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Barnyard BOb -- wrote:


Mozilla rocks.

http://www.mozilla.org

David O
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

AND....
the spell checker is where?


Barnyard BOb --

Spell checker? SPELL CHECKER??? I don't need a spelling checker in
Mozilla because I use,

Mozilla for web browsing
Eudora for email
Agent for Usenet
Dreamweaver MX for web site development

However, for those who need a spell checker in Mozilla it's easy to
add. Here is the official Mozilla spell checker...

http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/installation.html

Simply scroll down to the version of Mozilla you are using and click
"install" next to your operating system. The spell checker will
install itself automatically. You will then have a "Spell" button in
the modes of Mozilla where you compose stuff.

David O -- http://www.AirplaneZone.com

In article , bonomi@c-ns.
(Robert Bonomi) writes:


There were a couple of _hundred_ such on the 'over-extended mnemonics'list.
These ar a handfull from memory, from not having seen the actual list ins 20+
years.



Would you guys PLEASE stop this. You are bringing back memories that I should
be too damn young to remember. I am not, but I should be.

I will never forget the fun we had sending those young green newbies down to
the computer room to empty the bit bucket. Then there was the bucket of ****
we used to place under the water cooled core memory on that old CDC-1604
computer. We would send the newbies down to check for leaks. The only way to
check was stick your hand in the bucket.


Bob Reed
www.kisbuild.r-a-reed-assoc.com (KIS Builders Site)
KIS Cruiser in progress...Slow but steady progress....

"Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice,
pull down your pants and Slide on the Ice!"
(M.A.S.H. Sidney Freedman)

In article ,
Jbaloun wrote:
Thanks, Roger David Corrie and James and all for the intro to current
html standards.

As html is an open architecure, if you don't mind, do you have any
particular websites which you consider to be well written as examples?

Any of the html 'validation' sites -- you give 'em a URL and they go
fetch the page, analyze it, and report on how well it conforms to
the existant *standards*. Feeding 'em "other folks" web-sites is a
great way to find out what kind of things *not* to do. grin


James

David O wrote in message
...
Warren & Nancy wrote:

All right you computer guys! Why is it that there are more and more
web sites that
Netscape can't read? How are they programming, and why?

Damn, it's frustrating!

Warren

HTML is an evolving specification. What your old browser knows of
HTML 4.01 and style sheets is likely wrong and/or incomplete, hence
the poor rendering. Style sheets are here to stay -- they obviate the
need for much of the formatting that litters older HTML code. As more
web programmers migrate to the new specification, more web pages will
fail to render correctly in older browsers. The fix, for you, is to
update to a current web browser. I recommend Mozilla. Mozilla is the
browser upon which the latest Netscape is based. With Mozilla, you'll
get the best browser sans the commercial trappings of its Netscape
derivative. Once you've experience the tabbed browsing features of
Mozilla, you'll never look back. A Mozilla hint: Set preferences so
that your middle mouse button (mouse wheel depress) opens a new tab in
Mozilla when clicked on a link. Also, set preferences to load new
tabs in the background. Another great feature in Mozilla is pop-up
control, either globally or on a per-site basis. Don't like that
pop-up? Simple, right click it and select "Disallow pop-ups from this
site". Mozilla rocks.

Don't let the mozilla web site confuse you, it's geared towards
programmers and offers ancillary programs that you don't need. All
you need is the latest stable release of Mozilla for your platform
(Mozilla 1.4 as of this post). Look in the upper left hand corner for
the correct download link.

http://www.mozilla.org

David O -- http://www.AirplaneZone.com


Mozilla is _great_ as a web-browser.
And OK as an email client.
It is lacking as a newsreader.

"Robert Bonomi" bonomi@c-ns. wrote in message
...
In article ,
Corrie wrote:
Scott wrote in message
...
Ha! REAL REAL Men write in Machine Language! We don't need no
stinkin'
mnemonics!!

C9 22 FF E0 10 1C ...

=

Scott
http://corbenflyer.tripod.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ParasolAirplanes
Building RV-4
Gotta Fly or Gonna Die!

Richard Lamb wrote:

Balderdash!
Real men write in Assembly!

My dad was a senior systems engineer for IBM. He used to debug VMS by
dumping core to the line printer and reading the hex...

Being second-generation, I cut my teeth on FORTRAN. Then
minicomputers came along and I learned a little assembler - you needed
it with CP/M. But I've forgotten most of it, just a few mnemonics:

PD - punch disk
PDO - punch disk operator
FCM - flush core memory
DEO - do everything over

From the late 60s/ early 70s, the "IBM OVER-EXTENDED MNEMONICS" list
included:

HCF halt and catch fire
BCEG Branch on CE grounded
BBBO Branch on bit-bucket overflow
BBBB branch and bite baudy bit
BLRA branch and lose return address
BRL Branch to random location

CRN convert to roman numerals
TPD triple pack decimal

ROM read operator's mind (*NEVER* implemented)


BCP backspace card punch
RLP rewind line printer
SLP sharpen light pen

PC punch card
PT punch tape
PO punch operator


FSRA Form skip and runaway



There were a couple of _hundred_ such on the 'over-extended
mnemonics'list.
These ar a handfull from memory, from not having seen the actual list ins
20+
years.

You left out the ever-useful:
CFM Come from

TIm Ward

John, I have to ask...Did "Mel" just happen to do this at a school in
the northern wilds of Michigan?

Roger

Check out "A Real Programmer, The Story of Mel" on my web page. Note
the 'created with' icon at the bottom of the page. (Roger, you can
review my html code)

- John (terse code) Ousterhout -
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/ousterj/

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 07:40:20 -0500, Barnyard BOb --
wrote:

snip
I've been "Netscaping" for years, although
I've kept Mozilla handy - just in case.
Not sure why I never did the opposite.
Old habits die hard?

Given your expert recommendation...
Mozilla is my new default browser.

Got the dragon (big lizard?) right next to the Netscrape icon.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)


Barnyard BOb - Tastes great while less filling

On 11 Aug 2003 13:45:09 GMT, osit (RobertR237)
wrote:

In article , Roger Halstead
writes:
snip

The only hitch I have found is that the JPG photos produced by most digital
cameras must be edited and saved before they can be used in your web page.

That is pretty much true of most editors. Even the cut and paste.
Forget to resize and insert into FP and you get the size of the image
at what ever resolution it happened to be. If I take a shot out of
my camera in JPG (3.6 megs), or 16 megs in TIFF that is what you will
get. 5 screens high and 8 wide LOL

For my builders diary I set the photo size to 240 X 320 and that is
the actual size of the photo used as well.

Soooo...Some editors let you select the size when pasting, or
inserting...I just make them big enough to show what I want.
Unfortunately the panorama of our front yard is 36 megs in jpg. re
sized down to roughly 600K and pixelization is quite noticeable. To
get rid of that requires I increase the image to over 3 megs.

When I down load images from the camera I have several files...The one
for the images...with downloads kept according to date, another
according to subject, and several in the "Internet" file. Those are
kept as two sizes. Full and with a T suffix for tiny.

Then I back up the whole works across the network to at least one
other computer (usually the one with the two 160 gig HDs) as well as
to both CDs and to DVDs.

With photos approaching something akin to 30,000 and I have about
20,000 family photos and slides yet to scan I do have quite a stack of
CDs and DVDs. AND I have had to use the archival backups several
times to restore a corrupted photo.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)

Bob Reed
www.kisbuild.r-a-reed-assoc.com (KIS Builders Site)
KIS Cruiser in progress...Slow but steady progress....

"Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice,
pull down your pants and Slide on the Ice!"
(M.A.S.H. Sidney Freedman)

In article , Warren & Nancy
writes:


I used to take a bunch of slides. I mounted a lot of them in glass. Is
there a
good way (easy) to scan them?

Warren



I don't remember who makes it but you can purchase a slide scanner which will
allow you to scan them.
Bob Reed
www.kisbuild.r-a-reed-assoc.com (KIS Builders Site)
KIS Cruiser in progress...Slow but steady progress....

"Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice,
pull down your pants and Slide on the Ice!"
(M.A.S.H. Sidney Freedman)

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 09:01:44 -0400, Warren & Nancy
wrote:

I used to take a bunch of slides. I mounted a lot of them in glass. Is there a
good way (easy) to scan them?

Depends...
It depends on the size of the mounts, what you have available to scan
them, what resolution you want, and how much you are willing to
spend.

I have thousands of aviation slides (about half are in film strips, a
quarter in commercial mounts, and a quarter in plastic mounts) and use
one of the older HP S-20 scanners which are no longer available as far
as I know. It'll go 2400 dpi. which shows the grain in ASA 400, but
is a bit inadequate for ASA 100. It also will scan a print to 5 X 7
and was one of the handiest scanners on the market "to my way of
thinking". I developed my own slides for years as it gave me a quick
turn around, was inexpensive, and simple. I used the Jobo E-6 3
solution process instead of the miserable umpteen step Kodak E-6
process. I made the change right after sending in about 8 36 exposure
rolls to kodak and finding all of them had a bad case of mold when I
got them back. (looks like a whole bunch of tiny black irregular
shaped spots on the photo)
Buying film in 100 foot rolls and doing my own developing gave a total
cost for 36 exp rolls of about $3. High quality plastic mounts added
about another dollar. I think the overall cost may be about double
that now.

BTW, scanning a slide at 2400 or 4,000 dpi creates a very large file.

There are scanners on the market that will swallow the big 2 X 2 glass
mounts, but I don't know of any that are inexpensive.

OTOH "slide copiers" for *some* cameras can be found that work quite
well... AS with the old film method of copying this works the same but
with a digital camera. You probably won't find an adapter unless you
have one of the "upper level" digital cameras.

The best bet would be to ask this question on rec.photo.digital

Like most groups there is a high noise to information level and a few
loose nuts, along with some "left field" information, but overall
it's a helpful (and knowledgeable) bunch.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)
snip for space

snip

Soooo...Some editors let you select the size when pasting, or
inserting...I just make them big enough to show what I want.
Unfortunately the panorama of our front yard is 36 megs in jpg. re
sized down to roughly 600K and pixelization is quite noticeable. To
get rid of that requires I increase the image to over 3 megs.

BTW, the front yard http://www.rogerhalstead.com/yard.htm is about
600K in jpg. It's *WIDE* and requires scrolling.

As a clarification ... if I plan on displaying a 240 X 320, I use the
screen resolution of 96 ppi and resize to 240 X 320. That gives
*roughly* 2 1/2 X 3 1/4 on my screen. On an old 640 X 480 VGA it's
half the screen.

you can set the size in the line: img src="photoname.jpg" width=320
height=240 even if the image is a 1024 X 768. IT will be displayed
with the definition given...which isn't very practical as you still
have to download the 1024 X 768 so you might as well resize it first.
You can put up a little thumbnail and make the thumbnail a link to the
larger photo so then the viewer has the option of downloading the
larger file.

IF you don't dimension the photo then it will be displayed at screen
resolution which is close to 96 dpi. This is fine for the 240 X 320
but for one that is say... 4,000 X 6000 (35mm slide scanned at 4000
dpi, it will be roughly 40 inches high by 60 inches wide.

Man, talk about thread drift LOL

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)