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janc
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response 200 of 226:
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May 26 11:55 UTC 2002 |
I think Joe may be confusing NUBS with the old key office. When I was
a student all keys were issued from a tiny thin one story building
which I think is now gone. That used to be some kind of carriage house
and was quite old. NUBS was a fairly modern building with no
particular charm. To increase the confusion, I think the key offices
moved to NUBS after their funky little building was demolished.
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jmsaul
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response 201 of 226:
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May 26 15:01 UTC 2002 |
Was the Key Office near the Chem building?
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rcurl
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response 202 of 226:
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May 26 19:57 UTC 2002 |
Yes. I recall NUBS mainly as the computer center (with all the card
punch machines.....).
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other
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response 203 of 226:
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May 26 20:54 UTC 2002 |
The key office has been in NUBS for several years.
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aruba
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response 204 of 226:
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May 27 03:14 UTC 2002 |
But it's not there anymore. It's on Church Street next to the parking
garage.
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mdw
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response 205 of 226:
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May 27 03:24 UTC 2002 |
I wonder how long it will take for them to demolish *that* building in
turn.
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janc
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response 206 of 226:
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May 28 23:24 UTC 2002 |
Yeah, the key office was next to the chemistry building. It was a tiny
little, long thin one-story building that contained the key office and
nothing else. A nice little oddity that I was sorry to see demolished.
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keesan
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response 207 of 226:
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Jun 11 14:13 UTC 2002 |
We finally finished off our last roll of 25 non-digital photos and took it
to K-Mart for developing. They have a new offer of one printout and scanned
copies only at www.bluelight.com. I use lynx. Some judicious guesses got
me to the Kodak Picture Center link (no alt tag) and I guessed at which
entries were in red for signup, but then it required javascript to submit.
So I called Kodak help and was told no they cannot email me. I asked how
large each photo was. ???? I asked resolution - 1534x1024. I figure this
is about 6M of photos and I explained that the library is unlikely to let me
bring in four floppy disks and put my photos on them due to fear of viruses.
At some point she agreed to email the photos, which are waiting now for
download.
Our viewing software (and our monitors) do 1024x768. How would I go about
reducing the resolution so that we can view and manipulate the photos? There
is a place to specify pixel size to modify photos - do I just fill in 1024?
Is there some better way to shrink these such as cutting the total size in
half? Should we just experiment (on our newly working P133)? 1534/2 = 768
- is this likely to look better than 1024 or 800?
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twinkie
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response 208 of 226:
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Jun 11 14:24 UTC 2002 |
There are very few imaging programs that won't resize the image to fit your
screen. Check out VuePrint at http://www.hamrick.com/upg.html if you just
want to view the files. It's a very small and efficient program.
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keesan
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response 209 of 226:
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Jun 12 00:53 UTC 2002 |
I already have a resizing program (Pictview for DOS, freeware, lets you set
target number of pixels) but the question is whether to aim at something that
is the original cut in half, which might give better results, or go for 1024
instead for possibly more detail. I guess we can experiment. Is Vueprint
for DOS? I will look at it. (I will also see what happens if I try to view
the hi-res image on my not-so-hi-res monitor with a video card that goes to
1024x768 - we are used to rebooting.). Thanks.
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keesan
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response 210 of 226:
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Jun 12 00:55 UTC 2002 |
The site says to click on the version of Windows you are using. I have lots
of DOS viewers to try first - Lxpic, Compushow, QPV, SEA, Display, Pictview,
Newdeal, djpeg. I may have forgotten to mention I am using DOS.
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twinkie
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response 211 of 226:
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Jun 12 13:15 UTC 2002 |
Either you didn't mention it, or I missed it. I am not aware of a non-Windows
version of VuePrint. I vaguely remember using a program called Pictview, or
something like it, and being happy with it in DOS.
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keesan
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response 212 of 226:
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Jun 12 19:24 UTC 2002 |
What Kodak help sent me was not my photos but a shorter link to their site,
also filthy with javascript. I finally got Netscape going on our new Win95
computer but was unable to make any sense of the Bluelight site and ended up
using the emailed link. Still could not make much sense of it so I
individually downloaded, from the 'View Large' screens, each 24K scanned
photo. The photos were a bit larger if you did Slideshow but that got ahead
of me. Could not find their 'E-mail' link. 'Order prints' was very
prominent. The 1500 res must be for the CD- the support person was hardly
knowledgeable. I think we could do at least a good a scanning job in much
less time than it took to download all this. I viewed at 640 res and it
filled about 1/5 of my screen. I may give it one more try later.
Perhaps I can email myself a photo to see if it is in better resolution?
I downloaded by using the right mouse button and 'Save image as'. Found a
bug in Netscape 4 - the underlined i took me to a wrong link.
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keesan
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response 213 of 226:
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Jun 13 17:50 UTC 2002 |
Still cannot figure out how to do the download from K-Mart. YOu are supposed
to select some or all - but the View Small appears to be broken. They said
Netscape 4 would work. If I View Large I think the Select and Select All go
away. This time I downloaded from Slide Show to get slightly bigger images
than View Large. Next time we will take digital photos or scan our own.
I suspect K-Mart wants people to get confused and think that they ahve to
order printouts in order to be able to download the images.
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jaklumen
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response 214 of 226:
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Jun 13 19:45 UTC 2002 |
I doubt it's as conspirational as that. It's probably something
that's not terribly in demand, so service and tech support is crappy.
Besides, this is K-Mart we're talking about.
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bhelliom
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response 215 of 226:
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Jun 13 20:07 UTC 2002 |
Well, if they're screwing over their own employees, either argument may
be applicable, or even both.
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jaklumen
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response 216 of 226:
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Jun 14 17:27 UTC 2002 |
Maybe so. I wouldn't be surprised. They liquidated the Sunnyside
location (if you don't recognize Sunnyside, think-- mop handle. =P)
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keesan
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response 217 of 226:
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Jun 15 00:14 UTC 2002 |
I would not expect K-Mart's tech support people to know any more than I do
about digital photos, but surely they could have been told the size of the
photos in kilobytes, and that the ones on CD were bigger than the ones online.
I may try this again at the library if I can find my roll number.....
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oval
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response 218 of 226:
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Jun 15 21:48 UTC 2002 |
>is it possible to grab a post from an item .. as in purge it as a text file
>without having to copy/paste?
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scott
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response 219 of 226:
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Jun 15 22:59 UTC 2002 |
I think the "extract" command does that. Basically just use
!extract agora 23 219 > myfile
to dump this response into a file named "myfile".
Hm, it doesn't seem to be generating anything in the file (the file is
created, though). What am I missing?
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oval
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response 220 of 226:
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Jun 15 23:54 UTC 2002 |
worked for me, since your post was already entered when i did it.
thanks ;)
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scott
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response 221 of 226:
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Jun 16 00:52 UTC 2002 |
D'oh. Of course.
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keesan
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response 222 of 226:
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Jun 21 18:02 UTC 2002 |
We have an HP 540 Deskjet with black cartridge that alternates dark and light
stripes when printing (3 stripes per 1/4"). Is the problem with the printer
or the cartridge? The effect is of looking through a piece of glass that has
stripes etched in it - you can see the printout but it looks strange.
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gull
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response 223 of 226:
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Jun 21 18:36 UTC 2002 |
Horizontal or vertical stripes? If they're horizontal, it's a cartridge
problem -- some of the nozzles are plugged.
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keesan
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response 224 of 226:
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Jun 21 19:56 UTC 2002 |
Horizontal. Now instead of light stripes in between good printing,
it is white stripes. Seems to be getting worse. Jim spent a lot of time
unclogging the nozzles before refilling the cartridge, but it was old and
dried out. The ink place said to try using HP pigmented ink with this, tho
it was designed for dye-based ink which is less likely to clog things. We
may switch to dye-based and try again. It was all free but the ink.
Gull, can you help me to learn to print with ghostscript? I can do a print
screen with psview but the other instructions don't work for me. (Let's take
this to email if you have time to help).
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