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senna
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response 50 of 364:
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Jun 29 14:34 UTC 1997 |
Is white text on blue that difficult?
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coyote
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response 51 of 364:
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Jun 29 14:57 UTC 1997 |
Actually, BackTalk colors don't even show up on my screen (the only browser
I can use on a IIGS is Lynx, as far I know) so what I'm talking about is just
a matter of preference, and the default colors (white on blue) are fine with
me. But now that I've discovered that I can change the colors, I have the
nagging question of: should I pick light blue, the medium default blue, or
dark blue? :)
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scg
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response 52 of 364:
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Jun 29 16:43 UTC 1997 |
White on blue works fine on some screens, and really runs together on others.
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jared
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response 53 of 364:
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Jun 29 18:20 UTC 1997 |
Has someone suggested black on white yet? ;) Perhaps it could be
configurable on a per-user basis what colors they see..
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tpryan
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response 54 of 364:
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Jun 30 03:05 UTC 1997 |
grey on black seems to work for me.
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mcnally
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response 55 of 364:
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Jun 30 06:47 UTC 1997 |
I *demand* that this cf be set up so users read it in "antique white"
text on an "eggshell" background.
Seriously, leave out the color settings and let people use their own.
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valerie
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response 56 of 364:
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Jul 1 04:46 UTC 1997 |
This response has been erased.
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scg
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response 57 of 364:
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Jul 1 06:51 UTC 1997 |
I think web browsers can generally be set to change their default colors,
while still respecting situations in which authors have specifically set a
color.
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bru
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response 58 of 364:
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Jul 1 13:30 UTC 1997 |
appaREnTLy ThE sysTEm Is nOT RECOgnIzIng ThIngs >> hELp
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remmers
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response 59 of 364:
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Jul 1 13:59 UTC 1997 |
Re #56: Perhaps it's the pistachio interface's default color
that needs fixing, then.
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janc
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response 60 of 364:
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Jul 1 16:04 UTC 1997 |
I thought a lot about the color issue when I was designing the pistachio
interface. The advantage of letting users set the colors is that different
colors work for different people on different computers. It is nearly
impossible to find color schemes that work for everyone. The advantage of
letting fairwitnesses select colors is that every conference then has a
different color scheme, which looks a lot cooler (letting people set different
conferences to different colors would be much harder). Since my immediate
goal with pistachio was to use it to demo what could be done with backtalk,
cooler was my priority. It wasn't really meant to be a production interface.
Originally "pistachio" was named "godzilla" (rhymns with "vanilla") and it's
goal was to explore all the gaudy, silly, bell-and-whistles things I could
do with backtalk. The background color was chosen because I had to type it's
hexadecimal code in to a lot of places and I needed a hexidecimal number I
could remember. I started with "C0FFEE" but that was a bit too ugly so I
changed it to "C0FFE0". Steve Weiss called the color "pistachio", so I
changed the name of the interface to "pistachio". Now I'm kind of stuck with
it.
I really do want to fix all this, but my list of things to do with Backtalk
is absolutely huge. I can't promise that anything in particular will be fixed
any time soon.
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valerie
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response 61 of 364:
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Jul 1 16:57 UTC 1997 |
This response has been erased.
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senna
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response 62 of 364:
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Jul 2 17:12 UTC 1997 |
Hmm. I probably don't have problems partially because of the 17 inch monitor
that I use for backtalk.
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drew
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response 63 of 364:
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Jul 2 18:46 UTC 1997 |
Incoming mail is having a bitch of a time getting to grex, as well as m-net.
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drew
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response 64 of 364:
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Jul 2 18:49 UTC 1997 |
Scratch thay; it's *outgoing* mail that's having the problem from here.
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valerie
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response 65 of 364:
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Jul 2 22:04 UTC 1997 |
This response has been erased.
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danr
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response 66 of 364:
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Jul 3 16:58 UTC 1997 |
Merit was down for a while yesterday, too, which may have had some-
thing to do with the slow delivery.
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albaugh
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response 67 of 364:
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Jul 3 19:22 UTC 1997 |
Monday night, it took 7 or 8 connects at 2400 baud before grex would
actually display any text and respond to my typing...
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jared
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response 68 of 364:
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Jul 3 20:19 UTC 1997 |
re 66
MCI lost the ds3 for about 30-40 mins yesterday.
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rcurl
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response 69 of 364:
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Jul 4 17:59 UTC 1997 |
My particpation file in the writers cf appears to have been hosed -
everything came up unread.
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omni
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response 70 of 364:
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Jul 4 18:26 UTC 1997 |
so go back, and do a fixseen all, and you'll be back up to date,
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mdw
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response 71 of 364:
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Jul 5 06:52 UTC 1997 |
Grex is currently having serious stability problems. It was hanging
every 10 minutes, and needed to be prodded by hand to keep going. We're
currently trying operation without an ALM-II card, to see if that makes
a difference. The ALM-II card is necessary for operation with the
modems, therefore, for the moment, there is no direct dial access to
grex. Probably things will change again very soon, this is a very
temporary measure.
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olddraco
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response 72 of 364:
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Jul 5 14:55 UTC 1997 |
Ahhhhh thankyou marcus!
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rcurl
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response 73 of 364:
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Jul 5 16:59 UTC 1997 |
Re #69 & #70. I announced #69 as a system problem. I used fixseen right away,
of course. However whatever caused the problem may still be lurking.
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drew
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response 74 of 364:
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Jul 5 17:14 UTC 1997 |
Removal of the card seems to be working. Of course this is not a satisfactory
solution as it removes access to those without alternate ISPs. But it should
narrow the search.
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