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Whispers and riddles (was Secrets, Vaguely Encryted...)

Topic 159 · 57 responses · archived october 2000

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~Amy Sat, Feb 15, 1997 (00:41) seed

Old Secret, &tc. messages moved to AustenArchive. 40 new of

~Amy Sat, Feb 15, 1997 (00:43) #1

Last few messages:

~churchh Fri, Feb 7, 1997 (14:01) #79

~Amy Wed, Feb 12, 1997 (09:52) #80

~JohanneD Wed, Feb 12, 1997 (10:54) #81

Is this where you plug your guitar Amy?

~mrobens Wed, Feb 12, 1997 (11:15) #82

Did you pig out last night, Amy?

~Amy Wed, Feb 12, 1997 (11:16) #83

It's a Lydia snort, J. Try it. I used to play guitar a little, but just acoustic.

~JohanneD Wed, Feb 12, 1997 (12:09) #84

LOL Amy,now that's a SNORT!

~Cheryl Wed, Feb 12, 1997 (12:44) #85

I love this snort, Amy! Are you going to get more sound bites for us? I would love to have a whole P&P2 sound scheme on my computer...maybe for the exclamation have Mrs. Bennet saying "Oh Mr. Bennett!!!" I think I'll put the snort as the error message...;-)

~JohanneD Wed, Feb 12, 1997 (12:55) #86

and when your program shuts you can hear �I shall never see him again� while watching your Darcy screensaver/wallpaper disappear... Another reason to get back at your computer as quickly as possible :)

~churchh Wed, Feb 12, 1997 (13:14) #87

~Amy Thu, Feb 13, 1997 (16:40) #88

~Anna Thu, Feb 13, 1997 (19:28) #89

Oh?

~jwinsor Thu, Feb 13, 1997 (21:22) #90

Amy, what is the difference between the GRRRR.wav file and the snort.wav? The Grrrrr will play just fine, but the snort won't - Netscape claims that it is an invalid file.

~Amy Fri, Feb 14, 1997 (01:15) #91

Oh dear. Let me save it another way, and this time try to remember which way that is.

~Amy Fri, Feb 14, 1997 (01:32) #92

Joan, looks like they are both the Windows PCM flavor of the *.wav format, but the snort is 8-bit and the GRRR 16. I can't seem to FTP right now. I will try sending the file to you as an email attachment, if you would not mind testing it on the Mac. I would like to know for sure what works for whom.

~jwinsor Fri, Feb 14, 1997 (05:06) #93

Got your mail - Netscape did not like the 16 bit version, either. Picky, picky, picky! Would sure like to figure out why!

~Amy Fri, Feb 14, 1997 (15:15) #94

Joan, I am moving this thread to Austen test. New topic: sound

~Ann Fri, Feb 14, 1997 (22:30) #95

Amy, are you having a lot of trouble FTPing to the spring? I seem to have intermitent problems with it too.

~Amy Sat, Feb 15, 1997 (00:47) #2

Yeah, Ann, once in a while. Not too often, but of course I have trouble whenever I really want to put up something fast.

~jwinsor Sat, Feb 15, 1997 (02:42) #3

are you having a lot of trouble FTPing to the spring? I find it easier to ftp FROM the Spring. Telnet here and then fttp back to my local shell account, and "get" whatever - have never had any trouble with that. (Not that I have done nearly as much of it as either of you.) (BTW, the cruelest blow of all delivered by YAPP is when it complains that you have messed up a tag, will not let you pass until you have done it right, asks if you want to re-post, and then replies: Response aborted! Returning to current topic. Invalid command: :r - after first tossing out everything you had typed.

~Amy Sat, Feb 15, 1997 (07:50) #4

It is too cruel. When I make a response that has a lot of tags, and when I remember about it, I copy the response before submitting it.

~Ann Sat, Feb 15, 1997 (13:28) #5

Whenever that happens, Joan, I think the best way around it is to copy what you have written and back up to the original page and repost it with the correction. Every time I have an error like that, I seem to end up losing my post.

~jwinsor Sun, Feb 16, 1997 (02:34) #6

The best way around is not to type in the stupid box at all, but copy and paste from what you typed elsewhere. Which is a royal pain for short posts. It's the "when I remember" part that makes things risky. I just can't imagine how YAPP ever got out of beta with an error like this!

~Ann Sun, Feb 16, 1997 (13:01) #7

It's also a pain if your computer lacks the memory to keep more than one App open at a time.

~Anna Sun, Feb 16, 1997 (16:35) #8

] how YAPP ever got out of beta is it out of beta?

~Ann Sun, Feb 16, 1997 (17:55) #9

Dave is/was writting the new version. Someone joked that Dave should let us use it free for beta testing. We can push any program to its limit (if not beyond)!

~churchh Sun, Feb 16, 1997 (19:43) #10

It's the "Expires: 1-Jan-1983" HTTP headers that disable the browser back button that cause all these problems.,..

~Ann Sun, Feb 16, 1997 (23:39) #11

Es kam mir Spanish vor, Henri!

~jwinsor Mon, Feb 17, 1997 (03:53) #12

It's the "Expires: 1-Jan-1983" HTTP headers that disable the browser back button that cause all these problems.,.. Is there any way to edit this to read 1-Jan-2083? (or some other future date?)

~churchh Mon, Feb 17, 1997 (19:52) #13

Joan -- you wouldn't want to change the header to a future date, but to delete it entirely. You could do this in the master rc.yapp-bin file, but only for the whole site, not for individual conferences. If this were done, people would have to press their browser "Reload" button a lot to see newly-posted messages....

~Amy Mon, Feb 17, 1997 (19:59) #14

There must be some reason for not doing it this way, something besides seeking to keep us from the trouble of refreshing the page?

~jwinsor Mon, Feb 17, 1997 (23:15) #15

If this were done, people would have to press their browser "Reload" button a lot to see newly-posted messages.... I am not understanding something here. As it is, we cannot see newly posted messages anyway without re-loading the entire conference. And if it re-loaded newly posted messages, at least the reload button would re-load something besides the text entry box!

~churchh Mon, Feb 24, 1997 (02:41) #16

~Cheryl Mon, Feb 24, 1997 (03:02) #17

I always knew it would come to this some day, all of HC's rantings have been a desparate cry for help! ;-)

~churchh Mon, Feb 24, 1997 (15:26) #18

~churchh Fri, Feb 28, 1997 (09:25) #19

~churchh Fri, Feb 28, 1997 (09:35) #20

~Hilary Sun, Mar 2, 1997 (16:54) #21

Hmmmm....Able-bodied seaman. Manuel .....'Que? que?'

~churchh Tue, Mar 4, 1997 (12:21) #22

~JohanneD Fri, Mar 7, 1997 (16:14) #23

LOL Hil, love when he named is rat Basil

~bernhard Fri, Mar 7, 1997 (16:34) #24

and then they put Basil in the ratatouille

~churchh Wed, Mar 12, 1997 (18:24) #25

~Amy Wed, Mar 12, 1997 (19:18) #26

~kate Thu, Mar 13, 1997 (11:17) #27

Amy, tried to go to this cryptic place, but could not get in... ;-(

~churchh Thu, Mar 13, 1997 (11:23) #28

~jwinsor Thu, Mar 13, 1997 (22:57) #29

Amy, tried to go to this cryptic place, but could not get in... ;-( I got in and got about 3 inches of the top of a mysterious Dark Tower, and then, aftet transmission stopped for several minutes, I bailed out.

~Amy Thu, Mar 13, 1997 (23:53) #30

Modor is a funny place.

~churchh Fri, Mar 14, 1997 (13:27) #31

Oops, I made a slight mistake! Here's the corrected version:

~Amy Sat, Mar 15, 1997 (08:08) #32

Beware.

~churchh Tue, Mar 18, 1997 (20:05) #33

~Ann Tue, Mar 18, 1997 (21:10) #34

And even more important MHC: If a news event occurs and there are no cameras there to record it, does it really happen???

~JohanneD Wed, Mar 19, 1997 (04:15) #35

Ann, scarry :0

~churchh Thu, Mar 20, 1997 (12:23) #36

~elder Thu, Mar 20, 1997 (13:33) #37

Beautiful, Henry. (Did you know that the letters freeze in an upright position while the cursor is dragging the screen scrolling bar -- on the right with netscape?)

~JohanneD Thu, Mar 20, 1997 (14:21) #38

Henry's Wizardry, wonderfully masterful

~churchh Thu, Mar 20, 1997 (14:30) #39

Actually, I didn't make the twirling letters ;-)

~churchh Fri, Mar 21, 1997 (22:50) #40

Jane Austen did once write about a character named Rebecca; the following is excerpted from http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~churchh/fredelfr.html -- FREDERIC & ELFRIDA A NOVEL

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