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janc
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response 175 of 293:
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Feb 8 22:38 UTC 2002 |
Interesting. I discovered that there are now a lot of browsers that default
to using a proportional font in TEXTAREA boxes. (Mac versions of IE, for
example). This has really obnoxious effects, because responses are
*displayed* in a proportional font, but the input wrapping is based on a
proportional font. Really icky.
So I used a style sheet to force TEXTAREAs to use a monospaced font. It sets
the font to "monospace" rather than any monospaced fant in particular because
I was figuring that that would be whatever monospaced font is prefered by the
browser. Obviously Some browsers are doing something different. I shouldn't
be surprised.
This is easy to change to something different. I'm open to advice what
should be used. Courier?
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pgreen
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response 176 of 293:
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Feb 9 00:46 UTC 2002 |
Wingdings.
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other
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response 177 of 293:
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Feb 9 02:45 UTC 2002 |
I never noticed a difference (mac/NS4.7).
I use monaco-9pt. as my monospace font, and all the plain text on my
backtalk pages is displayed in it.
There is a setting in most browsers' options to determine what font and
size the browser uses for monospace and proportional defaults. You may
have other options, depending on your browser.
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jep
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response 178 of 293:
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Feb 9 05:54 UTC 2002 |
Courier would be vastly better than what I'm getting now.
I'm using IE 5.5 both at home and work. If there's something simple I
can do to set up my browser's posting-box font to be something better,
I'd be happy to do it if someone lets me know what can be done. What
I'm getting now is hard to live with.
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scott
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response 179 of 293:
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Feb 9 14:21 UTC 2002 |
Jep, I don't know the exact menus for IE, but look for "appearance" or "font"
settings. There should be settings for regular and monospaced fonts.
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jep
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response 180 of 293:
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Feb 9 14:42 UTC 2002 |
Aha. Okay. Here's how to do it in IE:
Tools-->Internet Options-->General-->Accessibility
Select "Ignore font styles specified on Web pages
(Why would this be under Accessibility???)
Now to see if the cure is worse than the disease...
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jep
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response 181 of 293:
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Feb 9 14:42 UTC 2002 |
Nope, that cures the problem and I haven't seen anything I lost by
changing the setting.
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scott
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response 182 of 293:
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Feb 9 15:18 UTC 2002 |
It would under accessibility because people with vision problems would want
to set a really large font, overriding Web site settings.
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keesan
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response 183 of 293:
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Feb 9 18:27 UTC 2002 |
Another cure for the problem, if you don't want to dial in or telnet to grex,
is to use a non-graphical browser which uses screen fonts. Like lynx.
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remmers
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response 184 of 293:
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Feb 9 19:05 UTC 2002 |
...One cost being that you lose mouse support. Whatever floats your
boat, I guess...
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keesan
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response 185 of 293:
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Feb 9 20:20 UTC 2002 |
You don't need a mouse to use the conferences, but lynx for DOS does have
mouse support (optional).
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wh
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response 186 of 293:
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Feb 10 16:54 UTC 2002 |
As everyone knows who is on Grex now, it is running <low voice>
rrrreallllly ssslllooooooowwwwww. In addition I received an error
message "illegal instruction:core dumped" while trying to send mail
in Pine.
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other
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response 187 of 293:
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Feb 10 17:00 UTC 2002 |
telnet session. yup, realllly slow:
Respond or pass?
ld.so: swap space exhausted for mmap data of /usr/lib/libc.so.1.9.1
Pipe interrupt?
Respond or pass?
<...later...>
Respond or pass?
ld.so: swap space exhausted for map heap of /dev/zero
Pipe interrupt?
Respond or pass?
<...later...>
Respond or pass?
Can't execute "more"!
Pipe interrupt?
Respond or pass?
Can't execute "more"!
Pipe interrupt?
Respond or pass? !uptime
11:52am up 13 days, 22:04, 20 users, load average: 69.45, 79.94, 76.27
What is up with those swap errors?
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scott
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response 188 of 293:
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Feb 10 17:10 UTC 2002 |
People trying to compile big things which we don't allow on Grex.
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gelinas
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response 189 of 293:
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Feb 10 17:17 UTC 2002 |
Which is not allowed: the big compiles, or the things themselves?
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scott
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response 190 of 293:
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Feb 10 22:26 UTC 2002 |
The things themselves, so the perps try to bring over their own versions in
hope of getting around the "crippled" Grex versions. Except that the Grex
versions are not actually crippled, it's the network side that's blocked.
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gelinas
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response 191 of 293:
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Feb 11 00:18 UTC 2002 |
OK. I knew that there were some things not allowed, and properly blocked ;)
but your comments opened the possibility that large compiles, themselves, were
unwelcome. (I've never written a really large program, so I don't really know
what troubles they would cause other users.)
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jhudson
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response 192 of 293:
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Feb 11 19:38 UTC 2002 |
The larger a single file, the larger the symbol table must be
to compile it. Breaking the project into many files that are
careful about using static whenever possible would greatly
reduce the compilation load.
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ea
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response 193 of 293:
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Feb 11 21:03 UTC 2002 |
Earlier today I was having trouble logging in with backtalk. Telnet
worked fine ... It seems to be fixed now.
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russ
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response 194 of 293:
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Feb 15 22:59 UTC 2002 |
Dialing in tonight I got queue-droppings before I could log in.
Only one level deep, but that's just *wrong*.
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keesan
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response 195 of 293:
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Feb 20 17:43 UTC 2002 |
Has anyone else been getting incessant chat requests from smart007
and if so can this account be cancelled? (I will put this login
on my don't acceptlist now).
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glenda
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response 196 of 293:
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Feb 20 20:11 UTC 2002 |
Accounts are not cancelled on Grex. It does no good with an open system.
Another account can just be taken out and we are running out of usable UIDs.
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cmcgee
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response 197 of 293:
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Feb 20 21:00 UTC 2002 |
I can't imagine Grex cancelling an account because of annoying behavior!
None of us would be left except the last-standing staff member.
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rcurl
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response 198 of 293:
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Feb 20 22:29 UTC 2002 |
I don't see that there should even be a problem with smart007, since
you can block anyone from chat requests.
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keesan
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response 199 of 293:
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Feb 20 23:35 UTC 2002 |
I did that, but first I had to waste time dealing with a chat request every
3 second for about 20 minutes while in themiddle of another chat.
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