or 4 times faster with uncompressed.
Let me think, there was WWIV, WildCat, VirtualBBS, Renegade, Fido, Searchlight, Hermes, TBBS, First Class in later years. I remember a version of Zmodem that would display GIFs as they came in, so you could tell if you were getting a duplicate with a different name. Those with multiple lines were all either using DesqView or OS/2 for multitasking. I never tried setting one up myself, as I didn't even have a second line to dial out on.
I could go on, but I'm sure I'm starting to bore you guys.
Actually, I can imagine Microsoft having the chutzpah to do just that. After all, they've proved time and time again that they think their way is the One True Way.
If you read all of the article, they put a data track on the media that appears at first to be valid(or else a computer would just spit it out or ignore it), but is deliberately corrupted, so that the computer may just sit there and try and read it forever. They are deliberately selling defective "Enhanced CD's", and should be taken to court over it.
Myself, I've been too broke to buy CDs so far this year, but I'm getting leery of buying CD's anywhere without an easy to use return policy. I've considered submitting a suggestion to Amazon.com that they should check every CD for these "protections" so that I'd feel safe buying from them.
True, and if I remember correctly, 3 or 4 of those 30 viruses won't run on System 7 or higher, so are only a danger to those who bought their Macs in the 80's and didn't upgrade their OS.
This article was on Mac Central recently, and all the forum comments there labeled this as pure FUD. I ran NAV on my Performa 6400 for a few years, and it never found a virus. Never. Also, I don't own a copy of Office, so I'm not vulnerable that way. I suppose that someone could DOS my DSL connection, but even if I turn file sharing on, they'll need to figure out my IP address, my name, and my password to log in, and anyone who knows my name doesn't know my IP address(including me, I never memorized it)
The browsers in X are disappointing? I like the fact that there's so many choices now. MS dropped the ball with IE for X(slow, ugly, and full of rendering errors), and all these others are entering the fray. Seems like there's more choices than even 5 years ago. Browser War II!
That said, I currently prefer OmniWeb, but I've been trying Mozilla, and may have to go look at Chimera sometime. My father still uses iCab under 9.x, so I've seen and used it, and the best I can say is that it has some nice printing features.
I used CyberDog for about two years, myself, both for email and web browsing. Of course, Apple stopped improving it a few weeks into that two years, so web site compatibility was never great. On the other hand, it had great disk caching, and could load frequently visited sites almost instantly over dialup. It also resized the pages to fit the window, so there was never a scroll bar on the bottom of the window. The mail client never supported html, but used a form of RTF instead, with embedded picture support. There was also separate FTP and Gopher tools.
The Cyberdog web tool did speed up the back arrow by keeping recently viewed web pages in memory, but that became more of a liability as web sites became more complex. I have a feeling that it would have choked on today's Slashdot threads.
You're right, Mozilla is terribly slow on Apple's iTools pages. I don't know why. It's snappy enough on the QuickTime trailer pages, more so than OmniWeb. I'm on an iMac DV/400 with 1.2 megabit DSL, and the initial iTools sign-in page took 70 seconds to load in Mozilla. Something to do with WebObjects, perhaps?
Don't forget OmniWeb's use of MacOS X's spell checker. Very useful in forums like/., Fark.com, the MacGamer.com forums.
I've been testing on Mozilla RC3 lately, and it's a lot faster than OmniWeb, but there's no spell checking, no anti-aliased text, and a generally more cluttered interface. Also, it imported my bookmarks from IE, which I rarely use.
Actually, I've been testing Mozilla RC3 this weekend, and it's faster than OmniWeb, or any other browser I've seen. I'm still using OmniWeb, partly because that's where my cookies are, but OmniWeb has the advantage of using MacOS X features like the anti-aliased text and more importantly, the on the fly spell checking: very useful in forums like this. Similarly, Mozilla's mail client was easy to set up, but compared to Mail, it doesn't spell check or look that great.
Oh, and neither browser will let me view movies in Javascript windows on ifilm.com. I HAVE to use IE and WMP, which is why I hardly ever go there.
Since WinMX is Windows-only, I wouldn't think it would be popular around here.
I'm using LimeWire under MacOS X, and it's not doing so well lately. I can use it for 2 or 3 hours without any requested download starting. Meanwhile, the uploaders quickly max out my DSL's upload channel.
It's much easier on a Mac user than RealMedia format, which only works in Classic mode, or WMP for X, which only work with half the WMP media that I've downloaded. Still, MPEG should be viewable by everyone, and should have been used.
Though I've not watched '24', I've heard about some similar cases over the years. Plus, if I had to use Windows all the time, I'd get cranky and evil, too, if not insane!
The reasons I DIDN'T go see it yet are that #1: I'm unemployed, and #2: I think the only movie I did see on opening day was Fellowship of the Ring. I actually waited 2 or 3 months before seeing the Phantom Menace.
I tried Mozilla RC2 last night for a bit. Compared to OmniWeb, I found it a bit slower to launch, a bit faster rendering, but lacking OmniWeb's smoothed fonts that are easier on the eyes. Mozilla also has some of the cluttered interface of Netscape Navigator. On a humorous note, it chose without telling me to import my bookmarks from IE, which I rarely use in X. Cookie handling was less flexible than OmniWeb's.
Of course, I hear this morning that RC3 is now out!
Compatibility with IE isn't always a good thing. There are a few sites that give me problems in OmniWeb, mainly running movies in Javascript windows, but on the other hand, I get few pop-up windows, NO pop-behind windows, and generally have less bothersome advertising to worry about. I consider the end result to be a positive.
Granted that I've not tried Mozilla, and haven't used Navigator since 4.x. I may have to look at Mozilla sometime. But I'm quite happy with OmniWeb.
I use QT Pro mainly to save movies out of the browser plug-in, and to use the Present Movie feature in the player, which does wonderful full screen playback even with 320x200 MPEG files. There's also some video editing features that I've never used.
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Sorry to disappoint you, but this geek isn't attracted to Miss Agulera. Particularly when she's wearing more makeup than most clowns wear! Yeesh!
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Grainy pics? I had an amber monitor on my old 286, with Hercules Monochrome Graphics card. The end result with CompuShow wasn't too bad, though, better than CGA would have been.
Not while on /. There are better sites for that! I'm not going to post them here, of course, I want them to stay up.
My memories are fuzzy, could you provide some examples? ;-)
Hmm, I found the list of boards for my area. I recognize some names, but it's not alphabetized, and it's NOT Fire Escape's definitive list for the St. Louis area. Shame on them!
Who still includes those? I've not seen one in, oh, 6 or 7 years. Of course, I went Mac 8 years ago, so about the only ZIP files I've downloaded in recent years were UT maps.
Some web forums can have a sense of community, if the user base is small enough. I've long been active on the MacGamer.com forums, and it has some sense of community, since you see the same names all the time, but if you're not a Mac user and/or don't play games, you may not fit in there.
I used QWK packets, since by the time I started using offline message reading, I'd switched to the Mac, and there was no BlueWave client on the Mac. I used Alice for QWK packets, there were only two programs to choose from.
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I got into offline reading about the time I started participating in the Babylon 5 forum on Fidonet. A lot nicer than the equivalent on Usenet, I think I can still remember a few people's names from there.
Man, I'm talking about the Babylon 5 Fidonet area and QWK packets while on Slashdot, while at home on a Friday night. Can I get any geekier?
Telemate, HS-Link, WWIV: a real trip down memory lane. WWIV was really popular here in St. Louis for some reason, and there were over 500 local BBS's at one time. Fire Escape had her complete list of all boards, updated each and every month.
I didn't start BBSing until '92, so most boards were 2400 bps by then, with a few 9600's. I had a 2400/V.42bis modem, so I benefited from the newer modems without having the high speeds. I got 16k per minute with compressed files, but 3 or 4 times faster with uncompressed.
Let me think, there was WWIV, WildCat, VirtualBBS, Renegade, Fido, Searchlight, Hermes, TBBS, First Class in later years. I remember a version of Zmodem that would display GIFs as they came in, so you could tell if you were getting a duplicate with a different name. Those with multiple lines were all either using DesqView or OS/2 for multitasking. I never tried setting one up myself, as I didn't even have a second line to dial out on.
I could go on, but I'm sure I'm starting to bore you guys.
Actually, I can imagine Microsoft having the chutzpah to do just that. After all, they've proved time and time again that they think their way is the One True Way.
If you read all of the article, they put a data track on the media that appears at first to be valid(or else a computer would just spit it out or ignore it), but is deliberately corrupted, so that the computer may just sit there and try and read it forever. They are deliberately selling defective "Enhanced CD's", and should be taken to court over it.
Myself, I've been too broke to buy CDs so far this year, but I'm getting leery of buying CD's anywhere without an easy to use return policy. I've considered submitting a suggestion to Amazon.com that they should check every CD for these "protections" so that I'd feel safe buying from them.
True, and if I remember correctly, 3 or 4 of those 30 viruses won't run on System 7 or higher, so are only a danger to those who bought their Macs in the 80's and didn't upgrade their OS.
This article was on Mac Central recently, and all the forum comments there labeled this as pure FUD. I ran NAV on my Performa 6400 for a few years, and it never found a virus. Never. Also, I don't own a copy of Office, so I'm not vulnerable that way. I suppose that someone could DOS my DSL connection, but even if I turn file sharing on, they'll need to figure out my IP address, my name, and my password to log in, and anyone who knows my name doesn't know my IP address(including me, I never memorized it)
The browsers in X are disappointing? I like the fact that there's so many choices now. MS dropped the ball with IE for X(slow, ugly, and full of rendering errors), and all these others are entering the fray. Seems like there's more choices than even 5 years ago. Browser War II!
That said, I currently prefer OmniWeb, but I've been trying Mozilla, and may have to go look at Chimera sometime. My father still uses iCab under 9.x, so I've seen and used it, and the best I can say is that it has some nice printing features.
I used CyberDog for about two years, myself, both for email and web browsing. Of course, Apple stopped improving it a few weeks into that two years, so web site compatibility was never great. On the other hand, it had great disk caching, and could load frequently visited sites almost instantly over dialup. It also resized the pages to fit the window, so there was never a scroll bar on the bottom of the window. The mail client never supported html, but used a form of RTF instead, with embedded picture support. There was also separate FTP and Gopher tools.
The Cyberdog web tool did speed up the back arrow by keeping recently viewed web pages in memory, but that became more of a liability as web sites became more complex. I have a feeling that it would have choked on today's Slashdot threads.
You're right, Mozilla is terribly slow on Apple's iTools pages. I don't know why. It's snappy enough on the QuickTime trailer pages, more so than OmniWeb. I'm on an iMac DV/400 with 1.2 megabit DSL, and the initial iTools sign-in page took 70 seconds to load in Mozilla. Something to do with WebObjects, perhaps?
What you're saying is so obvious, I don't know why I've not seen it before. I'm emailing it to all my friends!
It also helps explain why my brother's Hotmail account just went inactive. He's never sent an email in his life anyway.
Don't forget OmniWeb's use of MacOS X's spell checker. Very useful in forums like /., Fark.com, the MacGamer.com forums.
I've been testing on Mozilla RC3 lately, and it's a lot faster than OmniWeb, but there's no spell checking, no anti-aliased text, and a generally more cluttered interface. Also, it imported my bookmarks from IE, which I rarely use.
Actually, I've been testing Mozilla RC3 this weekend, and it's faster than OmniWeb, or any other browser I've seen. I'm still using OmniWeb, partly because that's where my cookies are, but OmniWeb has the advantage of using MacOS X features like the anti-aliased text and more importantly, the on the fly spell checking: very useful in forums like this. Similarly, Mozilla's mail client was easy to set up, but compared to Mail, it doesn't spell check or look that great.
Oh, and neither browser will let me view movies in Javascript windows on ifilm.com. I HAVE to use IE and WMP, which is why I hardly ever go there.
Since WinMX is Windows-only, I wouldn't think it would be popular around here.
I'm using LimeWire under MacOS X, and it's not doing so well lately. I can use it for 2 or 3 hours without any requested download starting. Meanwhile, the uploaders quickly max out my DSL's upload channel.
It's much easier on a Mac user than RealMedia format, which only works in Classic mode, or WMP for X, which only work with half the WMP media that I've downloaded. Still, MPEG should be viewable by everyone, and should have been used.
Though I've not watched '24', I've heard about some similar cases over the years. Plus, if I had to use Windows all the time, I'd get cranky and evil, too, if not insane!
The reasons I DIDN'T go see it yet are that #1: I'm unemployed, and #2: I think the only movie I did see on opening day was Fellowship of the Ring. I actually waited 2 or 3 months before seeing the Phantom Menace.
And no, I've not seen Spider Man yet, either.
I tried Mozilla RC2 last night for a bit. Compared to OmniWeb, I found it a bit slower to launch, a bit faster rendering, but lacking OmniWeb's smoothed fonts that are easier on the eyes. Mozilla also has some of the cluttered interface of Netscape Navigator. On a humorous note, it chose without telling me to import my bookmarks from IE, which I rarely use in X. Cookie handling was less flexible than OmniWeb's.
Of course, I hear this morning that RC3 is now out!
Compatibility with IE isn't always a good thing. There are a few sites that give me problems in OmniWeb, mainly running movies in Javascript windows, but on the other hand, I get few pop-up windows, NO pop-behind windows, and generally have less bothersome advertising to worry about. I consider the end result to be a positive.
Granted that I've not tried Mozilla, and haven't used Navigator since 4.x. I may have to look at Mozilla sometime. But I'm quite happy with OmniWeb.
I use QT Pro mainly to save movies out of the browser plug-in, and to use the Present Movie feature in the player, which does wonderful full screen playback even with 320x200 MPEG files. There's also some video editing features that I've never used.
Sorry to disappoint you, but this geek isn't attracted to Miss Agulera. Particularly when she's wearing more makeup than most clowns wear! Yeesh!