{"conf": "web", "generated_at": "2026-04-26T08:00:02.954878Z", "threads": [{"num": 1, "subject": "introductions please", "response_count": 90, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "patricia", "date": "Thu, Oct  3, 1996 (04:09)", "body": "Hi, Terry You are so busy! Your name is behind so many topics? Do you do this full-time? I am a CIS student and part-time instructor at a Jr. College here in Irving, TX. My previous life I was a nurse, did some sales, home taught my kids a couple of years and now I'm back at school. My short-term goal: AA in CIS, concentration: programming. My long-term goal: BA in Math--I would like to help in the dispelling of \"Math Anxiety\"... Yesterday at North Lake College Computer lab, we received a call from a doctor (psychotherapist) who needed some help getting onto the web. I went to her home office this afternoon and ran into a snag...after installing Trumpet Winsock (Win 3.1), we got \"Modem not responding\"...but, I won't get into all the details here...just need to know what to do to help this person... Terry, where should I post my problem? I have been surfing the 'net for months now, but have never participated in a new group, conference or chat...so be gentle! :-) And, I have a few questions: first of all, can I change my \"handle\"? I would rather not use my real name... Oh, how did I find you? By doing a search on \"winsock\", \"modem\" in the WebCrawler. What does the bottom of the screen mean? \"Redisplay starting from response number:\" Thanks! Hope to hear from 'ya soon....Pat"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct  3, 1996 (10:51)", "body": "Last question first. Redisplay from bottom of screen is cryptonerdtalk for pick the number rnage of the responses you want to see. In other words, if a topic had 31 responses and you only wanted to see 16-21 you would type this in to that box. As far as another name goes, just re-register. The best place to ask would be in a topic labeled questionx or something in this conference. If there isn't one, I'll create one. No, I don't do this full time but I'm trying to pump a little life into this place by setting the table and putting out the silverware for the guests."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct  3, 1996 (10:52)", "body": "Topics 9 and 18 would be good places to post questions!"}, {"response": 4, "author": "klreisig", "date": "Sat, Oct 26, 1996 (00:23)", "body": "Hello, I was just out browsing and ran across this site. I'm interested in the Web and was looking for some answers. Thought maybe this would be a good place to look. I'm a graduate of Eldorado College in their Computer Service & Installation Technician course. A+ certified. Had 29 years working with mainframe computers until November of 1995 when I was downsized out of the business. Looking for another nitch to fit into."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Oct 26, 1996 (04:14)", "body": "What kind of niches are you looking at?"}, {"response": 6, "author": "klreisig", "date": "Sat, Oct 26, 1996 (15:29)", "body": "I good with computers so I'm looking for anything dealing with them. I reacently took my A+ test for techinicians and passed, with pretty good scores I might add. I've been fooling around with HTML and have my Home Page out on the Web. The Internet seems to be \"hot\" and I'm interested in that. I guess with the years that I have in the business I'm interested in gettting other people hooked on computers. I started with computers back in 1996. Worked for IBM at the time. What would fill a whole room ba k then you can get in a laptop. On second thought you can get more in the laptop now. What I need is something fun and just enough income to live on. No more killer jobs."}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Oct 27, 1996 (18:20)", "body": "Uh, are you sure it was '96?"}, {"response": 8, "author": "klreisig", "date": "Mon, Oct 28, 1996 (16:19)", "body": "It should have been 66. These darn computers keep turning these number upside down."}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 28, 1996 (19:50)", "body": "Just 30 years off, no biggie."}, {"response": 10, "author": "belapur", "date": "Tue, Nov  5, 1996 (09:46)", "body": "Hi, Terry, You seem to the only one surfing at the front on this site. I am totally new to this site, in fact I am new to the Inter net itself. I came across you while I was surfing through the sites. I have introduced myself earlier. But only briefly. I am basically a computer graduate. I want to know a lot more about the recent things that are happening in the field of computers and especially internet. Will you please help me giving a right direction? Wating for a response. Thanks.."}, {"response": 11, "author": "Mouzaki", "date": "Sun, Nov 24, 1996 (22:22)", "body": "Hi Terry..... Truthfully, I found you by mistake...I need some help....... Are there any normal chat rooms...you know, like the ones on America Online????? If so, how do I get to them? This is the first day that I have used Erols. PLease Respond......"}, {"response": 12, "author": "Mouzaki", "date": "Sun, Nov 24, 1996 (22:23)", "body": "Terry...Are you out there?????? Why aren't you answering????????????????? ??????????????????"}, {"response": 13, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov 24, 1996 (22:27)", "body": "This isn't really a chat Suellen. There is a chat room linked to the Austen conference however, called the Pemberly chat room or something. Check out austen ok?"}, {"response": 14, "author": "cyrilina", "date": "Tue, Nov 26, 1996 (21:44)", "body": "Hi Terry Yet another novice here, I wanted to comment on MS FrontPage am I in the right area? My comment is that after 4-5 attempts to download from variuos sites, I finally received the software which died a dramatic death after two weeks (fatal errors on opening). Once again I tried to download 4-5 time, but recevied corrupt copies each time? Anyone else had any problems? I have just downloaded Hot Dog with no problems, I,ll see how I go. PS I checked the obvious virus, memory, etc.."}, {"response": 15, "author": "cyrilina", "date": "Tue, Nov 26, 1996 (21:50)", "body": "Hi Terry Yet another novice here, I wanted to comment on MS FrontPage am I in the right area? My comment is that after 4-5 attempts to download from variuos sites, I finally received the software which died a dramatic death after two weeks (fatal errors on opening). Once again I tried to download 4-5 time, but recevied corrupt copies each time? Anyone else had any problems? I have just downloaded Hot Dog with no problems, I,ll see how I go. PS I checked the obvious virus, memory, etc.."}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 26, 1996 (22:04)", "body": "Well, why not post this in the apps conference in the FrontPage item!"}, {"response": 17, "author": "sparrow", "date": "Mon, Dec  9, 1996 (19:36)", "body": "Hiya, I'm a webhead from Urbana, Illinois and a partner in a new web/intranet development company with a woman in Chicago. Right now we've been slogging our way through AT&T contracts -- much fun. I discovered this place on Terry's invitation, so I'm mostly lurking for now. I've been hanging out predominantly at EMinds, but I'm always looking for new communities. I look forward to picking other web brains."}, {"response": 18, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (02:15)", "body": "And I look forward to picking yours! Welcome! Glad you made it by."}, {"response": 19, "author": "Bud5", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (04:17)", "body": "Bonjour Terry! I'm a 26 year old Nerd-Jock meaning I love my computer just as much as my hockey stick. I live in Montreal where I study computer science at L'Universite du Quebec. I guess my involment in Eminds got me here...I was under the impression this site was about HAM RADIO (witch I don't no much about) but I see that it involves threaded discussion. I like anything that has to do with Sports,Computers,Technology in general. I'm also interessted in meeting people who can help me, and people that I can help. For nstace Mouzaca,you should try www.talk.com if you really want to chat. Sorry for spelling mistakes I really speak French. Hey, maybe I should post a subject on French huuuum. Later!"}, {"response": 20, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (04:24)", "body": "You may want to visit the 'austen' conference wherein lies a French speaking topic. This is quite the little community too."}, {"response": 21, "author": "arch1234", "date": "Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (06:02)", "body": "Hi Terry, I am Ms Archana Sharma from INDIA.I am Computer engg and CNE(certified novell engg) an working for past 1 year.I am interested in latest tech in computer science.Can U help me in finding out these things.Tell me one thing (as I am using this conference first time) whenever I will attend ur conference, when U will reply me back.Suppose I have send U this message when U will reply me back .Please let me know fast as I have many-many things to discuss with all of U.So, be quick.... Archana"}, {"response": 22, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (12:52)", "body": "What do you want to talk about Archana? What interests you the most. Let me know and I'll make a bunch of suggestions about how you can get what you need from the Spring."}, {"response": 23, "author": "arch1234", "date": "Wed, Dec 18, 1996 (04:12)", "body": "Terry, I am interested in finding job in USA or in Austriala.And since I am network professional I want to know more about Networking.Can you help me in these areas Thanks"}, {"response": 24, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec 18, 1996 (13:07)", "body": "Sure, we just opened a new conference called windows and we'll be talking about Windows 95 and Windows NT networking there. Also, the the computer conference we'll have some networking hardware topics and there will be serveral other areas opening up around the spring dealing with networking."}, {"response": 25, "author": "mtlady", "date": "Thu, Apr 10, 1997 (20:24)", "body": "Hi, I found your site through drake.dnet, my internet server here in North Carolina, was looking for a bull. board or a site to post seasonal rental not costing an arm and leg. I write poetry for a past time, periodically, must be my scottish heritage and am an artist, work in watercolors and acrylics, realism only. Was also looking for a site to go on web and have a web site for my art but have not found one yet that looks like it gets many hits and I have e mailed some of the artists listed and gotten no reply. I like to meet people from other places and doing whatever. I am retired early from the Med. Technology field, we burn out early and moved to North Carolina, born in Ohio and could'nt get the hills and mountains out of my blood, so here I am. The dogwoods and red buds are blooming here and it really looks like spring."}, {"response": 26, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Apr 11, 1997 (03:10)", "body": "I'm not clear what you mean about posting a rental. Probably if your're trying to rent something your local newsgroups would be the most effective place. Will you post some snippets of your work, or more, in our poetry conference? And perhaps post some of your vision of art in our art conference? If you plan on being a regular here, we'll give you a website. This is the Spring's standing offer. You pump us up with conversation and we'll bend over backward to help you however we can, and websites are something we can easily provide. Just email with the username and password you would like and I'll set it up. You can also start a N Carolina topic in the travel conference if you like. We're always glad when folks like you jump in to our virtual watering hole."}, {"response": 27, "author": "Pedrobot", "date": "Mon, May 19, 1997 (05:17)", "body": "I got your e-mail. Somewhat belatedly, I realized I'd seen this site before as it is linked to Forrest Stroud's site. I do webs for the University of Denver Campus Safety Department among others. I'm always interested in what other webmonsters...I mean masters are doing as well. I started out with an IBM XT Clone and progressed through everything up to and including Windows 95 and the Pentium because I didn't know any better. Tried out the Mac Plus through PowerMac as well, but found the lack of threading frustrating when doing network stuff. \"Insanely Great\" became \"Great Insanity\" and I decided to concentrate on Windows stuff. Cartoon Operating Systems don't cut it unless they actually do something. It's astonishing that we're doing stuff on our desktops now that took a main rame to do not so long ago. I'm currently working on dynamic HTML and if I ever get it right, we'll be rockin' and rollin' with our databases on the web. Put it together with Windows CE and a radio modem and we might even be able to do reports while sitting in our cars or perambulating across campus. Beam me up, Scotty!"}, {"response": 28, "author": "KDurham", "date": "Mon, May 19, 1997 (06:11)", "body": "Hi Terry, I got your email, too. Good promotion! Hope it works well for you. I found this site while researching message software for my site about Hawaii. Since I'm a real newbie to a lot of this, I'm pleased to find a place to ask questions, and maybe answer a few, but probably not in this section! So, my first dumb question, which I'll try to answer myself -- how do I put links in messages? Is the URL enough http://hawaiilink.com or do I need html? Hawaii Link . Sorry to bore you all, but that should answer it. And there's probably a manual I should have read already, right? If you're ever interested in Hawaii, that's where I've lived for the past nine years, and I've spent the last two answering people's questions, first on Compuserve, and now from my websites. But that's another topic, better in Travel, right? Is this a good place to talk about website promotion? Or is it more intended toward development and authoring? Just trying to find my way around. Thanks for the invite. You're building very nice community here. That can be very hard to do in the online world. Hmmmm, perhaps that's another topic? Talk to you soon~~"}, {"response": 29, "author": "tedchong", "date": "Mon, May 19, 1997 (14:50)", "body": "Hi Kathy, to put links in message, you have to include the full html coodes like Link Only html-aware browser (like Netscape/IE) can decode the html codes. Enjoy!"}, {"response": 30, "author": "KDurham", "date": "Mon, May 19, 1997 (17:14)", "body": "Thanks for the help, Ted. Both show up for me, and it's good to know it won't work that way for everyone."}, {"response": 31, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, May 19, 1997 (18:01)", "body": "There's an html practice area somewhere in austen or middlemarch (these are conferences). Or was it drool? Anyway, there are some cool examples in the html practice topic in one of these places."}, {"response": 32, "author": "tracy5", "date": "Sun, May 25, 1997 (20:05)", "body": "Hello all. I'm a psychotherapist and Internet trainer in New England, currently checking out all the forums online (I intend to write an article on the topic) and thriving on online companionship. I also spend a lot of time designing and updating my Windweaver web site at http://www.windweaver.com which provides dozens of Web resources (especially related to searching) and Windows 95 help (including a complete online manual). Also have a site linking to the top web cameras at http://www.geocities.com/~webwinds Am pleased to discover the Spring forums, and will include them on the Guide to Online orums pages which I'll be posting on Windweaver in June. But my interest isn't just professional...I find that mailing lists, forums, and OCCASIONALLY newsgroups are amazingly effective ways to find kindred spirits on the Net, to have very growthful and satisfying discussions, and to occasionally make real substantial ongoing friendships. Look forward to seeing discussions develop here...."}, {"response": 33, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, May 26, 1997 (19:05)", "body": "Glad you're joining us Tracy. Staci L. Stewart had started a psyche conference on our original Spring and I'm thinking about regenerating that on our new spring. It may seem a little sparse here right now but that's because we archived about two years of our original posts when we switched to our news software (Yapp. 3.0). Where are you planning to publish the aforementioned article and will you be able to post it online (or excerpts)? I'd definitely like to send for a hard copy. I can't wait to look at http://www.windweaver.com . What a cool name! I have a web camera here but it's not active right now, stay tuned! It' going to show a panoramic view of gorgeous Bastrop County, some real Texas country. We have a way of linking mailing lists to our conferences that I'm working on now. Feel free to make new topics, suggest whatever ideas you have and invite your friends to join. And if there's anything we can do to make things easier for you, let us know. Welcome!"}, {"response": 34, "author": "ginger", "date": "Wed, May 28, 1997 (06:01)", "body": "HI. I'm Ginger in Bastrop. I watched a glorious lightning storm tonight. The 6 oclock news reported tornados. Beautiful but devastating."}, {"response": 35, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, May 28, 1997 (12:58)", "body": "Welcome Ginger. That lightning was spectacular last night. Too bad out the 30 houses lost in Jarrell (sp?)."}, {"response": 36, "author": "nancyw", "date": "Thu, Jun 12, 1997 (00:24)", "body": "I'm Nancy from Seattle. I've been running a small Internet startup here in the Silicon Forest at http://www.bullseyeinc.com . I'm particularly interested in things like virtual communities, how the new media can contribute to the community and chocolate."}, {"response": 37, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jun 12, 1997 (00:28)", "body": "I hope you'll tell us more about bullseyeinc.com"}, {"response": 38, "author": "nancyw", "date": "Thu, Jun 12, 1997 (00:36)", "body": "I've got to go do the parental-dinner thing but will return and post more on BullsEye. And just as a bookmark, I think this is #22...."}, {"response": 39, "author": "ginger", "date": "Sun, Jun 15, 1997 (01:51)", "body": "What about Bullseye?"}, {"response": 40, "author": "yoda", "date": "Wed, Jul  2, 1997 (12:58)", "body": "hello everybody I`m from Holland and i`ve got a problem. when i click on somebody like ginger the computer respons with: You must specify a return adress in Mail and News preferences. Where the hell are they I don`t know? and a nother problem: Does any body have a program that allows to look at JPG pictures I only got a program that allows to look at GIF pictures. I realy like it if somebody response on this call. I`m from Holland so don`t look at the words YODA"}, {"response": 41, "author": "tedchong", "date": "Wed, Jul  2, 1997 (13:53)", "body": "JPEG viewers for Windows 95/NT, goto http://www.windows95.com and you will find tons of them..."}, {"response": 42, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jul  2, 1997 (16:05)", "body": "Lview! Have we met before?"}, {"response": 43, "author": "yoda", "date": "Thu, Jul  3, 1997 (08:22)", "body": "thank you very much tedchong."}, {"response": 44, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jul  3, 1997 (12:03)", "body": "And congratulations Ted Chong on new baby Chelsea! We salute you on our Spring main page today! http://www.spring.com"}, {"response": 45, "author": "tedchong", "date": "Thu, Jul  3, 1997 (13:42)", "body": "Thanks Terry, your message is much appreciated. Maybe I will scan baby Chelsea and set up a web page for her..."}, {"response": 46, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jul  3, 1997 (15:17)", "body": "Sure create an account for Chelsea. She has to get started at an early age right?"}, {"response": 47, "author": "forest", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (04:10)", "body": "I'm new here and I don't understand how all this works yet. I'm on webtv."}, {"response": 48, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (04:55)", "body": "Hello, again, Sally. What are some of your other interest? WER"}, {"response": 49, "author": "eneffable", "date": "Wed, Jun 17, 1998 (06:21)", "body": "Is this conference dead? Hello out there. I do websites and graphics and more. Where is the happening conference? Or am I just in the wrong place? Greetings"}, {"response": 50, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jun 17, 1998 (16:11)", "body": "Good Morning! I wouldn't necessarily call it dead, more like hibernating I think..."}, {"response": 51, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jun 17, 1998 (19:26)", "body": "What webbed type stuff do you like to talk about, ineffable?"}, {"response": 52, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Jul  3, 1998 (02:21)", "body": "hi guys, am just starting to venture into this conference, but most of you know me from everywhere else!"}, {"response": 53, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jul  3, 1998 (13:08)", "body": "Cool."}, {"response": 54, "author": "ratthing", "date": "Fri, Jul  3, 1998 (15:42)", "body": "hey wolfie!"}, {"response": 55, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Jul  3, 1998 (15:46)", "body": "hiya ratthing!"}, {"response": 56, "author": "fabmktbabe", "date": "Fri, Jul 10, 1998 (03:50)", "body": "Hello - My site offers commentary on technology stocks and the U.S. stock markets. However boring that may sound, the site is actually quite entertaining, in addition to being informative. Check it out. I'm at http://www.fabmktbabe.com Have fun!"}, {"response": 57, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jul 10, 1998 (06:09)", "body": "Then you hang around here long enough to make up for the spam..."}, {"response": 58, "author": "kristen", "date": "Wed, Jul 15, 1998 (04:11)", "body": "Kristen Baker here, I surf the web for paramedic/EMT stuff."}, {"response": 59, "author": "wer", "date": "Wed, Jul 15, 1998 (04:57)", "body": "Welcome, and we sure could use you in the Health conference..."}, {"response": 60, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sun, Jul 19, 1998 (14:20)", "body": "i've just invited \"Boogie Jack\" (of www.boogiejack.com) to come and check out The Spring, maybe with a view to getting involved in the Web conference here. Hope he checks in..."}, {"response": 61, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Jul 19, 1998 (14:27)", "body": "as do we..."}, {"response": 62, "author": "Booj", "date": "Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (00:17)", "body": "Thanks for the invite Mike, and Wer for adding to Mikes post. Don't know how much time I'll be able to devote to adding to this conference, but just thought I'd check in and let you know I'm checking it out."}, {"response": 63, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (04:50)", "body": "however intermittent it might be, we do hope you stay around awhile..."}, {"response": 64, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (14:57)", "body": "Really, come and boogie with us."}, {"response": 65, "author": "ratthing", "date": "Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (15:01)", "body": "welcome, booj! hope you can stay around a while."}, {"response": 66, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (21:29)", "body": "hiya Jack. Glad you dropped by :-) Send some Wack Attack people our way if you like!"}, {"response": 67, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (22:03)", "body": "Wack Attack? What are we in for?"}, {"response": 68, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (22:11)", "body": "heh...Wack Attack ( I think) is the list of people who have a link back to Booj's web site on their own homepage, and top bloke Jack gives us some free fonts :-)"}, {"response": 69, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (22:12)", "body": "oh yeah, and an e-mail newsletter, too, which is really really very good :)"}, {"response": 70, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Mon, Apr 19, 1999 (19:35)", "body": "I would like regulars of this conference invite to visit the International Conflicts conference here on the Spring: http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/browse/InternationalConflicts/all This conference is dedicated to the disputes between groups all over the world, be that social, cultural, political or ethnical differences."}, {"response": 71, "author": "sociolingo", "date": "Sat, Oct 16, 1999 (15:04)", "body": "Hi I'm Maggie. I came here via the phinished conference which moved in a short while ago, and I'm getting to know various conferences. I'm an avid surfer, well as much as the telephone charging system in the UK will allow me to (we pay per second!). I usually surf for academic material and keep trying various surf engines to see which I find most productive. Nice to meet you all."}, {"response": 72, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Oct 16, 1999 (18:11)", "body": "Our pleasure, Maggie, I assure you!"}, {"response": 73, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Mon, Oct 18, 1999 (16:59)", "body": "Hello Maggie! Another European - the This-Side-Of-The-Pond faction grows! Pleased to meet ya! (Say, haven't we met in Phinished before... Discussing back-ups?)"}, {"response": 74, "author": "sociolingo", "date": "Fri, Oct 29, 1999 (17:48)", "body": "Yes - and I still need to get a zip drive!!!"}, {"response": 75, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Sat, Oct 30, 1999 (19:06)", "body": "Hmh, go get one. Tell you lover or grandmother how horrible loss of all work is - especially after gotten so far, blabla, and you just can't raise the funds to get you THAT security... (Oh, and be sure you have the price for the new 250 MB-Zip... ;=} They might just ask you.)"}, {"response": 76, "author": "sociolingo", "date": "Mon, Nov  1, 1999 (22:33)", "body": "I've been looking it up - honest! Do you reckon the 250mb is the way to go. i've seen one offer thgat give four disks as well, that'd give me a G of extra space. Can I use the zip drive like an extra hard drive? Should a parallel port one be OK. I don't have a super dooper machine."}, {"response": 77, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Tue, Nov  2, 1999 (18:21)", "body": "OK, get a 250 MB one, because the price difference isn't really hot, and it's been developed later, so the tech behind ought to be more current state of the art. You can use it like another hd, but there are speed limitations (a) by the drive, but more importantly, (b) by the parallel port. The SCSI versions are faster (but not as fast as a REAL hd), but for this, your PC would have to have a SCSI-adapter, which is unlikely. And upgrading with one just for this purpose is not economic, plus you could not easily connect a SCSI-Zip drive to somebody else's PC or notebook. The cool thing about the parallel port Zip is, you can attach it easy, take it off and drag around. And with the 4 cartridges, you could use one to back up all important stuff you have, seal it in an envelope and store off-site (you never know...), have two for alternating daily (at least weekly!) backups of the stuff you work on, and one to use with this PC recovery software you can download from Iomega. That allows you - with one Zip and a floppy disk - to recover your configuration and operating system should your PC break down and the OS be shot up. Things can happen, and they did to me. There were some problems encountered with the 100 MB Zip drives (by me, too); these have never been reported of the newer 250 MB drives. Another plus: If you want to show your work to your prof or a co-student, maybe a floppy is too small. Either they have this drive, too, or have a 100 MB Zip, so you could write to a 100 MB cartridge and give them that (supposedly downward compatible - but ask the sales person), or drag the kit over, plug in, start a small .exe (guest.exe ?) from a floppy, and have access to your data on their machine... Great for taking stuff to a place with a laser printer, or to print colour graphics at a friends place! But the most important thing is, you will be able to backup your work and mailfolders, and store one copy offsite. And if your installation breaks down, you could recover your configuration easy, and know the loss of work is only what you lost since your back-up. And if you use some funky backup software, or - like I do - just use Winzip, you can even fit more than 250 MB on it. Winzip does a nice job compressing all stuff into one file (even does disk-spanning if one cartridge isn't big enough!), and you can even password-protect it. *************************************** I own two 100 MB Zip drives, one is a SCSI version connected to the Mac of a layouter, the other is a parallel port version on my PC. If need be, I can also use it to swap large file to a portable computer. I use Zips a lot - most of the layouters I work with deliver their stuff on Zips, which I pass on to the print shop. A typical in-office-use is dragging images I get mailed onto a Zip, and walk this over to the Mac for production. (Uh, still no network here...)"}, {"response": 78, "author": "sociolingo", "date": "Fri, Nov  5, 1999 (20:18)", "body": "I'm sold! Just waiting for delivery."}, {"response": 79, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  6, 1999 (16:42)", "body": "I like the new portable CD rom writers, parallel port also. And then you have a medium you can pop into almost any machine."}, {"response": 80, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Nov  6, 1999 (23:38)", "body": "David has one with which he is creating my Christmas presents!!! He loves his \"burner\""}, {"response": 81, "author": "Fixxit", "date": "Sun, Nov  7, 1999 (11:11)", "body": "Ad in the Newspaper yesterday, offered a 15.8Gig Seagate HD for $159.00US, (At Fry's Home Electronics). (((Didn't want to stray from the thread)) Ciao Fixxit"}, {"response": 82, "author": "Fixxit", "date": "Sun, Nov  7, 1999 (11:11)", "body": ""}, {"response": 83, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov  7, 1999 (14:54)", "body": "Wow, that's pretty good, Scott. I wonder if the same drive is listed on http://www.pricewatch.com ?"}, {"response": 84, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Thu, Nov 18, 1999 (23:10)", "body": "Anybody seen and tried the new Iomega external CD-ROM drive?"}, {"response": 85, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov 20, 1999 (01:53)", "body": "Nope, what's its claim to fame?"}, {"response": 86, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Mon, Nov 22, 1999 (17:25)", "body": "It's supposed to be a CD-RW drive with loads of software, easy to install. I'm not sure if it is only internal, or if they offer an external version, too. I think it's called ZipCD 650, or something like it."}, {"response": 87, "author": "wolf", "date": "Fri, Mar 31, 2000 (04:08)", "body": "i may sound like an alarmist and this is the wrong topic to post this in but, here goes nothing..... please teach your children to be careful surfing the web. pedophiles and stalkers are out there and are blatant about what they want. with chat rooms being offered as free additions to websites, it's harder for \"moderators\" to control and report anything suspicious. i've removed the chat rooms from my site."}, {"response": 88, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Mar 31, 2000 (17:33)", "body": "Wolfie - good point and make sure you post it on Porch where every one goes - like in \"What do you want to talk about today\" so more people see it. The web conference is not on many people's hotlist, I think - and this is important enough to get big attention. I cannot help thinking of those two girls who were lured to NYC and raped... How ghastly a price to pay for being friendly."}, {"response": 89, "author": "wolf", "date": "Fri, Mar 31, 2000 (17:38)", "body": "good point and it's done. (i saw a show about it last night and it got me upset)....i've spoken to teenagers via icq and chat rooms and have told them to be careful. of course, they come looking for excitement but don't realize that the folks on the other end are serious and have issues. didn't want to make chat rooms even more accessible for teenagers (since my site is for poetry and a lot of teenagers write and read). besides, i have a message board! and this is my favorite chat place anyway!! GO SPRING!!!!!"}, {"response": 90, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Mar 31, 2000 (18:23)", "body": "Hugs for caring enough to do this, Wolfie - if you save just one it will be worth it!! web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 10, "subject": "commercialization of the web", "response_count": 12, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Sep 22, 1996 (08:33)", "body": "Just to get things rolling, read this and comment: http://www.news.com/Newsmakers/Capps/capps.html It's an interview with Steve Capps, who's in charge of Microsoft's project to integrate Web browsing into the Windows 95 shell."}, {"response": 2, "author": "klreisig", "date": "Fri, Oct 25, 1996 (19:57)", "body": "Hello Terry, I see by the one post that you are into developing web sites for commercial users. I'm trying to get my feet wet in the field also. Talking to a customer that already has a web site I was asked \"How can he get his web site out in front of more people.\" I'm not sure what the answer to that question is. Do you have a suggestion? How does Yahoo and Webcrawler etc. go out and find sites and then store them? What do they look for at the site? the title? or do thay store every thing about the site? H w can you increase that amount of hits from a search engine? I guess what I'm asking is how do you make a customer's web site useful to him?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 25, 1996 (23:17)", "body": "This is a huge topic which I'm not going to address right now. If there isn't a topic for this now, we need to create one."}, {"response": 4, "author": "klreisig", "date": "Sat, Oct 26, 1996 (10:59)", "body": "I tried some expierments after my last post. I used Altavista as my search engine. I searched for things that I knew would only be found in my home page but they were in the body and not the title. The search was successful. So the search engines do search the whole of the web pages. Has anyone else tried any tests in this area?"}, {"response": 6, "author": "CotC", "date": "Sat, Nov 29, 1997 (02:56)", "body": "Yes, yes, yes, dammit!!! What he said."}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov 29, 1997 (10:26)", "body": "I have a lot of equipment and servers. Why do you want to do this. I'm game. I just want to know more. I'm reading the web page in another window right now."}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov 29, 1997 (20:22)", "body": "OK I'm game. What do I need to do first on this. Pad your resume and dominate the world indeed."}, {"response": 11, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov 30, 1997 (09:01)", "body": "We have machines in both places. Let's take this step by step. What is required as the very first step?"}, {"response": 12, "author": "CotC", "date": "Mon, Dec  1, 1997 (09:42)", "body": "All the stuff is available at SGI's ftp site: ftp.sgi.com/sgi/fax. SVR4 binaries, Linux binaries, documentation, Windows binaries, etc. I'm working on the exchange file right now. When I'm done, I'll e-mail it to WER. Oops, gotta go -- I hear the boss..."}, {"response": 13, "author": "CotC", "date": "Tue, Dec  2, 1997 (05:32)", "body": "Hey, WER, there's a boo-boo in the exchange file I e-mailed you (the one that's all broken up by individual calling area) The line that says \"Austin!512\" needs to go bye-bye. OOPS! Sorry. Also, I went to the ftp site and snagged all the documentation. I'm gonna read it on the plane and then I'll bring it to you later."}, {"response": 15, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Dec  9, 1997 (22:29)", "body": "We're going to have to do this in smaller, bite sized pieces. One step at a time. This is too much all at once. Let's just concentrate onthe first tiny baby step. Which is?"}, {"response": 17, "author": "CotC", "date": "Sat, Dec 13, 1997 (09:45)", "body": "Hey! I'm back (more or less...). I'll get ahold of you (WER) shortly. Ta. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 100, "subject": "adsense - google text ads", "response_count": 11, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Feb  7, 2005 (14:42)", "body": "Disadvantages One problem is inappropriate ads. You don't want spammy junk advertised on your site. Google's standards probably aren't as high as yours. You can filter out 200 URLs, but in some industries that won't be enough. WARNING: To give you a good look at how AdSense works, I have filtered out only one site whose ads I don't want to appear on this page. The stats Google supplies are inadequate. They're easy to understand at a glance. However, they don't tell you which ads people are clicking on, or which keywords are involved. That's frustrating. Also, I'd like to be able to identify and block ads that have very low payout rates, without doing a lot of sleuthing and messing around. The ad panels say \"Ads by Google\" \ufffd free advertising for Google. You don't earn anything if someone clicks on that link. The minimum payout is $100, which is regarded as too high by sites which don't receive much traffic. That won't worry experienced webmasters. Also, sites that want to display AdSense ads may not include \"other content-targeted and/or text-based ads on the pages displaying AdWords ads.\" However, human beings review the sites. Rejected sites have been able to appeal successfully. Another disadvantage is that Google doesn't want you to share your stats with other webmasters. The AdSense Terms and Conditions say: \"Confidentiality. You agree not to disclose Google Confidential Information without Google's prior written consent. 'Google Confidential Information' includes without limitation: ... (b) click-through rates or other statistics relating to Site performance in the Program provided to you by Google...\" That's really weird. Web site owners need to be able to share such information and discuss successes and failures. A big disadvantage of the service is that Google doesn't say how much its AdSense partners will receive. You'll just receive an unknown share of the revenue. Only a company with the goodwill and respect Google has earned could get away with such a cheeky offer. Google says: \"How much will I earn through this program? The AdWords ads you are able to display on your content pages are cost-per-click (CPC) ads. This means that advertisers pay only when users click on ads. You'll receive a portion of the amount paid for clicks on AdWords ads on your website. Although we don't disclose the exact revenue share, our goal is to enable publishers to make as much or more than they could with other advertising networks.\" So the only way to know how much you'll earn is to try it and see. If you want to bail out, all you have to do is remove the code from your site. Don't put all your eggs in the AdSense basket. If Google discovers fraudulent clicks on ads appearing on your pages, it can dump your site from the service, and refuse to pay you all revenue owed. Some webmasters who claim total innocence have had this happen to them. Google has made several changes to its AdSense FAQ, clarifying varying things. For example, you CAN apply for separate accounts for separate web sites. I've done so, and checked with Google that it's OK. Read the rules \ufffd they look ambiguous to me. If in doubt, ask first! Google has added \"channels\" which improve the tracking. I strongly recommend that you experiment with these. Sites with \"excessive advertising\" are being rejected. PLEASE read the rules and FAQ. When I looked, some advice in the rules contradicted advice in the FAQ. If in any doubt, ask their support staff. They're very helpful. from http://www.associateprograms.com/search/adsense.shtml"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Feb  7, 2005 (14:43)", "body": "Experiences with AdSense The payment you receive per click depends on how much advertisers are paying per click to advertise using Google's AdWords service. Advertisers can pay as little as 5 cents per click and as high as $10 or $12 in profitable niches, perhaps even more sometimes. You earn a share of that. So your payment rates can vary enormously. The rules forbid me from revealing my stats. However, in the tests I'm doing on five sites, the results have been startling \ufffd far better than I expected. The results are much better than I receive from many affiliate programs. In the past, I've talked to affiliates who were happy to receive $5 or $6 CPM (per 1,000 page views). My results from AdSense leave such affiliate revenues far behind. I've increased my use of AdSense. It's a winner! If my results are typical, it helps enormously if you build very simple, uncluttered pages so that the ads catch the visitor's eye more than anything else. from http://www.associateprograms.com/search/adsense.shtml"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Feb  7, 2005 (14:43)", "body": "How much can you earn? Let's say you have a goal of earning $100,000 a year from AdSense. Is that possible? Let's see ... $100,000 divided by 365 = $274 a day. So your goal is to produce either: 274 pages which earn $1 a day OR 548 pages which earn 50 cents a day OR 1096 pages which earn 25 cents a day The following are hypothetical cases. To earn $1 a day per page, you need, per page... 400 visitors, 5% click-through rate (CTR) and average 5c payout. Or 200 visitors, 10% CTR and an average 5c payout. Or 100 visitors, 10% CTR, and an average 10c payout. Or 100 visitors, 5% CTR, and an average 20c payout. Or 50 visitors, 10% CTR and 20c average payout. Or 25 visitors, 20% CTR and 20c average payout. Or 20 visitors, 10% CTR and 50c average payout. Or 10 visitors, 20% CTR and 50c average payout. Or 5 visitors, 20% CTR and $1 average payout. Let's assume you choose a goal somewhere around the middle, say aiming for 50 visitors per page and want 274 pages earning $1 a day. You'd need 274 x 50 = 13,700 pageviews a day. Does that sound too tough? If so, you'd better look for more profitable keywords and ways to improve your click-through rates. Let's try a different scenario. You choose more profitable keywords and make your $1 on average per page from, say, 10 visitors. 274 x 10 = 2740 pageviews a day. That's looking easier to achieve. If your average visitor sees 3 pages, you now need 913 unique visitors a day. Is that too tough to achieve in your niche? If so, create two sites, each attracting half that number, 456 unique visitors, a day. Can't achieve those click-through rates and payouts? Then you'll either need more pages on your sites on more niche sites. Some affiliates have a goal of writing one article a day and building one site a month. Need a little more help reaching that $100,000 goal? Add affiliate commissions into the equation. Add a newsletter for repeat sales. Choose the goal which best matches your site or sites. Then start building keyword-rich pages containing well researched, profitable keywords, and get lots of high quality links to your site. Please note, because of the AdSense rules, these are all hypothetical cases. I'm not allowed to give real cases. Real CTR rates and payouts vary hugely."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Feb  7, 2005 (14:43)", "body": "It's fast Google usually approves web sites in less than a day. After your site is approved, within a few hours a special Google spider will spider your site. Then it's time to paste the code into your site and the text ads will appear. You can choose between either horizontal or skyscraper AdSense ads. How AdSense matches ads to web pages Google is doing a good job of finding ads that are highly relevant to the web pages. Google says: \"We go beyond simple keyword matching to understand the context and content of web pages. Based on an algorithm that includes such factors as keyword analysis, word frequency, font size, and the overall link structure of the web, we know what a page is about, and can precisely match Google ads to each page.\" Occasionally Google gets it wrong. It places great importance on the file name. So be sure to use important keywords in the file name of each page, such as \"contextual-advertising.html\" for an article on contextual advertising. Also, watch out for your anchor text \ufffd the words in the links on your page. We've found that sometimes if irrelevant ads are being served, you can fix the problem by rewriting anchor text. You can check the relevance of the ads by looking at the text ads near the top-right of this page. http://www.associateprograms.com/search/adsense.shtml"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Feb  7, 2005 (14:43)", "body": "Sites using AdSense Sites using AdSense include large information sites, affiliate-driven sites, forums and blogs. \"Chat\" sites are considered not suitable. Some blogs are being rejected, but information-rich blogs are being accepted"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Feb  7, 2005 (14:44)", "body": "GoogleGuy explains AdSense GoogleGuy, an anonymous Google employee who contributes to discussions on the WebMasterWorld.com forums, explains how AdSense will help information sites: \"...sites that provide solid content, especially niche sites that don't want to hunt down their own advertisers, should really benefit ... there's a whole universe of people who ... mostly produce informational sites, and the chance to recoup their costs without much effort is nice. I hope AdSense does encourage more diversity and voices on the web, because now smaller sites can work on what they're interested in \ufffd the content of their sites \ufffd without worrying very much about the costs of self-publishing information.\" http://www.associateprograms.com/search/adsense.shtml"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Feb  7, 2005 (14:44)", "body": "How to choose sites to block You'll probably want to block some of the AdSense ads from appearing on your site. As well as blocking rubbishy sites, you may want to block tough competitors. The ability to block sites is especially important for sites that are not purely affiliate-income driven. For example, if you're selling a service or a product you won't want competitors' ads on your site. You can find such competitors by doing some searches on Google for key phrases that are important on your site and looking at the AdWords ads that appear. http://www.associateprograms.com/search/adsense.shtml"}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Feb  7, 2005 (14:45)", "body": "Affiliate programs versus AdSense earnings Affiliate programs are often compared by looking at the EPC \ufffd earnings per click. However, if you want to compare affiliate programs commissions with AdSense earnings, a more precise way is to calculate the payout you receive per 1,000 page views (CPM). Here's how to calculate your CPM: Let's say you earn $180 in affiliate commissions from 30 thousand (30,000) page views. $180 divided by 30 = $6. You have a CPM of $6. Not very inspiring, but not uncommon. The AdSense stats display the effective CPM you earn. Remember, AdSense doesn't have to replace your affiliate commissions. You can earn affiliate commissions AND AdSense commissions from the same page. If you have a very efficient site with a high conversion rate, AdSense may not be right for you \ufffd or perhaps it would be suitable for SOME pages, but not others. Remember, the more choices you give people, the more likely you are to confuse them. However, if you're creating a large information site, or if you have a site that does not have a brilliant conversion rate, AdSense could prove to be a very profitable addition to your site. (Strictly speaking, CPM means COST per 1,000 impressions, but the calculation works OK whether you're spending money or earning it.) http://www.associateprograms.com/search/adsense.shtml"}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Feb  7, 2005 (14:45)", "body": "How to boost your AdSense revenue If you hear about people achieving high payments per click with AdSense, remember that's only part of the story. for high total earnings, you also need lots of page views and a high click-through rate. Here are some ideas on how to achieve those three things: If you're starting afresh designing a site specifically for AdSense revenue, you'll want a simple design that makes it easy to paste Google's code into a horizontal or vertical space on the site. For experienced webmasters, that's easy. To increase your click-throughs, design a simple, uncluttered page with the AdSense ads displayed prominently. Use white space, so that the AdSense panel catches the eye. Where possible, use ads high on the page. They catch visitors' attention. Experiment with borderless ads high on the page. (You can create borderless ads by setting the border color to the same as the background color. Look in your AdSense control panel under \"Ad settings\".) Try placing AdSense high in the left-hand column. That works well for super affiliate James Martell. On very simple, one-column pages, making your article wrap around AdSense ads near the top-right of the page works remarkably well for me on a non-Internet marketing site. Stick to only one topic per page \ufffd that makes it easier for Google to serve up highly relevant ads on your pages. Plain, bland pages with few competing hyperlinks result in higher click-through rates on the AdSense ads. If you want to target certain high-priced keywords, use them in the file name, in the heading on the page, and in the first paragraph \ufffd in other words, use search engine optimization techniques. If you change those keywords, Google will change the ads that appear on your page. If you have trouble getting AdSense to serve relevant pages, check your anchor text \ufffd the words used in links on your page. Try changing some of those words. Watch out for cases where Google has guessed wrong, and is displaying ads that won't interest your visitors. Figure out which words are involved, and rewrite those words. Help Google by sticking closely to the topic. Don't worry about losing traffic via those clicks. If you can earn maybe 30 or 50 cents or more per click, you WANT to lose visitors! You'll also want keyword-rich pages, optimized to rank highly in search engines, so you can serve lots of pages. Try using ads at the top of the page and again at the bottom. At first, this wasn't allowed but AdSense changed the rules and it's now OK. One of the beautiful things about AdSense is that you can now generate revenue from informational sites even if there are no obvious related affiliate programs. With more than 100,000 advertisers, there's a good chance that Google will find ads that match your pages, better than the big ad networks can. Don't be tempted into trying to create thousands of spammy computer-generated articles. Human beings review sites for AdSense. Build useful, interesting sites. Google likes them. One way to create articles quickly is use Gary Antosh's approach. He pays people to write articles for him - by the truckload. So far he has bought hundreds of them and paid only $5 per article. See How to buy articles for $5 - the details Another way is to use works that are copyright-free. Here's a book that describes how to find such articles: The Public Domain: How to Find and Use Copyright-Free Writings, Music, Art & More However, that technique isn't likely to be useful for long. At the very least, it would be wise to add your own introduction and conclusions to make your pages different from everyone else's. For long-term success, write your own original articles on a topic you're passionate about. That way, you're writing for humans AND search engines. from http://www.associateprograms.com/search/adsense.shtml"}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Feb  7, 2005 (14:46)", "body": "Serious tracking to maximize profits How do you find out which AdSense ads get the highest number of click-throughs? How do you find out which ads are best at generating clicks that pay? AdSense provides what it calls \"channels\", and you can experiment to find out which pages on your site are generating the most revenue, which colors work best, what ad placement works best, whether you should use borderless ads, etc. However, if you have a large site, you'll find AdSense tracking via channels is seriously lacking. AdSense Tracker is a powerful php script that keeps detailed logs of all impressions and clicks on AdSense ads on all your websites without altering the ad code itself. The data can then be used to analyze the effectiveness of your sites, track different ad sizes and styles, or even individual pages. You can track every click-through so you'll know what your visitors are looking for. This makes it easy for you to build more perfectly targeted, profitable pages. It can track unlimited domains and pages. It's resource intensive and should be hosted separately. If you just have a small site you probably don't need it. AdSense Tracker is a tool for professionals. from http://www.associateprograms.com/search/adsense.shtml"}, {"response": 11, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Feb  7, 2005 (14:46)", "body": "You want profitable keywords: high demand, low supply Keep in mind that some topics attract much higher payouts per click than others. For example, if your site is about topics such as debt consolidation, web hosting, viagra, online casinos, valium or asbestos-related cancer, you'll earn much more per click than if it's about thingamajigs. In fact, \"thingamajigs\" would be a very bad choice. Although there are thousands of pages mentioning them, no one is spending money on AdWords to advertise them. On the other hand, if you concentrate only on top-paying keywords, you'll face an awful lot of tough competition. What you want are keywords that are high in demand and low in supply. So do some careful keyword research before you build your pages. 9 ways to do keyword research for AdSense pages 1. If you have a Google AdWords account, pretend you are planning to advertise using different keywords, and see how much you'd have to pay. That will give you a good indication of the popularity of the keywords. Here's how. Follow these steps. In step 2, \"Create Ad Group\", click on \"Calculate Estimates\" and \"Recalculate Estimates\". These show you the maximum you would have to pay per click to advertise for particular keywords or key phrases. For finding new key phrases, you can also use the AdWords Keywords Tool. It may be useful. Sometimes it's not. 2. Keywords Analyzer is a superb new tool which can generate thousands of key phrases that people are typing into search engines. If you have a Wordtracker account, you can also import data from Wordtracker and analyze it. It shows you, for example, how many advertisers have ad campaigns at AdWords for each phrase. If you're using AdSense, the more advertisers the better! 3. Have a look at the top 100 keywords on 7search. This will give you a quick idea of keywords that people are willing to pay big money for. You can also type phrases into the 7Search Keyword Suggestion Tool. This is just step one of your keyword research. You'll want to dig deeper. 4. At FindWhat pay-per-click search engine you can do a search for any phrase and quickly see how much advertisers are paying per click. 5. You can also experiment typing words into Overture's View Bids Tool. Let's say you type in \"asbestos cancer\". The top three advertisers often pay about $12 per click. So that would be an good choice for a topic \ufffd provided you're a specialist on mesothelioma. For \"debt consolidation\", the top two advertisers often pay more than $9 per click. 6. The free Overture Keyword Bid Amounts Lookup Tool speeds up your research at Overture. Type in a keyword and learn how much advertisers are paying per click at Overture and also find out how many searches were done on that keyword last month. For \"debt consolidation\", the top two advertisers often pay more than $9 per click. 7. KeywordSleuth is a wonderful tool for very fast keyword research. You can find hundreds or even thousands of keywords \ufffd or key phrases \ufffd with just one click. It's fabulous to use if all you want is to find an enormous number of related key phrases with one click \ufffd much better than messing around with Overture. It has a free trial. 8. You can use Wordtracker to look for the 1,000 most popular keywords. You can also use it to compile a useful list of keywords relating to one topic. If you buy it for a day or a week, you can do a lot of research in that time. It's the tool the professionals use. Wordtracker has a free trial, but it's fairly limited. You can subscribe for as little as one day and do an awful lot of keyword research in that time. 9. The brainstorming and research tools in Site Build It! are my favorite way to do brainstorming for keywords that are in high demand and low supply.. SBI is a superb tool \ufffd actually, a suite of tools. It's an all-in-one web hosting, site-building and web marketing tool. Type in a keyword and SBI Manager will present you with dozens of profitable keywords \ufffd ones with high demand and low supply. It can present them in order of profitability. Drill down, and you'll get dozens more profitable keywords. I recommend you double check the results using Wordtracker. SBI also has an \"Analyze It\" tool that helps you build keyword-rich pages that rank highly in search engines. It's simply superb. I use it and love it. Site Build It! is an excellent choice for quickly building large, simple sites designed to rank highly in search engines \ufffd which makes it perfect for generating lots of AdSense revenue. Check it out. QUICK SUMMARY: Build useful, simple sites \ufffd one topic per page \ufffd using valuable key phrases that are high in demand and low in supply. For researching, building and promoting easy-to-build sites that rank high in search engines, there's one suite of tools that's head and shoulders above all the rest \ufffd Site Build It! http://www.associateprograms.com/search/adsense.shtml web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 101, "subject": "podcasting", "response_count": 28, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar 21, 2005 (09:48)", "body": "http://audio.weblogs.com/ are the \"freshest podcasts in the known universe\"."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Mar 22, 2005 (16:44)", "body": "Here are some feeds that are currently floating around. Engadget PodCast feed (our beta) http://www.engadget.com/common/videos/pt/rss.xml Adam Curry\ufffds Daily Source Code http://radio.weblogs.com/0001014/categories/dailySourceCode/rss.xml Dave Slusher\ufffds Evil Genius Chronicles http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/audio/bittorrent.rss (Torrent Feed) http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/index.rss20 (MP3 Feed) Dave Winer\ufffds The Scripting News http://www.scripting.com/rss.xml Legal Torrents http://www.legaltorrents.com/musicrss.xml"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr  6, 2005 (09:01)", "body": "http://podcasting.meetup.com is the Austin Podcasting Network. Stephen Dulaney is the organizer."}, {"response": 4, "author": "aa9il", "date": "Wed, Apr  6, 2005 (23:16)", "body": "Hey Terry Is it still ok for me to do a blog here after being a bit hard core about podcasting in the radio section? 73 de Mike r-c-i"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Apr  8, 2005 (09:28)", "body": "Of course, we thrive on controversy, disagreements, and turmoil. Ya' wanna fight? I'll be more than happy to help you set up a blog which you can have as a podcast free zone!"}, {"response": 6, "author": "aa9il", "date": "Mon, Apr 11, 2005 (18:15)", "body": "Hey Terry I was probably in my rant mode during that post - although a bit of controversy is always fun - actually I have been thinking about a portable 'pirate' station would best be served by an ipod or similar bulk mp3 system as this provides the best way to carry lots of CD's along with a wireless fm transmitter to broadcast into a 'temporary autonomous zone'. Mike"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Apr 11, 2005 (18:55)", "body": "Bob has found a great source for a new fm transmitter. From Bob's email: Check out the KILLER fm transmitters I got from: www.fmkit.com The 4 watter...built by a russian engineer in Oregon./ Totally commecial quality. Putting them in enclosures..a primary and backup. Going to wireless the signal from \"norm\" (cheers fat guy - our parade host) to 3 sets of amplifiers and speakers on the route. Using 2 element quads. So that's http://www.fmkit.com But don't expect to communicate easily with him or get return phone calls. Frequency Tuning Step RF Power Output Spurious Emissions Frequency Stability SWR Ruggedness RF Output Connector AGC Range Signal To Noise Ratio Frequency Response Stereo Separation Pre-emphasis Audio Distortion Audio Input Connectors Power Input PCB Dimensions 87-108MHz 10kHz from 30mW to 4.0Watt Better than -40 dB ref to carrier PLL Typ +/-1KHz Withstands complete mismatch BNC or \"F\" type 0.8V to 4V p-p for +/- 75 KHz 60 dBu Flat from 20 Hz to 15 KHz >35 dB 75uS or 50uS if shipped to Europe Better than 0.2 % THD Phono/ RCA 12 or 13.8Vdc 1A filtered power supply 4\" x 2\" Frequency, RF Power, AGC, Mono/Strereo and other parameters are set using two buttons and LCD. . Filtered MPX. Filtered audio.Filtered RF.Continues tuning across entire FM band. 4 pre-set frequencies - push right button to activate next preset Unlocked PLL RF shut-down."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Apr 11, 2005 (19:23)", "body": "Umm, that table didn't exactly copy and paste very well. Frequency 87-108MHz Tuning Step 10kHz RF Power Output from 30mW to 4.0Watt Spurious Emissions Better than -40 dB ref to carrier Frequency Stability PLL Typ +/-1KHz SWR Ruggedness Withstands complete mismatch RF Output Connector BNC or \"F\" type AGC Range 0.8V to 4V p-p for +/- 75 KHz Signal To Noise Ratio 60 dBu Frequency Response Flat from 20 Hz to 15 KHz Stereo Separation >35 dB Pre-emphasis 75uS or 50uS if shipped to Europe Audio Distortion Better than 0.2 % THD Audio Input Connectors Phono/ RCA Power Input 12 or 13.8Vdc 1A filtered power supply PCB Dimensions 4\" x 2\" Better, yes?"}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Apr 12, 2005 (08:07)", "body": "Anyway, let's get back to our regularly scheduled program. Today I'll have a new podcast out and it will be at http://austinblogger.com/wordpress"}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Apr 12, 2005 (08:11)", "body": "I'm ftping it up to the site right now. Mike are you back in Austin?"}, {"response": 11, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Apr 12, 2005 (08:55)", "body": "Marilyn, she was blonde, she was beautiful. Melinda Mason is doing a biweekly podcast called \"My Marilyn\": marilynmonroe.ca/podcast. Cool 50s sounds."}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Apr 12, 2005 (08:59)", "body": "PW Fenton's Digital Flotsam. http://digitalflotsam.org ... Cool old music, in the latest one he talks about his wife. \"Adam Curry, the podfather, says you should listen to your wife, they're always right.\" The Wife Episode, great songs and vintage comedy cuts. He also talks about how he does his podcast. Sound scene tour called \"On the Wing\" which is about birding. http://onthewing.libsyn.com Over 4800 podcasts in the directory with a large set of categories."}, {"response": 13, "author": "aa9il", "date": "Tue, Apr 12, 2005 (17:18)", "body": "Howdy Naw, not in Austin but this is the right time of the year to be there. Did alot of work between Austin and Waco in the last two months and spent alot of road time listening to the radio - some nights were in Austin where I got to hear KAOS in action. Anyway, will check out the podcast sites - possibly can post a 'Chicago Stories' show on the Austin site (a bit ironic...). Anyway, will check out your upload - will have to set up so I get RSS feeds of all this. 73 de Mike r-c-i"}, {"response": 14, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr 13, 2005 (11:06)", "body": "I heard a great podcast last night on my little iriver 799. It was Tod Maffin who is a regular radio guy (national broadcaster on CBC) and a podcaster as well. So he comes from the radio and podcast perspectives. His website is http://todmaffin.com http://radio.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2004/10/5/155523.html is about how podcasting will save radio. And his podcasts are at http://radio.blogware.com/blog/Podcasting You can download IPodder windoze or mac from this page on iloveradio.org. You'll crack up when you see some of his podcast topics (\"how to wash your face properly\") The particular podcast that's in my iriver right now is from the Northern Voice Canadian blogging/podcasting conference. http://www.northernvoice.ca/ is their general site and here are Tod's notes: http://www.northernvoice.ca/node/132 Good stuff! Some quick quotes from his notes: Note: feel free to add to these notes, tidy up, etc. Problem is with bandwidth. kHz: Sample Rate - Number of samples per second - 44,100 khz is standard mp3 - 48,000 or even 96,ooo used professionally - Phone lines: 8kHz (on a good day) - Remote broadcasts: 15 Khz cuts off the top and the bottom and sounds a bit muddy So if you're podcasting on the phone then you don't need to sample at 44,1000, because you're only producing 8 khz Plays some samples to illustrate the difference between sampling rates. When you encode MP3 files, experiment, don't go with the standard because it's too generous. The Process Starts with you, creating the content, recording, posting, promoting, feedback. Content Just like a blog - what are you passionate about. What interests you? What's your passion? have a clear show topic/focus. At the beginning podcasts were about podcasts, now they should be about fishing or whatever. Don't have a show about nothing - it worked for Seinfeld but they had NBC behind them. Adam Curry is one of the first podcasters, and it's a technology show about podcasting (fair enough he invented it). One thing that was interesting and helped him gain audience share is that he moved from the Netherlands to England and he talked about the problems he had getting high speed internet access. Radio is a powerful medium for that. Radio is the most visual medium out there because there is no limits to what you see in your head. let us know about your life, if you're having problems moving house, say, then say so. There are far too many DJs (puts on DJ voice), but you don't know anything about who they are. The most interesting people are the ones that let you into their personality and life. There is no 'everybody' in radio. People say 'hey everybody' but there isn't an everybody, there is one person who is listening to you. You are speaking to one person, so talk in terms of that, and have that in your mindset. People say in public speaking 'imagine everyone in their underwear'. Don't! Imagine someone out jogging, one person. He wants to get into people's daily jogging playlist or commute to work. there is a finite amount of time so make sure your show is really good and really targetted. Mix it up a bit - don't just drone on for 45 mins. In professional radio there are 'audio on-ramps' - moments that allow you to tune back into the show if your mind wanders. Most podcasters don't doo that - it's a big stream of consciousness. Use music stings, or verbally pause and say 'here's a new topic' or something. They are 'audio headers'. You can produce your own 'sweepers' - little sounds to catch people's attention. community site - radiodaddy.com, for finding sweepers etc. Be brief - an 8 to 10 minute show. Peopel tend to ramble. Try not to. Mike's manic minute - removes all deadair, even between words. Microphones - meant to be near mouths! yes, you can increase the volume of low talking but you make every bit of ambient noise (room tone) louder too. So, two inches away, at an angle. Straight ahead gives you pops and it's too intense. Sounds like crap. The splosive is going right into the diaphragm. Myths The fuzzy bit on a mic is not a pop-screen, it's a wind screen, it will not prevent pops. A pop screen is a sort of like a screen - embroidery hoop with nylon tights stretched over it. Mic pattern is important but not really for podcasting. Omnidirectional, shotgun, toroidal, parabolic. If you can get one that is slightly directional, but omnidirectional is fine. headsets are not so good - a lot have USB mics which sometimes have latency issues. Plugging it into the USB it has to go through processing before it gets to where it needs to go. Line-In is best, or mic-in is best. One way to get over the problem with laptops of not having the right in is to use a small mixing desk. Avoid verbal listening. There are lots of clues we can pick up off Tv, such as people nodding their head, but on radio, 'ahuh, ahah, oh, right'... is very distracting. Don't do it. It feels perfectly natural in conversation but when you play it back it's really hard to listen to. Radio secret - "}, {"response": 15, "author": "aa9il", "date": "Wed, Jun 15, 2005 (16:28)", "body": "Howdy Terry and podfolks (almost said geoites...) O'Reilly is publishing a really cool quarterly called 'Make' which is all kinds of technical hacking and stuff. This quarter also included a how to on setting up a pod cast. Anyway, probably old hat but worth mentioning. Also, there are some good .mp3 downloads of Radio NewYork International and a bunch of other broadcasters off WBCQ - a very fun listen. URL: www.11l-rni.com 73 de Mike"}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jul  6, 2005 (06:00)", "body": "Going on now a major podcasting event in Austin sponsored by Trek Sports Drink. Details at http://touroftexas.com"}, {"response": 17, "author": "aa9il", "date": "Tue, Oct  4, 2005 (14:43)", "body": "Howdy all O'Reilly has come out with a good starter book - Podcasting Hacks. Also, going to start working on my 'studio' - first on the list is a nice portable minidisk recorder - more toys! 73 de Mike r-c-i"}, {"response": 18, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Oct  4, 2005 (23:51)", "body": "Which model?"}, {"response": 19, "author": "aa9il", "date": "Wed, Oct  5, 2005 (11:31)", "body": "Howdy Terry Was looking at the portable Sony MZ-M10 Minidisc - right now I can record with my Samsung MP3 player but it is 'low fidelity' sampling. I have seen in O'Reilly's 'Make' magazine that there are folks who have come up with various hacks for the iPod to make it record at a 96KHz sampling rate. The idea is for a briefcase portable studio - small mixer board, two cheap cd players, recorder and possibly an additional MP3 player source plus two microphones. All powered by a cam corder battery or something similar (gel cells?). Have not worked that out yet. Then comes the fun part of coming up with show topics so I not just yammering on and set up the laptop to do the production and uploads. 73 de Mike"}, {"response": 20, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct  5, 2005 (11:49)", "body": "Check out the Iriver 799t, that's what I use. That and the PocketStudio 5. I use a Griffing $14 mike with the iriver and an ElectroVoice interview mike with the Pocketstudio. That's my low and high end mobile setup."}, {"response": 21, "author": "aa9il", "date": "Wed, Oct  5, 2005 (13:03)", "body": "Howdy Terry Very Cool! Ok, will take a look at those - plus thanks for the microphone suggestion and pocket studio info. I was planning to check out the portable mixer boards at one of the local music stores. I have seen cd players (portable) for around $20. So, I should be able to put something together and still keep this on the cheap. 73 de Mike AA9IL"}, {"response": 22, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct  6, 2005 (07:50)", "body": "Griffing should read Griffin. It's white. It sells for 14.95 at Circuit City. It's a remarkable stereo mike for the money. Look on ebay for Tascam and Iriver."}, {"response": 23, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Oct  8, 2005 (00:02)", "body": "Bob jumped in to podcasting today. http://bobnagy.com"}, {"response": 24, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Fri, Mar 31, 2006 (20:20)", "body": "The Griffin is great!"}, {"response": 25, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Apr  1, 2006 (11:25)", "body": "http://2006.sxsw.com/coverage/podcasts/ is the site for SXSW podcasts. http://server1.sxsw.com/2006/coverage/SXSW06.INT.20060312.CreativeSubplot.mp3 Creative Subplot: The Viral Edition - Monday, March 13th A look into the process and thinking behind some of today's most creative agencies. A personal approach to creativity and inspiration as told by the designers, producers, and creative directors of todays most talked about viral campaigns. Moderator: Tim Nolan Online Creative Dir, Night Agency Stacey Duda Sr Producer, The Barbarian Group Nessim Higson Principal, Iamalwayshungry Richard Webb COO, Barbarian Group Tim Nolan Online Creative Dir, Night Agency http://server1.sxsw.com/2006/coverage/SXSW06.INT.2006.0313.Bootstrapping.mp3 Bootstrapping Your Digital Convergence Business - Monday, March 13th Bootstrap your venture with little to no startup capital like Michael Dell! Learn the rules of bootstrapping from successful bootstrappers in publishing, software and art. Moderator: Bijoy Goswami CEO, Aviri Neelan Choksi Sr Dir Prod Mktg, BEA Systems Dave Wolpert Tina Schweiger Owner Pres, Yellow Fin Inc Erebelle LLC Bijoy Goswami CEO, Aviri http://server1.sxsw.com/2006/coverage/SXSW06.INT.20060314.NextGenerationofWebApps.mp3 Designing the Next Generation of Web Apps - Tuesday, March 14th With hype around \"Web 2.0\" reaching an almost unbearable level, it can be tempting to dismiss it all. That would be a shame. For all the breathless marketing and ill-funded startups, there's some absolutely amazing design being done out there. We'll talk to those behind some of the most successful applications on the web and find out what the process was behind them, how they bring users into their designs, and what it's like to stay on the cutting edge of web tech without succumbing to it. Moderator: Jeffrey Veen , Measure Map George Oates Producer, Ludicorp Mena Trott Partner, Six Apart Evan Williams CEO, Odeo, Inc. Jeffrey Veen Measure Map Eric Rodenbeck Dir, Stamen Design and more at http://2006.sxsw.com/coverage/podcasts/"}, {"response": 26, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Apr  1, 2006 (20:02)", "body": "see also http://austincast.com/blog/ for more sxsw podcasts"}, {"response": 27, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Fri, Apr  7, 2006 (08:14)", "body": "http://hearthis.com Brian Massey's effort. Brian's wondering the same thing I am, what ever happened to Stephen and the Austin Podcasting Network. They've sure gone quiet. No meeting notices. Nada."}, {"response": 28, "author": "paul", "date": "Wed, May  6, 2009 (20:14)", "body": "The above mentioned fmkit site is out of biz so I made a copy at http://spring.net/radio/fmkit it has the instructions for the fmkit Sad, that this company is no longer in business. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 102, "subject": "Adam Curry and the Daily Source Code Podcast", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Apr 12, 2005 (08:46)", "body": "At the moment he's at the Waldorf Astoria in NYC. He's on his beta castblaster with his tablet pc, completely kncakered in an English sort of way. He flew from Guildford, England to NYC on a 24 hour flight. He ate at the Bear and Beer stock house, sounds more like England than NYC. He left the cottage at 7 am, caught Virgin Atlantic (Richard Branson). and arrive in NYC about 24 hours later. His current podcast is at http://www.curry.com He got in around lunchtime yesterday. Got him a big jumbo hot dog with sauerkraut and a snapple iced tea. I know what it's like to by in NYC, it's pretty awesome. He had a couple of meetings with Ron Bloom, his business partner in the ipodder.org and \"castblaster\" . .. he did his podcast around midnight last night."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Apr 12, 2005 (09:00)", "body": "He's closing some ad deals in NYC for his new venture."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Apr 22, 2005 (09:33)", "body": "Well, the Austin Blogger Podcast made the Daily Source Code! Check out http://austinblogger.com for a podcast interview that I do with the Dreadful Snake Guy which is a postmiamibalconycast analysis of the future of podcasting. It's hit city right now. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 103, "subject": "buzz index", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Nov 11, 2005 (08:12)", "body": "Today's buzz index. Today's Top Movers Overall Rank Subject 1-Day Move 1 Kim Ng +2412.23% 2 Bahrain +2244.34% 3 Hammacher Schlemmer +1224.07% 4 Upside Down Christmas Trees +1043.14% 5 Vanessa Angel +1032.07% 6 Andrea Yates +999.44% 7 Howard Dean +876.80% 8 Terry Mcmillan +585.93% 9 Cricket Score +381.92% 10 George W. Bush +380.87% 11 California Proposition Results +349.11% 12 Priest Holmes +334.52% 13 Washington State Election Results +317.83% 14 Poppy Montgomery +307.34% 15 Lacey Chabert +297.95% Actors Rank Subject 1-Day Move 1 Vanessa Angel +1032.07% 2 Poppy Montgomery +307.34% 3 Lacey Chabert +297.95% 4 Felicity Huffman +260.42% 5 Teri Garr +206.96% 6 Lucy Lawless +158.13% 7 Michael Ealy +154.22% 8 Dana Plato +149.67% 9 Maggie Grace +117.96% 10 Steve Martin +113.18% 11 Jared Leto +112.89% 12 Fabiola Campomanes +93.01% 13 Tamara Braun +89.75% 14 Joy Bryant +75.65% 15 Topher Grace +63.88% Movies Rank Subject 1-Day Move 1 King Kong +89.14% 2 I, Robot +78.24% 3 Coyote Ugly +46.78% 4 Fight Club +40.05% 5 Hellboy +38.46% 6 Pixar +30.13% 7 Amadeus +28.61% 8 Get Rich or Die Tryin' +28.00% 9 Skins +26.62% 10 March of the Penguins +26.62% 11 Ed Gein +25.49% 12 Usual Suspects +25.08% 13 Amistad +25.00% 14 The Skeleton Key +22.35% 15 Memoirs of A Geisha +21.37% Music Rank Subject 1-Day Move 1 Mindy McCready +193.90% 2 Brooke Hogan +173.96% 3 Patty Loveless +140.43% 4 Joni Mitchell +98.63% 5 Bijou Phillips +92.13% 6 Xuxa +67.35% 7 Bruce Springsteen +55.87% 8 Billie Piper +55.26% 9 Andrea Bocelli +48.65% 10 Vanilla Ice +47.79% 11 Kriss Kross +47.18% 12 Melanie C +47.04% 13 504 Boyz +45.31% 14 BET Music +41.02% 15 Stereophonics +38.04% Sports Rank Subject 1-Day Move 1 Priest Holmes +334.52% 2 Klitschko +227.76% 3 Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders +172.05% 4 Kansas City Chiefs +77.32% 5 National Rifle Association +67.90% 6 Maria Sharapova +64.87% 7 New Jersey Nets +60.34% 8 Sacramento Kings +56.54% 9 Martina Hingis +52.60% 10 Latrell Sprewell +49.32% 11 Buffalo Sabres +48.79% 12 WTA +43.88% 13 Orlando Magic +43.19% 14 Detroit Pistons +43.13% 15 Jason Collier +42.61% Television Rank Subject 1-Day Move 1 Martha Stewart Apprentice +264.86% 2 Amazing Race Family +223.33% 3 Trading Spouses +191.61% 4 Lost +167.71% 5 Invasion +111.84% 6 Celebrity Fit Club +106.96% 7 The Surreal Life +106.58% 8 Bill O'Reilly +104.59% 9 The Amazing Race +101.79% 10 That '70s Show +101.11% 11 Inside the NFL +91.59% 12 Mythbusters +71.55% 13 O'Reilly Factor +69.95% 14 Inked +62.20% 15 David Gallagher +61.65% Video Games Rank Subject 1-Day Move 1 Dope Wars +33.31% 2 Soccer Slime +25.39% 3 Pokemon Games +23.41% 4 Final Fantasy XII +22.87% 5 Tetris Online +22.34% 6 Slime Volleyball +20.01% 7 EverQuest 2 +19.12% 8 Teamxbox +18.43% 9 Animal Crossing +16.82% 10 Perfect Dark Zero +15.76% 11 America's Army +13.30% 12 Sims Online +12.37% 13 Far Cry +11.63% 14 Flash Flash Revolution +11.48% 15 Runescape Tips +11.30%"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jan 22, 2006 (15:13)", "body": "The buzz today is leetle jets Tiny Plane Buzz Soars Saturday January 21, 2006 9:00PM PT Microjet If you're one of those people who mutter about SUVs clogging the road, don't read on -- or look up. Your worst nightmare may be cruising overhead sometime soon. If New Mexico-based Eclipse Aviation has its way, thousands of SUVs with wings, or \"microjets,\" may soon be zipping back and forth at 30,000 feet. Also called very light jets (VLJs), these minuscule planes seat five or six people, run on two engines, and can be manufactured at a fraction of the standard plane's price. Is that a bird? A plane? No, it's a Lexus! On Monday, Eclipse broke ground on a new assembly plant, and buzz took to the skies. We logged search spikes on \"microjet,\" \"very light jets,\" \"e500 jet,\" and \"eclipse aviation.\" Enterprising types boosted \"eclipse aviation stock symbol,\" and queries on \"adam aircraft,\" another manufacturer, took off. Concern over airspace congestion has the FAA and many pilots bristling. On the other hand, NASA backs the technology, and some analysts have gushed about the future of \"air taxi\" fleets. But before you start imagining yourself flying off to work like George Jetson, keep your eye on the road and that gas-guzzler ahead of you. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 104, "subject": "stumble", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  7, 2005 (23:52)", "body": "Here's one view. http://www.badrobot.co.uk/istumble/"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jan 22, 2006 (15:11)", "body": "http://stumbleupon.com is the site where you can get it."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr  5, 2006 (23:49)", "body": "Here's an unofficial faq. http://stumbleupon.theprawn.com/#official_docs glossary blog entry an item in the comments section of the Reviews page of a stumbler's profile commentary page a page accessible via the speech bubble (aka Page Reviews) toolbar button note: An example is the commentary page for this FAQ. favorite (aka thumb-up Site, aka thumb-up Page) a stumble that has been rated \"I like it!\" by a given user IE toolbar the StumbleUpon toolbar for the Internet Explorer browser and for other browsers such as Maxthon (formerly named MyIE2) that use Internet Explorer services miscat a miscategorization report note: See the \"topic categories and miscategorized URLs\" item of this FAQ for details. Mozilla toolbar (aka mozbar) the StumbleUpon toolbar (or, more precisely, a browser extension) for browsers based on work of the Mozilla project note: The Mozilla toolbar usually sees feature additions before the IE toolbar. note: Stumblers frequently recommend the Mozilla Firefox browser, augmented by the Tabbrowser Extensions extension, in preference to Internet Explorer. nickname a stumbler's username, configurable via the Prefs page of that user's profile profile the set of pages where a stumbler's personal information (if supplied) and statistics are published stumble 1. a webpage known to the StumbleUpon database via its URL and, hence, servable via the Stumble! button of a StumbleUpon toolbar 2. a nickname for the services of StumbleUpon stumbler a user of StumbleUpon services webpage review a comment posted via the commentary page for a webpage web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 105, "subject": "Web 2.0", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Dec  9, 2005 (10:29)", "body": "In our initial brainstorming, we formulated our sense of Web 2.0 by example: Web 1.0 Web 2.0 DoubleClick --> Google AdSense Ofoto --> Flickr Akamai --> BitTorrent mp3.com --> Napster Britannica Online --> Wikipedia personal websites --> blogging evite --> upcoming.org and EVDB domain name speculation --> search engine optimization page views --> cost per click screen scraping --> web services publishing --> participation content management sys --> wikis directories (taxonomy) --> tagging (\"folksonomy\") stickiness --> syndication from http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 106, "subject": "Mozilla Firefox", "response_count": 5, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Dec 11, 2005 (20:02)", "body": "A good plug in to add right away is called stumble. http://stumbleupon.com I'm at http://springnet.stumbleupon.com"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jan 22, 2006 (15:09)", "body": "Another great plug in is sessionsaver which can save tabs as sets. See my site http://stumblicious.com for tips on stumble, delicious and sessionsaver"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Feb  9, 2006 (19:24)", "body": "OK I'll start a topic in geo called geology hikes and day trips Is that what you mean?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr  5, 2006 (23:50)", "body": "I'm having a tough time upgrading my Mozilla Firefox on my Linux boxes. When I get the procedure down, I'll post it."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr  5, 2006 (23:52)", "body": "Linux and Unix systems * If Firefox 1.5.0.1 is installed to a location with spaces in the path, it may not be able to set itself as default browser and may keep prompting at startup. The work around is to install into a path without spaces. * GNOME integration does not work properly with Fedora Core 3. Users of Fedora Core 3 will need to download and install linc-1.0.3-3.1.i386.rpm. After installing the RPM, perform the following command in the directory you installed Firefox 1.5.0.1 into (you will need write permission): touch .autoreg The next time you start Firefox 1.5.0.1, GNOME integration should be functional. * firefox -remote (mozilla-xremote-client) no longer works on urls containing commas, and is deprecated. firefox -new-window /url/ will open the url in a new window; firefox -new-tab /url/ will open the url in a new tab. from http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.1.html See what I mean? It's just not cut and dried. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 107, "subject": "ajax", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Mar 11, 2006 (13:21)", "body": "resources: http://dylan.io/sxsw/ajax.pdf http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/DHTML_universe.pdf http://dojotoolkit.org http://mochikit.com http://prototype.conio.net http://developer.yahoo.net/yui http://ajaxian.com web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 108, "subject": "web 2.0 conference", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Sat, Mar 31, 2007 (04:26)", "body": "For an intro to the web 2.0 world, see http://web2.0slides.com web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 109, "subject": "twitter", "response_count": 5, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Sat, Mar 17, 2007 (18:44)", "body": "My twitter name is \"springnet\" I have 751 friends 132 followers and 181 updates (not sure yet what these are)"}, {"response": 2, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Sat, Mar 17, 2007 (19:17)", "body": "http://del.icio.us/springnet/twitter/"}, {"response": 3, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Sat, Mar 17, 2007 (19:24)", "body": "A must read website for new twitterers. http://twitter.pbwiki.com/ Scott Beale: SXSW 2007 Twittermob & Spontaneous Microsponsorships - Twittering for \"accidental\" event sponsors Chris Heuer: Beyond IM - Welcome to the EM era - Everywhere Messaging has arrived Kim M. Bayne: 48 Hours in Twitterland - pondering potential business applications Chris Heuer: Is SXSW going to be the death of Twitter? - Twitter is peaking, humans don't scale Ross Mayfield: Twitter Tips the Tuna - Twitter has peaked Anil Dash: Consider Twitter - Twitter's appeal Kathy Sierra: The Asymptotic Twitter Curve - coining the phrase \"nano-posts\" B.L. Ochman: Twitter Attracting Entertainment and Business - Twitter trends Scott Jangro: Why I hate Twitter - The basic concept is nothing new John Tropea: Twitter Tips & Tricks - if you leave IM updates on, you can get lots of updates Eric Meyer: The Twitters - it\ufffds rapidly becoming the most inefficient and unusable version of IRC ever Meg Pickard: Musings on Twitter - Different people use it in very different ways Rick Rey: To Twitter or not to Twitter - I\ufffdd like to share with you my experiences as a user \ufffd both good and bad C.Policaro: Twitter or the neverending present continous - An Italian post on the neverending present continous of Twitter"}, {"response": 4, "author": "paul", "date": "Sat, Mar 31, 2007 (04:25)", "body": "twitter is now experiencing \"unbridled growth\" according to Omar Gallaga who heard this from one of the folks who started twitter. There are new apps and mashups emerging daily like http://twittervision.com and various plugins for the Mac, XP and Vista."}, {"response": 5, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Fri, Apr 13, 2007 (23:23)", "body": "Several articles and new twitter links: http://del.icio.us/springnet/twitter/ web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 11, "subject": "Web type jobs - let's network!", "response_count": 10, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Sep 22, 1996 (08:38)", "body": "This from Paul Devine at Macworld: Macworld magazine is looking for a Content Engineer to lead their online production efforts. Applicant must have strong background in all aspects of online production, which includes a thorough understanding of HTML and Web technology. Demanding position requires the incumbent to juggle multiple deadlines and projects, and oversee production staff of two. Applicant should have a strong technical background and a working familiarity with: Unix OS, programming CGIs in Perl, QuarkXPress, FileMaker Pro, and database publishing. Experience with AOL's Rainman publishing system or AppleScript programming a plus. Must have experience working with critical deadlines in a production environment. Must have ability to handle stress and be able to balance needs of multiple deadlines. To apply for the job, please send resume to job@www.macworld.com, or fax to atn: Paul Devine, 415.442.0766, or snail mail to Paul Devine, Macworld, 501 Second St., San Francisco, CA 94107. By the way, check out http://www.macworld.com for its conferences. They use yapp software like the Spring does."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Sep 22, 1996 (08:39)", "body": "From Steve Rhodes: IAJ/AlterNet is looking for a half-time web weaver to work on Democracy Works site (www.alternet.org/an/demworks.html), as well as to help with new AlterNet site launching October 1. Design experience a must. We need help looking good. Position available immediately; possible evolution into full time staff job. Pay range $20-$35/hr, depending on experience. For more info on IAJ, see www.alternet.org/an ***Please circulate widely!!!*** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Christine Triano Program Director, IAJ/AlterNet 415.284.1424 ctriano@alternet.org"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Sep 22, 1996 (08:42)", "body": "from goolz at the WELL Hey people. Construct Internet design http://www.construct.net is lookin' for a sysadmin. I've posted all the details and a wit-filled job desc in the Unix conf already, so if yer interested in working with a freaky collection of artist and tech types steeped in the latest 3D net stuff, check out Unix 410 86 for the lowdown. We'll pay you well, and you'll get the experience of a lifetime. What more d'ya want, huh? mailto:goolz@well.com"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Sep 22, 1996 (08:43)", "body": "http://www.freerange.com in Seattle has openings now."}, {"response": 5, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct  4, 1996 (15:22)", "body": "Hey, everyone, check out http://www.realtime.net/~abner/ for a HUGE listing of people and places with job offerings. Also, email him, abner@realtime.net, with any that you might know of. I'll tell him to come here and introduce himself as well. WER"}, {"response": 6, "author": "arch1234", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (23:41)", "body": "Hi everyone, I am Ms archana Sharma (from INDIA) and interested in working abroad(USA, Austriala, Singapore or England).I am Computer Engg and CNE(certified novell engineer.I have been working for last 1year. So, if anyone is interested or know about site according to my position, please do contact me immediately. Thanks"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jul 31, 1998 (04:37)", "body": "To apply or ask questions send a brief email to jobs@sfinteractive.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Programmer, Web Application Engineer Primary scope of work: Perl programming and Unix system operation on web-based CGI/database projects. Terms of employment: Initially a 2 month contract for full-time in house work. Some work may be done remotely. Company: SF Interactive, LLC is a fast-growing, highly creative digital marketing agency located in the heart of downtown San Francisco. As part of SF Interactive's technical production team, you would help develop commercial Web sites, including database applications and electronic commerce for our list of premier national and local clients like Netscape, Working Assets, Symantec, Nike, Torani, Jamba Juice, RockShox, NIKE, Moonstone Mountain Equipment and Hewlett-Packard. Requirements: ------------- - A thorough understanding of Web application development issues. We will rely on you to think on your feet, be creative and solve problems on your own and with a team of other smart, motivated people. - CRUCIAL: Excellent plays-well-with-others rating. You will be stepping into an environment where projects are in various stages of development and you will be building on and with the work of other programmers. - Happiness working in a dynamic, fast-growing agency environment. Lot's of team work, changing deadlines and shifting priorities, energetic and dynamic people and multiple projects. Everybody at SF Interactive is a creative! Be prepared to work with marketing staff, designers, account executives, producers, coders and copywriters in interdisciplinary teams. Unix Skills Solaris - experience and skill with the file system, understanding of basic system configuration and utilities. Programming Perl, including modules, packages, experience building complex perl applications that include database access. Specific knowledge of Perl CGI modules and Web issues a must. Databases SQL: mSQL, MySQL, (Informix would be helpful) Desirable but not Required: --------------------------- OSes: Solaris Linux BSD NT Mac Languages: Java C/C++ JavaScript Facility with client-side JavaScript for use in non-trivial applications is helpful. Web Server configuration and management Netscape Apache/Stronghold IIS Databases: FileMaker Pro Access MS SQL Server Informix -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To apply or ask questions send a brief email to jobs@sfinteractive.com"}, {"response": 8, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Feb 25, 1999 (18:09)", "body": "since it's been recently updated, let me reiterate, check out http://www.realtime.net/~abner/"}, {"response": 9, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Jun 13, 1999 (00:53)", "body": "http://search.webring.com/ringworld/bus/employment.html"}, {"response": 10, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Jun 13, 1999 (00:54)", "body": "check out http://www.agillion.com/ as well... web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 12, "subject": "kids and the web - places and issues", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Sep 22, 1996 (08:47)", "body": "I'd like to see the Spring do a kids project. Any ideas? What are your favorite kids websites?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "rikam", "date": "Sun, Sep 22, 1996 (15:51)", "body": "Children are interested in other children. What they do for fun. What sport they play. It would be great if they could talk to kids from around the U.S. o around the world."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Sep 22, 1996 (16:04)", "body": "I read about a guy developing a site to teach kids how to read and I invited him to start a topic about it or enter something in this topic. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 13, "subject": "announcing new web pages and websites", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Sep 22, 1996 (08:57)", "body": "I just helped William Meyers put up: http://www.spring.com/~wmmeyers/ It's got Monday Night Class, Huichol indians, and the Dalai Lama and is linked to the cultures conference on the Spring: http://www.spring.com/yapp-bin/public/browse/cultures/all Some topics: 2 18 Introductions (william) 4 8 saving the world (william) 5 1 Buddhism (william) 6 3 Going South http://www.spring.com/~ssabrina (ssabrina) 7 2 Psychedelic Era (william)"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Feb  9, 1997 (20:46)", "body": "In the business, PC Meter's main notoriety is that it delivers estimates of sites' reach and frequency--two familiar and useful concepts to the ad industry. For example, it is very useful for Yahoo to know that, in PC Meter's latest measurement quarter, 38.5% of the Web audience (as reflected in PC Meter's sampling approach) visited a Yahoo site. That's a huge selling point for Yahoo's ad-sales force, which can claim the most reach of any of the directory/search services. And it's something that Yahoo couldn't otherwise measure itself. The other thing that PC Meter delivers is user demographics for sites. Although most large sites already have info on their users' demographics, PC Meter's data should be more accurate. That's because most sites get their user demos by running optional online surveys, which they rarely validate for representativeness or comparability to other sites' demos. In contrast, PC Meter's business starts with a panel of users that it validates as representative in the first place; it then tracks them across all sites with the same measures. (Or at least that's what they're trying to do. Anytime someone attempts this, questions arise similar to those accompanying Nielsen's TV-ratings measurements.) Independent of whether PC Meter's methodology is better than any given site's internal user measurements, the other angle with PC Meter is that it's a neutral third party. Perception-wise, this factor tends to elevate PC Meter data over that of a site self-reporting its user demographics. As to why PC Meter gets so much ink, it's because they've got a unique, continuing, and more-or-less neutral way to fuel \"who's up / who's down\" stories. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 14, "subject": "counters - how many hits am I getting on my web page?", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Dec 14, 1996 (23:29)", "body": "To find out how many html files have been accessed on your server minus the gif files: find /c /v *.gif* ACCESS.LOG"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Dec 14, 1996 (23:32)", "body": "How to reset your log files Sooner or later, you'll want to reset your log files (access_log and error_log) because they are too big, or full of old information you don't need. access.log typically grows by 1Mb for each 10,000 requests. Most people's first attempt at replacing the logfile is to just move the logfile or remove the logfile. This doesn't work. Apache will continue writing to the logfile at the same offset as before the logfile moved. This results in a new logfile being created which is just as big as the old one, but it now contains thousands (or millions) of null characters. The correct procedure is to move the logfile, then signal Apache to tell it to reopen the logfiles. Apache is signaled using the SIGHUP (-1) signal. e.g. mv access_log access_log.old kill -1 `cat httpd.pid` Note: httpd.pid is a file containing the process id of the Apache httpd daemon, Apache saves this in the same directory as the log files. Many people use this method to replace (and backup) their logfiles on a nightly or weekly basis. (from the Apache documentation) web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 15, "subject": "Web page authoring tools - what's best?", "response_count": 21, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (00:44)", "body": "I always break down and use Notepad. Sorry, WER"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (13:12)", "body": "That's actually a very good choice if you know html. Even the wysiwyg editors like FrontPage now offer an option of working directly on the code in a notepad type window. There's an app that comes with FrontPage called FrontPad which is basically notepad for html writers."}, {"response": 3, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Oct 17, 1997 (00:09)", "body": "Haven't played with it or Publisher97 enough yet. Will get there, though. WER"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 17, 1997 (00:30)", "body": "FrontPage 98 is a free download off of Microsofts website."}, {"response": 5, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Oct 19, 1997 (00:22)", "body": "I've got one version at work, can't remember which one, though. Can I use it to upload my page(s) to the spring? WER"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Oct 19, 1997 (09:03)", "body": "You can use it to design your pages but we don't *yet* have the FrontPage 98 server extensions on the Spring, I do have a server that has FrontPage Extensions besides the http://www.spring.com box if you want to use that. But it's pretty easy to ftp your stuff. By the way, I already put up a test page for you at that address: http://www.spring.com/~spew"}, {"response": 7, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Oct 19, 1997 (11:16)", "body": "Cool, tried to find it last night and couldn't get there. WER"}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 20, 1997 (08:39)", "body": "It's there, I just brought it up in my browser."}, {"response": 9, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 22, 1997 (01:04)", "body": "I found it, I found it, unfortunately I can't find an ftp client that works with AOL's winsock. WER"}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct 22, 1997 (01:25)", "body": "Have you checked out the ftp clients on http://cws.internet.com or http://www.stroud.com (same thing)? I use ws_ftp. AOL may have their own that you can download if this doesnt' work."}, {"response": 11, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 22, 1997 (01:29)", "body": "ws_ftp 16 nor 32 works cuteftp no go either I'm probably going to have to install it at work and ftp from there instead of at home oh, well, WER"}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct 22, 1997 (01:32)", "body": "Or use aohell's ftp client. What do they recommend?"}, {"response": 13, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 22, 1997 (01:38)", "body": "Haven't seen one yet, but really haven't looked, either, as I don't like help file thingys. More fun to do stuff till something works. WER"}, {"response": 14, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct 22, 1997 (01:40)", "body": "AOhell has their own winsock I guess, are you using their winsock stack?"}, {"response": 15, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 22, 1997 (01:44)", "body": "Don't know, haven't looked. The way they auto update themselves, even if I knew what I installed, I wouldn't know now. All I know is I couldn't install their current version for 95 because it needs a Pentium, and I ain't got one. Oh, yeah, and some ftp clients don't work with it. WER"}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct 22, 1997 (18:12)", "body": "You know there's an easy way for you to do it via telnet. Just telnet in and open the pico editor and copy and paste your content in and save it as a file. No fuss, no sweat. And if you need more help, I'll be glad to do some more 'splainin."}, {"response": 17, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 22, 1997 (23:15)", "body": "Good, cause I tried the telnet in W95, and it wouldn't let me in. Also found the ftp part of AOL, and it wouldn't let me in, either. Now, unless I've finally found programs I can't figure out, I'm going to try at work on Friday night. WER"}, {"response": 18, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 23, 1997 (03:17)", "body": "Try and see if you can run CRT, which you can find on Forrest's http://www.stroud.com site. I'm beginning to suspect that you need to add AOHells special Internet stack. I remember having to go through some special steps in setting up someones AOHell so that it would perform like a normal system. CRT is a great telnet program, it's what I'm using right now to type this response. http://www.vandyke.com Perhaps we could get some help from the Van Dyke folks on the problems you're having. Is there any form of support at AOHell? Have you tried emailing them?"}, {"response": 19, "author": "CotC", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (11:14)", "body": "The downloadable FrontPage '98 Beta expires the end of December..."}, {"response": 20, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (12:36)", "body": "Good to know``` know this. I'll make preparations !"}, {"response": 21, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Feb 10, 2000 (20:56)", "body": "It is a relief to read of the baby steps which were taken in your early years. I am just as relieved to know that I might be able to walk - even run - with the giants here...if I am lucky and smart enough...! web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 16, "subject": "Internet Explorer", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, Feb 15, 2000 (22:31)", "body": ""}, {"response": 2, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Aug 17, 2000 (20:56)", "body": "PC Browser Alert A newsletter from CNET Help.com http://www.help.com/ August 17, 2000 *************************************************** This week's Internet Explorer tip: Save a Web Page for Offline Viewing (Internet Explorer and Netscape) To save an entire Web page for offline viewing, select File/Save As, choose a folder for the file, and change the file name to one you'll recognize later. In Internet Explorer select Web Page, complete (*.htm,*.html) from the Save As Type drop-down list. In Netscape select Save as HTML files or Save Page As. Then click Save. Anytime you want to view the page again, simply open the file; it will appear as you saw it on the Web, including most images, sound files, and so on. Get Internet Explorer 5 how-tos and tips: http://2.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin2/flo?y=ez20BBFIE0QH0B78e Get Internet Explorer 4 how-tos and tips: http://2.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin2/flo?y=ez20BBFIE0QH0B8Ao Get Netscape 6 how-tos and tips: http://2.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin2/flo?y=ez20BBFIE0QH0B8Bp Get Netscape Communicator how-tos and tips: http://2.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin2/flo?y=ez20BBFIE0QH0B8Cq web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 17, "subject": "Getting a web page on the Spring", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 18, "subject": "Dumb, stupid, ignorant web questions", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "McBruce", "date": "Tue, Dec 24, 1996 (02:10)", "body": "OK Terry, you're on. Explain to me the ins and outs of cookies. I noticed you set one, and it seems every other website wants to give me one these days. I know this isn't just Christmas spirit. It's said that viruses can be set, that all kinds of info better kept private can be accessed, etc. I've also heard that, used properly, cookies are of benefit to everyone. Some sites are polite and kindly carry on if you reject the proferring, others want to hit you a dozen times. These sites do not get accessed again! web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 19, "subject": "Database driven websites", "response_count": 8, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Sep 22, 1996 (09:22)", "body": "If I had to name one expert in this area, it would be John Miaso. He basically built 3M's Intranet with Cold Fusion and has become our project guy in this area."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Sep 22, 1996 (09:25)", "body": "Anyone have any comments on the relative merits of running Oracle, Sybase, Informix or Illustra on a Unix box? Are there a performance issues (if they're even supported) running them on a PC flavor of Unix like BSDI? What are the up and down sides? How good is the website integration?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "Jomik", "date": "Mon, Sep  1, 1997 (07:32)", "body": "I've made a little project past semester on database-driven sites with Illustra on a Unix platform. It's slow, working on the server itself, the simplest quey took some seconds to be displayed. Now I'm working with ASP and the comparison is hard from that point of vue. The macro language provided is easy to learn and to use, but not powerful enough, you rapidly need some scripts, to do a variable number of queries for example. For simple commercial use, it's ok, although you better have admin rights not to be rapidly disappointed; but to some research and try on capacities, limits are not far away. Hope this response doesn't come too late..almost a year, wow!"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Sep  1, 1997 (09:02)", "body": "Where, on what website, can we see your work in action. I have a lot more questions but I'd like tot take a look first if possible."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct  7, 1998 (10:59)", "body": "Some great sources for asp (active server pages) training and information: http://www.xs4all.nl/~arjenvm/db_connect/index.html http://www.aspsite.com/ http://www.windows.com/AccessDev/Articles/AcDatWeb/page4.htm http://dynamicnet.net/support/fp/asp.htm http://www.cgocable.net/~dhanson/activeserverpages.html http://www.websiteresources.com/ http://www.majormicro.com/asp-dbs5.html http://www.microsoft.com/NTServer/Basics/WebServices/Features/WebAppDev .asp http://202.54.16.99/asp/index.asp"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct  7, 1998 (11:01)", "body": "http://www.aspdeveloper.net/ has a great little (very basic) tutorial on connecting your Access database to your website."}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Dec 17, 1998 (10:41)", "body": "http://www.pacific-coast.com/ Christopher O'Connell wrote in a review on the Mining Company: WebCatalog: The Web-Database Connectivity Underdog Dateline: 12/10/98 Last week's feature, \"Cold Fusion and ASP Side-By-Side\" compared two very popular Web-database connectivity solutions, Allaire's Cold Fusion, and Microsoft's Active Server Pages, by looking at the code behind equivalent Web pages built with the different tools. Shortly after posting the article, I received an e-mail from Micheal O'Se, Senior Technician at www.elive.ie, Internet hosting service, and builders of database-driven Websites, suggesting that I take a look at WebCatalog, by Pacific Coast Software. Micheal said \"I had a good long hard look at these products (ASP and Cold Fusion) myself before going down another road which very few people know about. It is called WebCatalog and uses a language called WEBDNA.\" WebDNA does look a lot cleaner than both CF and ASP, and developers boast it is faster as well. This is because WebCatalog saves the database files in lightweight, tab-delaminated text-files held in the server's RAM for extremely quick access. Micheal said that one site, http://www.compub.com , has a 6,000 record file which takes up only 500k. etc..."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jan 21, 1999 (09:33)", "body": "Some tool reviews that might be helpful: target=\"mainbody\">Intranet Design Magazine has reviewed 34 tools in a quick and dirty table. Not a lot of depth, but it should show you what's out there. target=\"mainbody\">WebDeveloper.Com has a more indepth review of three Web-to-Database connection tools, (in order of appearance) Cold Fusion, Sapphire/Web, and NetDynamics. target=\"mainbody\">Internet World has a review of seven technologies, from Active Server Pages, through WEBDBC, and gave their top choice to Tango. This review seems to be a bit old, since the versions of some products in the review are a couple of releases old. target=\"mainbody\">CNet's Builder.com looks at three databases that have good web publishing features. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 2, "subject": "cool urls (favorite websites)", "response_count": 165, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 26, 1996 (13:14)", "body": "I got these links from Rebecca's page, she has some of the coolest url's of anyone. check out SALVO before it goes away ... forever. http://www.salvo.com i like justin's page. he is groovy. http://www.links.net don't go there. http://www.geekcereal.com CHECK OUT STEVE'S PAGE! you won't be sorry. http://www.well.com/user/srhodes patrick farley knows WHERE it's AT http://www.tcp.com/~prime8 home page: http://www.cyborganic.com/people/rebecca"}, {"response": 2, "author": "tedchong", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (00:26)", "body": "my favourite: www.100hot.com"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Dec 14, 1996 (23:54)", "body": "http://www.news.com/radio To catch up on the day's computer news. You'll need the Realaudio plug-in."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Feb  9, 1997 (19:46)", "body": "A banner ad where you can actually \"play\" pong: http://www.transaction.net/zisktech/toons.html"}, {"response": 5, "author": "folkartist", "date": "Mon, Feb 10, 1997 (14:13)", "body": "I don't know what I am doing. Somebody, help!"}, {"response": 6, "author": "folkartist", "date": "Mon, Feb 10, 1997 (14:13)", "body": "I don't know what I am doing. Somebody, help!"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Feb 10, 1997 (22:19)", "body": "You're doing ok. What questions do you have Noreen (email to be sent)."}, {"response": 8, "author": "mparker", "date": "Sat, Feb 22, 1997 (07:08)", "body": "im having trouble downloading virtual place 2.0.......help......"}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Feb 23, 1997 (00:58)", "body": "Check out our Virtual Places discussion topic in the apps conference. This is a good place to pose this question."}, {"response": 10, "author": "doug", "date": "Thu, Jun 12, 1997 (18:38)", "body": "Terry, do you have suggestions for the reconstruction of http://www.capitol-city.com We are going to reproduce http://www.capitol-city.com on the spring servers and increase our utilization of the conference system to be able to respond to readers quicker and better!"}, {"response": 11, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jun 12, 1997 (18:54)", "body": "I have tons of suggestions which I will outline to you later tonight and post here later."}, {"response": 12, "author": "ginger", "date": "Sat, Jun 14, 1997 (21:51)", "body": "It will be interesting to hear your suggestions."}, {"response": 13, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Aug  5, 1997 (15:15)", "body": "Laureate text-to-speech. Submit a form, get a .wav, .au, or .aiff http://www.labs.bt.com/innovate/speech/laureate/index.htm"}, {"response": 14, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Aug  5, 1997 (15:29)", "body": "The CMU design department has a class on \"kinetic typography\", which can be desicribed most simply as animated text, but covers a whole lot of fun stuff to do with text. They have a site with LOTS of examples up at http://www.cmu.edu/cfa/design/kdg/kt.html (from Laura Lemay)"}, {"response": 15, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Aug  5, 1997 (15:31)", "body": "A pretty outrageous page.. \"Live Cam in the Oval Office\" http://www.morecrap.com/ovl.htm www.concentric.net/~Mfierro/index.shtml http://www.deadlists.com for deadheads http://www.falken.net/webfree/ Ad remover. Mac-only. This just in from in Denmark... Talking 'bout push, you might say Castanet, Backweb, Pointcast... what ever... I just say telnet://kiera.premier1.net ! And then the server just drops you... Hilarious. http://www.currents.net/gigg http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html Enter a word or phrase, returns anagrams for same"}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Aug  7, 1997 (07:19)", "body": "http://experian.com is a place to research a house you want to buy, you can get a detailed report on a particular propety and even check your credit."}, {"response": 17, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Aug 11, 1997 (11:22)", "body": "Can you have more than one favorite? I can. My favorite five sites for this week follow below. HealthGate Healthy Sexuality (Not tonight dear...can one be allergic to sex?) -- http://www.healthgate.com/healthy/sexuality/fs.index.html Uda's Corner of the WWW (Get a life: the most impressive personal webpage I have ever seen) -- http://www.ionet.net/~uday/sitesframes.html Johnathan Cainer's Zodiac Forecasts (My favorite astrologer...I'm an aquarius with virgo rising) -- http://marilyn.metawire.com/stars/index.html Nolo Home Page (Why I hate lawyers and employ three of them to cover my rear) -- http://www.nolo.com/ Asynchronous Logic Home Page (The future of chips -- asynchronous logic) -- http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/amulet/async/"}, {"response": 18, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Aug 17, 1997 (09:29)", "body": "Did I mention http://www.manipulation.com/spiff/ You'll never look at animated gifs the same."}, {"response": 19, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Sep 16, 1997 (07:08)", "body": "http://webcrawler.com/Games/SearchTicker.html Is a voyeristic ticker showing what people are searching for right this red hot second. Check this one out for sure."}, {"response": 20, "author": "KC5OJK", "date": "Wed, Sep 17, 1997 (10:34)", "body": "Cool site there Paul. Here's three of my favorites: http://www.tucows.com/ For software http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/6030/ For funny answering machine messages http://www.nashville.net/%7ecart/htmlguide/f-right.html Title: How do they do that with HTML?"}, {"response": 21, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep 18, 1997 (22:11)", "body": "http://www.prairienet.org/ag/garden/maillist.htm a discussion of woody and nonwoody plants."}, {"response": 22, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Sep 26, 1997 (21:19)", "body": "great icons: http://www.iconbazaar.com/ Also: http://members.aol.com/rcmoeur/signman.html"}, {"response": 23, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 12, 1997 (15:50)", "body": "Announcement: If you are a Microsoft \"Site Builder Network\" person, (yes, I know, the Borg) or just someone who writes cool programming-intensive web stuff (like barrett's periodic table...) please have a look at http://webwall.matisse.net/ which is a \"grafitti wall\" for web programmers - a shared web page where programmers can upload stuff they've done and want to share. you can also get to it from: http://www.microsoft.com/sitebuilder/sbnmember/lounges/lev1/webwall.asp"}, {"response": 24, "author": "soundscape", "date": "Fri, Nov 14, 1997 (11:47)", "body": "http://www.netmoguls.com/"}, {"response": 25, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Dec  8, 1997 (08:38)", "body": "Not for the faint of heart department: Mark Stahlman's infamous \"WIRED Magazine and the English Ideology\" piece is now online at the new CULTURE WARS site: http://www.culturewars.com If you prefer spoonfed, innocuous content a la MSN this is not your kind of place. Arts, issues, sensuality, spirituality, and other thought provoking issues."}, {"response": 26, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Dec 14, 1997 (21:29)", "body": "One of the coolest peoplesearch places: http://www.anywho.com"}, {"response": 27, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jan 20, 1998 (22:43)", "body": "Tips for Using the Web Buying and Selling Real Estate Online By Clay Hathorn Aiming to appeal to a metropolitan New York clientele, Donna White figured that a two-line newspaper ad to sell her suburban house that basically said \"3-bdr in Aberdeen, New Jersey\" seemed a little flat. So she dressed up her marketing a bit, listing the house in an online service with a Web-site ad that begins this way: \"Pristine custom contemporary with water views: Lounge as sailboats pass this custom ranch with professional landscaping, diagonal tongue-and-groove cedar siding.\" Even if you're unclear about the \"diagonal tongue-and-groove\" (a way of fitting the siding together), the place sounds pretty swanky, huh? \"That's what's great about marketing on the Internet,\" says White, who lives in Deerfield, Florida. \"You're not limited in what you can say. You can write up the character of the house. Show a picture. Where else could you put an ad like that and have exposure to anyone, anywhere? It would cost a fortune.\" Prospective buyers worldwide can view Donna White's three-bedroom house, for sale on the WWW. White is one of the growing number of people turning to the World Wide Web to help them buy or sell a house. The reasons to try the Web are numerous: Sellers can provide many more enticing details (\"lounge as sailboats pass\") at a much lower cost than in newspaper ads and can reach people anywhere; buyers can explore real estate options at their convenience on their own computer. But don't get the wrong idea: Although the Internet offers many options for real estate, it's probably not wise for a seller to rely solely an Internet listing or for a buyer only to peruse the Web for homes. Not only is the Internet still a secondary source for most buyers and sellers, but the Web lacks the emotional wallop needed to bring about a home sale. \"Nobody buys a house from a brochure,\" says Jody Lane, who runs the Realty Locator site, an online listing of homes for sale. \"It's the same thing on the Internet.\" Yet as a supplement to marketing or a great way to find homes, the Web is proving to be a valuable medium. \"It's a good tool to use with other advertising,\" says White. \"Not everyone in the whole world is computer literate. But on the Web you're open to the whole wide world.\" Selling So for home sellers who are willing to try the Web, what's next? Well, you have two broad options: enlisting an agent or selling the home yourself. The Web is making more attractive the \"for-sale-by-owner\" option, known as FSBO (or, as those with the lingo say, \"fizzbo\"). Traditionally, roughly 15 to 20 percent of home sellers go this route, mostly to avoid the 6-percent commissions of real estate brokers. The trade-off is that FSBOs have had to market their property without access to the local multiple listing service (MLS), which is proprietary to real estate agents (although this is beginning to change). FSBOs have traditionally relied on newspaper ads and lawn signs to get the word out. But the Web's capability to reach people has opened new marketing avenues for FSBOs. Probably the most comprehensive FSBO site is the Abele Owners' Network site, which \"looks good enough to give agents a run for their money,\" says Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine. FSBOs can list their homes on the site under several plans: high-cost is $105, the low-cost is free. By comparison, listing your property with a broker will typically cost 3 percent of the selling price -- several thousand dollars on the average home. To list property on the Owners' Network site, sellers write a description of the property in a text file -- no knowledge of HTML is required, but a flair for the descriptive is encouraged (\"pristine custom contemporary . . .\"). Sellers can also submit a photograph of the property, either a digitized image by e-mail or regular picture by post. In addition, the Owners' Network provides resources for FSBOs, including links to brokers, agents, and others who help handle many aspects of the whole real estate ordeal -- from hosting open houses to coordinating the closing -- for a flat fee. \"It's a great way to take advantage of the marketplace,\" says White, who listed her New Jersey home in the Owners' Network and received an offer from a person who discovered the property online (she didn't sell). \"It gives people an opportunity to dial up and see a picture of the house,\" she says. If you sign an agreement with a broker, chances are that the agreement will be exclusive, meaning you can't market the property the FSBO way. Your agent will list the house in the local multiple listing service (MLS), which is computerized but not necessarily on the Internet. But that doesn't mean you can't have a nifty Web site to help sell your home. Many companies, agents, and local MLSs have a presence on the Web. The biggest broker-run sites (discussed below) have tens of thousands of listings. However, these sites are not comprehensive, and many homes won't automatically be "}, {"response": 28, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jan 26, 1998 (18:01)", "body": "www.searchenginewatch.com Is a website by Meckler Publishing that evaluates search engines."}, {"response": 29, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Feb 20, 1998 (13:16)", "body": "http://netscan.sscnet.ucla.edu is Marc Smith's ( mailto://smithm@ucla.edu ) newsgroup analysis tool. It will show you which newsgroups have the most activity. I just ran into Marc at CFP98 and he was kind enough to show this to me."}, {"response": 30, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Fri, Feb 20, 1998 (13:56)", "body": "www.griggs.demon.co.uk/spring/bio.html - information on creating your Spring bio www.griggs.demon.co.uk/spring/userlist.html - regularly updated list of already submitted bios"}, {"response": 31, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Feb 20, 1998 (16:26)", "body": "Peter Shipley's cool sites: http://www.dis.org - lots of cool http://www.network-security.com - more serious Pretty cool stuff. Out of Berkeley CA."}, {"response": 32, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Feb 22, 1998 (10:48)", "body": "A cool place to get scripts for cgi, etc. is at http://www.scripting.com I heard about this from Rafe Colburn."}, {"response": 33, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Mar 20, 1998 (09:06)", "body": "http://www.chickclick.com I got smashed with CLAIRE DANES and other amuzing content."}, {"response": 34, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar 23, 1998 (05:09)", "body": "http://www.si.edu/organiza/museums/ripley/eap/rt/back_pages/index.html"}, {"response": 36, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (01:24)", "body": "http://www.missingkids.com/"}, {"response": 37, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Jul  2, 1998 (22:18)", "body": "http://www.dolphin-synergy.com good dolphin pics plus more art galleries opening http://www.800florals.com/virtual good place to send virtual bouquets (and it's free!)"}, {"response": 38, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (11:36)", "body": "check out http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/terra_findaspot.htm To get closeup of your house from space."}, {"response": 39, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Aug 20, 1998 (07:20)", "body": "from Barrett Golding mailto://beedge@well.com http://memory.loc.gov/ Amercican Memory Historical Collections form the National Digital Library also, not cool, but culturally progressive: \"...small children were visibly upset to see Barney beaten up...\": http://www.current.org/ch/ch814b.html from Dennis Wilen mailto://thevoidmstr@well.com monica as if by warhol, leictenstein, etc.: if the president bubba/starr transcripts were chat room transcripts, they'd look like this (javascript) this is absolutely brilliant, imho, not only in the technical sense, but the perfect choice for the presentation, and hysterically well written. tell yer friends!"}, {"response": 40, "author": "ratthing", "date": "Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (13:28)", "body": "http://sixdegrees.com"}, {"response": 41, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (16:02)", "body": "Someone has already registered there as terry@spring.net . . . an imposter!"}, {"response": 42, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (16:15)", "body": "wasn't me..."}, {"response": 43, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (17:03)", "body": "It was Ray, and that's the way it's supposed to work. You sign other folks and they get email. So I signed up a few folks, some of 'em here, to further Ray's experiment. It's an interesting way to build a little circle of friends on the net. Maybe we could use it to expand the Spring by making contacts there. I assume that other folks start to contact you and your circle grows."}, {"response": 44, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (18:30)", "body": "i've got your e-mail via sixth degree, terry. I'll be sorting it all out soon."}, {"response": 45, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (12:19)", "body": "Need an award for your website? http://www.thecorporation.com/icon/icon.html"}, {"response": 46, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (12:41)", "body": "http://www.baylisa.org/events/ Discussion of operating systems."}, {"response": 47, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (12:44)", "body": "There's a panel discussion put on by BayLISA tomorrow about running Unix on x86. Represented will be BSDI, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, and Solaris. (regarding above url)"}, {"response": 48, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (12:23)", "body": "http://www.aw.sgi.com/pages/home/pages/monthly_image/index.html"}, {"response": 49, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  2, 1998 (08:57)", "body": "VERY COOL! http://www.snarg.net Relax and watch the show."}, {"response": 50, "author": "wolf", "date": "Fri, Dec 11, 1998 (21:37)", "body": "my browser wouldn't let me see that page. what do you think is the cause?"}, {"response": 51, "author": "PT", "date": "Sat, Dec 12, 1998 (02:04)", "body": "It requires you to download something."}, {"response": 52, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Dec 12, 1998 (12:18)", "body": "http://www.peacepilgrim.org/ http://www.peacepilgrim.com/"}, {"response": 53, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Dec 17, 1998 (11:43)", "body": "http://rinkworks.com/dialect/ Changes your favorite website in to a whole new dialect."}, {"response": 54, "author": "wolf", "date": "Thu, Jun 17, 1999 (11:35)", "body": "here's a couple i learned about today: http://www.fishydance.com http://www.hamsterdance.com"}, {"response": 55, "author": "wolf", "date": "Mon, Jul 19, 1999 (21:37)", "body": "i don't know how i found this website but it's great for contacting friends and alumni from schools: http://www.classmates.com registration is free, but to access everything, you'll have to fork over a couple of bucks good for two years. i found the names of 4 of my fellow graduates :)"}, {"response": 56, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct  7, 1999 (10:54)", "body": "This site is an awesome place to find *everything*! Today they feature a site where you can get thousands of recipes. I can't even begin to describe what you can find on this site. http://www.refdesk.com"}, {"response": 57, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Oct  7, 1999 (17:31)", "body": "That is one incredible URL, Terry. One could just use that instead of bookmarks...almost! A really cool URL showing a variety of live eruption cams http://educeth.ethz.ch/stromboli/livecams/index-e.html"}, {"response": 58, "author": "Irishprincess", "date": "Thu, Oct  7, 1999 (17:48)", "body": "Could someone please tell me how to create a link? (Hypertext, I mean.) There are some ULRs I'd like to put up here, but I don't know how to do it!"}, {"response": 59, "author": "Irishprincess", "date": "Thu, Oct  7, 1999 (17:49)", "body": "Duh, sorry--that should have been URLs!"}, {"response": 60, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Oct  7, 1999 (17:58)", "body": "You need to check out Ann's splendidly easy HTML tutorial. I printed it out! http://www.spring.net/~anneh/toota.html To make the above I just copied and pasted. To have it be a hot link, you need to put the entire URL down including the http://etc.. ."}, {"response": 61, "author": "Irishprincess", "date": "Thu, Oct  7, 1999 (18:10)", "body": "Thanks again, Marcia! I'm going to see if I can get this to work... This is the website of my beloved Shakespeare professor, Tita French Baumlin, which has received international acclaim and is going to be used to help British schoolchildren learn about Shakespeare: Shakespeare page If you visit, tell her I sent you!"}, {"response": 62, "author": "Irishprincess", "date": "Thu, Oct  7, 1999 (18:11)", "body": "Cool, it worked!"}, {"response": 63, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Oct  7, 1999 (18:18)", "body": "Excellent! You did not need my email, after all! I would have told your esteemed professor that you sent me to her wonderful site (love the insults!) but she requested only email containing other Shakespearean sites."}, {"response": 64, "author": "Irishprincess", "date": "Thu, Oct  7, 1999 (18:20)", "body": "Oh, I don't think she'd mind. She loves the attention she gets from that website. Especially if you told her I sent you...brownie points for me!"}, {"response": 65, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Oct  7, 1999 (18:34)", "body": "A letter is on the way to her per your request. *smile*"}, {"response": 66, "author": "Irishprincess", "date": "Thu, Oct  7, 1999 (18:43)", "body": "For thy goodly service many thanks! What didst thou say?"}, {"response": 67, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Oct  7, 1999 (18:56)", "body": "I shall forward it to you if you'd like... Only good things, and I kept it short in the interest of saving her valuable time, etc..."}, {"response": 68, "author": "Irishprincess", "date": "Thu, Oct  7, 1999 (18:58)", "body": "Sure! She'll probably send me an email (we usually touch base about once a week,) but I'd like to see it anyway."}, {"response": 69, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Oct  7, 1999 (19:05)", "body": "It is on your hot little monitor by now...if your email listed under your name here works (some times it takes some back-checking to correct what the ever-creative Yapp software has done to it.) Happy to help!"}, {"response": 70, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Dec 12, 1999 (21:50)", "body": "This web site reviews the latest software (Sorry if this has been mentioned down-topic...I did not see it there!) and has free downloads: http://www.Slaughterhouse.com/index.html"}, {"response": 71, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Dec 12, 1999 (23:11)", "body": "If you do not know about this website, it is fascinating: http://www.InternetTrafficReport.com/index.html"}, {"response": 72, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec 15, 1999 (01:49)", "body": "Have you visited http://www.stroud.com Marcia? Our apps conference links to Forrest Strouds reviews there."}, {"response": 73, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, Dec 15, 1999 (13:54)", "body": "Indeed I did. When I enquired of you about CRT you sent me there. I am now the proud owner of a registered and paid-for CRT program. I even told them \"Terry at Spring.net\" was how I heard of them. I truly appreciate his reviews since you esteem him...I trust your judgement and his as a result!"}, {"response": 74, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Dec 16, 1999 (14:51)", "body": "Why thanks, Marci. What a cool thing to tell them."}, {"response": 75, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Wed, Mar 29, 2000 (09:26)", "body": "http://www.sissyfight.com http://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 (do your own security check) http://www.haddock.org (more cool urls) http://www.backflip.com/ (save your bookmarks and more) http://www.soda.co.uk/soda/constructor/"}, {"response": 76, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, Mar 29, 2000 (12:04)", "body": "Aha! This is where I should have been putting them...not in science, at all?"}, {"response": 77, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, Mar 29, 2000 (18:39)", "body": "Have I got one for you! If there is a off-center theory it is here: http://www.totse.com/know.htm"}, {"response": 78, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, Mar 29, 2000 (20:59)", "body": "This URL is so cool I posted it as an updating image in Geo 24 http://www.sec.noaa.gov/pmap/pmapN.html"}, {"response": 79, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, Apr  3, 2000 (16:09)", "body": "For the coolest updating weather maps and satellite images on the net http://www.earthwatch.com/SKYWATCH/ Thanks to Austin ARES web site listing the link."}, {"response": 80, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, Apr  3, 2000 (16:49)", "body": "I posted four of the weather maps in Geo 14...they are really good quality. I especially like the stormwatch one with the blinking warning areas for tornadoes."}, {"response": 81, "author": "wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr  4, 2000 (20:32)", "body": "that weather map is cool! looks like the one they use on the local newschannel."}, {"response": 82, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, Apr  4, 2000 (20:40)", "body": "yup! I posted them - 4 to be precise - in Geo 14. That's where I got the UTC clock, too."}, {"response": 83, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, Apr 11, 2000 (20:24)", "body": "This one is amazing and can bring you your 15 minutes of fame: http://www.emergingmind.com/schwa/contest.htm Or this... http://www.jwp.bc.ca/saulm/index.htm"}, {"response": 84, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, Apr 13, 2000 (21:14)", "body": "http://www.spring.net/today"}, {"response": 85, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Apr 13, 2000 (22:11)", "body": "That is just plain scary. Some people just don't know when to stop typing, huh?! *sneaking off quietly and resolving not to talk so much anymore*"}, {"response": 86, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Fri, Apr 14, 2000 (07:42)", "body": "NO, keep talking!"}, {"response": 87, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Apr 14, 2000 (13:15)", "body": "*Sigh* Your wish is my command...better whatch what I say from now on, in that case. Interesting Front Page, too....*hiding under desk*"}, {"response": 88, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Apr 14, 2000 (21:09)", "body": "I take requests...I am working on Train-hopping in the Austin Conference and almost anything in Geo. What would you like me to write about?"}, {"response": 89, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Apr 14, 2000 (21:29)", "body": "One more question: After plowing through the endless junk I seem to have posted on the conferences on Spring's Master's list of things worthy of his time, The only place I make any sense at all is Geo, and it is missing. How much is it gonna cost me to get it on his list?? If he can have topics not written in for two years, he can jolly well have one which has been very active lately. It is a very interesting place...You'd think he'd like to know what I am doing with part of Spring's bandwidth and hard drive...! Pretty Please?! ...I I'll do anything...."}, {"response": 90, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Apr 15, 2000 (22:44)", "body": "Lovely that you kept the heart I posted even in your telnet cut and paste...but I suupose that is the only way a telnetter can see it. Good! It is just odd to see telnet printout with gifs and other pictures. *totally amazed and delighted* that you could see it...*hugs*"}, {"response": 91, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Apr 15, 2000 (22:59)", "body": "Back to train hopping on Austin conference. I wish someone would join me there."}, {"response": 92, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Apr 15, 2000 (23:02)", "body": "using http://google.com of course. Tis the best there is! I already posted a bunch of stuff there which is interesting in hopes of bringing more interesting people out of lurkdom and into postdom (is there such a word?!)"}, {"response": 93, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Mon, Apr 17, 2000 (10:12)", "body": "Geo will be on the list! It was an unintentional oversight!"}, {"response": 94, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, Apr 17, 2000 (12:46)", "body": "Thank you! Official recognition is a good thing...and I think you would find some fun and interesting stuff in there. We've been busy...*smile*"}, {"response": 95, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May  4, 2000 (03:20)", "body": "Makes a shambles of other websites: http://penn.netroedge.com/~mrt/"}, {"response": 96, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May  4, 2000 (03:22)", "body": "If it's too hot where you are, try some winter sports. http://www.won.net/channels/quickgames/snowcraft/"}, {"response": 97, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, May  4, 2000 (13:50)", "body": "Turn up the a/c and get some tunnel-vision."}, {"response": 98, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May  4, 2000 (16:21)", "body": "Did you try it?"}, {"response": 99, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, May  4, 2000 (20:21)", "body": "First I tried my splarking Geo front page on the http://firefly.sparse.org/~mrt/ first time it came back with Welcome to Marcia's Wild World of the Earth Snd this time we are going to do it OUR WAY. Second time it said Wild World of that Darn Earth Third time it said Wild World of the darn Earth!Crazy foo. Of course everything is in the colors I chose for the page and looks really official and absolutely the funniest thing! Even has a tasteful link back to their webpage."}, {"response": 100, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, May  4, 2000 (20:25)", "body": "Hmmm.... wonder what it would do to Drool....heh...heh... (tried it but nothing special - but paraspring: Welcome to the crazy Paraspring Conference. 'dis is gunna be a place to theorize the darn paranormal.Oh man, you made me mad now! Have Ya been abducted by aliens?Crazy Murdock gonna get us all killed! Do Mr.T believe in ghosts? Do Mr.T have ESP (or know someone who does)?The fool's crazy! Talk about it here!This man's nuts! Disclaimer: the theories presented here are simply that crazy . They are not endorsed by the darn Spring and do not necessarily represent the crazy views of the crazy domain host....Are we gonna get down with our own bad selves?!? Member of some Esotericism Banner Exchange bookmark 'dis conference"}, {"response": 101, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, May  4, 2000 (20:38)", "body": "Got to Level two and closed it out to come report on my success. It is cute!"}, {"response": 102, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, May  4, 2000 (23:24)", "body": "Got to level two on the snoball fight. Fun for simple minds."}, {"response": 103, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Fri, May  5, 2000 (09:10)", "body": "Did you find that you can hide behind the snowbank?"}, {"response": 104, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, May  5, 2000 (14:55)", "body": "Did not, but I discovered if you move the little red movable one really close and hit the enter, you can get two at once!"}, {"response": 105, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Tue, Oct 24, 2000 (08:26)", "body": "http://www.aquariusnet.hr/errors/404.html http://www.plinko.net/404/category.asp?Category=Cool This is inspiring me to redesign our own 404 page, or should I say create one."}, {"response": 106, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Oct 26, 2000 (23:41)", "body": "Tres cool... Anything but that ugly white insulting 404 standard issue page!"}, {"response": 107, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Oct 27, 2000 (20:56)", "body": "Need time conversion any place in the world? Thanks to John from Canada for this URL http://www.worldtimeserver.com/"}, {"response": 108, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Wed, Dec 20, 2000 (12:25)", "body": "If you're seeking a nontraditional email Christmas (or other) card: http://www.pulpcards.com/index.html and http://www.tackymail.com/ Yeah, it *is* tacky."}, {"response": 109, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, May 10, 2001 (02:14)", "body": "An LA Times journalist responded to every spam he got for a week, saying \"Yes, I am interested in (making money fast, getting a diploma, meeting HOT CHICKS over the net)\" -- amusing results at: http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/features/lat_junk010503.htm"}, {"response": 110, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Nov 30, 2001 (09:52)", "body": "Very cool: http://www.ballgame.org/ http://www.bemboszoo.com/ http://www.snakerobots.com/ http://www.snakerobots.com/images/movies/S5ToCam1MPEG.mpg http://www.leedungarees.com/ http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_835399,00.html http://www.pbs.org/americanfieldguide/ http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_838932,00.html http://www.wordsmith.org/~anu/java/spirograph.html http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/index.html"}, {"response": 111, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Nov 30, 2001 (12:33)", "body": "http://www.madblast.com/oska/humor_warnings.swf http://www.geocities.com/trampingground/ http://www.spacefoodsticks.com/ http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/NOTES/note139/note139.html http://www.phobe.com/yeti/index.html \"YETI@Home is a scientific experiment that harnesses the power of hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers in the search for giant ape-like creatures (YETI). We, the YETI team members who founded this experiment, are experts in the field of cryptozoology (the study of animals that do not exist).\" Michael Jackson's faces morph before your eyes: http://www.doneanddusted.co.uk/nick/Movie2.html http://www.ganglandnews.com telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl ->start -> then run, then paste telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl press enter... www.pornolize.com http://www.lawnmowerassociation.org/counter.php http://www.carhops.com/drive-thru/xylophone/play.htm"}, {"response": 112, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec 12, 2001 (22:35)", "body": "Here's a couple of URLs leading to some further explanation about Curl. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,48818,00.html http://www.curl.com/html/technology/technology.jsp http://adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/12/2/42056/2147 http://www.necco.com/neccohome.html What are your cool url's?"}, {"response": 113, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Dec 18, 2001 (10:54)", "body": "Shockwave games from the BBC supporting a major new wildlife program about life in the water http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/blueplanet/games.shtml Funny: http://www2.tolkienonline.com/docs/4511.html And: http://www.qxl.com/cgi-bin/qxlhome.cgi/EN/QXL/PR/U1010079228/_22398385"}, {"response": 114, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jan 20, 2002 (06:46)", "body": "Pong. http://www.youngprimitive.cz/pong.html"}, {"response": 115, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jan 20, 2002 (07:00)", "body": "satyr's energy unit conversion page: http://www.well.com/user/satyr/755/e-units.html"}, {"response": 116, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, May 24, 2002 (08:59)", "body": "http://rabble.ca Great irreverent Canadian news site. A real find."}, {"response": 117, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Nov 15, 2002 (07:16)", "body": "November 14, 2002 :: Another benefit of watching Lord of the Rings is you get nearly three hours of VIGGO !!!! What a man . . . man. Number two on my List of Men I'd Flip the Switch For. Here is a list of fun Viggo facts. I myself was surprised to learn that Exene Cervenka is is X-wife ( ha ha !! Unintentional Pun !!!) Posted by Shari at 12:59 PM | Comments (0) | linkage Wait . . . I just remembered, I dreamt about Devin's blog last night. I went to his website and Geno had redesigned it with a prison motif (?!?). It was very dark and rustic with a chain link fence background. And I was a little annoyed because all of Erin's entries were replaced by some guy named Neil. Posted by Shari at 07:14 AM | Comments (0) | linkage Watched Lord of the Rings last night. Have definitely changed my original opinion. Film appreciation for me is, really, just all about mood. Am I sitting in a comfortable chair? Do I have a heating pad readily available for any physical ailments? Is my girlfriend sitting next to me cracking bad jokes? I watched it (mostly) by myself while C. was out and found it actually to be a pretty good movie. By the way, C. did come home and watched it for a little while too and also (somewhat) changed her mind about it too. It seems she just dislikes the whole fantasy movie thing altogether ( I refuse, REFUSE to say genre today). Reason? Too unrealistic. Is it just me, or is that really funny? On another note, boycott is over and so is pity party. Sorry for the interruption. Posted by Shari at 07:11 AM | Comments (0) | linkage http://www.decafmocha.com This is Shari Fletcher's blog."}, {"response": 118, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov 24, 2002 (08:22)", "body": "From joe-rabie@well.com Sat Nov 23 '02 (16:57) Here is the result of some six months of labour, that is \"officially\" going online tonight: INAUGURATION Today is the inauguration of the \"Over My Dead Body\" project. You are cordially invited to participate - if, of course, you identify yourself with the project's goals. The \"Over My Dead Body\" project is an online, virtual demonstration, politicising the major themes of globalisation and the economy, the environment, etc. The federating platform is the promotion of \"the politics of generosity\" to unblock the stranglehold of corporate and nationalist self-interest upon the world's destiny. People are invited to participate, and are represented symbolically in the demonstration by their name, place of residence, and if they so wish, photo, and virtual placard. Thus people from the four corners of the globe may fraternise and march together. The site also contains a section called \"The State of Things\", which presents an evolving portrait of the world today. The \"About\" section contains the project Manifesto, and other information. If you agree with what the project represents - come join the demo with us! And please forward this message to your family, your friends, your colleagues. The presence of each person is important: a trickle becomes a torrent that becomes a tidal wave, rolling for change. http://www.overmydeadbody.org"}, {"response": 119, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Sep  7, 2004 (22:33)", "body": "http://www.jft.ca/croc/jokes/valley.htm Valley Girl language translator Gag me with a spoon !!! This page won't exactly overwhelm you with information. In fact, it's just plain stupid. But hey, check it out dude you like, may like, think it's radical. Like, enter the URL of your Favorite Grody to the max Website and convert it to Valley Girl Language, Like, Dude!"}, {"response": 120, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jan 23, 2005 (11:28)", "body": "http://www.nanahiro.com/compe/main.html This is a great piece of work. Arresting. Entertaining. A great way to waste a lot of time."}, {"response": 121, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Mar 20, 2005 (08:42)", "body": "Power of Nukes: http://www.compfused.com/directlink/657/"}, {"response": 122, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Mar 20, 2005 (08:54)", "body": "Preople need preople http://www.preople.com/ My preople rank is 106 There are 19290 names in our database that have a higher Preople Ranking and 27856 names that have a lower Preople Ranking. Your ranking is based on how much people talk about you on the web. If this was your name and you want to work on your rating and end up even higher on the list we suggest you get published, get known, blog, post, link, create, mail, react, reply, connect and write! Getting people to talk about you is the only way to increase your rating..."}, {"response": 123, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Mar 20, 2005 (08:55)", "body": "Recently (new) Preopled names Brent D Nimmo, Paul Walhus, Jelle Vermaelen, Brent Nimmo, Bob Holmes, Derrick Rawn, Mark Hultin, Paul Van Garderen, Lynda Allison, Michael Wymer, Tom Uecker, John VanDyke, Katie Price, Thomas Schulte, John Baxla, Jessie Kraus, Luis Augusto, Clide Thompson, Marinus Stam, Silva Luis, Global Preople top 5 Britney Spears 11,200,000 Madonna 11,200,000 Harry Potter 10,600,000 George W Bush 9,320,000 Michael Jackson 7,260,000 Most popular names at Preople Bill Gates 385 Caspar Wenckebach 249 Boris Veldhuijzen Van Zanten 239 George Bush 175 Ellemijn Veldhuijzen Van Zanten 164 Preople explained, Who is your global or virtual neighbor? In an age where egocasting, dynamic ranking and global awareness is abundant we present Preople.com. Preople.com will tell you, definitely and undeniable, what your place, your ranking and your relation to all the other people in the world is in one number: your Preople Ranking. Don't hesitate, don't wait, enter your name in the search field en press Preople. All your questions will be answered. Preople explained, really ok, we visit a few search engines, search for your name, get the number of times your name is found online and perform a complicated calculation to extract a ranking. We guard this formula with our lives because it is what makes our service, and your ranking, unique."}, {"response": 124, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Mar 20, 2005 (09:06)", "body": "Colin Firth preopled There are 1505 names in our database that have a higher Preople Ranking and 45672 names that have a lower Preople Ranking. Your ranking is based on how much people talk about you on the web. If this was your name and you want to work on your rating and end up even higher on the list we suggest you get published, get known, blog, post, link, create, mail, react, reply, connect and write! Getting people to talk about you is the only way to increase your rating... General Information Name: Colin Firth Lowest rank: 332,000 Highest rank: 332,000 Current rank: 332,000 Preopled: 1 time First search: Last search:"}, {"response": 125, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Mar 29, 2005 (16:57)", "body": "This is way, way, way cool. Virtual reality: http://vrmag.org Huge abandoned wind tunnel: http://vrm.vrway.com/projects/INSIDE_A_WIND_TUNNEL/ Observatory of the Pic du Midi (France) http://vrm.vrway.com/issue17/OBSERVATORY_OF_THE_PIC_DU_MIDI_FRANCE.html Air n Space Museum's QTVR project http://www.nasm.si.edu/interact/qtvr/uhc/qtvr.htm Christo's Gates http://vrm.vrway.com/issue19/PANORAMAS_OF_CHRISTO_S_CENTRAL_PARK_SAFFRON-FEST.html"}, {"response": 126, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Apr 26, 2005 (15:58)", "body": "http://omn.org - open media network http://pingomatic.com - ping to about 12 aggregators"}, {"response": 127, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Aug 13, 2005 (19:16)", "body": "http://www.bpninc.com/evideo/video_mac_hi.mov pretty wacky."}, {"response": 128, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Oct 29, 2005 (10:05)", "body": "http://web.media.mit.edu/~kimiko/iobrush/ and http://web.media.mit.edu/~kimiko/iobrush/ A very cool new tool, watch this amazing video."}, {"response": 129, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Nov 11, 2005 (07:38)", "body": "http://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/ This may mesmerize you."}, {"response": 130, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  7, 2005 (22:09)", "body": "http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/zipdecode/ is a very cool way to zoom in on any zip code on a map."}, {"response": 131, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  7, 2005 (22:13)", "body": "http://stumbleupon.com is a plug in for Mozilla that will give you hours, days, weeks, no, a lifetime of surfing pleasure."}, {"response": 132, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  7, 2005 (22:13)", "body": "http://bugmenot.com/faq.php#01 bugmenot is a way to not have to register on the NY Times and other sites. It's a plug in."}, {"response": 133, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  7, 2005 (22:15)", "body": "http://www.kayodeok.btinternet.co.uk/favorites/webdesign.htm resources for web design"}, {"response": 134, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  7, 2005 (22:20)", "body": "http://www.mattround.freeserve.co.uk/files/killerquiz.swf programmer or serial killer, you make the call"}, {"response": 135, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  7, 2005 (22:21)", "body": "advanced bash scripting guide http://www.mattround.freeserve.co.uk/files/killerquiz.swf"}, {"response": 136, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  7, 2005 (22:23)", "body": "http://www.mailinater.com/mailinator/index.jsp ave you ever gone to a website that asks for your email address? (haven't we all). You know that the moment you type it in, it is streaming across the net on its way to every spam database in the world. You simply can't be that careless with your personal email address. What if there was a website that any and every email address you can think of already exists. And you use any one you like, anytime you like - just by thinking one up. Welcome to Mailinator\ufffd. It's like super-instant, always-ready, any-email- you-want email. Right now. It's your personal disposable email account. Here is how it works: You are on the web, at a party, or talking to your favorite insurance salesman. Wherever you are, someone (or some webpage) asks for your email. You know if you give it, you're gambling with your privacy. On the other hand, you do want at least one message from that person. The answer is to give them a mailinator address. You don't need to sign-up. You just make it up on the spot. Pick schminky@mailinator.com or funwump123@mailinator.com \ufffd pick anything you want. Later, come to this site and check that account. Its that easy. Mailinator accounts are created when mail arrives for them. No signup, no personal information, and when you're done \ufffd you can walk away \ufffd an instant solution to one way spammers get your address. It's an anti-spam solution for everyone. Your temporary email account will be automatically deleted for you after a few hours. Let'em spam."}, {"response": 137, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  7, 2005 (22:26)", "body": "http://www.sql.org/ good beginners sql training ground."}, {"response": 138, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  7, 2005 (22:32)", "body": "http://www.businessplanarchive.org/ business plans archive"}, {"response": 139, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  7, 2005 (22:33)", "body": "color scheme generator http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html"}, {"response": 140, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  7, 2005 (22:39)", "body": "http://www.seb.cc/spacializer/ fascinating color blob that you can use to play music."}, {"response": 141, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  7, 2005 (22:49)", "body": "http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/download.html This is the \"ultimate boot cd\"."}, {"response": 142, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  7, 2005 (22:51)", "body": "Very cleverly found webcams. Some are security cams. http://www.opentopia.com/hiddencam.php"}, {"response": 143, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  7, 2005 (22:55)", "body": "http://www.mnot.net/rss/tutorial/ also includes atom."}, {"response": 144, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  7, 2005 (23:50)", "body": "A bedroom environment, \"we create environments\" http://www.homeostatic.net/checkpoint.html bizarre, unusual, strangely compelling you stay on this site but can't figure out why"}, {"response": 145, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Dec  8, 2005 (00:08)", "body": "http://www.alterfin.com/dominique/ a face to play with."}, {"response": 146, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Dec  8, 2005 (23:32)", "body": "http://www.lares.dti.ne.jp/~yugo/storage/monocrafts_ver3/29/bclock.html Merry Christmas from teh Santa Project. A block clock."}, {"response": 147, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Feb 27, 2006 (08:57)", "body": "http://www.futureme.org/ Send yourself an email in the future. You pick the date. http://stumbleupon.com is great when coupled with http://del.icio.us.com and Firefox."}, {"response": 148, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Mar  8, 2006 (23:52)", "body": "Boxxet (pronounced \"box set\") brings together the \"best of\" news, blogs, photos, gear, services and much more on people's favorite subjects. Boxxet uses a unique combination of computer automation and community participation to produces the most diverse and complete best-of compilations on your favorite subjects. We are cleaning up just as fast as we can (we're hoping Boxxet may be useful to you). We are allowing users in a bit at a time, so if you do not have a username or password, please sign up and we'll make sure you get one very soon. For more thoughts on Boxxet, here is the blog of the Boxxet founder: You Mon Tsang http://boxxet.com"}, {"response": 149, "author": "WERoland", "date": "Sun, Mar 19, 2006 (22:11)", "body": "href=\"http://www.watching-paint-dry.com/v7ndotcom-elursrebmem/\"> V7ndotcom elursrebmem for Celiac Charity Don't let href=\"http://www.watching-paint-dry.com/v7ndotcom-elursrebmem/black-hats/\"> v7ndotcom elursrebmem black hat SEO win the $7,000 contest!"}, {"response": 150, "author": "WERoland", "date": "Sun, Mar 19, 2006 (22:13)", "body": "ack...let me fix the typos... V7ndotcom elursrebmem for Celiac Charity Don't let v7ndotcom elursrebmem black hat SEO win the $7,000 contest!"}, {"response": 151, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar 20, 2006 (08:44)", "body": "Today's front pages http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/ Audacity, a podcast recording program (multi platform): http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ This is a very cool flash application: http://www.agencynet.com/ PC World: http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,109365,00.asp (insider secrets for PC buyers) How to be a web design superhero from SXSW, Andy Budd's blog http://www.andybudd.com/"}, {"response": 152, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar 27, 2006 (16:08)", "body": "Make the little pipecleaner man dance. http://www.davidbessler.com/pulldown/pipecleaner_dance.html"}, {"response": 153, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar 27, 2006 (16:08)", "body": "all my favorite urls. http://delicious.com/springnet"}, {"response": 154, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar 27, 2006 (17:52)", "body": "A great site for business news and resources: http://www.ceoexpress.com/default.asp"}, {"response": 155, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar 27, 2006 (18:09)", "body": "http://nedwolf.com/Web-Applications.htm is a bunch of cool, web 2.0 apps. These are apps you run on the web rather than on your desktop. Bookmark managers, office productivity and more."}, {"response": 156, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar 27, 2006 (18:10)", "body": "Welcome to eyeOS, a web based desktop system. With eyeOS you can access your data and your applications anywhere, anytime. A virtual office in your hands, no need to install anything in the computer. Everything lives in the browser, for you and your work colleagues. eyeOS is open source and free software. Set up freely an account on our servers or, if you prefer it, install it in your server. Make your life easier with the virtual word processor, calendar, file manager, messenger, browser and other applications. And if you want more applications, just visit the eyeOS Application Database! http://eyeos.com"}, {"response": 157, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Mar 30, 2006 (23:27)", "body": "http://www.pistolwimp.com/media/43458/"}, {"response": 158, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Fri, Mar 31, 2006 (20:39)", "body": "Pistolwimp has some funny videos."}, {"response": 159, "author": "wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr 13, 2006 (20:58)", "body": "i went into the one with the bedroom and it scared me----wasn't expecting what i saw..."}, {"response": 160, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr 19, 2006 (08:07)", "body": "A website I built a few days ago which features web 2.0 sites, about 1,400 of them. http://web2slides.com It's a self running slide show but you can click on the websites while it's running and open links in new windows. It's a 5 hour show."}, {"response": 161, "author": "WERoland", "date": "Mon, May 15, 2006 (20:25)", "body": "Re posts 149 and 150...The Celiac Charity entry wound up placing fourth in the contest."}, {"response": 162, "author": "WERoland", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2006 (21:44)", "body": "Next seo contest the hulkster is trying to win money for Celiac research is: carcasherdotcom seocontest for Charity Link to that website to fight Celiac Disease!"}, {"response": 163, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, May 22, 2006 (06:24)", "body": "S. You're the hulkster?"}, {"response": 164, "author": "WERoland", "date": "Mon, May 22, 2006 (07:12)", "body": "Nope, just know him from the Open Directory Project."}, {"response": 165, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, May 23, 2006 (19:58)", "body": "http://0slides.com/bigslides cross out sports and put \"food\" in it's place"}, {"response": 166, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Sun, Jul 16, 2006 (00:25)", "body": "http://www.callthefuture.org/ You can use this to call yourself in the future. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 20, "subject": "mobile email and web browsing", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Sep 22, 1996 (09:42)", "body": "I've heard of a setup that works for mobile web browsing. The guy that did this is getting serious geek points. Do you have any idea how valuable geek points are around Austin? The mobile device is called a MagicLink. It's only 4800-9600bps depending on how near the cellsite you are. Cost: Sony PIC-2000 w/ Presto!Links and Presto!Mail: $650 or so. Sony cellphone adapter kit: $250 Cellphone: $200-$500. *Test it*. Don't buy a cheap cellphone that won't work. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 21, "subject": "travel on the web", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Sep 22, 1996 (09:55)", "body": "My friend Federico Brown had a hand in creating: http://www.innsandouts.com This isn't a trivial website. It may have been into a six figures for production. If you want to find a bed and breakfast that is on the ocean, with air condition, and a phone jack for pluggin in a modem, under $100 a day this is the place to find it. The most comprehensive search engine for finding bed and breakfast places on the planet. Check it out. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 22, "subject": "How's your web day going today?", "response_count": 117, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "CotC", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (14:59)", "body": "*** Do Marquees work on here? abner@bga.com *** '"}, {"response": 2, "author": "CotC", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (14:59)", "body": "*** Do Marquees work on here? abner@bga.com ***"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (15:13)", "body": "They do unless we exclude them. I can't see it because I'm telnetting. Us telnetters rule, don't we Stacey?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "CotC", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (15:48)", "body": "This is probably a stupid question, but what's the telnet address?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 19, 1997 (17:28)", "body": "www.spring.com But you need to email me for an account."}, {"response": 6, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Apr 10, 1999 (12:53)", "body": "now that that's all been taken care of... my web day today is okay"}, {"response": 7, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Sat, Apr 10, 1999 (13:02)", "body": "This baby loads bad today, plus the \"Connection to the Spring\"-topic is frozen, so I can't whine in anguish there. I submit posts, but they don't work. So I have to submit again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again"}, {"response": 8, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Sat, Apr 10, 1999 (13:03)", "body": "and again and again and again and again and again and again until ages later, it registers. It would make me cranky, if I weren't just ever so nice today..."}, {"response": 9, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Apr 10, 1999 (13:04)", "body": "that topic is frozen? in porch? hmmm...I wanted to, but hadn't done it yet..."}, {"response": 10, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sun, Apr 25, 1999 (14:33)", "body": "alright, who's mindspring and why do they have my url????? i know i didn't register it, but i'd like to know who did and where those guys got my handle? check it out: http://www.midnightwolf.com"}, {"response": 11, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sun, Apr 25, 1999 (14:45)", "body": "ok, well, i went through namesecure.com (which gets approval through internic) for http://www.midnightwolf.net so there! paul, namesecure will provide my dsn address. now what?"}, {"response": 12, "author": "ratthing", "date": "Mon, Apr 26, 1999 (10:56)", "body": "now that it is registerd with internic, wolfie, we just need to set the servers up here to host it. let me know when all the paperwork gets processed."}, {"response": 13, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Apr 26, 1999 (12:04)", "body": "She needs to register it with our servers though if she's going to have it hosted here, which she's welcome to do of course. So she would have to fill this form in and send it to hostmaster@internic.net. Copy and paste this into an email and change the appropriate fields, wolfie. Q. This is Domain Name Registration Agreement Version Number 4.0. This Registration Agreement is only for registrations under top-level domains: COM, ORG, NET, and EDU. By completing and submitting this Registration Agreement for consideration and acceptance by NSI, the Registrant agrees that he/she has read and agrees to be bound by A through P above. Authorization 0a. (N)ew (M)odify (D)elete....: N 0b. Auth Scheme................: 0c. Auth Info..................: 1. Comments...................: 2. Complete Domain Name.......: nightwolf.net Organization Using Domain Name 3a. Organization Name..........: 3b. Street Address.............: 3c. City.......................: 3d. State......................: 3e. Postal Code................: 3f. Country....................: Administrative Contact 4a. NIC Handle (if known)......: PW30 4b. (I)ndividual (R)ole........: 4c. Name (Last, First).........: 4d. Organization Name..........: 4e. Street Address.............: 4f. City.......................: 4g. State......................: 4h. Postal Code................: 4i. Country....................: 4j. Phone Number...............: 4k. Fax Number.................: 4l. E-Mailbox..................: Technical Contact 5a. NIC Handle (if known)......: PW30 5b. (I)ndividual (R)ole........: 5c. Name (Last, First).........: 5d. Organization Name..........: 5e. Street Address.............: 5f. City.......................: 5g. State......................: 5h. Postal Code................: 5i. Country....................: 5j. Phone Number...............: 5k. Fax Number.................: 5l. E-Mailbox..................: Billing Contact 6a. NIC Handle (if known)......: PW30 6b. (I)ndividual (R)ole........: 6c. Name (Last, First).........: 6d. Organization Name..........: 6e. Street Address.............: 6f. City.......................: 6g. State......................: 6h. Postal Code................: 6i. Country....................: 6j. Phone Number...............: 6k. Fax Number.................: 6l. E-Mailbox..................: Prime Name Server 7a. Primary Server Hostname....: ns1.spring.net 7b. Primary Server Netaddress..: 207.97.234.70 Secondary Name Server(s) 8a. Secondary Server Hostname..: ns2.spring.net 8b. Secondary Server Netaddress: 207.97.234.71 END OF AGREEMENT"}, {"response": 14, "author": "wolf", "date": "Mon, Apr 26, 1999 (12:47)", "body": "ok, but i have to wait for the approval process to finish up. i was really taken aback because where in the heck did they get my name? i mean, i know it's not copyrighted or anything, but it's MY handle!! haha, i was so upset that i had to register the .net so they couldn't have the name monopolized. if they want it really bad, they'll have to enter negotiations! it's already about $120 with namesecure and internic, what other costs do i need to project for? (and thanks for the help, guys)"}, {"response": 15, "author": "wolf", "date": "Mon, Apr 26, 1999 (18:27)", "body": "ok, well, it's registered and stuff. but it will take a day for it to be entered into the internet root servers (whatever that means). so, to see it (sortof) you can go to: http://205.229.232.41 whatever that means too!! i've made changes so that my domain will show up in the address box of the browser. but now i don't know what to do! and i'm so excited!! i actually have cyber-property, woohoo!!"}, {"response": 16, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Tue, Apr 27, 1999 (07:20)", "body": "Wolf, my heroine!"}, {"response": 17, "author": "wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 27, 1999 (09:31)", "body": "why thank you alex!"}, {"response": 18, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Tue, Apr 27, 1999 (09:33)", "body": "My pleasure!"}, {"response": 19, "author": "wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 27, 1999 (10:14)", "body": "my husband found out the dollar figures last night and guess what? he didn't flip!! woohoo!! he thinks it's pretty cool....."}, {"response": 20, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Tue, Apr 27, 1999 (10:21)", "body": "Want to follow your shining and inspiring example, just don't have time to take care of it. I'd love to find a cheap place that offers Lotus Domino webhosting, so I could have some neat webtools and applications... Plus a person who'd help me on that project. Can't do that and keep the mag running simultaneously. Plus: It ain't over when you get the first hits. You gotta keep updating content to stay interesting, and it's quite enough to survive the next issue..."}, {"response": 21, "author": "wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 27, 1999 (10:25)", "body": "yeah, it's a lot of work, but it'll be fun and an adventure. something i've never done before. i want to be able to show all the sides of the midnight wolf and keep it honest, simple, and hopeful, you know? just don't know where (when) to start. how do i ftp stuff over there? would the ftp directory be ftp.midnightwolf.net ?? i have mail forwarding turned on so if people try to email me that address it'll go to a specified mailbox. clueless in louisiana. but beware, eventually my web pages will be on my new acreage!"}, {"response": 22, "author": "wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 27, 1999 (10:27)", "body": "oh, alex, you could put your magazine on-line (bits and pieces of it). i know many that do. you've probably thought of it. don't know anything about lotus except that it's a computer language thing. sorry i can't help you out."}, {"response": 23, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Tue, Apr 27, 1999 (10:30)", "body": "I'd guess ftp.midnightwolf.net/ , but this I'm not sure. No Idea in Frankfurt. The Wolfe Hath New Grounds To Prowl and Howl!"}, {"response": 24, "author": "wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 27, 1999 (10:34)", "body": "owuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhh!!"}, {"response": 25, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Tue, Apr 27, 1999 (10:42)", "body": "(Shshsh! You'll wake the husband, and what will happen then? http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/read/screwed/79.31 )"}, {"response": 26, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Tue, Apr 27, 1999 (10:52)", "body": "Lotus is a company, now owned by IBM. They were pioneers in developing spreadsheet-appilacations when they did Lotus 1-2-3. Lotus Notes is a groupware platform (servers, clients, developing tools) - also mail and workflow functions -, that has since its R4.5 added Web-functionalities. The new R5.0 is quite hot and webable, from what they say, and I'd love to work a WWW-site with that. There's many ideas on what to do with it, like e.g. a database of reviewed records (searchable for artists, release date, labels, etc.), or a database with concerts + events. We could have tools that optimized editors working (by giving our writers access to certain applications via the web, etc.)"}, {"response": 27, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Apr 27, 1999 (16:48)", "body": "You spent $120 on something that would have cost you $70 if youda let wer, ray or me help you with it, wolfie! All ya gotta do is fill in the form above and send it to Internic and they bill you later. It shouldn't cost you anything up front. In fact, a lot of folks hold on to names for 60 to 90 days before they pay for them and some folks don't even pay, they just reapply for the name again."}, {"response": 28, "author": "wolf", "date": "Tue, Apr 27, 1999 (17:53)", "body": "oh well, i was in a mood! i appreciate your support. tell me what i should do now? (no, the internic will only cost 70 and i haven't paid that yet. the 45 was from namesecure and that was for doing the legwork and setting up dns and stuff). it's no biggie, but if i decide to register something else, i'll definately send it your way!"}, {"response": 29, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr 28, 1999 (09:12)", "body": "Yep, cause we won't charge our wolfie nuffin'"}, {"response": 30, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Apr 29, 1999 (00:37)", "body": "well, except for maybe the promise of a good time if we're ever in the swamp..."}, {"response": 31, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sun, May  2, 1999 (09:28)", "body": "i gare-un-tee! ok, guys, right now my url is going to some isp number ( http://###.###.###) . which means that the actual domain isn't rooted yet? i tried to update the message about being under construction using microsoft front page express and i couldn't figure out where to put it (ftp, etc.). is this the hurry up and wait part?"}, {"response": 32, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, May  2, 1999 (12:23)", "body": "could be... where's Stacey when you need to ask a FrontPage question?!? my web day is going so-so"}, {"response": 33, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sun, May  2, 1999 (13:56)", "body": "mine is lowsy since i can't do anything yet. need to find some good but cheap graphics software. really liked netstudio but it's 130 buckaroos!"}, {"response": 34, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, May  2, 1999 (23:21)", "body": "what are you using now? I use the demo version of PaintShopPro..."}, {"response": 35, "author": "wolf", "date": "Mon, May  3, 1999 (07:55)", "body": "i tried that but couldn't figure it out (besides, i'm over my limit on that too)"}, {"response": 36, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, May  3, 1999 (22:59)", "body": "I've used it up to like day 700 hundred or so..."}, {"response": 37, "author": "wolf", "date": "Tue, May  4, 1999 (10:13)", "body": "yeah, i think i'm on 180 *grin*"}, {"response": 38, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sat, May  8, 1999 (19:13)", "body": "ok, my domain update...internic has been paid in full. still waiting word on when i can use my site :("}, {"response": 39, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, May  9, 1999 (00:59)", "body": "*crossing fingers*"}, {"response": 40, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Sun, May  9, 1999 (12:13)", "body": "* Crossing fingers, too *"}, {"response": 41, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Sun, May  9, 1999 (12:14)", "body": "(Autsch, bad thing: Wer, if I cross my fingers, too, and you cross them - do we then DOUBLE-CROSS? So ein Mist!)"}, {"response": 42, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sun, May  9, 1999 (16:37)", "body": "no, the more crossed fingers, the better!"}, {"response": 43, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, May 10, 1999 (01:09)", "body": "at least in this instance..."}, {"response": 44, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Mon, May 10, 1999 (06:23)", "body": "- will comply. -"}, {"response": 45, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sat, May 15, 1999 (08:23)", "body": "ok, these people are ticking me off...i've paid for my site, but still can't use it. they said they'd e me when it was ready. i don't get it. my husband gleefully said i got ripped off."}, {"response": 46, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, May 15, 1999 (14:07)", "body": "*sad face*"}, {"response": 47, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Sun, May 16, 1999 (07:51)", "body": "It's an acute case of major bureaucracy, I guess. Securing the name I own took a while, too..."}, {"response": 48, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sun, May 16, 1999 (09:01)", "body": "ok, thanks for the reassurance *hug*"}, {"response": 49, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Sun, May 16, 1999 (10:27)", "body": "And don't forget to push that fella in, next time you come by a bayou with a GATOR From Hell in it... \"And that's for gleefully saying...!\""}, {"response": 50, "author": "wolf", "date": "Tue, May 18, 1999 (20:41)", "body": "ok, tech support at name secure says my site is up and running. if that's so, how come i can't do anything to change it? ftp doesn't work, i don't know how to access my files or anything. HELP!!!"}, {"response": 51, "author": "ratthing", "date": "Wed, May 19, 1999 (07:40)", "body": "wolfie, did you get a username and password?"}, {"response": 52, "author": "wolf", "date": "Wed, May 19, 1999 (08:26)", "body": "i got a password but have no idea what my username is. lemme go check!"}, {"response": 53, "author": "wolf", "date": "Wed, May 19, 1999 (08:28)", "body": "when i go into the customer service update center, they use my domain as my user name. i've tried all sorts of combo's to do ftp and nothing works. these people aren't very user friendly (the techee's)."}, {"response": 54, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Wed, May 19, 1999 (15:42)", "body": "Techies never are. That's why they're techies."}, {"response": 55, "author": "wolf", "date": "Wed, May 19, 1999 (15:48)", "body": "so i emailed them back specifically telling them the trouble i'm having. they'll probably reply with some snotty answer. terry: how do i change over to the spring's servers? (if'n i'm still welcomed to do that)"}, {"response": 56, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, May 19, 1999 (16:55)", "body": "Just get the information to me, wer and ratthing and we'll set it up for you. You'll need to use the registration form that I posted before and list our nameservers."}, {"response": 57, "author": "wolf", "date": "Wed, May 19, 1999 (17:15)", "body": "OK, printed that out agreement out. what are the nameservers? and the administrative contact and technical contact would be? and what kind of info do you need from me? oh, name secure wrote back and said they weren't a hosting server. well, no kidding, i thought getting my own domain meant i was my own host. i thought it meant that i create my own stuff and ftp it over. i still think these people don't get what i'm saying!"}, {"response": 58, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Wed, May 19, 1999 (17:25)", "body": "They say they don't offer any space for websites. Do they only register names, and leave it to you to put your stuff up somewhere else? Sounds like they don't do webhosting (=letting you put your stuff on their machine), only registrations."}, {"response": 59, "author": "wolf", "date": "Wed, May 19, 1999 (17:34)", "body": "yes, exactly. but i didn't go there for webhosting, if i wanted to do that, i'd stay with geocities. i wanted my own domain. i thought all i had to do was ftp my stuff to my domain under directory or something"}, {"response": 60, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May 19, 1999 (23:54)", "body": "maybe you're confusing being a host on here to having your site \"hosted\"...when they said that they aren't a hosting server, that means that they offer no space outside what is needed to actually register the name and have a simple page up so that your site is \"active\" in case someone else wants the name that you registered, this way you've got dibs but not a working site...if you ever want to use your domain you'll have to move it on here somewhere or pay somebody else even more money to host your site...hope I made some sense for you, Wolfsie..."}, {"response": 61, "author": "wolf", "date": "Thu, May 20, 1999 (19:37)", "body": "terry: the application to internic has been completed and emailed to them. now what? what kind of info do you need from me?"}, {"response": 62, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, May 21, 1999 (09:54)", "body": "Your measurements, your heartrate, a cat scan, just kidding. That's about it. William or ratthing (I hope) can help set it up. Do you want it front page enabled? You'll need to give them a username and password so they can set you up as administrator. Will you want any others to have authoring access besides you?"}, {"response": 63, "author": "wolf", "date": "Fri, May 21, 1999 (10:08)", "body": "it's official, www.midnightwolf.net is now affiliated with spring.net (thanks for the space man!) oh, am i supposed to email name secure and tell them their services are no longer needed?"}, {"response": 64, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, May 21, 1999 (10:23)", "body": "I enjoyed the 2 hours Front Page 2000 class that Mcirosoft gave lastnight at the Marriott. Too bad FP2000 won't run with Win 2000."}, {"response": 65, "author": "wolf", "date": "Fri, May 21, 1999 (10:36)", "body": "i've got front page express, will it work? go ahead and enable the front page deal, i guess. and for now, just use my spring hosting powers as my user id and password (you may have to email them to me, though).....thanks so much for your help (and patience) *hugsssss*"}, {"response": 66, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, May 21, 1999 (16:01)", "body": "woo woo Wolfie!"}, {"response": 67, "author": "wolf", "date": "Tue, May 25, 1999 (19:18)", "body": "uh....guys? is my site loaded against the spring yet? i went ahead and created a directory in my spring hosting area but i don't know where to send files for my webpage....and i remember my user id and stuff...."}, {"response": 68, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, May 25, 1999 (23:06)", "body": "your only name and password I remember, Wolf, are the ones for bayou..."}, {"response": 69, "author": "wolf", "date": "Wed, May 26, 1999 (10:50)", "body": "oh, do i need to make new ones? i'll email them to you!"}, {"response": 70, "author": "wolf", "date": "Wed, May 26, 1999 (10:54)", "body": "done!"}, {"response": 71, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May 26, 1999 (12:25)", "body": "I'll check it when I get home...you could have just e-mailed me the ones you was talking about, too..."}, {"response": 72, "author": "wolf", "date": "Wed, May 26, 1999 (13:08)", "body": "oh, well, i made up new ones *grin*"}, {"response": 73, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May 26, 1999 (13:28)", "body": "you've still got time to change your mind..."}, {"response": 74, "author": "wolf", "date": "Wed, May 26, 1999 (14:03)", "body": "nope, new ones for the webpage, old ones for my hosting duties...."}, {"response": 75, "author": "wolf", "date": "Fri, May 28, 1999 (13:30)", "body": "wer, i sent the info to your spring address...."}, {"response": 76, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, May 28, 1999 (15:20)", "body": "I got it...sorry, been tied up this week so far... if I can find the stuff, hopefully all will be set up by end of business on Tuesday..."}, {"response": 77, "author": "wolf", "date": "Fri, May 28, 1999 (16:33)", "body": "no hurry, don't mean to bug you...."}, {"response": 78, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, May 28, 1999 (17:03)", "body": "as I don't mean to let you down...*grin*"}, {"response": 79, "author": "wolf", "date": "Tue, Jun  1, 1999 (17:49)", "body": "ok, mr wer, where's the goods? *grin*"}, {"response": 80, "author": "wolf", "date": "Fri, Jun  4, 1999 (18:28)", "body": "wer?"}, {"response": 81, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jun  5, 1999 (15:22)", "body": "I'm still trying to decipher the instructions... fortunately, Ray e-mailed me so it's looking up!"}, {"response": 82, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sat, Jun  5, 1999 (16:37)", "body": "i didn't know it was that difficult! *grin*"}, {"response": 83, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Jun  6, 1999 (01:11)", "body": "I'll e-mail you the instructions just so as you can see...*grin*"}, {"response": 84, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sun, Jun  6, 1999 (09:29)", "body": "*gulp* that was awful, wer, i had no idea *big fat wolfie hugs* i didn't understand half of it! where are the instructions to help you with the instructions?"}, {"response": 85, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Jun  6, 1999 (10:55)", "body": "Ray has been very busy..."}, {"response": 86, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sun, Jun  6, 1999 (12:15)", "body": "i hope the site will be easier to update than all that stuff!"}, {"response": 87, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Jun  7, 1999 (07:40)", "body": "'twill..."}, {"response": 88, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jun  7, 1999 (10:31)", "body": "List of domains to set up (thanks Ray!) atlantea.com bioregion.com cooltoys.net estatesales.org workontheweb.com silkcloth.com silkclothing.com worldhunger.com love30.com burnetroad.com energywork.com saveseed.com mustardbath.com realtybabes.com artcentaur.com newsbabes.net"}, {"response": 89, "author": "ratthing", "date": "Wed, Jun 16, 1999 (21:12)", "body": "eeek! i've been so damn busy lately! terry, bioregion.com is already set up. i'll get to the others this weekend!"}, {"response": 90, "author": "wolf", "date": "Wed, Jun 16, 1999 (21:25)", "body": "*tapping paw, expectantly, tail wagging, wolf pup eyes*"}, {"response": 91, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun 17, 1999 (00:15)", "body": "I know!!!!!"}, {"response": 92, "author": "wolf", "date": "Thu, Jun 17, 1999 (08:36)", "body": "*grin*"}, {"response": 93, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Thu, Jun 17, 1999 (09:38)", "body": "Hey boys, where's da doggie treatz?"}, {"response": 94, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Jun 20, 1999 (12:18)", "body": "know, which way should I answer this?"}, {"response": 95, "author": "wolf", "date": "Thu, Jun 24, 1999 (09:33)", "body": "i had this horrible nightmare last night that someone stole my domain out from under me and hard at work putting stuff on it!"}, {"response": 96, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Thu, Jun 24, 1999 (09:57)", "body": "Wer, give her a treat! The poor creature!"}, {"response": 97, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jun 25, 1999 (22:59)", "body": "okay, Wolf, first step done...you have an account on access now (you do, too, Alexander)...now if I can just guess as well on the rest as I did with Alexander's hard drive troubles..."}, {"response": 98, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sat, Jun 26, 1999 (11:50)", "body": "in english please (or wolfese, if you don't mind) *smooch*"}, {"response": 99, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jun 26, 1999 (13:54)", "body": "you can put stuff up on access.spring.net under mswolf68 just like you can on www.spring.net under bayou...it's one of the things I needed to do to get your domain set-up...(oh, and your uid is 1068 in case you were wondering...)now if I can just learn enough of the bash shell to set up the rest for you..."}, {"response": 100, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jun 26, 1999 (22:28)", "body": "Go, wer. And do you have the current set of instructions?"}, {"response": 101, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jun 26, 1999 (23:20)", "body": "current? not sure...I figured the ones I have I just needed to sub .net for .com...are there newer ones than that? and I finally figured out how to do a public last so many responses... you pipe the tail -nr /usr/bbs/resplog/ into sed s/restricted/public/g so I'll get those pages set up for you soon...now, back to studying so as I can help Wolf..."}, {"response": 102, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Jun 27, 1999 (02:24)", "body": "well, for some reason I think 206.97.234.rev is possibly the wrong file to learn vi on....the directory for midnightwolf.net is set up on access now, too, Wolf...hopefully, I haven't messed anything up yet..."}, {"response": 103, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sun, Jun 27, 1999 (16:16)", "body": "i really wouldn't know, wer *hugs*"}, {"response": 104, "author": "wolf", "date": "Thu, Feb  7, 2036 (01:13)", "body": "wer, how do i access access? is it the same as ftp? (thanks for your help *hugz*)"}, {"response": 105, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Feb  7, 2036 (06:52)", "body": "yep...just ftp to access.spring.net instead of www.spring.net"}, {"response": 106, "author": "wolf", "date": "Thu, Feb  7, 2036 (17:04)", "body": "okee dokee!"}, {"response": 107, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jul 15, 1999 (14:18)", "body": "It is going great...there are new people posting, and several conferences are at least partially active again!!!"}, {"response": 108, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Jul 15, 1999 (16:34)", "body": "It is even better than that. I now have 14 topics!"}, {"response": 109, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Jul 15, 1999 (17:51)", "body": "Actually it has been an incredible week. I went from trying to avoid being a host for fear I would mess up a topic to being World Builder with my own Conference. I am one happy little camper!"}, {"response": 110, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jul 15, 1999 (18:43)", "body": "Yep Barry's here, somewhat bruised and beaten up from some other places he's been, and he's exceptionally well traveled in this world of virtual communities. And prolific. And I have a feeling Barry has friends . . . And Caryn's here. With her grand ideas and plans! I hope she realizes them all. I just got her out of topic creation madness and she's happily posting responses in the topics she's created in books and music. So, let the good times roll. The Pledges were awesome today, over $100!"}, {"response": 111, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Jul 15, 1999 (20:30)", "body": "(Patting virtually everyone on the back...)Congratulations, Terry, Dear! It The place to be. I am overjoyed that I have a large consensus on that opinion. Postings and money, too? It does not get any better than that!"}, {"response": 112, "author": "wolf", "date": "Fri, Jul 16, 1999 (10:05)", "body": "hey, wer, is my domain ready yet? (i haven't had time to mess with access yet, still reworking my site with netfusion)"}, {"response": 113, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jul 16, 1999 (11:16)", "body": "almost..."}, {"response": 114, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sat, Jul 17, 1999 (21:36)", "body": "thanks sweetie *hugs*"}, {"response": 115, "author": "wolf", "date": "Fri, Sep 10, 1999 (17:41)", "body": "ok, now it's september, any word on my shell? (or whatever the hell that thing is called?)"}, {"response": 116, "author": "wolf", "date": "Fri, Sep 10, 1999 (17:52)", "body": "terry: can you email my password for access? thanks in advance!"}, {"response": 117, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Sep 11, 1999 (12:18)", "body": "Just email me what you want it to be and I'll set it that, and include your forwarding address (email) in that too. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 23, "subject": "Good writing on the web.  Where is it?  What constitutes it?", "response_count": 5, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Mar  4, 1998 (08:04)", "body": "Has anyone seen any good writing on the web? Where?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Jul  2, 1998 (21:02)", "body": "yes, here in the poetry conferences. if you visit my website, there's a couple of links to some great poetry boards too. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/7059"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jul  3, 1998 (08:09)", "body": "How can we get more poetry conf participants, wolfie? Any ideas?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Jul  3, 1998 (10:44)", "body": "advertise!"}, {"response": 5, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, May 24, 1999 (23:14)", "body": "http://www.etext.org/ web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 24, "subject": "Electronic Commerce on the web", "response_count": 12, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "rikam", "date": "Sun, Sep 22, 1996 (15:41)", "body": "From what I understand of micropayments, a lack of standards will hamper their acceptance."}, {"response": 2, "author": "rikam", "date": "Sun, Sep 22, 1996 (16:35)", "body": "The growth rate of the Internet means the skill level of the average Internet user is going down fast. There is a lot of money to be made by converting much of today's commerce to an electronic one. Those running an Internet site need to understand the tradeoffs in making it secure or how the Internet is likely to be secured. There are tools that will work and once management is convinced, the growth with be explosive."}, {"response": 3, "author": "klreisig", "date": "Sat, Oct 26, 1996 (10:54)", "body": "With these new units that will just hook to you tv and phone line and allow you to connect to the Web I can't see how you will be able to charge in microunits. The internet is soon becoming an extension of tv. Fiber optics are being laid in cities, cable tv companies are upgrading there cable to handle higher bandwiths. Tv stations are being gobbled up left and right. It will be made easier for people to connect to the \"Superhighway\". Changes are happening real fast. For the better???? Who knows?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "shannon", "date": "Sat, Nov 23, 1996 (16:20)", "body": "I have no quarrel with paying for something of value. Some of the things available are of poor quality, some are excellent. How does the customer know if a product is worthwhile? Will they get their money back if they are not satisfied? These questions will have to be answered? I agree with much of the previous comments."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov 24, 1996 (00:55)", "body": "And will the channel they are buying from have security and integrity?"}, {"response": 6, "author": "Mouzaki", "date": "Sun, Nov 24, 1996 (16:25)", "body": "Terry...Where can I find a normral chat room? (like the ones on AOL??)"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov 24, 1996 (16:28)", "body": "In the austen conference there is a link to one."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (12:04)", "body": "The July issue of ZD Internet Magazine reviewed: Catalog 3.0 www.virtualspin.com 49.95 / mo / 150 items Cat@log 1.0 www.thevisionfactory.com 1,950.00 ECS 3.0 Pro www.icat.com 9,995.00 Creator 4.0 www.formaninteractive.com 149.00 StoreManager www.outreach.com 3,495.00 Intershop O/M www.netconsult.com 4,995.00 (UNIX 7,995.00) Live Store 3.0 www.viaweb.com 100 - 300 / mo Mechant Bldr www.ifact.com 1,495.00 single store OrderPoint 3.0 www.speedware.com 20,000.00 for NT (30k UNIX) All run on NT Server 4.0 with SP 2. They tested all of them. Their \"final analysis\": Live Store for a fast startup with a small budget. For your own server, iCat electronic commerce suite. At the high end for isps, Intershop Mall."}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Mar  1, 1998 (09:31)", "body": "Has anyone looked at http://www.ibill.com ?"}, {"response": 11, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Mar  1, 1998 (19:59)", "body": "Check it out if you get a chance and compare it to www.cybersource.com And let me know which you think would be the best e-commerce solution for the Spring. We're going to need to start selling things here pretty soon to support this community. I can float it another year or so, but pretty soon the Spring's going to go out and earn a living on it's own."}, {"response": 14, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov  8, 1998 (10:23)", "body": "some comments from suebd-is-suebd@well.com I'm looking to open an art gallery/shop connected with a community site, and one of the exhibitors is a jewelry artist, who makes pins, etc. in several different finishes, sizes, metals, etc. So the ordering system needs to be able to deal with that. I'm looking for one of those deals where you don't need a merchant account, and the card processing company takes care of all the credit card stuff and sales tax for you, for a fee of (generally) 15% (but hopefully lower?). I've found three possibilities, and have questions on a couple more - wonder if anyone here has dealt with these folks? http://www.ibill.com/ looks good on paper, but would prefer to pay less than 15% if possible. Any horror stories about Ibill? http://www.securetrans.net/ looks OK too - similar stuff to Ibill, and they also charge 15%. http://www.Kagi.com - the shareware software payment processors, who are starting to branch out into hard good. I fear, though, that their ordering system (a one page thing rather than a cart setup) would be way too simplistic for what I need, and the order form would be about six miles long. Their fees are based on amount of sale, and range from around 8-12%. http://www.merchantonline.com and http://www.outreach.com/ - (Clear Commerce) - both recommended above, but I can't see on their site that they do this particular non-merchant account kind of thing anymore. Unless it's well-hidden. Anyone know for sure? http://www.gmwnet.com - a small business catering to small businesses, allegedly trustworthy and a good guy."}, {"response": 15, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Nov 11, 1998 (15:23)", "body": "hmmm... web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 25, "subject": "Favorite Web Sites", "response_count": 41, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "Cheryl", "date": "Tue, Dec  3, 1996 (16:04)", "body": "NPR's Cartalk www.cartalk.com Doonesbury Townhall www.doonesbury.com Metropolitan Museum of Art www.metmuseum.org Roger Ebert Movie Reviews www.suntimes.com/ebert David Letterman Top Ten Lists www.cbs.com/lateshow/idx96.html American Guild of English Handbell Ringers www.agehr.org"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Dec  3, 1996 (18:33)", "body": "Can we link this to the web conference so this topic runs there too?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "jwinsor", "date": "Wed, Dec  4, 1996 (00:47)", "body": "A few quick faves: C.S. Lewis home page: http://www.cache.net/~john/cslewis/index.html Torvill & Dean home page: http://users.aol.com/tanddfanp/index.htm Monterey Bay Aquarium home page: http://www.mbayaq.org/ Thornburg Center home page: http://www.tcpd.org/ KPIX PIX Page: http://www.kpix.com/"}, {"response": 4, "author": "geekman", "date": "Wed, Dec  4, 1996 (05:50)", "body": "How about all these Jane Austen pages? Firstly Ostentatious Jane's Page Then ... A&E Behind the Scenes - Emma Spring Conference Center - aust e n conference Discover Hampshire - Jane Austen Matsuoka's Jane Austen James Dawe's JA Page Henry's Ultimate Jane Austen Info Page. Now Playing-Emma P&P2 BB - it's back!!! Congrats Amy. A fan's Pride & Prejudice Photo Album Alicia's Temporary Bulletin Board The British Gentlemen's Club Ladies are Welcome. Welcome to Britain And finally ... A&E Behind the Scenes a look at the P&P2 series."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  4, 1996 (07:44)", "body": "Ann and Cheryl if you inlcude http:// in front of your urls folks can then click on them. They'll come \"alive\""}, {"response": 6, "author": "Bernie", "date": "Wed, Dec  4, 1996 (08:41)", "body": "Joan, too, I didn't realise you were a Torvil and Dean fan."}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  4, 1996 (12:39)", "body": "http://www.links.net is Justin's website."}, {"response": 8, "author": "jwinsor", "date": "Wed, Dec  4, 1996 (20:13)", "body": "] Bernie: I didn't realise you were a Torvil and Dean fan. Indeed, the one consolation that I had the evening of the first P&P2BB crash was that Torvill & Dean were participating in a competition for professionals, so I was able to solace myself with yet another addiction. ;-)"}, {"response": 9, "author": "elder", "date": "Wed, Dec  4, 1996 (20:23)", "body": "A few of my \"bookmarks\" are: Nebraska Cornhuskers site at http://www.huskers.com James Berardinelli's movie reviews at http://www.cybernex.net/~berardin/ English Adventures tour co (Lake District walking tours) at http://www.walks-uk.demon.co.uk Alan Rickman page at http://www.fred.net/karina/rickman/ Jeremy Northam page (maintained by the kind hostess of our chat room) at http://www.worldrch.com/northam/news.html"}, {"response": 10, "author": "saskia", "date": "Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (11:09)", "body": "The Center for the Easily Amused at http://www.amused.com"}, {"response": 11, "author": "Cheryl", "date": "Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (13:38)", "body": "Oh Saskia, I like the CEA also. One of my favorite links there is \"The Evil Little Brother Excuse Generator.\" It's a hoot!"}, {"response": 12, "author": "mrobens", "date": "Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (14:02)", "body": "Take a look at my company's site - it's kind of cool if you're into management. http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu"}, {"response": 13, "author": "maud", "date": "Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (16:23)", "body": "The 12/10 edition of the Wall Street Journal included a supplement on the internet and some sites to try. Despite its unfortunte name www.girlsonfilm.com has real potential. Wonder if they're tuned in to JA? Sorry, can't make a link here as I am not a true proficient."}, {"response": 14, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (19:40)", "body": "You mean a link to http:// www.girlsonfilm.com ?"}, {"response": 15, "author": "maud", "date": "Thu, Dec 12, 1996 (11:32)", "body": "Yes"}, {"response": 16, "author": "JohanneD", "date": "Fri, Dec 27, 1996 (17:37)", "body": "Some favs : If curious about things happening in Quebec : http://www.toile.qc.ca/index.html Litterature : A francophone cultural and lit. site : http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/clicnet Virtual Librairy of Alexandrie : http://www.alexandrie.com/index.html Universals association of bibliophiles : http://web.cnam.fr/ABU For children : Positive Parenting On-line : http://www.positiveparenting.com/ Child Safety on the Information Highway : http://www.4j.edu/InternetResources/Safety/Safety.html"}, {"response": 17, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Dec 27, 1996 (19:55)", "body": "Websites of folks that I would like to see spend more time on the Spring: http://econ161.berkeley.edu/ http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/mrgiffor/ http://kfs.org/~james http://nimbus.temple.edu/~dloebell/homepage.html http://pathfinder.com/@@M6ioTAYAJkhf7tWm/time/bios/philipelmer-dewitt.html http://people.delphi.com/jack419/roger.html http://student.uq.edu.au/~s271502 http://student.uq.edu.au/~s315495 http://wonka.acns.nwu.edu/germuska/personal.html http://www.abbedon.com http://www.birdrock.com/platopeople http://www.cais.com/robp/ http://www.cheesesofnazareth.com http://www.coast.net/~emv http://www.concentric.net/~mfitz http://www.crossover.com/costik/ http://www.cruznet.net/~stclare/index.html http://www.ctheory.com/ http://www.cyberhighway.net/~lsievert/ http://www.cyborganic.com/people/rebecca http://www.emf.net/~cynical/ http://www.escape.ca/~krattai http://www.eskimo.com/~comic http://www.estacao.ignet.com.br/ http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7429 http://www.grathis.com/teague http://www.hotwired.com/staff/bslesins/ http://www.icenine.com/changes/ http://www.ilsinc.com/bios/gonzalez.htm http://www.io.com/~jjd http://www.iquest.net/~dgrey http://www.iwaynet.net/~billw/ http://www.izzy.net/~janc http://www.julian.org http://www.lne.com/lemay/ http://www.lyellowpages.com http://www.memoria.com/alb/ http://www.minds.com/cgi-bin/maslink.cgi/command?stat+bodies+jenb http://www.olywa.net/meep http://www.panix.com/~pnh http://www.prairienet.org/~cicely/ http://www.primenet.com/~grifter/home.html http://www.rain.org/~phoutz http://www.realtime.net/~jzitt http://www.realtime.net/~kate http://www.staceys.com/cgi/COMPindex.cgi http://www.stale.com/cmp/contents.html http://www.tmn.com/jgates http://www.verge.com http://www.well.com/~hlr http://www.well.com/~jonl http://www.well.com/user/derb/ http://www.well.com/user/gtk/ http://www.well.com/user/ivanski http://www.well.com/user/jilld http://www.well.com/user/markmcc/ http://www.well.com/user/srhodes http://www.well.com/user/tcircus/Cobra/Spoon http://www.well.com/www/gunafa/ http://www.west.net/~jbc/ http://www.whitman.edu/~schussat/ http://www.wrldnet.net/~kas/ http://www.zipcon.com/stdale"}, {"response": 18, "author": "LauraM", "date": "Mon, Dec 30, 1996 (14:42)", "body": "I'm lost with all of those websites, I'll never get any work done!!!"}, {"response": 19, "author": "donr", "date": "Mon, Jan  6, 1997 (18:04)", "body": ""}, {"response": 20, "author": "Donna", "date": "Mon, Jan  6, 1997 (18:39)", "body": "Don't quit Donald. Try again."}, {"response": 21, "author": "Amy", "date": "Mon, Jan  6, 1997 (19:16)", "body": "Maybe he has no favorites."}, {"response": 22, "author": "Kali", "date": "Fri, Jan 24, 1997 (18:48)", "body": "http://www.redgreen.com 'Nuff Said !!!"}, {"response": 23, "author": "jwinsor", "date": "Fri, Jan 24, 1997 (21:06)", "body": "What is this? A site to torment the color blind?"}, {"response": 24, "author": "Kali", "date": "Sat, Jan 25, 1997 (04:15)", "body": "No, Joan, just a silly show about outdoorsiness, laziness, and incompetence so acute as to be enshired as a form of alternative intelligence...and other male flaws. Absolutely hilarious."}, {"response": 25, "author": "elder", "date": "Sat, Jan 25, 1997 (07:18)", "body": "The Red Green Show -- I haved happened upon it once or twice while channel surfing. Just stupid enough to be interesting! And now he has his own web site. Simply amazing."}, {"response": 26, "author": "sld", "date": "Sat, Jan 25, 1997 (10:09)", "body": "Cartalk.com - a woman after my heart!"}, {"response": 27, "author": "Cheryl", "date": "Sat, Jan 25, 1997 (15:54)", "body": "Sharon: Cartalk.com - a woman after my heart! Oh Sharon, I just love Click and Clack! Don't know a damn thing about cars, but love the Tappit Brothers! ;-)"}, {"response": 28, "author": "sld", "date": "Sat, Jan 25, 1997 (17:41)", "body": "Me too! I rarely miss their radio show. But I listen to a LOT of radio."}, {"response": 29, "author": "Ann", "date": "Mon, Jan 27, 1997 (15:48)", "body": "I wonder if Donna listens to Car Talk?"}, {"response": 30, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Feb 11, 1997 (21:52)", "body": "www.dreamwv.com/shrink/shrink.html It's a ShrinkInABox. The world's first psybertherapist for NN3.0, as insightful as human psychotherapists and no more harmful."}, {"response": 31, "author": "JohanneD", "date": "Wed, Feb 12, 1997 (01:58)", "body": "Can we asked him his opinion on thrust and dependency?"}, {"response": 32, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Feb 12, 1997 (05:30)", "body": "Let me know what your interaction is like Johanne!"}, {"response": 33, "author": "Susan", "date": "Thu, Feb 13, 1997 (00:11)", "body": "Can we asked him his opinion on thrust and dependency? Is this a Freudian slip, Johanne?"}, {"response": 34, "author": "jwinsor", "date": "Thu, Feb 13, 1997 (21:26)", "body": ""}, {"response": 35, "author": "Kali", "date": "Fri, Feb 14, 1997 (07:00)", "body": "The British Tourist Authority Site has info. about film locations, including P&P2 and Emma... http://www.bta.org.uk/moviemap/"}, {"response": 36, "author": "jaye523", "date": "Sun, Feb 16, 1997 (15:36)", "body": ""}, {"response": 37, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Feb 16, 1997 (21:56)", "body": "Welcome Jaye."}, {"response": 38, "author": "Kaffeine", "date": "Fri, Feb 21, 1997 (18:34)", "body": "Okay, just found a very cool website. If you like the game You Don't Know Jack (which, if you don't know about it, is hysterical) and have Win 95 running, you can now play it online and compete to win $100 daily/$1000 monthly prizes (and its free!)! http://www.berzerk.com"}, {"response": 39, "author": "Cheryl", "date": "Sat, Feb 22, 1997 (01:08)", "body": "Thanks Kaff! I love You Don't Know Jack! \"If Cindy Brady were stranded on Pluto, how many years would it take her to get home to her special pigtail curlers?\" ;-)"}, {"response": 40, "author": "Arnessa", "date": "Sat, May 24, 1997 (08:31)", "body": "Try www.boston.com for information on the news and happenings in the Boston area!"}, {"response": 41, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, May 24, 1997 (09:47)", "body": "Does Boston have a bunch of media giants battling for local market share like they do in Austin with the newspaper, the tv stations, etc. It's really heating up here."}]}, {"num": 26, "subject": "playing on the web (cool tips)", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Dec 14, 1996 (23:00)", "body": "Some simple scripts for replacing all instances of \"htm\" with \"html\", a common need with Windows created web pages. #!/bin/sh for i in \"*.htm\" do j=`basename $i .htm` cat $i | sed s/\\.htm/\\.html/g > $j.html done ksh even easier. for i in *.htm; do; mv $i ${i%.htm}.html; done"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Dec 14, 1996 (23:02)", "body": "[BODY BGCOLOR=\"#FFFFFF\"] also known as [BODY BGCOLOR=\"white\"] I've substituted square brackets for angle brackets. Use angle brackets."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Dec 15, 1996 (03:58)", "body": "web.178.415: Wheel Oil Beef Hooked (josh) Sun 11 Feb 96 21:12 I just discovered an odd trick I hadn't seen: try entering view-source: http://www.blahblahblah web.178.416: Wheel Oil Beef Hooked (josh) Sun 11 Feb 96 21:19 Wow -- you can even put that in an href! web.178.426: Wheel Oil Beef Hooked (josh) Thu 22 Feb 96 12:46 You can make it an anchor. For example, View the source to this page web.178.486: Wheel Oil Beef Hooked (josh) Thu 7 Mar 96 19:21 Now what could be doing _this_? I load the page http://www.iclnet.org/clm/real/ri9502/sommers.html The red \"stop\" light flashes on and then off about once a second; so does the status bar, too fast to see what it is trying to accomplish. WTF? quoted with permission of josh@well.com web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 27, "subject": "web news - hot off the presses", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Dec 15, 1996 (01:00)", "body": "Microsoft and Pointcast In Deal When MS announced that the next release of Windows (I wonder if they will call it Windows 00 three years from now) would incorporate a new Internet Explorer that allowed channels of Web \"push\" services on the desktop, it looked like they were set to move in on Pointcast like they are moving in on Netscape. But for the short term at least, they look to be coexisting. The two companies announced plans to cooperate: Pointcast will distribute MSNBC content and \"embrace Microsoft technology\", and the new Windows will feature the Pointcast system on the desktop. Since most Pointcast users today are said to run Netscape Navigator, guess who loses. DuPont Does $4 Billion Outsourcing They awarded 10-year contracts to Computer Sciences Corporation and Andersen Consulting to manage corporate systems that include 300 sites in 70 countries, with 65,000 computers. Andersen also got $550 million to run DuPont's application development."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Dec 24, 1996 (04:18)", "body": "The cookies are set by yapp, our conferencing software. And Dave Thaler, the author of yapp, would be in a better position to explain \"cookies\". You may want to venture over to the yapp conference and pose this question to Dave. I posted some generic informatoin on cookies a while back if you want to follow those links. Did you read those posts? web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 28, "subject": "Apache web server - what we use", "response_count": 10, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Dec 31, 1996 (06:53)", "body": "From spidaman@well.com comes this advice on how to get the Springs logs going again: Topic 285 [web]: The Apache Server #52 of 53: Video killed (spidaman) Tue Dec 31 '96 (00:10) 25 lines Terry, your config files and permissions look basicly OK at first glance. Indulge me then while I carry on with admin procedure...assuming BSD and csh, a session should look something like... --confirm your apache server is running www% ps -ax | grep httpd | wc -l --should be a number greater than MinSpareServers in httpd.conf, if not :( --assume you have a favorable response, it's running and needs a restart www% su www# kill -HUP `cat /usr/local/etc/httpd/logs/httpd.pid` www# tail -f /usr/local/etc/httpd/logs/access_log --hit your server, do you see hits getting logged?? if not, do this --(my kloodge for killing a webserver dead for a full restart) www# ps -ax | grep httpd | awk '{print $1}' > /tmp/httpds www# foreach i (`cat /tmp/httpds`) ? kill -9 $i ? end www# /usr/local/etc/httpd/httpd -f /usr/local/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf www# tail -f /usr/local/etc/httpd/logs/access_log --hit your server, do you see hits getting logged?? if not, your binary is --fucked? take two aspirin and call me in 1997? ps - skip the Apache 1.2 beta until the incompatiblity with AOL's proxy server is resolved (we learned the hard way, ouch!) -- see comp.infosystems.www.server.unix for details... Topic 285 [web]: The Apache Server"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jan  7, 1997 (09:48)", "body": "I tried this but it resulted in killing off the main page. I had to reboot the server this morining. The problem was my lack of understanding in how Matt had set up the logging. Everything is working now, including logging. Now we need a good stats package."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Apr  2, 1998 (16:39)", "body": "I'd have to check, I haven't used that specifically."}, {"response": 6, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, Feb  5, 2000 (11:08)", "body": "I'm going to begin talking about the Apache web server because it's the heart and soul of what we do here on the Spring. And I want to learn more about how it works. I didn't really choose Apache as the Spring's webserver program. I chose BSDI as the operating system and Apache was included. It's what most people use and the most common webserver on the Internet. The actual program that runs or \"binary\" is called httpd and runs in the background several times on the server. Each of these httpd's has it's energy directed at a website like www.spring.net or www.austen.com which is a directory. This site directory has three subdirectories: conf - /var/www/conf on http://206.97.234.70 which has the configuration files of which httpd.conf is the most important. docs - /var/www/docs contains the web scripts and the publicly accessible areas logs - /var/www/logs contains the log files In addition to these three directories /var/www also has a /bin directory, a /cgi-bin area, an /icons directory, a /stats directory and a /webdocs directory where all the dedicated websites live. The cgi-bin is where are CGI scripts reside. In the Config file httpd.conf there are over 150 directives that control different aspects of Apache. And there are flags that can be invoked when Apache starts up. Apache is free. You download it from http://www.apache.org . Then you have to compile and run it."}, {"response": 7, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Feb 10, 2000 (20:10)", "body": "Is downloading this program suggested for our personal computers? Would it help us with things we do on Spring? (I should be putting this in first person since I cannot speak for anyone else!) I am more than willing to learn everything I can about what makes Spring work since I would like to be of more help - and I feel that I know so little..."}, {"response": 8, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, Feb 12, 2000 (20:37)", "body": "Not recommended on your pc, although there is a version that runs on Windows. You'd need a dedicated connection to run your own webserver. PWS is a much easier solution for Windows and free from Microsoft's site."}, {"response": 9, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Feb 12, 2000 (20:48)", "body": "If it would not be of use here, I probably do not need PWS, in any case. I spend enough time here messing about as it is. Thanks!"}, {"response": 10, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Feb 12, 2000 (23:52)", "body": "Have a dedicated connection (just one of the changes Spring has made in my life) Wish I could get my telnet account back...where is ratthing when I need him?!"}, {"response": 11, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (08:16)", "body": ">I'm trying to figure out how we're going to do telnet on the new system because they only, at this point, allow one single telnet account per domain name. It may have to wait until I get set up with asynchronous DSL and can run my own UNIX server in the home office. Colcated UNIX servers are just too expesnsive, which is how we had the liberty of so many telnet accounts before. Or possibly, maybe Kaylene could think of a workaround where we could use the singlGot error 2 (No such file or directory) in out of time(null) ebaldur:/usr/home/sprin5/virtual_html $ I'm trying to figure out how we're going to do tenet on the new system because they only, at this point, allow one single telnet account per domain name. It may have to wait until I get set up with asynchronous DSL and can run my own UNIX server in the home office. Colcated UNIX servers are just too expesnsive, which is how we had the liberty of so many telnet accounts before. Or possibly, maybe Kaylene could think of a workaround where we could use the single tlnet account for multiple folks. .."}, {"response": 12, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (12:29)", "body": "Gotcha. It is not crucial for me. I just want to be more efficient at it through practice. I find it most helpful for trouble-shooting when something goes amiss with posts. No hurry and certainly, do not pay them any more. Mahalo! web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 29, "subject": "web servers", "response_count": 5, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Feb  9, 1997 (18:37)", "body": "From: mhp@ns0.netcraft.co.uk (Mike Prettejohn) Subject: February Netcraft Web Server Survey Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc,comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows The February 1997 Netcraft Web Server Survey is out; ---------------------------------- Headlines -------------------------------- 739,706 sites responded; Over 300,000 sites running Apache Microsoft moves past NCSA as third placed developer - Top placed developers with numbers of hosts responding and percentage share - Developer Hosts Percent Change Apache 304131 41.12 - .47% Netscape 97828 13.23 - .22% Microsoft 80857 10.93 + .34% NCSA 71840 9.71 -1.14% - Top placed servers with numbers of hosts responding and percentage share - Server Hosts Percent Change Apache 304131 41.12 - .47% NCSA 71840 9.71 -1.14% Microsoft-IIS 62460 8.44 + .72% Netscape-Communications 35272 4.77 - .36% Netscape-Commerce 33978 4.55 - .35% Further down the list, Jef Poskanzer's thttpd gains a considerable 18,000 sites, primarily as a result of Demon Internet deploying it on their virtual hosting system. Netscape-Enterprise rises from 17,385 to 21,867 & Stronghold from 11,813 to 14,506 sites. The full survey is at http://www.netcraft.com/survey/"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Feb  9, 1997 (19:23)", "body": "Does anybody know a source for the latest data on number of web servers on the Internet. The last number I have is from Matthew Gray's page -- his Web Wanderer counted 230,000 in June. Does anyone know where I could find more recent data? http://www.genmagic.com/Internet/Trends has some interesting data from a few months ago."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Sep 15, 1998 (12:41)", "body": "I wonder if we can host all this off a cable modem? See http://www.dnshosting.com/index.html It would save a hell of a lot!"}, {"response": 4, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Sep 15, 1998 (23:06)", "body": "ought to...you just need a ppp connection, right?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Aug 17, 2000 (20:58)", "body": "The Newsletter about Web Hosts, ISPs, and Developers August 17, 2000 Vol. 2, No. 26 ****************************************************** Be sure to check us out at CNET, Web Services! http://webservices.cnet.com/ Julie Lauer Associate Producer, CNET Web Services comments@webservices.cnet.com Welcome to CNET's Web Services Dispatch, your guide to what's new, what's happening: info you need to know. For example, we have just added the \"Most Popular List\" at: http://1.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin1/flo?y=eui0BxpGy0t0D3pD CNET's Web Services Most Popular List is a ranking of Web Hosting providers. Each candidate is measured by how many visits per week they get from our site. 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I have gone through your web site and ir is real useful one.I am really interested in doing conference with you.I want my own web site .Please let me how should I go for it. You can contact me on smittal@hotmail.com Thanks.. ..Sandeep."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jan 22, 1997 (06:42)", "body": "Eamil sent!"}, {"response": 5, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, Dec 21, 2000 (17:01)", "body": "http://209.176.30.127/images/ This picture is real - not doctored in anyway - and was taken last week in Waldorf by a Transportation Supervisor for a company that delivers building materials for 84 Lumber. When he saw it in the parking lot of IHOP, he went and bought a camera to take pictures. The car is still running as can be witnessed by the exhaust. A woman is either asleep or otherwise out in the front seat passenger side. The guy driving it was over jogging up and down on Rt. 925 in the background. The witnesses said their physical state was OTHER than normal and the police just shook their heads in amazement. The driver finally came back after the police were there and was getting down at the back to cut the 'twine around the load. They told him to get back until it was taken off. The materials were loaded at Home Depot. Their store manager said they had the customer sign a waiver! Both back tires are trashed. The back shocks were driven up through the floorboard. In the back seat were 10 bags, 80 lbs. each of concrete. On the roof are many 2X4s, 4X4s and sheets of OSB. They estimated the load weight at 3000 lbs. The car is a VW Jetta with FL plates and the guy said he was headed for Annapolis."}, {"response": 6, "author": "wolf", "date": "Fri, May 25, 2001 (20:11)", "body": "this picture went around email for awhile! web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 30, "subject": "scripts for websites", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Feb  9, 1997 (20:02)", "body": "#1 of 1: More Doctor Who than Doctor Dre (cromis) Wed Jan 15 '97 (21:25) 78 lines Well, this doesn't seem like a popular topic :-) ... but it seems the right place for something I thought a few people might be interested in - two little gadgets for auto-updating web pages with either a time stamp or a login counter, although there are probably other wyas you could use them. timestamp and logincounter both work by searching for a comment looking like this or this in the supplied inputfile, (writing the file as they go into outputfile), and when they find one of those comments, they replace the ENTIRE LINE with something like this: 16/01/97 or this 167 so that when your page is viewed just the bit between the comments will be seen. It'll do this for every occurrence of them in your supplied file, which in the case of logincounter will increment the count repeatedly so don't do it. Usage is: timestamp -switch inputfile outputfile where -switch can be -t Stamp time (hh:mm:ss) only -T Stamp time (hh:mm) only -d Stamp date (dd/mm/yy) only UK-style -D Stamp date (mm/dd/yy) US-style -b Stamp both date (dd/mm/yy) and time (hh:mm) with a space between -B Stamp both date (mm/dd/yy) and time (hh:mm) with a space between and logincounter inputfile outputfile in the directory where a file .logincounter exists and has an integer on the first line (like the .counter file, but probably best to put it in your home directory) Or just invoke them without arguments for instructions. If you just want to have a timestamp and/or a logincounter without worrying about all that that will update every time you log in, add the relevant lines like this: I last logged in at and that makes it times since I put in the counter. to the file you want updating, and then edit your .profile, adding the following lines to the end: timestamp -B WEB/mypage.html WEB/mypage.new mv WEB/mypage.new WEB/mypage.html logincounter WEB/mypage.html WEB/mypage.new mv WEB/mypage.new WEB/mypage.html chmod 644 WEB/mypage.html where WEB/mypage.html is the page to update, and -B is the type of timestamp you want. Then create a file .logincounter in your home directory with just the character 1 (or whatever number you want to start at) in it, and then copy the files from my directory like this: cp ~cromis/logincounter . cp ~cromis/timestamp . and bob's yer uncle, instant (minor) neat trick. (I don't know if you need to have . in your PATH to do tha, but perhaps some UNIX genius can tell me that) If you want the source type cp ~cromis/source/*.c . Do what you like with them; if you have any problems email me, although you use them at your own risk. (it's 5:30am here so I'm a little tired :-) Note also that if you have any lines that are more than 5000 characters in your file it will truncate them to 5000 so watch it, all you people you like to string your entire page onto one line. Thanks!"}, {"response": 2, "author": "spring", "date": "Fri, Jan 28, 2005 (08:20)", "body": "http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex9/ Have scripts that keep browsers from copying images. When they right click on a page to highlight text or copy an image, nothing happens. Check it out! Go to this page and try to copy some text or an image. http://spring.net/noclick web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 31, "subject": "new to electronic communication needs basic assistance", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 32, "subject": "new to electronic communication needs basic assistance", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "Pedrobot", "date": "Mon, May 19, 1997 (00:00)", "body": "If you need some hand holding and don't mind paying for it, you can contact one of the online services like America On Line. The better route, however, is to contact a local Internet Service Provider (ISP) and get yourself set up with a SLIP or PPP connection. If you're running Windows 95, the latter should should be relatively easy since the drivers and Winsock stack are already in the system. Very often the ISP can provide the needed software and instructions as well. Both protocols are essentially methods by which the system is able to use the modem as if it were a network adapter card, albeit a slow one, but it works. If you live in an area where such access is long distance no matter what, you might just be better off going through the library until such time as some form of local access materializes. In the next few years, it is likely that direct satelite link access will become more prevalent and two-way, at which point a lot of areas not currently served will get access at relatively reasonable rates."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, May 19, 1997 (00:05)", "body": "It's going to be dizzying, the pace of change and the globalization of the net. It's already a runaway train. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 33, "subject": "push technology on the web", "response_count": 12, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jun  7, 1997 (13:52)", "body": "Here are teh most reasoned comments on this subject that I have read. This is reprinted, of course, with the permission of the author. Greg Costikyan (costik) Mon 24 Feb '97 (07:02 AM) To my mind, the real value of push technology is not what people have been claiming. This is not a way to make the Web into TV. It is a way to make the network into the computer. The problem with the Web is that it is entirely client-driven; the user requests info, and the server basically can't update until the user makes another request. Contrast this to your computer; you do something, the computer responds--but also, the computer can alert you when something happens, or update something in background, etc., etc. It's far more active, indeed, interactive. There are scads of things you just can't do on the Web because it is \"pull only.\" Can't do anything other than pretty damn trivial games, for one thing. (Well, you can, but not easily.) Give us an easily-used, widely available push technology of some kind, and the Net will be the single most popular gaming platform in a matter of years. Not just games, to be sure; instead of developing large, propriety financial transaction software for use by its brokers and traders, Merrill Lynch will do it on an Intranet, far cheaper and more simply than they do at present. But for this to work: \ufffd\ufffd * It needs to be widely distributed, ideally built into the most common browsers ala Java. \ufffd\ufffd * It need to be reasonably secure; Castanet is not, for instance. \ufffd\ufffd * It needs to be easy to develop for (which Castanet is not). \ufffd\ufffd * It needs to support distribution of software in any random language, not just Java (which Marimba promises for Castanet, and Backweb supposedly does). \ufffd\ufffd * It needs to be robust."}, {"response": 2, "author": "ginger", "date": "Sun, Jun  8, 1997 (21:24)", "body": "Great quote, Terry. Some real common sense talk about push. Wow, I wish Greg would show up here sometime. He has some terrific ideas."}, {"response": 3, "author": "nancyw", "date": "Wed, Jun 11, 1997 (19:20)", "body": "I have had experience publishing with both Intermind and BackWeb. The technology in general is still in its infancy. But also our ability and artfulness in using it is likewise just taking its first baby steps. Thinking about how people want information and what they want opens up a lengthy laundry list of questions and an even longer starting point of answers. The diverse situation and needs of the clients we have been serving has proven that to me. I'm very interested in having more conversations on push technologies. Lets round up some people and get going."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jun 11, 1997 (19:22)", "body": "OK we'll round 'em up. Will you help identify some of them? What are you doing with push?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "nancyw", "date": "Wed, Jun 11, 1997 (19:35)", "body": "We are delivering customize info paks of high tech press releases to editors based on their preferences. We have some 78 categories to choose from. We send out releases two times per day using BackWeb . I have, frankly, had a hard time finding other folks who are actually using push systems who want to talk about it. I keep asking BackWeb if they will have a users group, but so far nothing. It is a time to talk and compare."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jun 11, 1997 (19:41)", "body": "We figured out how to do push technolgoy on the Spring today. It's called offer nancy chocolates. Incredible new technology."}, {"response": 7, "author": "nancyw", "date": "Thu, Jun 12, 1997 (13:36)", "body": "Now Terry, technically that is PULL... you PULLED me here with the promise of chocolate!"}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jun 12, 1997 (16:24)", "body": "OK ... call it pull/push technology then."}, {"response": 9, "author": "nancyw", "date": "Thu, Jun 12, 1997 (22:20)", "body": "Check out the latest pus/pull (no chocolate) articles in the recent Communications Week."}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jun 13, 1997 (08:22)", "body": "What are some urls on the web we should check out regarding push, Nancy?"}, {"response": 11, "author": "nancyw", "date": "Fri, Jun 13, 1997 (20:26)", "body": "Oh, now I gotta use my memory cells. http://www.strom.com - David Strom keeps a table of push/pull technologies. Have to wade through a few levels to get to it. I don't have that set of bookmarks handy on this machine but will check soon. There have been series on Push in: Upside ( http://www.upside.com ) C/Net ( http://www.news.com ) and oh, the David whose name should be on the tip of my tounge who writes Web Informant (paid publication but he has had a series on push that is worth it if you are seriously thinking of implementing. I take his comments with a grain of salt, but the bottom line is pretty solid.) David Coursey.... remembered it! http://www.coursey.com I've printed out a few. I'll dig through my box of garbaaaage and see what I can find. There really has not been a ton that reflect the realities of implementation. I tried to get a conversation started on Mainspring ( http://www.mainspring.com - a subscription service I was beta testing) but there weren't enough folks on board to get it hot. There was also a discussion on http://www.minds.com in the tech section moderated by Chickjesus but I was not impressed -- it was under Rantz and that's about what it was. Little substance that I could detect. Like I said, this topic gets very little cogent coverage. Lately the articles have focused on \"who will survive\" now that Microsoft IE and Netscape are incorporating push. And the whole hoodehaw on CDF issue (Channel Definition...F? Format? Can't remember the alphabet soup at this minute.) More smoke and mirrors at this point, I believe."}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jun 14, 1997 (08:46)", "body": "Who are you placing bets with for push, Nancy? web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 34, "subject": "surveys of web/Internet usage and growth statistics", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Sep  8, 1997 (05:59)", "body": "On http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?blocknumber=17 I found this: Business Week : Net A Home From Home Apr 28 1997: According to a new Business Week /Harris Poll, 57% of those on the Net go to the same sites repeatedly instead of wandering from one to the next. And of the 89% who use E-mail, nearly one-third consider themselves part of an online community. 42% of those involved in an online community say it is related to their profession, while 35% say their community is a social group, and 18% say it revolves around a hobby. Just as in the physical world, Net newbies are gravitating to Web sites where they can find friends and feel comfortable. Adding a way for web surfers to chat can consistently boosts traffic on any Web site by as much as 50%. But the link didn't find it, maybe it's buried somewhere in the site? I did look at the web21 site and finally found: http://www.web21.com/home.chtml which lists the top 100 sites, but I find it hard to believe that Tucows is on the list and Stroud isn't even listed. And there's no category for online communities. Where would you find listings of online communities? web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 35, "subject": "web demographics and commerce", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 36, "subject": "WebTV and tvpc", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 37, "subject": "Spring proposal to PBS", "response_count": 8, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct  2, 1997 (23:17)", "body": "wdf | people | guidelines | how to apply Deadline: Sunday, November 2, 1997 Midnight (New York Time) What kinds of projects will be supported? Only single websites will be supported by the WDF. (However, if you have ideas for \"series\" of web-only projects that are thematically linked, or for projects that combine broadcast and online elements, please send email to:stories@pov.org.) Sites may be about: - a specific public issue (e.g. abortion, immigration, culture wars), - private issue (e.g. self-esteem, divorce, addiction), - problem (e.g. race, war, acne), - or other subject of public discussion (e.g. media, paparazzi, Barbie Dolls) but they must bring fresh perspectives, giving participants opportunities (and encouragement) to go well beyond spouting, posturing and flaming. Although WebLab, the organization sponsoring the WDF, is a spinoff of P.O.V. Interactive, we are not simply trying to create a Web equivalent of P.O.V., the public TV series of independent documentaries \"with a point of view.\" We are very open to approaches that use humor, fiction (even science fiction!), in addition to straight-ahead non-fiction. As noted elsewhere on these pages, we're also much more interested in multiple perspectives that take advantage of the Web as a participatory medium, rather than one perspective. Sites may be linked to a particular event or date if appropriate (e.g. the anniversary of Jackie Robinson's first major league season; an election; a TV broadcast; the 4th of July, etc.) Projects may originate anywhere in the world, but English must be a primary language and the subject should be of interest to participants in North America. Since innovation is the goal, there are no categories, and we look forward to seeing at least a few proposals for projects unlike anything that's been done before! However, we have developed some \"model\" websites -- and identified others -- that encourage story-telling, substantive dialogues that continue over time, and other strategies for involving a range of people in exploration of public or personal issues. We encourage you to spend some time exploring these sites, not with the idea of duplicating them, but with the idea of thinking in new ways about the potential of the web as a social medium. Examples: Regarding Vietnam: Stories Since the War Hong Kong '97: Lives in Transition Ready to Live: Art and Life Beyond Street Violence Jerome B. Wiesner: a Random Walk through the 20th Century gURL Who is eligible to apply? Individuals and organizations may apply. Proposals are welcome from seasoned Web designers and developers who have project ideas that they've always wanted to do Individuals who have a compelling idea but have no experience in Web design Everyone in between. What kinds of support will be provided? In the first round, the WDF will provide selected projects with funds, guidance, technical support, design and programming services (if needed) and PBS Online will provide a host server with a variety of licensed technologies, including threaded discussion, forms submission, Java, streaming audio/video, and Shockwave. Support will average $25,000 or less but may run as high as $50,000 in cash and services for particularly exciting projects. You are expected to provide matching funds toward the total project cost, which may be some combination of cash and in-kind contributions. Finalists will be asked to document their ability to supply matching funds. We will also promote each site launched with WDF support, coordinating with each site producer. Because project funds are limited, organizational overhead costs cannot be covered by the WDF. What's the time frame? Because it will take several months to complete the selection and contracting process, we expect projects will begin in the early part of 1998. While the time to \"launch\" will vary depending on the complexity of the project, and we will want to schedule public launches of WDF sites so they will not conflict or compete with each other for attention, we expect most sites to take between 1 and 6 months to develop. Evaluation Criteria Project Purpose Potential for breaking new ground Feasibility Potential for stimulating involvement by a diverse group of people Appeal to a wide audience - potential for generating some excitement and energy Review/Selection Process Selection of projects will be made by the Executive Producer, in consultation with the Advisory Committee. Eligible proposals will first be reviewed by outside readers, who will evaluate them based on the evaluation criteria provided in these guidelines. WebLab staff will also read and evaluate all eligible proposals. Based on reader and staff evaluations, staff will prepare a list of finalist proposals. Finalists will be contacted for further information if it's needed at this stage. The WDF Advisory Committee will meet to review the finalist proposals and recommend projects for support. The Executive Producer and staff will then contact project directors"}, {"response": 2, "author": "donnal", "date": "Fri, Oct  3, 1997 (08:37)", "body": "I'm interested in healthcare and in healthcare information. You probably think that everything that can be said about healthcare has already been said, but think about this as a novel approach. I believe that one of the things that is yet lacking is a good conceptual model of healthcare that takes into account information theory and knowledge management. How about putting up a web site that describes the problem domain, lays out an initial structure, and allows contributors from many different disciplines to help construct the model? When I say different disciplines, I mean a wide base of subject areas, including topics as diverse as linguistics, mathematics, computer science as well as medical science, psychology, sociology and economics."}, {"response": 3, "author": "donnal", "date": "Fri, Oct  3, 1997 (08:40)", "body": "I tried to put some pseudo html tags in front of and after the previous post. These were apparently stripped off. I had hoped for it to say: \"brainstorming\" ... text ... \"/brainstorming\" except angle brackets in place of the quotes. :-)"}, {"response": 4, "author": "donnal", "date": "Fri, Oct  3, 1997 (13:17)", "body": "What about the issue of providing matching funds?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct  3, 1997 (23:12)", "body": "I don't know how they count this, the Spring has an operating budget of about $800 a month a pretty substantial investment in equipment. I'll have to research this aspect more. I could approach DELL, IBM, Apple and other local companies about providing matching funds possibly."}, {"response": 6, "author": "LorieS", "date": "Tue, Oct  7, 1997 (11:16)", "body": "Terry, it sounds to me like parts of the Spring already fit the criteria above. Do you have to launch a new conference to apply for this? You already have so many set up for discussion of personal issues -- and perhaps some publicity to get new people posting and talking is all that's required."}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct  8, 1997 (00:06)", "body": "I'd like to get folks ideas on where we can go with this Spring. Give me you wildest, dreamiest ideas on what you'd like to see happen here."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct  9, 1997 (20:49)", "body": "treatise on cross-platform DHTML: http://developer.netscape.com/news/viewsource/goodman_cssp/goodman_cssp.html web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 38, "subject": "web authoring tools - Frontpage, et al", "response_count": 6, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct  9, 1997 (21:25)", "body": "I use vi. I play with Front Page 98. I've heard about Dream Weaver. Here's an interesting comparison of web page editor import capabilities: http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/demo_roundtrip.html"}, {"response": 2, "author": "Geez", "date": "Sat, Nov 15, 1997 (00:54)", "body": "I'm considering purchasing Frontpage 97 or Claris Homepage 2.0. Any opinons on any of these (ease of use, price, etc.)? Any other suggestions?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov 16, 1997 (23:06)", "body": "Get FrontPage 98 for free off of Microsofts website. http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage"}, {"response": 4, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (09:31)", "body": "You can ftp frontpage webs, but some of the features like themes, counters, etc. won't work unless the webserver is Frontpage enabled. You can edit navigation bars and themes in Frontpage with some simple steps. To edit a theme, open the Themes dialog box again and click the Modify button. When you do, the dialog box will change to reveal a new row of buttons. The first three buttons (Colors, Graphics, and Text) let you access the various theme elements. The rest of the detailed instructions on changing themes you'll find at http://www.microsoft.com/INSIDER/frontpage2000/articles/robots.htm You can change graphics, change the text that appears as part of the graphics, and change colors and backgrounds. In other words, you can develop your own custom themes."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Nov 30, 2001 (19:20)", "body": "http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://spring.net/yapp-bin/public/read/news/43"}, {"response": 6, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Nov 30, 2001 (20:21)", "body": "Terry, that is current compared with someof the goodies I found! web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 39, "subject": "Webcam", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov 30, 1997 (09:17)", "body": "Some beginning URLs http://www.dcn.com and then the best one I've seen is http://www.camcentral.com"}, {"response": 2, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Tue, Mar  3, 1998 (19:53)", "body": "do a websearch for \"CowCam\", which is quite possibly the most surreal use of a webcam ever :) Sorry I don't have the URL handy, but it's in my university hotlist."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Mar  4, 1998 (05:39)", "body": "The Amazing CowCam!!! URL: http://www.accsyst.com/cow.html Summary: . Located at our corporate offices in metropolitan Alloway, New Jersey the CowCam is in the window of our network operations center. . We have just been informed of the existence of a radical terrorist organization called The Cow Liberation Army Faction or TCLAF. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 4, "subject": "images on webpages - gif, jpg etc", "response_count": 16, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "rikam", "date": "Sun, Sep 22, 1996 (16:00)", "body": "I use Photoshop to create images and to reduce the size of a scanned photograph Lview Pro is a great for creating a transparent gif. It can be downloaded from the internet, and is very easy to use."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Sep 22, 1996 (16:03)", "body": "These are the two programs that I use the most. I use Lview about 90% of the time."}, {"response": 3, "author": "rikam", "date": "Sun, Sep 22, 1996 (16:10)", "body": "There is also freeware program called Transparent which can make images transparent at Http://www.personal.engin.umich.edu/~stevs/workshop/transparent.html >"}, {"response": 4, "author": "coolcat", "date": "Mon, Feb 10, 1997 (22:57)", "body": "i have never used images yet"}, {"response": 5, "author": "folkartist", "date": "Mon, Feb 17, 1997 (16:31)", "body": ""}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 29, 1998 (07:15)", "body": "Here's a handy script that will create thumbnails from a directory of images. It's on Jef's acme website. http://www.acme.com/software/thumbnail_index/"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 29, 1998 (07:17)", "body": "And here's a nice little animated gif/montage/slideshow: http://www.winternet.com/~jag101a/"}, {"response": 8, "author": "aloc", "date": "Thu, Jun  3, 1999 (14:07)", "body": ""}, {"response": 9, "author": "aloc", "date": "Thu, Jun  3, 1999 (14:09)", "body": ""}, {"response": 10, "author": "aloc", "date": "Thu, Jun  3, 1999 (14:14)", "body": ""}, {"response": 11, "author": "aloc", "date": "Thu, Jun  3, 1999 (14:36)", "body": ""}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep 16, 1999 (22:49)", "body": "A good tutorial on using image tags, eg. img src: http://www.utoronto.ca/webdocs/HTMLdocs/NewHTML/image-examples.html"}, {"response": 13, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Dec 12, 1999 (22:06)", "body": ""}, {"response": 14, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Dec 12, 1999 (22:07)", "body": "This Gif modification program you use right on the web - free, of course!: http://www.gifworks.com/cgi-bin/gifworks.pl?file_open"}, {"response": 15, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec 15, 1999 (00:49)", "body": "Good gif program! Lview is another."}, {"response": 16, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, Dec 15, 1999 (13:13)", "body": "Lview Is the best photo image program there is. This other one mentioned above allows you to change the text and make transparent the fames around your buttons as I have been doing in Geo conference. You can manipulate the color and do all sorts of things to them and other gif files I was not able to do any other way (other than to match the originally white frames to the background marble)n For those wishing to make their own buttons or to modify existing ones, this is the easiest and there is no download - you use it online! (It is not as good as Cfadm's, but what is?!) web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 40, "subject": "Read Pagemaker doc without Pagemaker?", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 41, "subject": "Read Pagemaker with Adobe Acrobat Reader or some other tool?", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 42, "subject": "Cool realaudio sites and audio files to download", "response_count": 13, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Feb  1, 1998 (12:18)", "body": "http://www.slonet.org/~rloomis/mailcall.html is a great batch of audio files to announce that you have mail, or email I should say. Hilarious!"}, {"response": 2, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Tue, Feb 24, 1998 (20:36)", "body": "I'd just like to compliment you on the Spring webcast from CFP, terry, it's excellent. Probably the best, most useful implementation of webcam and RealAudio that I've seen - congrats!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Feb 24, 1998 (22:50)", "body": "Thanks Mike, there's about 24 hours of audio and video running. I hope do some even more creative things with this medium, coming up soon."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Apr  2, 1998 (16:40)", "body": "Netscape Mozilla Party! Last night in SF, Calif. Coming to you on our main page with sound and pictures."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Feb 22, 1999 (08:20)", "body": "Here's a couple of great ones: http://www.timecast.com/stations/index.html also for pubbroadcasers(USA) try: http://www.current.org/stream/index.html"}, {"response": 7, "author": "ratthing", "date": "Mon, Feb 22, 1999 (14:30)", "body": "i dont think many other people do webcasts as well as our terry!"}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Feb 22, 1999 (17:41)", "body": "Hey, thanks, a glimmer of recognition! Tune in Saturday Night at Midnight, now running, a rerun of last weeks capzeyez interspersed with some other stuff that inadvertently got taped like SNL."}, {"response": 9, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Tue, Jul  6, 1999 (10:58)", "body": "It's them and their lawyers! And they don't take prisoners, it looks like: Music Licenser Shakes Down Web by Polly Sprenger 3:00\ufffda.m.\ufffd\ufffd1.Jul.99.PDT -- When The Kinks sang \"You Can't Stop the Music\" in 1975, they clearly weren't talking about the American Society of Composers, Artists, and Songwriters. ASCAP, an organization that collects licensing fees for musical performances, is asking webmasters to pay for the right to link to online music, even if it is stored on another site. Rather than pay up and deal with the hassle, the webmasters are booting the tunes, or links, off their own sites. \"They are like the mafia when it comes to music,\" Julian Cook, CEO of TravelFinder.com, said Tuesday. ASCAP asked him to pay a fee simply for linking to other musical sites when \"all we had here was a page that had links to radio stations.\" ASCAP said it appeared TravelFinder.com was hosting the musical broadcast, since Cook linked to the sites through a frame on his page. While the outside menu bar was TravelFinder's, the actual broadcasts were from elsewhere. Cook first heard from ASCAP in January and received several more letters in March. In response, he told the organization he had not archived any music, that his site only linked to radio station sites. Last month, however, he was notified that his site could be subject to legal action. \"We have sent numerous letters to your organization offering a license agreement which would authorize public performance of musical works in the ASCAP repertory at your Web site,\" the letter said. \"To date, your site remains unauthorized.\" Cook said he felt the letter amounted to a cease-and-desist order, and he removed the music links from his site. Under its own mandate, ASCAP doesn't have the authority to stop Cook from publishing the links without a court order. According to Chris Amenica, assistant vice president of new media and technology at ASCAP, the letter was simply an offer for a license. \"If somebody doesn't like our rates, they can take us to court and we can have a rate court proceeding. We're not saying to Mr. Cook, 'Take it down or we'll put you out of business.' All we've done is explain our position,\" Amenica said. But Cook likens the offer to a protection racket, saying he didn't know that ASCAP had to justify its rates to the court. \"It's a mafia-type shakedown,\" Cook fumed, saying that the original letter said ASCAP had had to \"reluctantly file its first copyright infringement lawsuit against a major Web site operator who refused to enter into an ASCAP license agreement and did not obtain the proper authorization.\" The group operates under a 1950 antitrust consent decree, which states that if ASCAP and prospective licensees can't agree on a license fee, a reasonable fee will be set by the federal courts. The group has been chastised before for bullying tactics, with one case filed in New York under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act for mailing brochures to potential licensees \"containing false and misleading statements of fact.\" In 1996, ASCAP came under critical fire for mailing 6,000 letters to summer camps across the country, insisting that they pay licensing fees for songs sung or performed in a public forum. The media at the time painted a picture of Girl Scouts silenced around their campfires, unable to sing popular tunes. The group has had a longtime face-off with restaurants across the country for forcing them to pay licensing fees to have TVs and radios turned on for diners. A 1993 article in Restaurant Business Magazine cited similar tactics in ASCAP's licensing efforts for that industry. \"The state restaurant associations have long advised their members to pay the few hundred dollars in licensing fees rather than risk a lawsuit or fines that could easily cost thousands. Alone, fines for copyright infringement range from US$500 to $10,000,\" the magazine reported. \"We're not saying we're taking everyone and their brother to court,\" Amenica said. \"We try to settle these things amicably so there isn't that need or expense on both sides.\" But like small restaurant owners, most Web sites could not afford a $10,000 lawsuit, Cook said. Amenica said ASCAP has been successful in requiring retail outlets that play a radio in their shops to pay the licensing fee, and doesn't see why Web outlets should be any different. \"It hasn't been tested yet [in the courts], but when you look at who benefits from the performance, it's the same thing as a retail establishment,\" Amenica said. \"All we're looking for is a fair value for exploitation of our members' rights.\" Cook argues that links to music stored elsewhere on the Net shouldn't make a Web site liable for fees, but Amenica said that the issue is cloudier than that. \"Linking does present certain issues, no doubt about it,\" he said, adding that the group is currently pursuing only sites whose musical links appear to be local to the site, even if those links actually lead to a different server."}, {"response": 10, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Jul  6, 1999 (17:58)", "body": "let me re-iterate... you can't govern something with no borders!"}, {"response": 11, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Thu, Jul  8, 1999 (06:16)", "body": "Well, what'll everybody do, move their little servers to the Caymans? Wer, they want to see serious $$$ for even only links to where the file is - no matter if that be Caymans, Guernsey or Gro\ufffd-Krotzenburg!"}, {"response": 12, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jul  8, 1999 (14:02)", "body": "I understand what they want...I was thinking of what it'll cost them to attempt to get what they want..."}, {"response": 13, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Thu, Jul  8, 1999 (14:58)", "body": "Like the lawyers already on their payroll?"}, {"response": 14, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jul  8, 1999 (15:19)", "body": "nope, above and beyond that... web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 45, "subject": "Spring Logs and stats - how many hits? accesses?", "response_count": 15, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Mar 10, 1998 (20:28)", "body": "Period Covered: 01:05:52 21 November 1997 to 08:38:29 07 March 1998 Total Files Transfered: 1,654,064 Total Bytes Transfered: 11,069,083,298 Unique Domains: 79173 Daily Number of Hits 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""}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Sep 14, 1998 (15:48)", "body": ""}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (17:48)", "body": "From www.apache.com How to reset your log files Sooner or later, you'll want to reset your log files (access_log and error_log) because they are too big, or full of old information you don't need. access.log typically grows by 1Mb for each 10,000 requests. Most people's first attempt at replacing the logfile is to just move the logfile or remove the logfile. This doesn't work. Apache will continue writing to the logfile at the same offset as before the logfile moved. This results in a new logfile being created which is just as big as the old one, but it now contains thousands (or millions) of null characters. The correct procedure is to move the logfile, then signal Apache to tell it to reopen the logfiles. Apache is signaled using the SIGHUP (-1) signal. e.g. mv access_log access_log.old kill -1 `cat httpd.pid` Note: httpd.pid is a file containing the process id of the Apache httpd daemon, Apache saves this in the same directory as the log files. Many people use this method to replace (and backup) their logfiles on a nightly or weekly basis."}, {"response": 6, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, May  5, 2000 (14:01)", "body": "Is this something I need to worry about learning how and where to do?"}, {"response": 7, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Fri, May  5, 2000 (15:42)", "body": "Maybe not right off, you need root access to do this. But if you get your own webserver, it will come in handy."}, {"response": 8, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, May  5, 2000 (16:03)", "body": "I'll remember...or ask you again when I need to know. The way my current household is set up, I don't wish to share webservers with him, and continue to afford both of them to avoid his access to mine."}, {"response": 9, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May  6, 2000 (10:47)", "body": "Can't you set up separate offices?"}, {"response": 10, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, May  6, 2000 (13:04)", "body": "We do have separate offices... I just don't want him anywhere near my ISP, if that is what you are talking about. If it is my own website, don't want him there, either. (He should see how lacivious I have been on Geo...!)"}, {"response": 11, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, May  7, 2000 (11:18)", "body": "Maybe you need separate isps."}, {"response": 12, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, May  7, 2000 (12:53)", "body": "Have that, too. Absolutely separate. I use both (the AOL server only when travelling off-island) because I pay for both! He has only the AOL account. My Hawaii-on-Line account is MINE and it is fiercely protected from hackers and other would-be interlopers by the powers-that-be in Honolulu where it is housed. His paranoia grows as he rapidly loses his health and realizes how mortal he is. I will try to be nice about all of this, but separate is the only way for me in these circumstances."}, {"response": 13, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, May  7, 2000 (16:17)", "body": "Do you have a power on password and a password protected screen saver?"}, {"response": 14, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, May  7, 2000 (16:27)", "body": "Not power-on password, and the one which opens windows is easily circumvented by hitting the cancel button and starting each of the programs manually rather than having the startup do it for you. The only really password protected place I have is in Eudora and I have to login each time I run it. How do I password protect my files? Right now I have a convoluted filing system which sometimes confounds me, but running find: file or folder will bring any of them up no matter the password, would it not?"}, {"response": 15, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, May  7, 2000 (16:28)", "body": "What is a password protected screen saver? How do I do it? web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 46, "subject": "Can a domain name be registered as a trademark or servicemark", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar 23, 1998 (04:11)", "body": ""}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar 23, 1998 (04:11)", "body": ""}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 15, 1998 (11:34)", "body": ""}, {"response": 4, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, May  5, 2000 (14:02)", "body": "Ok. I'll do it! web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 47, "subject": "Web Rings--good idea, bad idea?", "response_count": 41, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jun 21, 1998 (09:15)", "body": "I don't know. How effective are they? Is there anything statistically about how they improve website traffic? There aren't any barriers to joining so there's no quality control right?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "wer", "date": "Sun, Jun 21, 1998 (10:19)", "body": "quality control depends upon the ring..."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jun 22, 1998 (09:32)", "body": "Should we be in a ring?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Jun 22, 1998 (23:34)", "body": "The food conference is, the chocoholics unite! topic in food is, the genx storybook is, and the genx conference probably will be...let the research coninue before we branch out more than that..."}, {"response": 5, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Jul  2, 1998 (21:13)", "body": "I have a poetry ring at my site (i don't own it) but we could submit the poetry topic to them, you think?"}, {"response": 6, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Jul  2, 1998 (21:14)", "body": "how does one go about starting their own ring?"}, {"response": 7, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jul  2, 1998 (23:35)", "body": "ooh...that's a long answer, Wolf..."}, {"response": 8, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Thu, Jul  2, 1998 (23:49)", "body": "just give me a url and i'll take it from there *smile*"}, {"response": 9, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jul  2, 1998 (23:59)", "body": "http://www.webring.org/ look around for something like join and/or start your own webring..."}, {"response": 10, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Jul  3, 1998 (00:00)", "body": "cool, thanks, probably try it tomorrow *smile*"}, {"response": 11, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jul  3, 1998 (00:03)", "body": "okeedokee..."}, {"response": 12, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Jul  3, 1998 (00:03)", "body": "sorry to do this to ya buddy, but i'm way tired, my poor eyeballs are burning... so you have a good night, y'hear? (what it is, all this waiting around for replies, i do it the hard way, and staring at the screen just wears them retinas out!)"}, {"response": 13, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jul  3, 1998 (00:06)", "body": "sweet and/or sweaty dreams!"}, {"response": 14, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jul  3, 1998 (08:10)", "body": "Actually, our http://www.repeater.org website is on a webring."}, {"response": 15, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Fri, Jul  3, 1998 (10:45)", "body": "wer: had nothing but nightmares :("}, {"response": 16, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jul  3, 1998 (14:14)", "body": "fun, isn't it..."}, {"response": 17, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (00:27)", "body": "guess what i did? no, not that, silly goose, i submitted my own webring, woohoo, now the hard part, creating all the junk that goes with it!"}, {"response": 18, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (00:31)", "body": "yeah, but I bet you did the other, also..."}, {"response": 19, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (00:33)", "body": "hmmmm......"}, {"response": 20, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (00:35)", "body": "just like I thought..."}, {"response": 21, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (00:36)", "body": "don't know what you created yours for, but did you know that this morning there were 601 rings with the keyword poetry?"}, {"response": 22, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (00:40)", "body": "uh-oh.....no, i didn't *lookin' at the floor with sad puppy dog eyes*"}, {"response": 23, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (01:02)", "body": "I guess that means there is now 602, hmm?"}, {"response": 24, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (09:54)", "body": "actually, it won't be listed until there are 5 sites in my ring..."}, {"response": 25, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (09:58)", "body": "(btw, tried to log in as wolf to no avail)"}, {"response": 26, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (10:30)", "body": "Log in to where, wolf?"}, {"response": 27, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (11:18)", "body": "onto the spring...or is this not the place where i do it?"}, {"response": 28, "author": "Wolf", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (11:18)", "body": "and nick thinks he's computer illiterate *wink*"}, {"response": 29, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (11:57)", "body": "i'm not sure if i like the idea of spring conferences being part of a webring. at least not without fully informing the people who post there of that fact. to be honest, i'm concerned with the freedom that people without IDs have to roam through the conferences, reading whatever they like without ever being part of what's going on. perhaps there should be a few open conferences, just to show guests what it's like, but the rest requiring the person to be registered."}, {"response": 30, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (12:48)", "body": "I disagree for one reason...it's free. If we paid a membership, or dues, or whatever, then I think that would be reasonable."}, {"response": 31, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (17:57)", "body": "i can't agree. membership is membership whether it's paid for fiscally or not. we're paying in attention-span, rather than physical (or electronic :) money. we're in the \"Attention Economy\" area, as Wired so pointlessly term it."}, {"response": 32, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (17:58)", "body": "also, having every conference open encourages lurking. we've already seen the massive amount of hits some places are getting (like 3000 a day or something, i think), and you yourself wer commented on how many of them must be lurking. all of the /public/* conference links encourage lurking, not participation."}, {"response": 33, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (18:06)", "body": "terry's latest topic, how many people logged into the Spring today?, in porch about log-ins is actual log-ins of users... being a member doesn't seem to be discouraging lurkers, either..."}, {"response": 34, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (18:08)", "body": "and you and I, etc., are paying with participation, lurkers pay with attention, that's fine by me, they're paying as you put it and may very well participate when they feel comfortable..."}, {"response": 35, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (18:15)", "body": "web-ring links reduce the \"worth\" of this place, imo. it's no longer somewhere where people choose to go, even just through clicking a web-search link, it's just a turn up of the web-ring \"random site\" click-thru brigade."}, {"response": 36, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (18:41)", "body": "but they also have option of picking it out of the index of sites for that ring..."}, {"response": 37, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Aug 20, 1999 (21:37)", "body": "I am still hunting one for Geo Conference. We had one all picked out and it was locked. I think, the more specific the conference subject the better it is to be linked. There are so many for general topics ( Books and Politics eg.) that they are impossible to wade through and it is easier to use a search engine."}, {"response": 38, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sun, Oct  3, 1999 (17:56)", "body": "ok, you're looking to do a webring for geo sites, right? you can create it for as specific as you like plus, on the submittal page, you tell folks the criteria they need to meet in order to be placed in the ring. i've been invited to join rings just by being listed in the webring directory! oh, and speaking of webrings, i've got an animal ring that i'll submit springark to."}, {"response": 39, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Oct  3, 1999 (22:26)", "body": "We - he and I chose a perfect one for Geo and it was locked and accepting no new sites. Until I can consult about it with cfadm, I will hold off for a while longer. At some point we NEED to get one going, and I am still chekcing with webring.com frequently. When I get out of telnet I will email you and ask how you did it...ok?!"}, {"response": 40, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (00:12)", "body": "Still ringless. Not sure it is a good idea. Wolfie, and way to know how many hits on your conferences are the result of belonging to a webring?"}, {"response": 41, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (00:15)", "body": "..that should be...any way to know...? It still would be nice to have one for Geo, I think...! (going to bed before I mess up anything else!) web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 48, "subject": "free web graphics", "response_count": 23, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (12:18)", "body": "The ultimate of course is http://www.barrysclipart.com/"}, {"response": 2, "author": "kristen", "date": "Tue, Jul 14, 1998 (23:12)", "body": "Why is it the ultimate?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jul 15, 1998 (10:53)", "body": "just go look around, you'll see... of course, I am open to being one-upped if you can find a better all around graphics site, please post it!"}, {"response": 4, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sun, Jul 19, 1998 (09:06)", "body": "font site: http://fontempire.host4u.com/ really really good fonts - drop by and check it out."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (09:58)", "body": "Cool."}, {"response": 6, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (16:31)", "body": "Well, Jack dropped by and intro-d himself in the - shock! - Intro topic :) Everybody be lovely and he'll come back again and again, like all the rest of us."}, {"response": 7, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (22:52)", "body": "I'm doing my best..."}, {"response": 8, "author": "wer", "date": "Fri, Jan  8, 1999 (12:36)", "body": "also, see http://www.thecorporation.com/icon/icon.html"}, {"response": 9, "author": "wer", "date": "Wed, Jan 13, 1999 (00:22)", "body": "and lest we forget http://www.boogiejack.com/rivintro.html or just plain old http://www.boogiejack.com"}, {"response": 10, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Aug 13, 1999 (23:43)", "body": "and there would be a lot more posts in here if I would quit listing graphics sites in the art on the web topic..."}, {"response": 11, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Aug 13, 1999 (23:49)", "body": "You can count on that!!! I did not even know this existed...you told me to put my URL findings on Art! *sigh*"}, {"response": 12, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Aug 14, 1999 (00:03)", "body": "Mostly CD cover art http://www2.windows95.com/apps/98/wallpaper-music.html More of CD cover art plus even more stuff http://www.desktopheaven.com/w_music.html Softseek has a huge collection of all kinds of stuff from astronomy and tech to weird graphics. http://www.softseek.com/Desktop_Enhancements/Wallpaper/Collections/6index.html"}, {"response": 13, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Aug 14, 1999 (00:06)", "body": "This is a super all-purpose site for your entire graphics setup http://www.dancingmouse.com/ Others with it all http://www.free-graphics.com/ http://www.compware.demon.co.uk/pitstop/graphics.htm http://www.zdpweb.com/graphics.html"}, {"response": 14, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Aug 14, 1999 (00:10)", "body": "And.... http://www2.windows95.com/apps/98/wallpaper-music.html"}, {"response": 15, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Aug 14, 1999 (14:08)", "body": "http://members.xoom.com/jilko/wallpaper.html........all sorts of stuff and member of a free graphics webrings: http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?home&ring=graph http://www.roysons.com/ring/index.htm"}, {"response": 16, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Aug 14, 1999 (15:38)", "body": "This place has totally awesome and mind (if not eye) bending wallpapers: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/1801/freebackgrounds1.htm These are ok, but nothing spectacular: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/7511/series1.html"}, {"response": 17, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, Aug 18, 1999 (01:17)", "body": "For those who really want a lively web page, here are animated buttons horizontal bars and other goodies to make your site a sight! http://www.animfactory.com/factory/accents.html"}, {"response": 18, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Oct 30, 1999 (14:40)", "body": "A super site from Sweden(?) fro, Gi: http://animatedgifs.simplenet.com/"}, {"response": 19, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Nov 14, 1999 (20:31)", "body": "Free button-maker for your web page http://www.ButtonMaker.com/index.html Animated Banner-maker http://www.mediabuilder.com/abm.html Font mapper http://www.mediabuilder.com/fontmapper.html"}, {"response": 20, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Nov 14, 1999 (20:40)", "body": "Humble opinion, but why is this not linked with the one in the Art Conference? It would eliminate the problem of posting here and not there or the reverse. For all things free and animated: http://www.animfactory.com/"}, {"response": 21, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, May 28, 2000 (14:27)", "body": "Celtic Backgrounds of some distinction and some of more than a little distraction http://www.ancientsites.com/~Mardra_CuChulainn/backgrounds.html"}, {"response": 22, "author": "sociolingo", "date": "Mon, May 29, 2000 (11:15)", "body": "You might want to look at: http://www.bestclipart.com/linkpages/backgrounds.htm It's a huge collection of background sites. I found not all of them were free, and I've only been to a few. Some say free in the title."}, {"response": 23, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Aug 25, 2000 (00:08)", "body": "This is a really a great site by someone who has actually posted here!!! http://jerrybasham.com/ web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 49, "subject": "Web-Based Postage System Launched 08/28/98", "response_count": 7, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "geoff", "date": "Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (20:44)", "body": "This may not have been the proper place to post this but I could not believe it when I read it! I have been needing to mail something for about the last three days and have been putting it off simply because I don't have any stamps. I'm going to go check out this web site!"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (21:27)", "body": "Hey, thanks for posting this. I'll come back and reread and comment later."}, {"response": 3, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Sep  2, 1998 (11:55)", "body": "And, btw, it was the perfect place to post this..."}, {"response": 4, "author": "bally", "date": "Mon, Sep  7, 1998 (09:41)", "body": "Geoff, have you used this service yet?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Wed, Sep 23, 1998 (17:21)", "body": "just to note: Geoff's e-mail address is still set as geoff@www.spring.com which is most likely invalid these days."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Sep 29, 1998 (19:57)", "body": "No, I think most of the folks who had accounts are getting forwarded by the spring.com folks, I sent them a list of everyone with accounts when we switched."}, {"response": 7, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Tue, Sep 29, 1998 (20:32)", "body": "That's jolly good of them - no need to worry!. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 5, "subject": "How to make your own web page", "response_count": 18, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "Tom", "date": "Fri, Oct 25, 1996 (13:36)", "body": "Hi Terry, This must be a new site, it's soooo empty. I found this place via Stroud's, while looking for the 32bit GNNPress. I'm interested in setting up my site and found FrontPage a real hopeless mess. After 4 hours on it, I still can't figure it out well enough to do much else than run a Wizard - even that can't run a search or a register service. Bummer, I'm going back to GNNPress. If you've got some ideas on using FP, I'd be appreciative, but for now, it's history. Ciao, Tom"}, {"response": 2, "author": "arch1234", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (23:48)", "body": "I am interesting in having my own web page.If U can help me,PLEASE do it so..."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (06:53)", "body": "Email me with the username and pasword that you want! mailto://terry@spring.com"}, {"response": 4, "author": "folkartist", "date": "Sat, Feb 22, 1997 (22:00)", "body": "Terry, I would love to have a web page, but I am having trouble e-mailing you. I am going to try it again."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Feb 22, 1997 (23:59)", "body": "Got your email, will get something set up for you."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov  8, 1998 (10:16)", "body": "There are several good html training pages on the web. Here's one that's been around that I haven't checked out for a while. Can someone learning html check it out and tell me if it's valuable or not? http://www.transaction.net/web/tutor/ There are also: http://www.webacademy.com and http://www.webmonkey.com And this astonishingly long URL. http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Information_and_Documentation/Beginner_s_Guides/Beginner_s_HTML/ Other resources (may be some overlap with list at Yahoo): http://webreference.com/html/tutorial1/ http://www.webdeveloper.com/categories/html/beginners_html.html http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/reference/ -- crib sheet http://www.december.com/html/ And there may be more. Anyone else have any favorites? Anyone learning html and will to give a critique of any of these?"}, {"response": 7, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Nov 11, 1998 (15:21)", "body": "the first one is intriguing enough for me to go back later for a more in-depth look..."}, {"response": 8, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Nov 20, 1999 (12:31)", "body": "With what I have been through this week trying to set up the UHHilo's Booster news web page, I am ready to read almost anything which will enable me. What I really need is someone walking me through a few of the rough patches. (Yes, I know...No one helped you!)"}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 22, 1999 (09:19)", "body": "What's the url, I'll take a look."}, {"response": 10, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, Nov 22, 1999 (14:24)", "body": "http://www.uhh.hawaii.edu/~athletic/fundraisers/index.html I am going to work on it some more shortly. Gonna put the BIIBT tournament logo on and the scheduled games for the first day."}, {"response": 11, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, Nov 22, 1999 (14:28)", "body": "Be aware, it is fairly plain. I wanted a textured white background, but our Athletic Director did not, and it is reallly for him that I am doing it. He approved of it in a phone call from Maui (he's at the invitational.) He wants it to be printable and to eventually take the place of the mail outs we have been doing. Worst of all, I am taking over from John, who is so gifted in writing especially about sports...Mine will be almost exclusively informational and terse."}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 23, 1999 (00:11)", "body": "It's your good, basic information page."}, {"response": 13, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, Nov 23, 1999 (13:49)", "body": "...just as the AD requested. *sigh* I much prefer creating and posting and beautifying with Yapp software. I never appreciated it quite as much until I tried the cold cruel world out there. The University is using very basic software to which I am not privy...yet! (Gotta make my webmaster earn his scholarship!) Some day when you are feeling like adventure, try Geo Conference with Windows. Lots of good stuff in there regularly visited by the faithful (updating wx maps seem to be a favorite)...please?!"}, {"response": 14, "author": "wolf", "date": "Thu, Feb 10, 2000 (20:24)", "body": "TERRY HELP!!!!! k, i cannot possibly be the only person with this question. since my domain is stored at http://www.spring.net/bayou/index.html , how on earth do i tell folks to visit http://www.midnightwolf.net without having to type in the other stuff? is there a way to forward midnightwolf stuff to my bayou spot (and i don't mean hyperlinking as in within an html page)....."}, {"response": 15, "author": "wolf", "date": "Thu, Feb 10, 2000 (20:25)", "body": "(and the first link doesn't work either)"}, {"response": 16, "author": "wolf", "date": "Thu, Feb 10, 2000 (20:26)", "body": "and neither does the second *frown* i'm sorry, but i am frustrated."}, {"response": 17, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Feb 10, 2000 (21:07)", "body": "Geez, Wolfie, Terry has not gotten back to you yet??? Wonder if he is OK..."}, {"response": 18, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, Jul 10, 2000 (16:25)", "body": "HOW TO BUILD A WEB PAGE IN 25 STEPS 1. Download a piece of Web authoring software ~ 20 minutes. 2. Think about what you want to write on your Web page ~ 6 weeks. 3. Download the same piece of Web authoring software, because they have released 3 new versions since the first time you downloaded it ~ 20 minutes. 4. Decide to just steal some images and awards to put on your site ~ 1 minute. 5. Visit sites to find images and awards, find 5 of them that you like ~ 4 days. 6. Run setup of your Web authoring software. After it fails, download it again ~ 25 minutes. 7. Run setup again, boot the software, click all toolbar buttons to see what they do ~ 15 minutes. 8. View the source of others' pages, steal some, change a few words here and there ~ 4 hours. 9. Preview your Web page using the Web Authoring software ~ 1 minute. 10. Try to horizontally line up two related images ~ 6 hours. 11. Remove one of the images ~ 10 seconds. 12. Set the text's font color to the same color as your background, wonder why all your text is gone ~ 4 hours. 13. Download a counter from your ISP ~ 4 minutes. 14. Try to figure out why your counter reads \"You are visitor number 16.3 E10\" ~ 3 hours. 15. Put 4 blank lines between two lines of text ~ 8 hours. 16. Fine-tune the text, then prepare to load your Web page on your ISP ~ 40 minutes. 17. Accidentally delete your complete web page ~ 1 second. 18. Recreate your web page ~ 2 days. 19. Try to figure out how to load your Web page onto your ISP's server ~ 3 weeks. 20. Call a patient friend to find out about FTP ~ 30 minutes. 21. Download FTP software ~ 10 minutes. 22. Call your friend again ~ 15 minutes. 23. Upload your web page to your ISP's server ~ 10 minutes. 24. Connect to your site on the web ~ 1 minute. 25. Repeat any and all of the previous steps ~ eternity - web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 50, "subject": "web based printing", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Sep 29, 1998 (13:36)", "body": "Net Printing Makes Progress (09/29/98 9:08 a.m. ET) By Chuck Moozakis, InternetWeek Support for a wide variety of printing functions across the Internet will take a step forward next week with Hewlett-Packard's release of the industry's first print server to be compatible with the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP). HP's three-port JetDirect 500X print server is designed for IT managers who are laying the groundwork for \"distribute-and-print\" architectures, as opposed to the current method of printing documents locally and then distributing them. \"There is some significant growth potential that will be fueled by Internet printing,\" said Lou Slawetsky, president of market-watcher Industry Analysts. \"Right now, we are seeing documents produced from within a WAN. More significant will be the day when you can push data around the Internet and print anywhere.\" The IPP is the umbrella under which Internet printing will be realized. Version 1.0, which was co-developed by HP (company profile) and Microsoft, is now under review by the Internet Engineering Task Force. Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft has said it will include native IPP support in Windows NT Workstation and NT Server 5.0. Novell, whose Distributed Print Services product served as a model for IPP, has also pledged support. Hotel business centers and quick-print shops such as Kinko's and Sir Speedy's will likely be the first customers for IPP-enabled printers, said Kirk Porritt, HP's future product manager. \"With an Internet printer, they would avoid the quality loss of having something sent via fax,\" he said. \"Instead of users having to bring files down to get printed, [copy shops] need only set up an Internet printer and customers would be able to print to that device.\" Analyst Slawetsky said he predicted it will be another year before full Internet printing is realized. But, he added, \"When this happens, it will be as significant to printing as protocol standardization was for the fax market. It will result in true online distribution of printed information.\" The HP JetDirect 500X server is priced at $319 to $619, depending upon whether it's connected to an Ethernet or token ring network. The 500X comes with HP Web JetAdmin 5.0, which will let IT managers oversee local and remote printers via a Web-based browser."}, {"response": 2, "author": "ratthing", "date": "Tue, Sep 29, 1998 (15:23)", "body": "very cool! i see some major uses for this technology in the knowledge management/workflow area: getting documents where they need to go."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Sep 29, 1998 (16:42)", "body": "Yeah, it's very cool. Tivoli has an enterprise printing solution called Destiny, but it's expensive and difficult to deploy for a small organization. This makes remote network printing a reality without major expense. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 51, "subject": "Java & Javascript", "response_count": 8, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Oct  6, 1998 (08:48)", "body": "IBM's last desktop stand: Netscape yes, Windows no, OS/2 on it's own By Sm@rt Reseller October 5, 1998 4:28 AM PT It's a software initiative that could decide who owns corporate desktops for the next 10 years. More vaporware from Microsoft Corp.? Hardly. This time, it's IBM Corp. taking the offensive. Indeed, IBM (NYSE:IBM) has drawn up a strategic blueprint to transform its enterprise business into an electronic-commerce powerhouse that spans millions of corporate desktops. In addition to betting the bank on Java, the blueprint calls for IBM to pump up Netscape's desktop business, head off Microsoft's Web browser and aggressively push OS/2 Warp customers onto other platforms. That strategy, outlined in a 12-page internal document from IBM's Network Computing Software Division and viewed by Sm@rt Reseller, banks heavily on buy-in from IBM's resellers and technology partners. The IBM document, dated July 30, was posted briefly on an independent OS/2 Web site last week. IBM was none too pleased about the leak. Jeff Smith, director of OS/2 Business Line Management and Network Computing Software, successfully petitioned the Web site's manager to remove the document but was unavailable for comment. While Smith wasn't talking, the document spoke volumes about IBM's most pressing business concerns. In a worst-case scenario, Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) could cripple IBM if Bill Gates & Co. succeeds in making Windows an e-commerce standard containing proprietary application programming interfaces. The document says that Microsoft's Internet, Zero Administration Windows, Windows CE and Windows-based terminal efforts are designed to prevent the widespread adoption of Java \"by extending Windows with the key features required to support network computing.\" What does all that mean? In a nutshell, the paper says IBM is striving to keep corporate desktops open by teaming with Netscape Communications Corp. (Nasdaq:NSCP) to position Java applications against Microsoft's COM/DCOM object model, \"which locks customers into Windows on both the client and the server.\" Java majority by 2003 IBM hopes to ensure that 50 percent of PCs in 2003 are capable of running 100% Pure Java applications. \"We will accomplish this by helping Netscape remain a major player on the desktop and ensuring the 100% Pure Java applications will run in Microsoft's Internet Explorer,\" the document says. But Microsoft isn't the only company keeping IBM up at night. IBM's software strategy also identifies two surprising names that could undermine Big Blue's massive e-business offensive: Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:CSCO) and Network Associates (Nasdaq:NETA). IBM fears that Cisco may succeed in transforming its Internetworking Operating System and Microsoft's Active Directory into a networking platform \"for building and deploying value-added services.\" That's precisely Cisco's plan. \"We respect IBM and its e-business efforts, but it missed the boat on networking and desktop OSes,\" says a Cisco exec who requested anonymity. \"Cisco and Microsoft are a natural combination for e-commerce.\" Network Associates challenges Network Associates, meanwhile, is rapidly emerging as a premier supplier of enterprise security and management software-a market reality that threatens the viability of IBM's Tivoli subsidiary. To combat those threats, the paper says IBM needs to establish Java as the de facto industry standard for building, deploying and managing e-business applications. The company also must build a high-growth business helping customers extend their networking infrastructure to support e-business across heterogeneous systems. Along the way, IBM hopes to provide best-of-breed networking infrastructure technology. IBM's strategy banks heavily on support from resellers, ISVs and key vendor allies, such as Netscape, Novell Inc. (Nasdaq:NOVL) and Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW). On the reseller front, IBM says that 75 percent of fulfillment for eNetwork PC and Unix products is through the channel, but only 10 percent of the company's resellers are actively selling those products. It also identifies specific target resellers for certification and active selling as IBM systems and network integrators, Novell Platinum resellers, and Microsoft SNA Server Solution Providers. Backed by its partners, IBM hopes to have 50 percent of new apps built on Java by 2003, and it wants to make Java a standard on 50 percent of new client devices (smart phones, etc.) by 2001. IBM's plan without its challenges. For starters, IBM says Netscape must maintain at least 30 percent of the browser market. Otherwise, \"ISVs will drop support, customers will start moving to IE and the battle for the client will be lost,\" the document says. IBM already is formulating a backup plan to \"protect its server business,\" just in case IE tramples Netscape on the desktop. OS/2 biggest loser The biggest loser in IBM's Java initiative is OS/2. The document confirms that IBM will continue cutting OS/2 R&D. \"Eve"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Oct  6, 1998 (08:48)", "body": "IBM's plan for domination By The staff, Sm@rt Reseller October 5, 1998 5:07 AM PT IBM lays out its five-step Java plan...: 1. Promote Netscape: Help Navigator maintain at least a 30-percent share of the browser market. 2. Partner With HP: Both will promote embedded Java. 3. Keep PCs Open: Ensure that at least 50 percent of PCs in 2003 can run 100% Pure Java applications. 4. Target Internet Explorer: Help Sun enhance Activator, which supports 100% Pure Java apps on Microsoft's Web browser. 5. Think Thin: Make at least 50 percent of new client types (set-top boxes, etc.) support 100% Pure Java apps by 2001. ...But Big Blue has six potential problems: 1. Java Isn't Proven: Network Computing Software Division Strategy \"is based on several unproven emerging markets.\" 2. Strategic Partners: \"The entire industry must behave like a single, focused competitor to Microsoft. It is difficult and time-consuming to keep the coalition together.\" 3. ISVs: \"IBM does not have a good track record with independent software vendors.\" 4. Internet Explorer: \"If Microsoft dominates the browser, it will make it difficult for us to succeed.\" 5. Java Funding: \"Netscape and Sun are faced with their own financial challenges and are not able to fund their 'fair share.' \" 6. Cost/Complexity Of Heterogeneity: \"Our costs will be higher and our margins lower than Microsoft.\" ...And undermines OS/2 1. Slash R&D: IBM has \"significantly reduced investments\" in OS/2, and predicts that there will be a \"continuing competitive erosion of OS/2 as both a server and a client.\" 2. Reduce Partnerships: There is \"a continued decline in OS/2 support by our solution partners and other IBM divisions.\" 3. Move OS/2 Customers To Java: \"Eventually, customers will have to move to another platform or accept a lower level of function\" from OS/2. Source: IBM Network Computer Software Division Strategy document."}, {"response": 3, "author": "ratthing", "date": "Tue, Oct  6, 1998 (09:14)", "body": "terry, just out of curiosity, how does this news affect what you do for a living?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Oct  6, 1998 (20:52)", "body": "It's the project I'm working on."}, {"response": 5, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Oct  8, 1998 (23:47)", "body": "Thomas is going to school on Java for an IBM affiliate right now..."}, {"response": 6, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sat, Oct 10, 1998 (20:25)", "body": "ok, i finally mosey'd on over here and i still don't know what java is about *grin*"}, {"response": 7, "author": "CotC", "date": "Mon, Nov  2, 1998 (11:50)", "body": "Howdy, Check out http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com/Home There's some kinda nifty Java hoohah a'goin' on over there."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov  2, 1998 (13:21)", "body": "That's a good site along with http://www.gamelan.com web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 52, "subject": "web based email", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 29, 1998 (07:19)", "body": "There is a package to read mail on a UNIX system on a web page? The idea is that you could switch to an https connection to use the web page to read the mail. http://www.wormhole2.com/webml/"}, {"response": 2, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Thu, Oct 29, 1998 (14:56)", "body": "a more pertinent question is: would we want to? If you can do web based e-mail in so many other places, why bother to implement it here? Better to concentrate the time on doing things that are innovative and that haven't been thought of yet ."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 29, 1998 (16:12)", "body": "good point! web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 53, "subject": "Submit it!  Getting your web page known", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 29, 1998 (07:29)", "body": "http://www.smartage.com/submit has a free submission service which works for about 7 engines. http://www.selfpromotion.com has a similar service and beaucoup info about getting ranked by the search engines. And the Spring itself has a submit it page, admittedly needing updating. You can get to it from http://www.spring.net/search web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 54, "subject": "rules for good web design", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sun, Nov  8, 1998 (10:09)", "body": "ALT tags"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov  8, 1998 (11:06)", "body": "A nice new piece from Chris Locke: From: \"Christopher Locke\" To: \"Entropy Gradient Reversals (E-mail)\" Subject: EGR Special - Scream III Date sent: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 12:15:17 -0700 Send reply to: clocke@panix.com ENTROPY GRADIENT REVERSALS All Noise - All the Time Where there is no imagination there is no horror. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - One might say that the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our civilization represses and oppresses. - Robin Wood, British film critic - Scream III Well, Sports Fans & Valued Readers, it turns out I'm giving a talk in Denver on Friday (11/6/98) at the Rocky Mountain Internet Expo. Here's how it's billed on their site: http://www.winningevents.com/1998/InetExpo/sched.htm Scream III: Horror Stories From the World Wide Web Technology and implementation issues often crowd out all others when companies construct their web strategies. However, these are typically not the greatest challenges facing such projects. While technology is clearly important, expectations and assumptions about the medium itself -- and the qualitatively different type of market attitudes it has spawned -- are far more likely to determine failure or success. Understanding these differences doesn't involve rocket science or academic handwaving, yet these surprisingly simple lessons are too often learned the hard way. The speaker will share his personal experience of some costly failures -- with emphasis on how NOT to replicate them -- and provide successful counter-examples that are winning over whole new markets. Yeah, yeah, OK, so I wrote that myself. But I haven't yet figured out what I'm actually going to say. I hate this. I'm feeling more than usually cantankerous today because a dozen people just unsubscribed from EGR, ostensibly in reaction to that last thing I sent around suggesting we should all wear ape suits for John Glenn's return from space. Jeez, people have no sense of humor at all anymore! However, maybe it's just that they expect greater substance. You know, some of that penetrating punditry and laser-like analytical insight I'm supposedly so famous for. God, I hate this. But having demonstrated the bad judgment to sign up for this speaking gig, I guess I have to say *something* to this crowd. And it probably can't be the usual \"korporate websites like suck, man!\" I guess I'm going to have to see if I can say something a bit more cogent this time. Needless to say, I hate this. But here goes. -------------------------------------------- I have personally witnessed the squandering of hundreds of millions of dollars on misguided and misbegotten commercial web initiatives. While my intention here is not to name names and point fingers, this firsthand experience does inform the views delivered below. They are not just the armchair whinings of a disgruntled zinester -- though, of course, they're all that as well. Let's examine the Seven Deadly Web Sins that seem to beset companies -- especially, but not exclusively, large ones. These are nearly always the root causes of why corporate web efforts bomb. Some very large and seemingly successful sites have these problems today. While they have not yet failed, I predict they will eventually go down like the Titanic unless they take a long hard look at how these attitudes and practices affect what they set out hoping to achieve. 1. Greed Greed is not about wanting to make money. All of us want to do that, and companies have to. In contrast, greed is about being unable to think of anything else. When money is the sole motivator, it shows. Internet markets are smart markets. From many a virtual mile away, they can smell sites that telegraph the message: \"Hey! We're here to make a buck off you rubes!\" Aside from vastly increased profits, there are other reasons a company might want to have a website: * to cement relationships with current markets through better customer service * to become more attractive to new prospects * to better position itself vis-a-vis competitors * to attract new investment ...and so on. Obviously, the prospect of making money isn't an afterthought in any of this. However, if the assumption going in is that a website has to break even in three months and turn into the Midas Touch in six, its not going to last very long. Yet this sort of assumption is a common one today. A side effect of the more-revenues-as-fast-as-possible approach is that the resulting site will not reflect any real enthusiasm or true passion for its subject matter. Worse, it may very well communicate false passion: Oh Wow! We're Just So Excited About Our Kew-el New Offering... Gag! Retch! To net-savvy audiences, this is the equivalent of being served a steaming hot SkunkBurger at McDonald's. Not-so-by-the-way, many suitish types assume that \"net-savvy\" equates to old die-hard Unix heads who still prefer command-line FTP and Lynx browsers. Wrong. As I'm using the term here, a net-savvy user is anyone who's had an AOL accou"}, {"response": 3, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Nov 11, 1998 (16:25)", "body": "Ack!"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 10, 2002 (21:45)", "body": "http://www.designofsites.com/ The site includes one sample pattern, \"The Process Funnel\": http://www.designofsites.com/about_the_book/patternh1.pdf uses Christopher Alexander style pattern language to create websites. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 55, "subject": "ideas for killer web sites", "response_count": 12, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 11, 1998 (12:29)", "body": "I have a killer idea for a new Web site -- a site I believe is so totally destined to be a hy00ge success it will have zillions of visitors and we will be able to sell ads while keeping content, admin, marketing and tech costs down -- and thus be way profitable to potential investors. I have books on writing business plans, and some software, but I'm really looking for one or two Web site-oriented plans that I might learn from (and probably copy and modify parts of, to be honest). If you have one of these that you could send me (I'm not hooked into the Valley venture capital world at all), or if you could point me somewhere, could you email me (voidmstr@primenet.com)? Or send it directly to: Dennis Wilen VOIDMSTR 2385 Roscomare Road Bel Air, CA 90077 Thanks."}, {"response": 2, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Nov 11, 1998 (16:28)", "body": "more details, por favor..."}, {"response": 3, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Thu, Nov 12, 1998 (16:59)", "body": "I have a great idea following the Michelle's birthday debacle. On-line, high quality lingerie for sale directly over the web. How about re-selling of established store brands, etc.? I'm sure it would make a killing."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 12, 1998 (21:14)", "body": "Do it here! We're moving in electronic commerce here on Spring."}, {"response": 5, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sat, Nov 14, 1998 (09:13)", "body": "yeah, and it would find a place in silk.com, too"}, {"response": 6, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, Nov 14, 1998 (09:13)", "body": "I might just bear that in mind..."}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jan 28, 1999 (20:19)", "body": "You might?"}, {"response": 8, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Tue, Apr 27, 1999 (11:33)", "body": "There's somewhere on the Web a place selling the original 50ies-style tights. Gotta see where that link is..."}, {"response": 9, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (01:20)", "body": "Are you personally planning to wear them? Ask someone who remembers them. Not that great!"}, {"response": 10, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Wed, Feb 16, 2000 (17:15)", "body": "Huh, but there seem to be some folks who swear by them... Sounds like they work on men like flies on trout."}, {"response": 11, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, Feb 16, 2000 (17:53)", "body": "They certainly kept me warm in those cold winters. I liked them because I could sit on the floor and spread out my homework while wearing a tartan pleated skirt and still be \"a lady.\" Ours were all synthetic materials, and if you misjudge the weather and it gets warm, they will cook you like a sausage!"}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Apr 30, 2001 (02:17)", "body": "http://www.importanceofbeingearnest.com Another big Colin Firth hit? web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 56, "subject": "Servlets and JSP", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov 22, 1998 (11:12)", "body": "this was in this month's Java Dev. Journal: 1998 Writer's Choice Which Products Have You Found to Be Most Valuable? \"Significantly Improved Quality\" WebLogic's Tengah Application Server is, put simply, the best application server software I have ever worked with. WebLogic ( http://www.weblogic.com ) was actually the first Java company. In the pioneering days of JDBC, WebLogic provided the first JDBC drivers as well as three-tiered drivers that allowed Applets to access relational databases. Tengah provides robust connectivity to Relational Databases, as well as the fastest Java Servlet API-compliant Web server, a central management system for RMI, the first Enterprise JavaBean-compliant server, and HTTP tunneling for proxied access to data. WebLogic provides all of this and also includes phone and email support with an incredibly fast turn-around time. I have been developing Java applications for more than two years. WebLogic's products have significantly improved the quality of the solutions that I've implemented.\" web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 57, "subject": "website hosting services - which are best?", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  2, 1998 (06:00)", "body": "Take a look at Netpedia's Open Source Web Presence Project: http://www.netpedia.net/ \"Netpedia.net would like to extend an invitation to any Open Source project to be hosted for no price and no catch. This is our token of appreciation to the people who help make Open Source a reality.\" web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 58, "subject": "British Actor - Robson Green", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "BillAlpha", "date": "Sat, Jan 23, 1999 (10:31)", "body": "That should be HOT - sorry!"}, {"response": 2, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jan 23, 1999 (10:51)", "body": "thanks for the clarification...was starting to wonder..."}, {"response": 3, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sat, Jan 23, 1999 (16:23)", "body": "Robson Green! Hahah! Funny chap. Started off in the British military drama \"Soldier Soldier\" if I remember correctly (which I likely don't)."}, {"response": 4, "author": "wolf", "date": "Mon, Feb  1, 1999 (14:47)", "body": "hey! shouldn't he be listed in drool? web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 59, "subject": "Home Page - the film and video by Doug Block", "response_count": 9, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "turk182", "date": "Sun, Apr 25, 1999 (04:23)", "body": "Are you going home"}, {"response": 2, "author": "turk182", "date": "Sun, Apr 25, 1999 (04:24)", "body": "hello???"}, {"response": 3, "author": "turk182", "date": "Sun, Apr 25, 1999 (04:28)", "body": "We Have only just begun"}, {"response": 4, "author": "turk182", "date": "Sun, Apr 25, 1999 (04:29)", "body": "wa happinin'"}, {"response": 5, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Sun, Apr 25, 1999 (06:31)", "body": "Nada mucho aqui. Que pasa?"}, {"response": 6, "author": "firasona", "date": "Sun, Nov  7, 1999 (06:40)", "body": "hi who whant to know me: Diego Armando Maradona fmas@hugkiss.com"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov  7, 1999 (08:55)", "body": "Have you seen Home Page yet, Diego?"}, {"response": 8, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Thu, Nov 18, 1999 (17:21)", "body": "Diego, what's your favorite sports?"}, {"response": 9, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Thu, Nov 18, 1999 (17:22)", "body": "And as for me, Terry, I haven't. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 6, "subject": "Netscape only", "response_count": 11, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Dec 15, 1996 (00:27)", "body": "NS mailer hack from a newsgroup on secnews.netscape.com Automatic filing/filtering of mail messages is a feature that was officially dropped before Netscape 2.0 was released. It's not supported. But it turns out that the code was never actually removed, there is just no user interface to it. Don't rely on this. It is untested. It is hard to use. It's not supported. It's not even a claimed \"feature.\" It doesn't work in news. It has many limitations. Treat it as \"as is\" if at all. (I wasn't here; this conversation did not occur.) There *will* be an interface for this some day, and it will work a lot better. But for now... To filter your mail, you create a text file. On Windows, this file is called \"sort.dat\" and goes in the \"nsmail\" directory along with your mail folders. On Mac, it's called Mail Filters\" and goes in your \"nsmail\" directory. On Unix, it's called \"mailsort\" and goes in your \"~/.netscape/\" directory. When you do \"get mail\", this file is consulted for each new message to decide where to put it. In the file, each line describes a pattern and an action to take. The first line which is matched by a message is executed, and subsequent matches are ignored. If no line matches, the message is left in your Inbox, as normal. The lines have three fields, seperated by tabs: the file name of the destination folder; the name of a header field to consult; and a substring to look for in that header field. For example: c:\\netscape\\nsmail\\bounces From mailer-daemon c:\\netscape\\nsmail\\fan-mail Subject your home page This says that if the message contains the string \"mailer-daemon\" in the \"From\" field, it should be put in the \"bounces\" folder instead of the \"Inbox\" folder. Lines beginning with \"#\" are comments. Blank lines are ignored. Mail files will be created as necessary, but directories will not. The full pathname of the mail folder may not contain spaces: so if you have installed Netscape in a directory which has some component whose name contains a space (as is the default on some platforms) this won't work until you rename those directories to not contain spaces. One note the unix version appends the path to nsmail so you just have to put something like Cron From cron-daemon in ~/.netscape/mailsort"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Dec 15, 1996 (21:44)", "body": "Go to http://www.peak-media.com and download a copy of their NetJet browser cache. \"IMHO, this is the greatest new utility since sliced bread -- speeds up browser response time on large sites (CNN, Microsoft, etc) by about 15 to 20 percent. I think it works with Internet Explorer, too. Running it with Netscape at places like CNN, STIM, etc. is like suddenly discovering the Windows for Workgroups 32-bit file access option. Much better.\" - Lenny Bailes"}, {"response": 3, "author": "tedchong", "date": "Tue, Dec 17, 1996 (02:09)", "body": "Can NetJet speeds up web access on very slow link?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 23, 1998 (07:41)", "body": "AOL's working a merger with Netscape...looks serious. http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/16418.html"}, {"response": 5, "author": "ratthing", "date": "Mon, Nov 23, 1998 (09:52)", "body": "the wall street journal reports that this merger is more or less official!"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 24, 1998 (18:08)", "body": "America Online, Inc. to Acquire Netscape Communications in Stock Transaction Valued at $4.2 Billion Acquisition To Significantly Advance AOL's Multiple Brand Strategy, Broaden Audience, and Take E-Commerce to New Level AOL To Operate Most Popular and Diverse Family of Brands in Cyberspace AOL and Sun Microsystems, Inc. to Develop Next Generation of E-Commerce Solutions and Internet Devices DULLES, VA, November 24, 1998 -- America Online, Inc. (NYSE: AOL) today announced that it will acquire Netscape Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: NSCP) in a transaction that will extend America Online's leadership in interactive services. The stock-for-stock, pooling-of-interests transaction, in which stockholders of Netscape will receive 0.45 shares of AOL common stock for each share of Netscape common stock, is valued at $4.2 billion. It is expected to close in the spring of 1999, subject to various conditions including customary regulatory approvals and approval by Netscape's shareholders. The Company said it expects the transaction will be slightly accretive to operating results. Netscape's operations will remain based in Mountain View, CA. Key benefits of the acquisition will be to: Advance America Online's multiple-brand strategy with one of the Internet's best known brands; Substantially broaden America Online's global audience at home and at work, by adding the fast-growing Netscape Netcenter portal that is integrated with the Netscape browser used by millions of people; Accelerate the growth of e-commerce across the America Online and Netscape brands and provide added value to their business partners; Provide significant new opportunities to make America Online's brands available anywhere to interactive consumers, as well as to maximize the value of these brands, by taking advantage of AOL's existing shared infrastructure; and Expand the range of America Online products and services by adding world-class technology and an experienced development team that has demonstrated its ability to innovate rapidly. Separately, America Online announced that it has entered into a strategic development and marketing alliance with Sun Microsystems, Inc. to enhance its delivery of e-commerce solutions that will help build revenues across America Online and Netscape brands, and offer added value to both America Online and Netscape business partners, as well as the growing number of major corporations planning to put their business on the Internet. The companies will develop easy-to-deploy, end-to-end solutions for e-commerce based on the best available technologies and expand their sales channels to include each other's products and services. The three-year America Online-Sun agreements also will increase distribution and development of Netscape's enterprise software for corporate customers. The companies also will use Sun's Java technology to offer AOL services on selected Internet devices, consistent with AOL's \"AOL Anywhere\" strategy to extend its brand to all emerging mass market platforms. (See separate America Online-Sun Microsystems release.) Most Popular and Diverse Family of Brands in Cyberspace With Netscape joining its AOL, CompuServe, AOL.COM, AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, and Digital City brands, America Online will operate the most popular and diverse family of brands in cyberspace. Steve Case, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of America Online, said: \"The acquisition of Netscape is a big step forward for America Online that will greatly accelerate our business momentum. Netscape has played a key role in helping consumers benefit from the enormous power of the Internet, and we share the same mission. With Netscape, we will broaden our global audience at home and at work, and add world-class technology to support an expanded range of America Online interactive products and services.\" Mr. Case added: \"The development of e-commerce is entering an exciting new stage. Increasingly, companies are seeing the power of the Internet as central to their business strategies and consumers are seeing the convenience of online shopping as central to their lives. Netscape's highly regarded suite of e-commerce software, coupled with our strategic alliance with Sun, will help us drive e-commerce to a whole new level that will benefit both business partners and Internet consumers.\" Mr. Case continued: \"We have been very impressed with how quickly Netscape has transformed its business -- shifting its focus away from browsers and platforms and toward high-growth portal and e-commerce opportunities. We look forward to welcoming the Netscape team to our America Online family. Having known each other for many years, we know that together we can take the Internet to the next stage of its development. And as interactive services become more central to the daily lives of tens of millions of people, the promise of e-commerce becomes even more of a reality for consumers and businesses.\" Mr. Case concluded: \"One key to this acquisition is th"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 24, 1998 (18:08)", "body": "Scripting.com has an interesting quote from a press release: \"The two companies will work together to ensure that all future releases of the AOL platform will be based entirely on Java technology.\""}, {"response": 8, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Dec  2, 1998 (16:06)", "body": "JOY!!! (Did the sarcasm come through?)"}, {"response": 9, "author": "CotC", "date": "Wed, Dec  2, 1998 (16:19)", "body": "Sarcasm? Sorry, I'm not familiar with the concept..."}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Dec  8, 1998 (11:42)", "body": "Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 10:44:47 -0600 To: chapman@mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu From: Gary Chapman Subject: LA Times column, 12/7/98 Reply-To: gary.chapman@mail.utexas.edu Sender: owner-chapman@mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.2.07 -- ListProc(tm) by CREN X-UIDL: 601f79050a8891ebae837b6ee1c69ab8 Friends, Below is my Los Angeles Times column for today, December 7, 1998. As always, please feel free to pass this on, but please retain the copyright notice. -- Gary Gary Chapman Director The 21st Century Project LBJ School of Public Affairs Drawer Y, University Station University of Texas Austin, TX 78713 (512) 263-1218 (512) 471-1835 (fax) gary.chapman@mail.utexas.edu http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/21cp ------------------------------------------ If you have received this from me, Gary Chapman (gary.chapman@mail.utexas.edu), you are subscribed to the listserv that sends out copies of my column in The Los Angeles Times and other published articles. If you wish to UNSUBSCRIBE from this listserv, send mail to listproc@mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu, leave the subject line blank, and put \"Unsubscribe Chapman\" in the first line of the message. If you received this message from a source other than me and would like to subscribe to the listserv, the instructions for subscribing are at the end of the message. ------------------------------------------ Monday, December 7, 1998 DIGITAL NATION Duel Heats Up Over Culture of the Internet By Gary Chapman Copyright 1998, The Los Angeles Times, All Rights Reserved The proposed merger of America Online Inc. and Netscape Communications Corp. seems to have pleased Wall Street, and boosted almost all Internet stocks, but it created a sour and anxious feeling among longtime Internet activists and programmers. They see this new goliath as yet another encroachment by \"the suits,\" the corporate culture that has recently discovered the Internet, and as perhaps the cyberspace equivalent of suburban sprawl, the \"malling of America.\" AOL's flirtation with the metaphors of commercial TV, with its \"channels\" and ubiquitous advertising, raises the specter of the Internet turning into a commercial wasteland like TV, subverting the promise of cyberspace as a different kind of medium. New-media pundit Jon Katz wrote that the AOL-Netscape merger is a \"catastrophe\" for Net culture. The hacker and activist community on the Internet is deeply suspicious of any company that seems to harbor ambitions of being emperor of cyberspace, whether it's AOL-Netscape or Microsoft. These programmers, activists and idealists think the Internet is working just fine already, the way they created it. What seems to be shaping up is a fascinating duel between two models of Net culture, both of them gaining strength in the last year: the commercial culture of big corporations and the \"gift economy\" developing among thousands of computer programmers who are contributing to \"open source\" software such as the operating system Linux. These two models will coexist for a while, but how they interact with each other is likely to be the most interesting story in the technology field for some years to come. Linux has been the rage in all the technology press lately, in part because of its radically different development from the corporate model represented by Microsoft and its Windows operating system. A familiar story by now, Linux was first developed by Linus Torvalds in 1991, when the Finnish computer science student wanted a version of the Unix operating system to run on his 386 PC. Torvalds used software tools produced by the Free Software Foundation, an organization founded by Richard Stallman in Cambridge, Mass. Stallman's personal philosophy -- which earned him a MacArthur Foundation \"genius grant\" -- is that software should be free and widely shared in a community committed to improving its capabilities, not unlike the way we regard scientific knowledge. This does not mean that software should cost nothing. It means that software source code, the text of a program that is interpreted by computers as instructions, should be freely available for modification and improvement by others, for the benefit of all. Torvalds put Linux into this model of software development and relied on the distributed intelligence of thousands of volunteers around the world to improve the operating system. He also made it free in the conventional sense of that word: It's available for download, without cost, through many sites on the Internet. The result is that Linux is now widely used -- estimates of its user population vary from 6 million up to 20 million people, depending on whom you ask -- and widely admired for its stability, scalability (its ability to handle large tasks) and speed. It's highly customizable because its source code is accessible to programmers, unlike that of Windows. Linux doesn't crash, or only rarely, also unlike Windows. And Linux is so fast and efficient that it can resurrect otherwise obsolete -- and therefore cheap -- "}, {"response": 11, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Aug 18, 2000 (21:08)", "body": "Browser Alert: Netscape Communicator 4.75 Final Not to be outdone by all the features added in last month's upgrade, our friends in Mountain View decided to release another one yesterday (just too late for the news to make our usual dispatch). Before this release, the only way to protect yourself from Netscape's \"Brown Orifice\" security hole was to disable Java in the advanced preferences menu. Now you can enjoy worry-free Java-licious surfing with the latest download, found here: http://2.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin2/flo?y=e1Q0BBFIE0P0BcBd Check out our new Netscape Communicator Beginners Center: http://2.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin2/flo?y=e1Q0BBFIE0P0C1lW web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 60, "subject": "Justin", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Mar 17, 1999 (09:49)", "body": "From Justin's Diary of 3/17/99 about his visit to Bruce's house. (I was there) we wandered over somehow to bruce sterling's house - he'd invited the near-whole of south by southwest to his 1912/frank lloyd writey custom designed/build admirable family pad. respected but unread pat cadigan science fiction author i should know better, bruce sterling holding court in his office, showing off computer crime books, ru serius and his wonderful welcome-matt-flinging ladyfriend eve, demi-stars and the 13 year old dj, who may have put on eminem more than once, though it may have been carl. adam powell told me about fugazi with the most incredible fervent look in his eyes, as he is want to do describing a trip to eat a burrito. paul with recent videos of me gathered persistenly at http://www.spring.net/ threw out occasional questions, still in his rather large but not laden vest-of-many pockets. jon lebkowsky i've felt somehow has been most host-behind-the-scenes all along and he was there looking quite impish in eyebrows and friendly in his belly, smiled much and suggested i think seriously about repurposing my web ramblings into a sellable book. his tome on netpolitics should be rescued from academic press in time for a presidential-era publishing this november if possible i suggested. joey anuff of suck did the usual rib-tickling rundown of myself or whoever availed. the woman from the ACTlab here described the collaboratively written opera she'd organized and had just seen performed. never having done opera before she was prompted by sandy stone to do something new first and therein find the necessary knomwledge. bruce sterling's youngest daughter of maybe 3 was eating candy necklace beads that had been already separated from the string. i sat near her on the wooden stairs and tried mimicry to initiate play - she had none of it and steadily rolled away from my ovations of friendship, beginning a slow moan that threatened to become a cry. a guy who's name slips me and i'm too tired to find his card had long red hair and a longer attention span than i for the subject at hand between us - managing web site collections of links. another fellow, jeff? can't recall; he mentioned wanting to auction me off on ebay. joey said a famous VC had auctioned off an hour of his time there and i should try that too. of my party carl david and ariana were leaving after 10 minutes. they invited my departure as well but i could not stand to leave a nice group gathered here under a writerly umbrella for casual chatting in pleasant audible surroundings so i abandoned any party hopping for 90 minutes wandering happy at the sterlings. his office was lined with books, many his, many cyber, much eclectica. sterling has a quite old mac (fewer wiz bang - maybe more work), while his daughter of 3 has a powerful PC that he is sure to be kicked off of if she catches him on it when she has work to do. over his desk, much like howard, strikingly like howard, sterling had a large ganesha. at first he dodged acknowledging the significance, but he came to share a dream of a visitation by a three foot high rat in some clothes the day he cleaned and installed the large painted statue (rat being the messenger of ganesh and the title of a story by a fellow i did not note and do not recall). later i paused in the kitchen a moment to say thanks yous ands goods byes to him my host. i introduced myself and sterling mentioned my hair change. somehow origin came up and he mentioned that garriot was an astronaut's sun who had famous halloween parties every few years. there was a large hammock outside between the house and my ride. i jumped in, it was a broad sweep, many feet between the anchors. amidst my late-evening breeze riding sterling ran by and snatched up an attached rope to pull me to exciting heights cackling something resembling \"appropriate use\""}, {"response": 2, "author": "turk182", "date": "Sun, Apr 25, 1999 (04:34)", "body": "I so do like Bruce, His manhood protruding like a spruce. A pine in the base of my spine. and the taste of necteur engulfs his juice web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 61, "subject": "Lotus Domino Webhosting and Applications", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 62, "subject": "How to set-up internet broadcasting", "response_count": 101, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Tue, Apr 27, 1999 (08:07)", "body": "As some people here already know, superstar has a weekly radio show (more information in http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/public/read/music/59 ). And since this taping and copying of shows is bothersome, I'd like to find a way to achieve the following goals: (A) Webcast the show live. (B) Archive the show on the web, so everybody can replay older stuff. (C) Provide a good format/medium to distribute the show to other radio stations."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Apr 27, 1999 (16:49)", "body": "The Spring uses a realaudio server. We don't serve up video, you need a more robust server than we have for that."}, {"response": 3, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Wed, Apr 28, 1999 (08:08)", "body": "\"The Spring uses a realaudio server.\" Great, how do you do this? Would be enough for me, to stream the show to the web, plus run it into a file for archiving/rerunning/distributing it. Assume that I have a analogue audio signal to work with, and a dedicated PC (perhaps not even in the studio, but at some collaborateur's place within receiving range of broadcaster) with internet access (56k or ISDN). What software is needed? What are the lowest hardware requirements in your opinion (I have some stuff laying around here, but no budget for this)? Any special/unusual gimmicks I'd need?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr 28, 1999 (09:12)", "body": "Just get an NT box set up and download the server from http://www.real.com , there is a whole section there on how to do this."}, {"response": 5, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Wed, Apr 28, 1999 (15:44)", "body": "Right. And how does my nice sound get into the NT-Box? Does a standard line-in on any Soundblaster-card do it? And the box - any hint on what specs? I could dedicate either a PC (P133, 32 MB, 540 MB, currently Win98) or a older notebook (486DX2-100, 16MB, 1GB, currently running Win95)."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, May 11, 1999 (16:20)", "body": "Standard line in should do, get a dual processor Pentium II box if you can. With a stable motherboard like a Gigabyte. And lot's of hard disk space if you're going to save .ra files."}, {"response": 7, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Wed, May 12, 1999 (07:25)", "body": "Huh, you talk serious money. I only got scrap hardware. \"And never the twain shall meet?\""}, {"response": 8, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May 12, 1999 (11:17)", "body": "hey, part of this conversation I completely understand and can relate to!!!"}, {"response": 9, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Wed, May 12, 1999 (14:16)", "body": "But we two, laddie, we two shall always meet again. Terry, how much diskspace - 2 GB enough?"}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, May 13, 1999 (22:37)", "body": "That would be a good minimum. You can always add more drives."}, {"response": 11, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Fri, May 14, 1999 (16:31)", "body": "Ok, get back to you when I got hold of a disk - got one, even SCSI, but you can't write to it... On Scandisk, it stops spinning, then speeds up and brakes down. Does that until it stopps; perhaps from overheating? Weird. I've got another try..."}, {"response": 12, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Mon, May 24, 1999 (08:32)", "body": "...but that baby has UW-SCSI, and my SCSI-box only does SCSI-II, so I have to wait until the shop gets an adapter and find out if my SCSI controller runs the Ultra Wide disk as regular fare, too. Hey, I've got an invitation from realnetworks to attend a seminar on their technology! As soon as our #13 is off to the printers (right now hacking last articles togetherm while already deep in production...), and I have promotion set up, I want to really get into this. Besides the weekly radio show and the occasional DJing of our superstar club rotation branch, we will have a major event in August. 5 bands on stage, DJs and good fun till sunrise! On August 19th, we'll present another of our \"meet your superstar\" festivals, again during the world's greatest music expo, Cologne's PopKomm. Only gotta figure out how to set a webcast up... Perhaps find an ISP to cooperate..."}, {"response": 13, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, May 24, 1999 (09:21)", "body": "cool!"}, {"response": 14, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, May 24, 1999 (11:10)", "body": "ditto!"}, {"response": 15, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Tue, May 25, 1999 (09:11)", "body": "What, the seminar-invitation or that other thang? Or the more than vague prospect to get to see that other thang? Anyway, will post more about it in superstar's very own topic, as soon as this place has calmed down a bit. I don't want to sound off, but we got some really great bands booked... Time: -7 days to print shop."}, {"response": 16, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Thu, May 27, 1999 (02:57)", "body": "Time: -5 to print shop. Uh-oh."}, {"response": 17, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, May 27, 1999 (16:36)", "body": "*drum roll*"}, {"response": 18, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Tue, Jun 15, 1999 (12:43)", "body": "Wow, the last two days were cool. I've been to the seminars by RealNetwork, maker of the RealAudio server, player and the whole shebangle. That software is WAY cool. They've shown how you can include pictures, video, static and dynamic text together with audio tracks in your webcast/site, bundling it all with their SMIL file format. Purrty impressive, I must say. If I only had the machine park and mobile means to hook the gear up... Or had a sponsor... (Actually, I met a guy there from Berlin who might try to talk his company into sponsoring us. But I'll never tell anybody about this before it's sure...)"}, {"response": 19, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Tue, Jun 15, 1999 (12:45)", "body": "(And some things I've seen there ought to be further investigated by our own Wer. I still think he's on to some project... With this stuff, you can do multimedia streaming WITH BILLING)"}, {"response": 20, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Jun 15, 1999 (13:33)", "body": "much like you, Alexander, time, money and equipment are additional necessities..."}, {"response": 21, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Wed, Jun 16, 1999 (02:44)", "body": "... of which you stand better chances to get them than I do... Right now, you got a lot of the first, don't need a lot of the second and could perhaps borrow the latter. I mean, I don't have anybody sitting here who would let me put anything I like on his machines... At least not right now... Git to it! Do a plan! Develop a prototype and git it movin', show it around, and see if you could get partnerships going!"}, {"response": 22, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, Jun 16, 1999 (10:48)", "body": "you got the same person sitting around as I do... I do live closer to him than you do, granted..."}, {"response": 23, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Wed, Jun 16, 1999 (15:59)", "body": "...also that you right now might have some more time to invest than I do? Listen, I've got some very specific idea. Mail me and I tell you."}, {"response": 24, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun 17, 1999 (00:17)", "body": "sorta...it looks like I might be cooking again, though..."}, {"response": 25, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jun 17, 1999 (09:43)", "body": "only do it if it makes you happy..."}, {"response": 26, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jun 17, 1999 (10:01)", "body": "How's our Realaudio server on access doing?"}, {"response": 27, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Thu, Jun 17, 1999 (10:22)", "body": "What do you mean, Terry?"}, {"response": 28, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun 17, 1999 (14:58)", "body": "I get sound every time I try..."}, {"response": 29, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jun 17, 1999 (15:55)", "body": "i rarely try... .ok damn that return key!"}, {"response": 30, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun 17, 1999 (18:24)", "body": "aw, do I have to?"}, {"response": 31, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Jun 18, 1999 (10:20)", "body": "it's okay if you don't want to. i understand"}, {"response": 32, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jun 18, 1999 (10:40)", "body": "What do you mean, what do I mean, Alexander?"}, {"response": 33, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Fri, Jun 18, 1999 (14:26)", "body": "Well, what does your reply asking \"How's our Realaudio server on access doing?\" mean? Is anybody (e.g. Wer) working on it, does something change,... (Perhaps it's just because I thought you of all people here ought to know the best, so... Aw, shucks, dunno... Something else - if I had a website at the spring - working at it as you know, with generous help from a certain W. -, how would I get it to play RealAudio files? Get them onto that machine \"access\" and put a link in my website to it?)"}, {"response": 34, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jun 20, 1999 (23:24)", "body": "That would be the best way to get your files to play. We have a realaudio server there but I'm not using it currently. We need to play with it."}, {"response": 35, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jun 21, 1999 (08:13)", "body": "We'll get you an account on access.spring.net Alexander, if you don't already have one. Just email me with username and password and I'll set it up."}, {"response": 36, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Tue, Jun 22, 1999 (08:28)", "body": "William set me up with an telnet and ftp account, so I can get at http://www.spring.net/~aschuth . Does that work for access, too?"}, {"response": 37, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Jun 22, 1999 (10:24)", "body": "yup"}, {"response": 38, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Tue, Jun 22, 1999 (10:32)", "body": "Merci bien!"}, {"response": 39, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Jun 22, 1999 (10:37)", "body": "danke gratis"}, {"response": 40, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Tue, Jun 22, 1999 (10:56)", "body": "Erstaunlich!"}, {"response": 41, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Jun 22, 1999 (10:57)", "body": "gnutreaschion!"}, {"response": 42, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Tue, Jun 22, 1999 (12:32)", "body": "Oh, I didn't know that. I'm sorry. Had I known that, I wouldn't have ever made a single joke about that. Wirklich!"}, {"response": 43, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Jun 22, 1999 (13:14)", "body": "*laugh*"}, {"response": 44, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Jun 22, 1999 (23:13)", "body": "(actually, nope...you want me to set you up the same way on access, Alexander?)"}, {"response": 45, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Jun 23, 1999 (10:14)", "body": "oh lookie what I don't know!"}, {"response": 46, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Thu, Jun 24, 1999 (03:33)", "body": "See, I said I shouldn't have made fun of it... Wer, I don't have anything to put there yet, but yeah, why not. Got the RealProducer now at last, gonna try and see if the bang of my old notebook is enough to produce content..."}, {"response": 47, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jun 24, 1999 (09:45)", "body": "Cool, what is your first project?"}, {"response": 48, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Thu, Jun 24, 1999 (10:43)", "body": "First see if my lowtech is sufficient to work with standard amp line out signal, then git on to certain tapes we've discussed. I may not be able to do realtime webcasts, but I can try stuff nevertheless."}, {"response": 49, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Tue, Jul  6, 1999 (11:03)", "body": "Please notice the article posted in a different topic of this conf concerning audio files, links to audio files - even on other servers - and MAJOR legal hustle : http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/public/read/web/42.9"}, {"response": 50, "author": "mrchips", "date": "Sun, Aug 15, 1999 (22:44)", "body": "I'm lucky enough not to have to set up. I work weekends for a station that broadcasts on the Web, out of Hilo, Hawaii (KWXX-FM, 94.7 on air), on web at http://www.kwxx.com Can also be accessed through http://www.webradio.com I believe at the webradio site you have to go through the \"other\" format selection, then select \"ethnic.\" Our format is a mix of adult contemporary hits and Island music, which encompasses locally produced music, both ethnic Hawaiian and Hawaiian pop, Jawaiian (a Hawaiian reggae hybrid that often has ukuleles), and reggae, both Jamaican and U.K. I'm on Saturday 12 noon to 5 PM EST and Sunday 12 noon to 4 PM. It once was a career, now it's a pretty cool hobby that also puts a few bucks in the pocket."}, {"response": 51, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Aug 18, 1999 (18:07)", "body": "Post something Saturday early as a reminder if you care to, I'd like a reminder to tune in!"}, {"response": 52, "author": "mrchips", "date": "Thu, Aug 19, 1999 (00:26)", "body": "I will but it will be really early because of the time difference when I leave home and on the mainland. I don't have an operational computer terminal in the studio--it crashed and burned. We were taking e-mails and requests long distance on a 486 and the museum piece retired itself. Don't expect a great deal of personality; my boss doesn't want it. But the music should be different than what you're used to. I need to get a shortwave receiver so I can pick up B 92 Radio Belgrade, It sounds fascinati g."}, {"response": 53, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Aug 19, 1999 (00:54)", "body": "John, post it the night before. That is what I do...because it is tomorrow everywhere else but here. That is why your and my computers will be the only ones talking at the end of Y2K - we are the last to get everything...*sigh*"}, {"response": 54, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Aug 19, 1999 (00:55)", "body": "Oh, and I have a spare SW for you to use...."}, {"response": 55, "author": "mrchips", "date": "Sat, Aug 21, 1999 (03:18)", "body": "Per Terry, here is my reminder...I will be on air today and tomorrow at http://www.kwxx.com starting times 12 noon EDT 11 am CDT 10 am MDT 9 am PDT 6 am HST (Hawaii never goes on daylight savings time)"}, {"response": 56, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Aug 21, 1999 (12:24)", "body": "I tried at 7am HST and it was not you on my house radio, and I could not get into the KWXX website and the http://www.webradio.com/kwxx/ kept telling me \"file not found\". John, where are you???"}, {"response": 57, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Aug 21, 1999 (12:42)", "body": "I IS John on my house radio...I just may call the station and see what is wrong with the link at Webradio. But, his golden tones are on the air as I wrilte this."}, {"response": 58, "author": "mrchips", "date": "Sat, Aug 21, 1999 (17:09)", "body": ""}, {"response": 59, "author": "mrchips", "date": "Sat, Aug 21, 1999 (17:13)", "body": "If you have trouble getting webradio audio, try clearing your cache. I was on at 6 AM Hawaii time, but apparently you had your dial somewhere else (as do I from time to time). I'll be there at 6 am tomorrow also, but Sunday show is only four hours opposed to Saturday's five."}, {"response": 60, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Aug 21, 1999 (17:13)", "body": "Well, that is as much as I heard from you on the internet this morning, and your kwxx.com link was dead. But, You sounded great on my little SW radio tuned to AM. What happened?"}, {"response": 61, "author": "mrchips", "date": "Sat, Aug 21, 1999 (17:16)", "body": "I can't speak for webradio. It's a mainland concern. But again, if problems, try cache clearing."}, {"response": 62, "author": "mrchips", "date": "Sat, Aug 21, 1999 (17:17)", "body": "Try our website direct, without going through webradio's site."}, {"response": 63, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Aug 21, 1999 (17:17)", "body": "OK, but that is not the problem. My cache is emptied (both disk and memory) regularly during the day, and I had no trouble accessing the web broadcast during the week from KWXX. Will try again tomorrow. Btw, I think I got the Drool off of the guys' Babe sites - I opened one for ladies to list their Male Babes."}, {"response": 64, "author": "mrchips", "date": "Sat, Aug 21, 1999 (17:19)", "body": "Gee doing it in drool isn't enough for you, is it?"}, {"response": 65, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Aug 21, 1999 (17:21)", "body": "Drool is a world of its own, and a lot of ladies are not comfortable in there. I just used a tiny corner of Babes. We won't make much noise...promise!"}, {"response": 66, "author": "mrchips", "date": "Sat, Aug 21, 1999 (17:25)", "body": "Drool has so many more entries than babes, I don't know if that dog will hunt!"}, {"response": 67, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Aug 21, 1999 (17:26)", "body": "I dumped both caches and tried KWXX.com directly. After a few moments I get a little box telling me the server must be down and to try later. Can you access it now?"}, {"response": 68, "author": "mrchips", "date": "Sat, Aug 21, 1999 (17:28)", "body": "I could never access KWXX.com from home, but never had any trouble from Bytes and Bites. If the server is down, it will probably be down all weekend, as Chris Leonard is in Honolulu."}, {"response": 69, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, Aug 23, 1999 (14:33)", "body": "Will try it later in the day. Thanks for telling me. This PC should be able to pick up everything on the net including lint..."}, {"response": 70, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, Aug 24, 1999 (19:10)", "body": "John, I just tried again. Same thing...Netscape puts the name on the top of the window as though you were in, but document down show up, and the stoplight turns off. Nothing further happens. Get Chris on it. The lint is here but no KWXX.com!"}, {"response": 71, "author": "mrchips", "date": "Wed, Aug 25, 1999 (04:00)", "body": "I have the same problem, but he assures me that it is me and each time he calls up the home page, it pops right up for him. It also does the same for me at Bytes & Bites, but not here. I was able to hear the station on http://www.webradio.com/kwxx"}, {"response": 72, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, Aug 25, 1999 (10:45)", "body": "The above hotlink works. I spent the weekend listening to it and wondering what the Springizens were thinking of the local-ese which sometimes creeps intoi the spoken stuff. It is like listening to a whole nuther language sometimes. *lol* Too bad they can't hear the county \"workers\" talking!!!"}, {"response": 73, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Sep 17, 1999 (19:58)", "body": "John is filling in for a DJ who is away...listen to him and some lovely Hawaiian classics and popular music from 8pm till 10pm Austin time. (He comes on in two minutes!) Today!!!"}, {"response": 74, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Sep 17, 1999 (19:59)", "body": "..or is that until 11?!"}, {"response": 75, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Sep 18, 1999 (10:49)", "body": "What's the realaudio address?"}, {"response": 76, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Sep 18, 1999 (15:07)", "body": "Is is not on RealAudio, it is on http://www.webradio.com/kwxx/ and he is on right as I post this for the final hour of this Saturday program."}, {"response": 77, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Sep 20, 1999 (10:58)", "body": "And the next scheduled program is ???"}, {"response": 78, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, Sep 21, 1999 (19:52)", "body": "his usual Saturday and Sunday morning shows. Each and every, as far as i know..."}, {"response": 79, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Sep 22, 1999 (07:46)", "body": "Will you post the url again please sometime between now and Friday? And the exact time and dates!"}, {"response": 80, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (16:08)", "body": "will do, as soon as i get back into windows."}, {"response": 81, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (16:59)", "body": "Cool."}, {"response": 82, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Oct  8, 1999 (17:00)", "body": "John Burnett's golden tones will be beamed into space tomorrow and Sunday. You can hear his net broadcast at http://www.webradio.com/kwxx/ starting times 12 noon EDT 11 am CDT 10 am MDT 9 am PDT 6 am HST (Hawaii never goes on daylight savings time)"}, {"response": 83, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Oct  9, 1999 (09:59)", "body": "I posted this on the Spring's main page."}, {"response": 84, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Oct  9, 1999 (13:54)", "body": "Thanks for doing so (could not find it when I looked, but I will assume it is a problem with me or the Notre Dame game replaced it...That same information applies to tomorrow morning, as well."}, {"response": 85, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Oct  9, 1999 (23:44)", "body": "Just a little reminder that John Burnett holds forth on WebRadio tomorrow: http://www.webradio.com/kwxx/ starting times 12 noon EDT 11 am CDT 10 am MDT 9 am PDT 6 am HST (Hawaii never goes on daylight savings time)"}, {"response": 86, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Oct 10, 1999 (23:48)", "body": "I turned on Realaudio and listened to John's show while I cleaned up my garage Saturday morning and really enjoyed it. I liked the Hawaiian music, it was relaxing to be transported to the islands for a while and John has a great delivery. I'm going to listen to this show regularly on Saturday mornings. It was funny to hear about the boaters who arrived early, before they got the celebration ready. Really good music selection."}, {"response": 87, "author": "mrchips", "date": "Mon, Oct 11, 1999 (01:31)", "body": "Those darn canoe voyagers, screwing things up like that! Thanks for the kind words, Terry..."}, {"response": 88, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 11, 1999 (09:51)", "body": "Your program exposed me to very interesting webradio.com, I believe that was the url? And then I heard this morning that they're having an ipo very soon. This looks like a well put tegether network of radio stations. Correct me on that url, if I missed it John."}, {"response": 89, "author": "mrchips", "date": "Mon, Oct 11, 1999 (10:06)", "body": "Marcia put up the url, so I'm sure it is correct. Did you hear what the price on the IPO is?"}, {"response": 90, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 11, 1999 (11:00)", "body": "I think it's around $10-11. And it's coming up \"real soon\"; I just caught a bit on a morning news show. I'll look up the url when I get home for lunch today."}, {"response": 91, "author": "mrchips", "date": "Mon, Oct 11, 1999 (11:48)", "body": "url is http://www.webradio.com"}, {"response": 92, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Oct 22, 1999 (16:49)", "body": "more precisely, it is http://www.webradio.com/kwxx"}, {"response": 93, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Oct 22, 1999 (20:23)", "body": "Wow, that's fantastic...I posted the above in telnet and when I got to windows there it was all hot link blue and everything. Isn't this stuff neat? Anyway, John is on tomorrow morning per usual from 6am till they let him go ( which is 11am Texas time till whenever.) Lately, he has been doing double shifts or several more hours than usual..."}, {"response": 94, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Oct 22, 1999 (21:19)", "body": "He has just told me he will most likely be on until Noon Hawaii time (5pm Texas time) or 2200 zulu."}, {"response": 95, "author": "dorothy", "date": "Fri, Oct 22, 1999 (21:31)", "body": "is that today or tomorrow (saturday)?"}, {"response": 96, "author": "mrchips", "date": "Fri, Oct 22, 1999 (23:14)", "body": "Hi, Dorothy. That will be Saturday. Thank you for asking."}, {"response": 97, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Oct 23, 1999 (14:42)", "body": "John will also be on that URL on Sunday...John Dear, I am internet-listening to Penn State's game because our ABC afffilitate much prefers to show california stuff that a REAL game...BAH! HUMBUG!"}, {"response": 98, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Oct 26, 1999 (09:21)", "body": "Hi Dorothy, welcome on board!"}, {"response": 99, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Mon, Nov  1, 1999 (11:53)", "body": "Hello Dorothy! Welcome!"}, {"response": 100, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, Nov  1, 1999 (13:24)", "body": "Where has she gone? I welcomed her elsewhere and nothing has been heard since. Cannot be that we were dining on garlic and did not offer her any?!"}, {"response": 101, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov  1, 1999 (13:30)", "body": "She'll be around. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 63, "subject": "annotating websites without permission - thirdvoice", "response_count": 12, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "wolf", "date": "Fri, May 21, 1999 (10:02)", "body": "this means that if someone has this software, they can go into your website and post whatever they want?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, May 21, 1999 (10:24)", "body": "They can annotate it to your website, it doesn't get posted directly to your website. But others using this software visiting your website can see the comments of others who have visited it."}, {"response": 3, "author": "wolf", "date": "Fri, May 21, 1999 (10:37)", "body": "so it's like a private message board....hmmmmm"}, {"response": 4, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, May 21, 1999 (11:12)", "body": "kindasorta"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, May 21, 1999 (11:22)", "body": "I cheated. I \"seeded\" our website with some comments and tried to set a postive tone, of course. I got the username terry, so good names are available still."}, {"response": 6, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, May 21, 1999 (11:31)", "body": "kinda like alexa and what I did at http://www.planetclick.com/"}, {"response": 7, "author": "wolf", "date": "Fri, May 21, 1999 (13:56)", "body": "you guys have thirdvoice? ok, where can i get a copy?"}, {"response": 8, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, May 21, 1999 (14:00)", "body": "I don't...I've just been to alexa (see the porch conference) and planetclick (see above link)"}, {"response": 9, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, May 22, 1999 (03:47)", "body": "I do now, though..."}, {"response": 10, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, May 22, 1999 (03:48)", "body": "and, everyone, please check out the Alexa and PlanetClick topics in porch..."}, {"response": 11, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, May 24, 1999 (11:45)", "body": "http://www.thirdvoice.com"}, {"response": 12, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Feb 10, 2000 (20:21)", "body": "Ok, some of this stuff I am just finding out about now. Is this something I *need* on my computer? I have checked PlanetClick and did the review as requested for them. I always do as I am told...I like to please...let me know about this program and if I need it, too. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 64, "subject": "translating webpages into other languages", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct  8, 1999 (11:39)", "body": "I found this useful resource on http://www.refdesk.com : http://translator.go.com/ It will do exactly that, you type in your url and it translates it into Spanish, French, Italian or Portuguese. And vice versa."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct  8, 1999 (11:42)", "body": "Check out this webpage that I translated using this method: http://www.spring.net/french web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 65, "subject": "Her Domain of Austin - women with technical skills", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "dot", "date": "Sat, Apr 22, 2000 (17:54)", "body": "Your site information is as follows: Site ID Number: 5 (Write this down!) URL: http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/public/read/web/65 Title: Spring Her Domain Topic Email: terry@spring.net Your page was successfully submitted to the Her Domain of Austin queue. It is not yet, however, part of the ring. You will need to add the proper HTML links on your page before either the ring manager or another ring member will move your site into the actual ring. Do not forget your Site ID number or password! You will need this information in the future. For further instructions, return to the Her Domain of Austin homepage."}, {"response": 2, "author": "dot", "date": "Sat, Apr 22, 2000 (17:57)", "body": "ring_code.html"}, {"response": 3, "author": "dot", "date": "Sat, Apr 22, 2000 (18:25)", "body": "This Her Domain Webring site is owned by Her Domain of Austin . Prev Skip It Next 5 Random Next"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Apr 22, 2000 (18:26)", "body": "ooops! web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 66, "subject": "Gregory Kallenberg - XL columnist", "response_count": 44, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jan 20, 1999 (06:57)", "body": "A good place to catch up on Gregory's stuff (so you can comment on it here!) is: http://austin360.com/tech/browser/archives.htm Here are some of the columns: 07browser.htm\">Orwell's Big Brother comes home to find a digital roost 01/07/99 Weirdest of the Web: My favorite freaky sites 12/31/98 Coolest companies send out their URL-tide greetings 12/24/98 Dear Santa: I want to be king of my own domain 12/17/98 Proud to be the spokesnerd for the Geek Generation 12/10/98 Holiday shopping a cinch on the Net 12/3/98 Talk about your childhood wishes: a Digital Anvil tour! 11/26/98 No pocket protectors here, but tech age has redefined 'geek' 11/19/98 Tech-set can surf for spirits at Reuben's Emporium 11/12/98 A father, a son and the struggle to be the answer guy 11/05/98 Oh, the humanity: iMac's simplicity makes it more like us 10/22/98 GimpBox is filled with dark humor of Whitney Ayres 10/08/98 Human Code adapts Hollywood strategy to CD-ROM biz 10/08/98 Internet mob thinks hanging's too good for the president 9/24/98 Hello, my name is (your name here), and I'm a net addict 9/10/98 The rise of the 'estronet' 9/3/98 Torch passes to a digital gereration 8/20/98 Ransom seeking online center 8/13/98 Let (cyber) freedom ring 8/9/98 Linux takes aim at crashing giant windows 7/30/98 Come on and take a freedrive 7/23/98 Entering a new age of advertising 7/16/98 Internet tall tales start young 7/9/98 Online biz: It's your baby, baby 7/2/98 A designing woman of the web 6/25/98 I'm in a death match 6/11/98 Neverending quest for speed 6/4/98 The future of trading cards 5/28/98 The sound of satisfied gamers 5/21/98 The time is ripe for Olivedesign's organic approach 5/14/98 Your home could be a sweatshop 5/7/98 Go outside now! 4/30/98 Computer! Camera! Action! 4/23/98 Web sites made easy: part one 4/16/98 Going wireless on the 'net 4/9/98 E'Zines evolving not dying 4/2/98 Kind strangers and computers 3/26/98 Interactive festival cut its teeth 3/19/98 Interact on the cheap at SXSW 3/5/98 Survival of the fittest providers 2/26/98 Caught in the cheating 'net 2/19/98 Cyberlove gone bad 2/12/98 The power of the meme 2/5/98 CASA has a dream 1/29/98 Now entering the lightning modem age 1/22/98 'Dwango Bob' blazes gaming cybertrail 1/15/98 SXSW Interactive Festival revamps goals for '98 1/8/98"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jan 21, 1999 (07:54)", "body": "Today's Kallenberg \"Upfront: Browser\" mentions www.Spring.net - \"It seems a lot of fans of this tres cool Austin site missed my call for the 2nd annual Golden Pebble Awards (best local sites). They are up in arms they weren't included. Well, guys, here's spring.net for all to click upon and bookmark. I hope you're happy.\" Does that picture of Kallenberg remind you of Kramer just a little bit? Hey, we're happy!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "ratthing", "date": "Thu, Jan 21, 1999 (18:00)", "body": "that's good. makes me double glad i sent that letter."}, {"response": 4, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jan 22, 1999 (00:02)", "body": "me, too...all of us who e-mailed him should send him a thank you, as well..."}, {"response": 5, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jan 22, 1999 (00:03)", "body": "(and another invitation to be a regular participant, as well...)"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jan 22, 1999 (06:23)", "body": "Great idea, please email Gregory and thank him. mailto://gkallenberg@statesman.com"}, {"response": 7, "author": "osceola", "date": "Fri, Jan 22, 1999 (10:35)", "body": "Has it occured to anyone here that the line \"I hope you're happy\" was a polite way of saying \"Quit bugging me\"? If he wanted to be a regular here, he would have been by now, don't you think?"}, {"response": 8, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, Jan 22, 1999 (23:48)", "body": "maybe..."}, {"response": 9, "author": "ratthing", "date": "Sat, Jan 23, 1999 (10:55)", "body": "after re-reading that line, i have to agree. it did seem like kind of a nasty letter."}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jan 23, 1999 (11:14)", "body": "I have exchanged a couple of real nice emails from him since then. He seems very friendly. I turned him on to Fritz Blau, the Motorblade postering guy who cruise around town to the various bulletin boards on his rollerblades. Good feature article material. This is the third time the Spring has made XL. Media Mention Score: XL 3 Chron 0 KXAN 3 Too bad we're so civilized, or we could get some *negative* publicity! The best kind! (heh)"}, {"response": 11, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jan 23, 1999 (11:18)", "body": "You want some negative publicity? Really? hmmm..."}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jan 23, 1999 (14:01)", "body": "Just kidding!"}, {"response": 13, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sat, Jan 23, 1999 (14:44)", "body": "aw, shucks..."}, {"response": 14, "author": "osceola", "date": "Mon, Jan 25, 1999 (13:52)", "body": "Maybe we should start a conference about shooting the president. That always gets publicity. (If the Secret Service monitors this site -- hey, just kidding! ;-)"}, {"response": 15, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jan 25, 1999 (14:44)", "body": "Not *that* controversial."}, {"response": 16, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Mon, Jan 25, 1999 (22:10)", "body": "You is definately my kinda guy, George!"}, {"response": 17, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jan 29, 1999 (09:25)", "body": "Gregory has the next Matt Drudge emerging from the Austin scene. I read this today in the Browser column: But how does he get to be a magnate? Barb should set up a Web page. While there are a lot of sites capturing the Austin scene, his easygoing style and Austin roots make his voice perfect. His voice, through his Web page, could be the one people log on to in order to see the goings-on of Austin, a veritable Harry Knowles for the city. From there, he could take his site and make it a portal site like Excite. The users could see what the Catfish sees every morning when they turn on their computers (\"You've got catfish!\"). From there, maybe an E-commerce site like Unmall.com. Sell Catfish T-shirts and signed photos. Then an IPO, then Roger Barb and his \"Blues Across Texas\" will be synonymous with Yahoo! and Amazon. He'll be huge. Roger Barb's only connection to the net now is an email account where he sends an immensely popular column to Germany or somewhere. I say, let's give this guy a web page and help him out. I don't want to slow down the next Internet superstar. Hey, and there's all those IPO possibiblities."}, {"response": 18, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jan 29, 1999 (09:35)", "body": "See my note on this in the porch conference. Under folks we'd like to invite here and give webpages."}, {"response": 19, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jun 13, 1999 (09:10)", "body": "April 22, 1999 was Gregory's last column. As the Editor's note says: Editor's note: Today marks Browser's final appearance in XLent. Writer Gregory Kallenberg is taking his high-tech focused stories on the road, so look for them all over the paper and especially in the Life & Arts Section. Some quotes from his last column: What would happen if technology ended today? Your ATM card didn't work and neither did your computer. You woke up and the digital watch you got for Christmas was blank, and the VCR wouldn't play any of your Disney tapes. I'm not talking about a glitch like Y2K -- wherein technology hiccups and then all is better. I'm talking about a total shutdown. Someone, somewhere throws a big switch, and the whirring engine of technology moans to a stop. \"I've been thinking about if there was no electricity,\" said Bob Atchison, a local Web design guru and owner of PallasArt Web Design. \"You know, databases would basically disappear. If they disappeared, there would be nothing left to represent our culture. It's not like we put anything on paper anymore. If technology disappeared, our (modern) culture could disappear in a few seconds.\" Certainly, things would be less bright. The glow of monitors and the buzz of fluorescent lights would be gone. Forget about television as a beacon to eat by. There would only be a dimmer, natural light to help us on our way during waking hours and the tribal Halloween orange of fire to illuminate our homes at night. \"Wow! If technology went away, I'd have to go back to reading books and the newspaper,\" said Hugh Forrest, event director of South by Southwest Interactive. \"At least for me, the world would be a better place. I've become a total product of the Web -- a click-through-short-attention-span-everything's-connected-so-I-look-at-nothing-for-very-long kind of guy.\" What would we do if our loss of technology took away our entertainment? Televisions would become furniture, and CD-ROM games could become weapons in hunting. Other things would change, too. \"Collecting data\" would mean sniffing the wind or listening to the ground. \"Processing\" would be what you do to deer and rabbits to make them dinner. \"Monitor\" would return to being a verb rather than a noun. \"What would it be like without technology?\" mused Jen Scoville, editor of RX.com, an online health magazine and pharmacy site. \"It would probably be terrifying. But then, everyone would take a breather and the information glut would end. For one thing, it would definitely free our brains up for some old-fashioned thinking.\" \"There would be definite chaos and havoc,\" said Doreen Lorenzo, president of digital media at Frogdesign. \"My children are so tech-driven, you'd have to go through a generation before everyone would calm down. We would be less informed, but is that a good thing?\" Would people aimlessly roam the streets, distraught from their loss of e-mail? At least the annoying person in the restaurant booth behind you wouldn't be able to whip out his cell phone and tell his friend what he's just ordered. Curly faxes would go the way of the dinosaur. Would violence ensue if we couldn't check our voicemail pagers? Or would there be peace and calm? Would we all again sit down at the table together? We'd have to actually meet face-to-face and spend precious minutes chit-chatting before getting to the point. Telling stories (which are too long and complicated to put into e-mail) would come back into fashion. Longer, more leisurely lunches would cease to be interrupted by ringing phones and buzzing pagers. You know, it doesn't sound like such a bad place to me. Maybe we should look for the switch."}, {"response": 20, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Jun 13, 1999 (09:22)", "body": "maybe so..."}, {"response": 21, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jun 13, 1999 (09:46)", "body": "src=\"www.austin360.com/entertainment/xl/columns/browser/browserhead.jpg\">"}, {"response": 22, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Jun 15, 1999 (15:53)", "body": "IMG..."}, {"response": 23, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jun 17, 1999 (09:49)", "body": "He's missing in action. Gregory Kallenberg. I can't let this go unnoticed. He was the Spring's best supporter in the Austin Journalistic community along with Larry Brill of KXAN TV. What a loss to the community! No more Browser column in XL. Gregory, I hope you're having fun."}, {"response": 24, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Jun 17, 1999 (18:25)", "body": "yep, it's a sad and terrible thing..."}, {"response": 25, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jun 18, 1999 (10:40)", "body": "I tried to email him today, in hopes he has forwarding set up. Last time I saw him was at the Whole Foods reception for Doug Block at SXSW."}, {"response": 26, "author": "JASPER", "date": "Tue, Aug 10, 1999 (19:50)", "body": "I also heard Kallenberg was working on a new high-tech section of the Austin Statesman. Good for him. But, I still miss the Browser Column in XL. Here's the mindset of corporate journalism: Hmmm. We have a column about the Internet and no other Austin newspaper is covering the Internet. Gregory Kallenberg seems to be getting more and more popular with the readers. Guess we better pull the Browser Column. We don't want anyone becoming bigger than the paper. Besides, the Internet is eventually going to put us out of business."}, {"response": 27, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Aug 11, 1999 (10:10)", "body": "That's a a mindset to behold, your snakeskin in action. I like Gregory, I met him on a couple of occasions and he was very friendly to us and wanted to see this community make it. I hope he is able to have some impact in his new gig."}, {"response": 28, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Mon, May 15, 2000 (08:58)", "body": "Trudy's Texas Star off the Drag is one of my favorite \"comfort\" places in Austin, the migas are great, the coffee is wonderful and I sometimes run in to a friend or old acquaintance. Sometimes recognition is delayed. I noticed a young couple come in and sit next to us at a table, a curley black haired guy and his extraordinarily good looking wife with long blonde hair and their baby. After a bit, I realized it was Gregory. It was just a slightly different context than the usual cocktail-dotcom party where I meet up with him. I think the last time I saw him was the the premiere of Dough Block's movie about the Internet, Home Page. So we talked and it turns out he's left the old Snakeskin' for the halls of dotcom academe, http://www.notharvard.com . Being such a luminous, high profile journalist, Gregory had his pick from dozens of local Internet startups, and it says a lot for notharvard that he chose this one to be a content producer. Mystery solved about the dissappearance of this great Austin cyberjournalist."}, {"response": 29, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, May 15, 2000 (11:06)", "body": "Any idea what has happened with Mike Jasper? Excellent news about Gregory Kallenberg."}, {"response": 30, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Mon, May 15, 2000 (12:45)", "body": "No idea about Mike, maybe I'll bump in to him sometime! I would love to see Mie around here again."}, {"response": 31, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, May 15, 2000 (14:32)", "body": "Did you note that Mike (aa9il) has created a new Topic in Geo which promises to be fascinating but is gonna take some studying on my part. Seems I have to put some interesting questions on before he posts, which means I have to sound interested in the projects his is interested in without seeming to pry into his personal life - not always an easy thing to do...! Please check it - topic 35. He is erecting a radio telescope in his back yard. That is MY kinda guy!"}, {"response": 32, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Mon, May 15, 2000 (20:45)", "body": "Awesome, a radio telescope in his back yard! That's the real SETI at home."}, {"response": 33, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, May 15, 2000 (21:11)", "body": "Indeed - so check out Geo 35 - it's Mike's and he does not post unless there are questions for him to answer or comment on."}, {"response": 34, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Tue, May 16, 2000 (13:37)", "body": "Will do."}, {"response": 35, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, May 16, 2000 (14:15)", "body": "Thanks - I see that you did. Now, where is our esteemed Radio Free Cosmo?"}, {"response": 36, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (08:31)", "body": "No clue, somewhere in Illinois. Maybe he went to Dayton for the big hamfest."}, {"response": 37, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (11:09)", "body": "Illinois, I knew... Perhaps he got involved in his back yard projects or is DXpeditioning?!"}, {"response": 38, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (21:20)", "body": "Perhaps. It's time to do lunch with Greogory."}, {"response": 39, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, May 19, 2000 (20:31)", "body": "Bon Apetite!"}, {"response": 40, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (21:02)", "body": "Thanks and speaking of bon appetit, be sure to cruise over to the restaurant conference and check out this years \"Best of Austin\" eateries and restaurants, as yours truly takes shots at the Austin Chronicle Reader's and Critics Poll."}, {"response": 41, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (23:23)", "body": "Terry, you sly dog, you are hilarious over there in Restaruant conference. I really like this new and spunky Terry. I though you were ministerial material till I read your posts today. It was worth the effort involved in answering your comments. Please come out to play more! You are most enchanting!"}, {"response": 42, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (23:26)", "body": "How could I have misspelled Bon app\ufffdtit so incorrectly! Auwe!"}, {"response": 43, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (08:08)", "body": "You mean you're ready for more digs at Austin's restaurant scene and the Chronicle?"}, {"response": 44, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, May 22, 2000 (15:57)", "body": "Yup! Looks like we have been at it rather royally. You are very funny in that conference. I think we should keep you there! web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 67, "subject": "weblogs", "response_count": 15, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (11:19)", "body": "Soem good eamples are http://www.benbrown.com and http://www.metafilter.com"}, {"response": 2, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (00:40)", "body": "Terry, I checked them both out. Not my style I think. I like the sharing of ideas along with fun. Somehow they seems little bit wasted in there - or are just guys being guys..."}, {"response": 3, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (10:42)", "body": "Yep, they're interesting but I like the continuity of what we're doing. We can develop friendships that go on for years. It feels solid."}, {"response": 4, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, May 24, 2000 (19:14)", "body": "Indeed - that is what makes Spring so difficult to explain to outsiders. What we do here forms a very strong and unique bond. I know it would not be different were I to meet you in real life. It would just continue on. Very solid and very special."}, {"response": 5, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, May 28, 2000 (02:38)", "body": "This one is from Minneapolis: Weblog for May 28: More on the little phone booth that could Gael Fashingbauer Cooper Star Tribune Sunday, May 28, 2000 Today in Weblog: An update on the Mojave phone booth \ufffd Newt's online wedding registry \ufffd Wedding cam and Loch Ness monster cam \ufffd Track a flight online ... Remembering veterans Last week I told you that the lonely Mojave desert phone booth, made famous by Godfrey Daniels' Web page, had been removed. There's now more info on what happened, and Wired, CNN, Tom Brokaw and other media types have picked up the story. Pacific Bell and the National Park Service actually issued a statement on the booth's removal. (Do you think their public-relations person ever imagined it would be part of his or her job to defend the removal of a phone booth out in the middle of nowhere?) Their explanation is that it wasn't the phone that caused problems, but the people tracking out to see the Internet icon. They put it this way: \"Increased public traffic had a negative impact on the desert environment.\" Tom Brokaw's (or his writer's) puckish answer was: \"In other words, despite 1.6 million acres of sand, cactus, Joshua trees and snakes, too many people -- 25 to 30 a week -- were tramping way out of their way to answer the phone.\" Daniels isn't giving up. On his site, he's posted a list of congresspeople, park service staff and others, and encourages booth fans to make their feelings known by writing or calling. Wired also reports that Daniels hopes to buy the booth from Pacific Bell and install it in another remote location. As for the booth itself: At last report, calls to it still go through, but ring on and on, unanswered. For now, there's a very sad photo on Daniels' site, that says it all. It's a picture of the site where the booth used to stand, empty except for some concrete blocks and a few pieces of booth debris. Yes, there used to be a phone booth, right here. Newt's wedding registry You know, it's got to be tough to be a public figure: You think you can enjoy all the benefits of the Internet, just like everyone else, but boy, you are sorely mistaken. Poor old Newt Gingrich, about to marry for the third time, just wanted to register for wedding gifts online. Not just at one store, but at two -- Williams-Sonoma and Macy's. Word of the registries leaked out and now folks are making fun of everything from the happy couple's choices (is a pizza cookbook the best thing for Newt?) to the mere fact that they've registered at all. (Newt's already had two weddings -- does he really still need kitchen supplies?) You can check out the ex-Speaker's tastes for yourself -- here's a link to the couple's Williams-Sonoma registry, and here's one to their Macy's registry. I'll refrain from getting too snarky, but I would like to point out: Four Ralph Lauren tub mats? Three really ought to be enough for anybody. With this cam, I thee wed Speaking of weddings, I finally saw an actual wedding on Wedding Cam. The site offers views from A Little White Chapel (no, really, that's the name of it) on the Las Vegas strip. Celebs who have been married at the chapel include Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Michael Jordan, Mickey Rooney, and Bruce Willis and Demi Moore. Like most of Vegas, the chapel is open 24-7, and the cam is always on. Usually it just shows an empty room with a half-dozen white pews, but I happened to tune in last week on Thursday night when an actual wedding was in progress. About six people were in attendance, the bride was wearing a simple sleeveless dress and clutching a small bouquet, and the groom looked a heck of a lot like Nicolas Cage in \"Raising Arizona.\" From my couch in Minneapolis, I raised a can of Diet Mountain Dew to the happy couple. I hope never to see them on Divorce Cam, if there is one, and I'm sure there is. If Web cams fascinate you, you'll want to check out the Discovery Channel's main page o'cams. Besides Wedding Cam, I like Puppy Cam and Kitten Cam, both located in humane societies and focused on cute li'l animals waiting for adoption. The puppies must be active little suckers, because whenever I tune in, the cam is always knocked askew or pointing directly at a wall (which might be a puppy's fur). Kitten cam never seems to change. Either that's one sleepy kitty or the cam is stuck on a frozen image. Other cams of interest include Body Cam, located inside Gold's Gym in Venice Beach, California; Manatee Cam, located in a 190,000-gallon pool at the Columbus Zoo; and Loch Ness Monster Cam, located -- well, at Loch Ness, Scotland. Duh. Track a flight It's a holiday weekend, and if someone you know is traveling by air, you can track their plane's progress from home. Flight Tracker is one of my favorite sites. Just enter in the airline and flight number and the site will show you a map pinpointing where in the air the plane is. Keep hitting refresh and it will keep advancing. Very valuable if you're fearing weather might delay the flight -- who wants to sit at the airp"}, {"response": 6, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, May 28, 2000 (02:41)", "body": "all of the above are in hyperlinks so you should access the Flight Tracker and such at http://www.startribune.com/viewers/qview/cgi/qview.cgi?slug=GFC528&template=column_weblog_a"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Nov 30, 2001 (11:54)", "body": "http://powazek.com/wtf/"}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Nov 30, 2001 (11:54)", "body": "jonl has moved his weblog to: http://www.weblogsky.com/weblogsky.html"}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Apr  4, 2002 (16:00)", "body": "What's the best blog? For something you host on your own site Blogger http://www.blogger.com and Greymatter http://www.greymatter.com If that's not an option, try places like http://www.livejournal.com/ Other good starting points are http://www.blogyou.com/index.html http://jenett.org/ageless/ and http://weblogs.com/ And there's something called Moveable Type."}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct  9, 2002 (07:45)", "body": "A great and comprehensive examination of weblogs, it's academic and useful. http://www.highbias.com/reviews/20021006_live.html"}, {"response": 11, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct  9, 2002 (07:46)", "body": "oops. http://radio.weblogs.com/0110772/stories/2002/10/03/personalKnowledgePublishingAndItsUsesInResearch.html is the correct url, that first one was left over on my clipboard from the music ACL topic!"}, {"response": 12, "author": "WERoland", "date": "Sat, Feb  4, 2006 (21:01)", "body": "This is a blog by a gentleman I graduated High School with... http://engel-cox.org/"}, {"response": 13, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Feb  8, 2006 (07:06)", "body": "It didn't load immediately in my Maxthon browser. But once it did load it was worthwhile. We just picked up a Rodney Crowell cd from Waterloo. One of your faves. And I see he's a fan too. Just where is Billy Goat Trail? He talks about it but doesn't say where it is on the planet. One quote: \"The location proved to be quite fortuitious, however, in that a high school friend of mine, William, worked as a chef in the Tuscany Cafe and Wine Bar. For lunch during the first day of class, we all headed to Tuscany and William stood me for lunch with a big bowl of the yummiest Broccoli Cheese soup I've ever had, accompanied by several slices of the best foccacia bread, a recipe of William's own."}, {"response": 14, "author": "WERoland", "date": "Wed, Feb  8, 2006 (21:13)", "body": "Well, to go ahead and tie it into Geo, check out http://www.nps.gov/choh/Recreation/Trails/Geology.html"}, {"response": 15, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Feb 10, 2006 (00:30)", "body": "I did. Check out the newest topic in Geo. Connecting right now from Zen on the Drage. Some nice dishes! And very inexpensive. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 68, "subject": "My bookmarks", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Mon, Jun 26, 2000 (07:41)", "body": "http://www.spring.net/favorites/bookmark.htm"}, {"response": 2, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Aug  4, 2000 (23:46)", "body": "If I posdted mine it would overload the net and dry out the Spring. Of course, I could post an \"expurgated\" version...but mine are Netscape."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Apr  7, 2006 (07:48)", "body": "What are you using for bookmarks, Marci? I've been using del.icio.us, furl, shadows and a few others."}, {"response": 4, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Tue, Jul  3, 2007 (22:01)", "body": "http://del.icio.us/springnet is where I keep my bookmarks these days. also accessible via http://delicious.com/springnet web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 69, "subject": "STOP united states Mis-information Lies and FRAUD", "response_count": 6, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Sun, Nov 26, 2000 (01:15)", "body": "Hmmm...someone had a few too many of the special brownies."}, {"response": 2, "author": "budabob", "date": "Fri, May 25, 2001 (18:37)", "body": "- Present Status - EnenKio is a sovereign state The government of the Kingdom of EnenKio was established in 1994 under authority and by direction of Head of State and the hereditary Iroijlaplap (Paramount Chief) of the Northern Ratak atolls of the Marshall Islands. The Constitution of EnenKio established and set forth the authority and responsibility of the government and established duties and succession protocol of the Monarch and Royal Family.\ufffd EnenKio is a Limited Constitutional Monarchy.\ufffd Representative citizens, acting as Founding Fathers, ratified the Constitution, recognized His Majesty King Murjel Hermios as Head of State, affirmed their resolve in the Declaration of Sovereignty and determined the boundaries of the new Kingdom of EnenKio.\ufffd Notice that EnenKio was a new sovereign state was sent to representatives of the Republic of the Marshall islands, United States, United Nations General Assembly, UN Security Council, South Pacific Commission, NATO, world media, Pacific Island nations and other nations.\ufffd Legal action was then taken to set forth the claim against the foreign occupational forces of the United States, which failed to ever answer any actions and now stands in default with respect to demands for compensation and for illegally occupying of the king's ancestral lands.\ufffd The effect of legal demands filed in U.S. federal court, unanswered complaints and failure to reply now have the force of law in commerce, under national and international laws and conventions. EnenKio is an \"offshore haven for criminals and money launderers\" Actually, the United States did reply \ufffd not directly to EnenKio, but with an insidious merciless campaign of disinformation broadly dispersed across the Internet and to its trading partners.\ufffd One glaring example is a U.S. Department of State Report which compares EnenKio to the likes of Thailand, Colombia and Russia under the topic of \"Money Laundering and Financial Crimes\".\ufffd This official report \ufffd International Narcotics Control Strategy, 1998 \ufffd categorizes EnenKio as an Offshore Financial Center.\ufffd This is a curious label as EnenKio has no bank, no financial center and no money to launder.\ufffd It goes on to refer to another state and \"Enenkio\" (sic) as \"...mere figments of fertile imaginations...\", and as \"...entirely fraudulent in intent and practice.\"\ufffd The United States offers NO proof nor is it known to have ever found any.\ufffd In fact, in February 2001, the federal agencies of the United States, concluded an exhaustive investigation that failed to turn up even one shred (or hanging chad) of evidence of impro riety \ufffd in intent or practice. EnenKio exists \"only in cyberspace\" Such a claim might be made for Yahoo\ufffd, Windows Magazine\ufffd or any number of \"dot.coms\".\ufffd Why, the United States itself claims over 25,000 web sites hosting millions of pages.\ufffd Is this not a criteria for existence in cyberspace?\ufffd EnenKio as a state has its roots in a 1987 document, but really, it is founded upon more than 2000 years of historical lineage preceding the ascendancy of the Hermios Marshallese family to their rightful, recognized traditional post.\ufffd The EnenKio web site did not appear until 1998.\ufffd It is a mystery how any reasonable person could examine the few dozens of posted documents, laws and letters \ufffd thousands of pages are not posted \ufffd and then say: EnenKio exists only in cyberspace. Today's Challenge for Tomorrow's Future Every avenue is being explored to raise capital for projects described in the development plan. Bond, stamp and shipbuilding programs have commenced.\ufffd Applications are invited for passports, business licenses and ship registration.\ufffd For those qualified individuals who wish to join this effort or encourage us to gain recognition among states of the first order, we have a need for Consuls and Diplomatic representatives in foreign offices, Trade Missions and other diplomatic posts. Additional human resources and people knowledgeable in international policy, diplomatic protocol, spaceport and aircraft operations, telecommunications, shipping, manufacturing, chemical engineering and a host of other disciplines will be required to design and attract development projects and implement envisioned programs.\ufffd Contractual arrangements for professional consultation and services in law, finance, commerce, economics and others are being actively sought. All who have an interest and are so moved, you are encouraged to submit a Personal Involvement form.\ufffd By submitting the form, you will be advised of the latest developments, provided an outline of needs and may at some point be invited to actively participate in development and promotion of EnenKio and to become a citizen of the fledgling nation. Salutation On behalf of the Second Monarch, His Majesty King Remios Hermios, His Royal Highness Crown Prince Lobadreo Hermios and all representatives and citizens of EnenKio, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sincerely acknowledges your involvement, interest, prayers and support. See also: "}, {"response": 3, "author": "budabob", "date": "Fri, May 25, 2001 (18:43)", "body": "If thair is no source C O R R E C T I T ? NO BALLS ?? - Present Status - EnenKio is a sovereign state The government of the Kingdom of EnenKio was established in 1994 under authority and by direction of Head of State and the hereditary Iroijlaplap (Paramount Chief) of the Northern Ratak atolls of the Marshall Islands. The Constitution of EnenKio established and set forth the authority and responsibility of the government and established duties and succession protocol of the Monarch and Royal Family.\ufffd EnenKio is a Limited Constitutional Monarchy.\ufffd Representative citizens, acting as Founding Fathers, ratified the Constitution, recognized His Majesty King Murjel Hermios as Head of State, affirmed their resolve in the Declaration of Sovereignty and determined the boundaries of the new Kingdom of EnenKio.\ufffd Notice that EnenKio was a new sovereign state was sent to representatives of the Republic of the Marshall islands, United States, United Nations General Assembly, UN Security Council, South Pacific Commission, NATO, world media, Pacific Island nations and other nations.\ufffd Legal action was then taken to set forth the claim against the foreign occupational forces of the United States, which failed to ever answer any actions and now stands in default with respect to demands for compensation and for illegally occupying of the king's ancestral lands.\ufffd The effect of legal demands filed in U.S. federal court, unanswered complaints and failure to reply now have the force of law in commerce, under national and international laws and conventions. EnenKio is an \"offshore haven for criminals and money launderers\" Actually, the United States did reply \ufffd not directly to EnenKio, but with an insidious merciless campaign of disinformation broadly dispersed across the Internet and to its trading partners.\ufffd One glaring example is a U.S. Department of State Report which compares EnenKio to the likes of Thailand, Colombia and Russia under the topic of \"Money Laundering and Financial Crimes\".\ufffd This official report \ufffd International Narcotics Control Strategy, 1998 \ufffd categorizes EnenKio as an Offshore Financial Center.\ufffd This is a curious label as EnenKio has no bank, no financial center and no money to launder.\ufffd It goes on to refer to another state and \"Enenkio\" (sic) as \"...mere figments of fertile imaginations...\", and as \"...entirely fraudulent in intent and practice.\"\ufffd The United States offers NO proof nor is it known to have ever found any.\ufffd In fact, in February 2001, the federal agencies of the United States, concluded an exhaustive investigation that failed to turn up even one shred (or hanging chad) of evidence of impro riety \ufffd in intent or practice. EnenKio exists \"only in cyberspace\" Such a claim might be made for Yahoo\ufffd, Windows Magazine\ufffd or any number of \"dot.coms\".\ufffd Why, the United States itself claims over 25,000 web sites hosting millions of pages.\ufffd Is this not a criteria for existence in cyberspace?\ufffd EnenKio as a state has its roots in a 1987 document, but really, it is founded upon more than 2000 years of historical lineage preceding the ascendancy of the Hermios Marshallese family to their rightful, recognized traditional post.\ufffd The EnenKio web site did not appear until 1998.\ufffd It is a mystery how any reasonable person could examine the few dozens of posted documents, laws and letters \ufffd thousands of pages are not posted \ufffd and then say: EnenKio exists only in cyberspace. Today's Challenge for Tomorrow's Future Every avenue is being explored to raise capital for projects described in the development plan. Bond, stamp and shipbuilding programs have commenced.\ufffd Applications are invited for passports, business licenses and ship registration.\ufffd For those qualified individuals who wish to join this effort or encourage us to gain recognition among states of the first order, we have a need for Consuls and Diplomatic representatives in foreign offices, Trade Missions and other diplomatic posts. Additional human resources and people knowledgeable in international policy, diplomatic protocol, spaceport and aircraft operations, telecommunications, shipping, manufacturing, chemical engineering and a host of other disciplines will be required to design and attract development projects and implement envisioned programs.\ufffd Contractual arrangements for professional consultation and services in law, finance, commerce, economics and others are being actively sought. All who have an interest and are so moved, you are encouraged to submit a Personal Involvement form.\ufffd By submitting the form, you will be advised of the latest developments, provided an outline of needs and may at some point be invited to actively participate in development and promotion of EnenKio and to become a citizen of the fledgling nation. Salutation On behalf of the Second Monarch, His Majesty King Remios Hermios, His Royal Highness Crown Prince Lobadreo Hermios and all representatives and citizens of EnenKio, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sincerely acknowledges your "}, {"response": 4, "author": "budabob", "date": "Fri, May 25, 2001 (18:44)", "body": "- Present Status - EnenKio is a sovereign state The government of the Kingdom of EnenKio was established in 1994 under authority and by direction of Head of State and the hereditary Iroijlaplap (Paramount Chief) of the Northern Ratak atolls of the Marshall Islands. The Constitution of EnenKio established and set forth the authority and responsibility of the government and established duties and succession protocol of the Monarch and Royal Family.\ufffd EnenKio is a Limited Constitutional Monarchy.\ufffd Representative citizens, acting as Founding Fathers, ratified the Constitution, recognized His Majesty King Murjel Hermios as Head of State, affirmed their resolve in the Declaration of Sovereignty and determined the boundaries of the new Kingdom of EnenKio.\ufffd Notice that EnenKio was a new sovereign state was sent to representatives of the Republic of the Marshall islands, United States, United Nations General Assembly, UN Security Council, South Pacific Commission, NATO, world media, Pacific Island nations and other nations.\ufffd Legal action was then taken to set forth the claim against the foreign occupational forces of the United States, which failed to ever answer any actions and now stands in default with respect to demands for compensation and for illegally occupying of the king's ancestral lands.\ufffd The effect of legal demands filed in U.S. federal court, unanswered complaints and failure to reply now have the force of law in commerce, under national and international laws and conventions. EnenKio is an \"offshore haven for criminals and money launderers\" Actually, the United States did reply \ufffd not directly to EnenKio, but with an insidious merciless campaign of disinformation broadly dispersed across the Internet and to its trading partners.\ufffd One glaring example is a U.S. Department of State Report which compares EnenKio to the likes of Thailand, Colombia and Russia under the topic of \"Money Laundering and Financial Crimes\".\ufffd This official report \ufffd International Narcotics Control Strategy, 1998 \ufffd categorizes EnenKio as an Offshore Financial Center.\ufffd This is a curious label as EnenKio has no bank, no financial center and no money to launder.\ufffd It goes on to refer to another state and \"Enenkio\" (sic) as \"...mere figments of fertile imaginations...\", and as \"...entirely fraudulent in intent and practice.\"\ufffd The United States offers NO proof nor is it known to have ever found any.\ufffd In fact, in February 2001, the federal agencies of the United States, concluded an exhaustive investigation that failed to turn up even one shred (or hanging chad) of evidence of impro riety \ufffd in intent or practice. EnenKio exists \"only in cyberspace\" Such a claim might be made for Yahoo\ufffd, Windows Magazine\ufffd or any number of \"dot.coms\".\ufffd Why, the United States itself claims over 25,000 web sites hosting millions of pages.\ufffd Is this not a criteria for existence in cyberspace?\ufffd EnenKio as a state has its roots in a 1987 document, but really, it is founded upon more than 2000 years of historical lineage preceding the ascendancy of the Hermios Marshallese family to their rightful, recognized traditional post.\ufffd The EnenKio web site did not appear until 1998.\ufffd It is a mystery how any reasonable person could examine the few dozens of posted documents, laws and letters \ufffd thousands of pages are not posted \ufffd and then say: EnenKio exists only in cyberspace. Today's Challenge for Tomorrow's Future Every avenue is being explored to raise capital for projects described in the development plan. Bond, stamp and shipbuilding programs have commenced.\ufffd Applications are invited for passports, business licenses and ship registration.\ufffd For those qualified individuals who wish to join this effort or encourage us to gain recognition among states of the first order, we have a need for Consuls and Diplomatic representatives in foreign offices, Trade Missions and other diplomatic posts. Additional human resources and people knowledgeable in international policy, diplomatic protocol, spaceport and aircraft operations, telecommunications, shipping, manufacturing, chemical engineering and a host of other disciplines will be required to design and attract development projects and implement envisioned programs.\ufffd Contractual arrangements for professional consultation and services in law, finance, commerce, economics and others are being actively sought. All who have an interest and are so moved, you are encouraged to submit a Personal Involvement form.\ufffd By submitting the form, you will be advised of the latest developments, provided an outline of needs and may at some point be invited to actively participate in development and promotion of EnenKio and to become a citizen of the fledgling nation. Salutation On behalf of the Second Monarch, His Majesty King Remios Hermios, His Royal Highness Crown Prince Lobadreo Hermios and all representatives and citizens of EnenKio, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sincerely acknowledges your involvement, interest, prayers and support. See also: "}, {"response": 5, "author": "wolf", "date": "Fri, May 25, 2001 (20:09)", "body": "wh-at?"}, {"response": 6, "author": "budabob", "date": "Fri, May 25, 2001 (20:15)", "body": "- Present Status - EnenKio is a sovereign state The government of the Kingdom of EnenKio was established in 1994 under authority and by direction of Head of State and the hereditary Iroijlaplap (Paramount Chief) of the Northern Ratak atolls of the Marshall Islands. The Constitution of EnenKio established and set forth the authority and responsibility of the government and established duties and succession protocol of the Monarch and Royal Family.\ufffd EnenKio is a Limited Constitutional Monarchy.\ufffd Representative citizens, acting as Founding Fathers, ratified the Constitution, recognized His Majesty King Murjel Hermios as Head of State, affirmed their resolve in the Declaration of Sovereignty and determined the boundaries of the new Kingdom of EnenKio.\ufffd Notice that EnenKio was a new sovereign state was sent to representatives of the Republic of the Marshall islands, United States, United Nations General Assembly, UN Security Council, South Pacific Commission, NATO, world media, Pacific Island nations and other nations.\ufffd Legal action was then taken to set forth the claim against the foreign occupational forces of the United States, which failed to ever answer any actions and now stands in default with respect to demands for compensation and for illegally occupying of the king's ancestral lands.\ufffd The effect of legal demands filed in U.S. federal court, unanswered complaints and failure to reply now have the force of law in commerce, under national and international laws and conventions. EnenKio is an \"offshore haven for criminals and money launderers\" Actually, the United States did reply \ufffd not directly to EnenKio, but with an insidious merciless campaign of disinformation broadly dispersed across the Internet and to its trading partners.\ufffd One glaring example is a U.S. Department of State Report which compares EnenKio to the likes of Thailand, Colombia and Russia under the topic of \"Money Laundering and Financial Crimes\".\ufffd This official report \ufffd International Narcotics Control Strategy, 1998 \ufffd categorizes EnenKio as an Offshore Financial Center.\ufffd This is a curious label as EnenKio has no bank, no financial center and no money to launder.\ufffd It goes on to refer to another state and \"Enenkio\" (sic) as \"...mere figments of fertile imaginations...\", and as \"...entirely fraudulent in intent and practice.\"\ufffd The United States offers NO proof nor is it known to have ever found any.\ufffd In fact, in February 2001, the federal agencies of the United States, concluded an exhaustive investigation that failed to turn up even one shred (or hanging chad) of evidence of impro riety \ufffd in intent or practice. EnenKio exists \"only in cyberspace\" Such a claim might be made for Yahoo\ufffd, Windows Magazine\ufffd or any number of \"dot.coms\".\ufffd Why, the United States itself claims over 25,000 web sites hosting millions of pages.\ufffd Is this not a criteria for existence in cyberspace?\ufffd EnenKio as a state has its roots in a 1987 document, but really, it is founded upon more than 2000 years of historical lineage preceding the ascendancy of the Hermios Marshallese family to their rightful, recognized traditional post.\ufffd The EnenKio web site did not appear until 1998.\ufffd It is a mystery how any reasonable person could examine the few dozens of posted documents, laws and letters \ufffd thousands of pages are not posted \ufffd and then say: EnenKio exists only in cyberspace. Today's Challenge for Tomorrow's Future Every avenue is being explored to raise capital for projects described in the development plan. Bond, stamp and shipbuilding programs have commenced.\ufffd Applications are invited for passports, business licenses and ship registration.\ufffd For those qualified individuals who wish to join this effort or encourage us to gain recognition among states of the first order, we have a need for Consuls and Diplomatic representatives in foreign offices, Trade Missions and other diplomatic posts. Additional human resources and people knowledgeable in international policy, diplomatic protocol, spaceport and aircraft operations, telecommunications, shipping, manufacturing, chemical engineering and a host of other disciplines will be required to design and attract development projects and implement envisioned programs.\ufffd Contractual arrangements for professional consultation and services in law, finance, commerce, economics and others are being actively sought. All who have an interest and are so moved, you are encouraged to submit a Personal Involvement form.\ufffd By submitting the form, you will be advised of the latest developments, provided an outline of needs and may at some point be invited to actively participate in development and promotion of EnenKio and to become a citizen of the fledgling nation. Salutation On behalf of the Second Monarch, His Majesty King Remios Hermios, His Royal Highness Crown Prince Lobadreo Hermios and all representatives and citizens of EnenKio, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sincerely acknowledges your involvement, interest, prayers and support. See also: "}]}, {"num": 7, "subject": "Lynx - a text only browser via telnet", "response_count": 5, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Sep 22, 1996 (08:19)", "body": "To find out more about lynx, check out: http://www.nyu.edu/pages/wsn/subir/lynx.html"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Sep 22, 1996 (23:53)", "body": "Lynx 2.6 has lots of new features. More tags are recognized, it reads tables, and even does host masking. And get this, lynx now has some support for graphics."}, {"response": 3, "author": "tedchong", "date": "Mon, Dec  9, 1996 (23:28)", "body": "Lynx is quick, sleek and useful for text-based systems, but is useless when it comes to image-map and java in web. I only use Lynx to download files and quick access to text info."}, {"response": 4, "author": "deejoe", "date": "Sat, May 24, 1997 (14:04)", "body": "I'm a big fan of Lynx, and find it to be the most appropriate Web browser for use with text-based conferencing systems. The following is from some email I'd sent to Terry, explaining in part why I prefer it: > > I use Lynx not because I don't have access to graphical browsers--I do, on > several PowerMacs, Sun workstations, and SGI workstations, many of which I > help maintain. However, since I rarely run *just* the browser software, the > browser's use of system resources (bandwidth, memory, disk access) detract > from the other tasks I'm working on, yet provide only marginal benefit. So, > I prefer Lynx. > I've had no luck so far posting to The Spring using the web interface and lynx, and am pretty disappointed to have these difficulties. As Terry alludes to above, Lynx is useful because it hews close to the original, more inclusive, design of the Web's software infrastructure, that documents are to be written with only content specific mark-up, and not with an eye towards how they would be rendered eventually on a given machine or browser. If there's anything that's disproven the adage \" A picture is worth a thousand words\" it's the growing prevalence of graphic-design elements in today's Web. Granted, good graphic design in web-design can make a page more pleasing to the eye for those of us who can see, but for those of us who can't, or who don't want to wade through all the eye candy, or who are interested enough in whatever content that we don't need to be lulled or soothed or shocked or whatever by the graphics, those graphics can get in the way of the real content. It seems a shame that sites that have loads of good text-based content in effect hide that content behind flashy gimmickry."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, May 24, 1997 (15:11)", "body": "I experienced that yesterday when I looked at a co-workers screen and saw a whole screenful of broken gifs. At first I thought something was wrong. The I realize he had gone in and unchecked the load gifs option. I'm so conditioned to seeing all the graphics that I sometimes overlook the tesxt and just get drawn to the pictures. That's why I took a few graphics off of the top of http://www.spring.com and pushed all our graphics to the bottom of the page. So what you get is pure content (even though I liked those cool pictures of springs that I've been putting up there). If you post your specific problems with lynx and our interface to the yapp conference that Dave Thaler reads, we'll work on getting it fixed. Or we'll give it a good try. I would surely like to be lynx (and blind) friendly, to use a cuddly euphemism. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 70, "subject": "PHP-Nuke open source content management software", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 71, "subject": "monitoring your surfing habits?", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jun 26, 2001 (12:01)", "body": "Lessons in Web Monitoring In their struggle to balance free access to the Internet with restrictions on pornographic and other inappropriate sites, schools, and libraries, and other institutions have been experimenting with filtering software and privacy screens. Lyndon Baines Johnson High School in Austin, Texas, however, has come up with a novel method that has shown promise: let students police themselves. Students had open access to the Internet from 1995, when the student-run network was launched, to mid-1997. Then, concerns over how students were using the Web, plus \"legal precedent (and advice) convinced us that the school would have to be responsible for the students' browsing habits,\" network administrator Jacob Leverich (a student at the school) writes in a report on Web access policies at the school. Spurred by parents' concerns, network administrators began personally monitoring the computers and keeping an eye on the students using them, but the network soon became too large to continue this practice (the school now has about 275 computers). They considered filtering software, but it was rejected as too expensive and too easy for savvy students to disable. Moreover, that solution wouldn't work for student laptops plugged into one of the school's Ethernet ports, and filtering software \"gave users much less benefit of the doubt than we were comfortable with,\" writes Leverich in his report. The school ultimately decided to log student (and staff) Internet usage without attempting to block it. But network administrators wanted to make sure that users were accountable for the sites they visited. Leverich and a former LBJ student, Peter Jensen, wrote a PERL script (programming code) to analyze some of the content of any Web address being accessed by a student. A ten-student team of network administrators, overseen by teachers, monitors Internet usage by the school's 1,400 students using this program. Students are also asked to sign a usage policy before they can begin using a school computer. It bars visits to inappropriate Web sites. If a site detected by the monitoring software is deemed objectionable, the script sends an alphanumeric message to Leverich's pager that contains the URL, the time of site access, and the computer the request came from. \"Most times, this is enough to go on,\" Leverich notes via his e-mail interview with Security Management. Leverich can easily differentiate between www.teensex.com and www.oilersexclusive.com, which though it seems to contain the word \"sex\" in its name, is really about football. If the site seems inappropriate, Leverich or someone else on the team talks with the student and confirms whether the site actually is objectionable and whether the student had a legitimate academic purpose for visiting that Web domain. As students started getting caught on questionable sites, Leverich explains, word of mouth spread the news that Web usage was being monitored, and the number of pornographic, violent, and other inappropriate sites being viewed dropped immediately. Although technical problems have cropped up and the administrative burden has been considerable, Leverich notes, network administrators \"have found the time spent dealing with each event a suitable price for freedom of access for the time being.\" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 72, "subject": "The google hits game", "response_count": 8, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Aug 23, 2001 (15:17)", "body": "walhus 1,960 paul terry walhus 1,900 walrus 151,000"}, {"response": 2, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Aug 23, 2001 (16:04)", "body": "You beat me, but I look up everything from lines of poetry to technical data with Google. As for me, MarciaH at www.Spring.net lists *gasp* 952 entries!!! Both my first and last names lists 542 entries, some of which I did not know existed!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Mar  1, 2002 (06:56)", "body": "http://www.corante.com/microcontent/articles/googleblog.shtml MICROCONTENT NEWS Google Blogs How Weblogs Influence A Billion Google Searches A Week February 26, 2002 By John Hiler \"Is Weblog Technology Here to Stay or Just Another Fad?\" Bob Tedeschi's rhetorical headline in a recent New York Times article has caused quite a stir in the weblog community. Bloggers across the world are debating whether or not weblogs are a just passing fad, or if they'll ever actually have a meaningful impact on the lives of most web users. While I've been enjoying the debate, the question is largely moot: whether or not people even know what a weblog is, blogs are already having a massive impact on the lives of almost all web users. This is due to a quirk in the way the world's most popular search engine works. Unbeknownst to most, weblogs have a significant impact on Google search results. With over \"150 million search queries per day\" [1], that means that weblogs are influencing over a billion Google searches a week. Take that, New York Times! Why Google Loves Weblogs Reason One: Google Loves the Links in Weblogs The magic of Google comes from its patented search engine algorithm, nicely described in their Press Kit: In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves \"important\" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages \"important.\" Google loves Links, because they are the very core of its search engine. If page A links to page B, then that makes page B more popular in search results. Weblogs are all about links like this. As Rebecca Blood put it in her excellent weblog history: The original weblogs were link-driven sites. Each was a mixture in unique proportions of links, commentary, and personal thoughts and essays. ... Many current weblogs follow this original style. Their editors present links both to little-known corners of the web and to current news articles they feel are worthy of note. A match made in heaven! Google loves links, and weblogs are all about links. Every time a blogger links to a website, its Google rank rachets up ever so slightly. If enough bloggers pile onto that link, it can start to have a significant impact on a sites' Google rank. But links by themselves aren't enough to give Weblogs their influence on Google. That comes from a more recent tweak in the Google search engine: Reason Two: Google loves Fresh Content In roughly August of last year, Google started indexing frequently updated sites much more often. The primary reason for this was to increase Google's access to articles from news sites, like CNN and the New York Times. Google even added a \"News\" section at the top of its search results, to present \"news stories relevant to users' queries\". [2] But Google didn't stop there. Its insatiable appetite for fresh content spilled over to any frequently updated websites, including Weblogs. If Google noticed a page updating frequently, it started visiting that page much more frequently so it could suck the latest content into its database of over 3 billion documents. As they put it in their latest press release, \"Google refreshes millions of web pages every day to ensure that Google users have access to the most current information.\" Putting it Together: Google loves Weblogs Weblogs are perfect for Google: frequently updated websites crammed chockfull of tasty links. It's no wonder that Google loves Weblogs so much. Of course, if that's the case, why doesn't every Google search land the searcher on a blog? That question underscores a crucial point about weblogs and Google: weblogs are the voters in this political system. In other words, weblogs don't get elected by Google... but the sites they voted for do. So even if you never visit a blog, you're being influenced by them. The collective votes of the weblog community are determing what sites you see on Google, the world's largest search engine. Mob Justice: Weblogs Swing into Action We got a chance to see the collective power of the weblog community recently, when Matt Haughey (founder of community weblog MetaFilter) got a telemarketer call one day while he was sitting at home. The cold callers were Critical IP, who had gotten his home phone number from the central database of domain name owners. He posted his outrage on his own weblog: [T]he gang at Critical IP feel the whois database is a virtual goldmine worth cold-calling and bothering you at home (when I asked them if they got my number from the whois database, they admited that yes, that was how they obtained it). ... But Matt didn't stop there... he asked other bloggers to spread the word that Critical IP was coldcalling people while they were eating supper: If you feel like sharing this message with anyone else, just copy this HTML and post on your site: Critical IP sucks."}, {"response": 4, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Mar  1, 2002 (14:20)", "body": "Google is amazing. It it my primary search engine and I can refine my searches to a very fine degree to get only those sites which I specificially need. Good for them. Weblogs are fascinating to me. I'm sure it helps them make the software better and better. They have managed to find me!"}, {"response": 5, "author": "wolf", "date": "Tue, Mar  5, 2002 (19:39)", "body": "google is my primary search engine too (thanks to marcia for referring me to it)"}, {"response": 6, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, Mar  5, 2002 (21:50)", "body": "Thanks to Terry's mentioning it on one of the web or internet topics. I figured it he thought it was worth while I'd better check it out! There are lots of converts in my family - and on Geo! The rest are pretty partheic by comparison. I remember when Lycos was the best - and before that, when telnetting was all there was, Lynx. *Ugh*"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Mar  6, 2002 (02:11)", "body": "Basically, google does an \"and\" search and the rest do an \"or\" search. Now, google has a plug in appliance for folks with websites, a \"search engine in a box\"."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jun 13, 2004 (19:10)", "body": "Google Newsmap: http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm Shows graphical representation of google news stories popularity. http://www.googlewar.com Let's you make up \"googlewars\"! eg. Googlewar \"Colin Firth\" vs. \"Alan Rickman\" 130,000 results 121,000 results The winner is: Colin Firth Related Googlewars: alan rickman, hugh grant, jason isaacs Declare another Google War: vs. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 73, "subject": "Digital Video projects", "response_count": 15, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep  6, 2001 (17:04)", "body": "IEEE 1394 Installation Troubleshooting Guide This document applies to all configurations that use OHCI-compliant IEEE 1394 hardware, including IEEE 1394 add-in cards and IEEE 1394 ports built into the motherboard (for example, FireWire or i.LINK). Use this document to check the configuration and determine if the DV device you use is compatible with built-in DV support in Adobe Premiere 6.0 for Windows. You can also use this document if the IEEE 1394 capture system you use doesn't include its own project settings in the Project Settings dialog box. The built-in DV support in Premiere 6.0 requires the Microsoft DV class driver (MSDV), which cannot coexist in Windows with any other DV class drivers. MSDV supports any OHCI-compliant IEEE 1394 interface in Windows 2000, Windows Me, or Windows 98 SE. IEEE 1394 interface manufacturers provide DV class drivers for Windows 98 (First Edition) and earlier. To determine which DV device driver is installed, and to ensure compatibility with Premiere 6.0: 1. Exit from Windows. 2. Verify that the DV device is plugged into the wall socket and is connected to the computer's IEEE 1394 port with an IEEE 1394 cable. If you use a DV camera, do not use battery power as it causes some cameras to go into sleep mode. 3. Make sure that the DV device is on. If you use a DV camera, make sure it's in VTR mode, not in Camera mode. 4. Start Windows. (Windows Me may take several minutes to load the DV driver.) 5. Check to see which DV device driver is installed: a. Right-click My Computer, and choose Properties. b Click the Hardware tab, and then click Device Manager. c. Click the plus sign (+) beside Imaging Device or Sound, Video and Game Controllers: -- If the device is listed as \"Microsoft DV Camera and VCR\" or \"[manufacturer] DV Camcorder\" (Windows Me only), MSDV is installed, and Premiere should be able to capture with the DV device. If Premiere returns the error \"Can't connect to the capture driver\" when you try to capture video, uninstall and then reinstall Premiere, restart Windows, and then try to capture video again. If Premiere still can't connect to the capture driver, reinstall Windows, and then reinstall Premiere. -- If the device is listed as \"1394 DV Camcorder,\" the Texas Instruments DV class driver is installed. Disable the Texas Instruments DV class driver and enable MSDV instead. For instructions, see document 325937, \"Unable to Capture Using Texas Instruments DV Device in Premiere 6.0 for Windows\". -- If the device is listed as \"Sony DVCR,\" the Sony DV class driver is installed. Disable the Sony DV class driver and enable MSDV instead using the latest version of SonySwitcher, which you can download from Adobe's Web site at www.adobe.com/support/downloads/prwin.htm. (Only Sony DVGate software can capture from or play back to the device using the Sony DV class driver). -- If a device isn't listed under either category, verify that the Device Manager lists a category for 1394 Bus Controller: - If 1394 Bus Controller is listed, repeat steps 2-5, using a different IEEE 1394 cable to determine if the cable is faulty. - If 1394 Bus Controller isn't listed or if the device isn't listed when you use a different IEEE 1394 cable, the drivers for the IEEE 1394 hardware didn't load at startup or weren't installed correctly. For assistance, see the documentation for the IEEE 1394 hardware or contact the IEEE 1394 hardware manufacturer."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep  6, 2001 (17:04)", "body": "Unable to Capture Video in Premiere 6.0 on Sony VAIO Computer Issue When you try to capture video in Adobe Premiere 6.0 on a Sony VAIO computer in Windows 98SE or Windows Me, Premiere returns one of the following errors: -- \"Unable to connect to capture driver.\" -- \"No DV device available.\" Detail You cannot switch from the Sony DV class driver to the Microsoft DV class driver in the SonySwitcher. Solution Install SonySwitcher 3.0, which you can download from Adobe's Web site at www.adobe.com/support/downloads/prwin.htm. Additional Information Premiere 6.0 requires the Microsoft DV class driver to support DV capture devices in Windows 2000, Me, 98SE, and 98. SonySwitcher 3.0 allows you to switch between the Sony and Microsoft DV class drivers without problems, unlike earlier versions of SonySwitcher."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep  6, 2001 (17:05)", "body": "Optimizing a Windows System for Video Editing with Premiere 6.0x Optimizing the system can eliminate compatibility problems that can interfere with video editing. To optimize a Windows system for Adobe Premiere 6.0x, work through the tasks in this document. To further eliminate problems, simplify the system to include only those components necessary for editing video. 1. Make sure that the system meets the minimum requirements. If you use Premiere for editing analog video or IEEE 1394, OHCI-compliant DV, make sure that the system meets the following requirements: -- Intel Pentium III 500MHz or faster processor (Pentium III 700 MHz recommended) -- Windows 98 Second Edition, Millennium Edition, or 2000 -- 128 MB or RAM (256 MB or more recommended) -- Dedicated large capacity 7200RPM UDMA 66 IDE or SCSI hard disk or disk array -- Microsoft certified OHCI IEEE 1394 interface -- Microsoft DirectX compatible video display adapter Additional requirements for third-party capture cards: -- Adobe Premiere certified capture card (For a list of certified capture cards, visit Adobe's Web site at www.adobe.com/products/premiere/6cards.html.) Note: Premiere does not support FireWire disk drives. 2. Install the latest version of Premiere. The latest version of Premiere is 6.01, which may be more compatible with the operating system and hardware drivers. Before you install an update, make sure that the system meets the requirements. The free Premiere 6.01 update is available from Adobe's Web site at www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html. 3. Check hard disk speed. If you work with analog video, contact the manufacturer of the video capture card for hard disk speed requirements. If you work with DV video (IEEE 1394), Premiere requires hard disks that can sustain a minimum data rate of 5 MB/second for smooth playback. In addition, disks should have a rotational speed of 7200 rpms or greater. As you save more content to the disk, access and transfer times to the disk increase to slow performance. If you work with disks at near-capacity, use a faster disk (for example, one with a speed of 10,000 rpms) to compensate for the decrease in performance. If you use external drives, make sure that the cables can handle the drives' data rates and rotational speeds. Adobe recommends that you use large capacity UDMA 66 IDE or SCSI drives dedicated to video only. If you use an IDE disk drive for capturing video, see task 4, \"Optimize IDE disks,\" in this document. Premiere doesn't support multiple devices on a FireWire chain or multiple devices on a FireWire card. 7. Optimize the video display. Video display options and acceleration can conflict with capture card drivers, resulting in a system error, and screen savers can interrupt the flow of data when you capture video, causing dropped frames. In addition, display options use system resources, decreasing resources available to Premiere. -- To disable video display acceleration: Important: If you have a Sony VAIO with DVGate Motion, don't disable video display acceleration; doing so may affect the overlay capabilities of the video display adapter. In Windows 2000: 1. Choose Start > Settings > Control Panel. 2. Double-click Display, click the Settings tab, and then click Advanced. 3. Click the Troubleshooting tab. 4. Move the Hardware acceleration slider to None. 5. Click OK to accept the new setting, and then click OK to close the Display Properties window. 6. Restart Windows. In Windows Me or 98: 1. Right-click My Computer, and choose Properties. 2. Click the Performance tab, and then click Graphics. 3. Move the Hardware Acceleration slider to None or one notch above None, and then click OK. 4. Restart Windows. -- To optimize display options: 1. Choose Start > Settings > Control Panel, and double-click Display. 2. Click the Background tab in the Display Properties dialog box. 3. Set the Wallpaper and Pattern options to None, and then click OK. 4. Click the Screen Saver tab, select None from the Screen Saver scroll box, and deselect the Energy Saving options. 5. Click the Settings tab, choose High Color (16 bit) or True Color (32 bit) from the Color Palette pop-up menu, and then click OK. 6. Click Yes to restart the computer."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep  6, 2001 (17:05)", "body": "Unable to Capture Using Texas Instruments DV Device in Premiere 6.0 for Windows Issue When you try to capture from a Texas Instruments DV device (e.g., 1394 DV Camcorder) in Adobe Premiere 6.0 for Windows, Premiere does not display the device in the Capture dialog box. Solutions Do either of the following: Solution 1 If you use Windows 2000 or Windows 98 Second Edition (SE), use the UnTI utility to automatically disable the Texas Instruments DV Class driver and enable the Microsoft DV Class driver. You can download the utility from the ADS Technologies Web site at www.adstech.com/downloads/pyro.html. Solution 2 Manually disable the Texas Instruments DV Class driver, and enable the Microsoft DV Class driver: 1. Make sure that the camcorder is connected and turned on, and then choose Start > Programs > Windows Explorer (Windows 98 SE) or Start > Programs > Accessories > Windows Explorer (Windows 2000, Windows Millennium Edition [Me]). 2. Choose Tools > Folder Options, and then click the View tab. 3. Select Show Hidden Files and Folders, deselect Hide File Extensions for Known File Types, and then click OK. 4. Right-click My Computer, and choose Properties from the pop-up menu. 5. Click the Device Manager tab (Windows 98 SE, Windows Me) or click the Hardware tab, and then click Device Manager (Windows 2000). 6. Double-click Sound Video and Game Controllers, select 1394 DV Camcorder, and then click Delete (Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000) or Remove (Windows Me). 7. Turn off the camcorder. 8. Navigate to the [X]:\\Windows\\Inf folder, where [X] is the system drive, and then delete the following files: - Dvcam.inf - Dvcam.sys - Dvcam.pnf 10. Turn on the camcorder. 11. If any Version Conflict dialog boxes appear, click Yes. Additional Information Premiere 6.0 is incompatible with the Texas Instruments DV Class driver, which was developed for versions of Windows prior to Windows 2000, Windows 98 SE, and Windows Me."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep  6, 2001 (17:06)", "body": "Premiere 6.0 and Compatibility with Capture Cards and IEEE Interfaces To capture video with Adobe Premiere 6.0, you need an Adobe-certified capture card or a compatible IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 1394 interface. Certified Capture Cards You can use a certified capture card to support analog or digital video in Premiere. Capture cards that are certified for Premiere 6.0 are listed on Adobe's Web site at http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/6cards.html . Note: Capture cards that are certified for Premiere 5.x may not be ceritified for Premiere 6.0. Compatible IEEE 1394 Interfaces You can use a compatible IEEE 1394 interface (also called FireWire in Mac OS) to support digital video in Premiere. The interface can be built-in to the computer or purchased separately as an add-on card, and it must meet one of the following conditions: -- Microsoft OHCI (Open Host Controller Interface)-certified (Windows) -- Microsoft DirectX-compatible (Windows) -- Apple QuickTime-compatible (Mac OS). To view Microsoft compatibility testing results, go to the Microsoft Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/hcl/results.asp , and choose 1394 Controller from the \"In the following types\" pop-up menu."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep  6, 2001 (17:06)", "body": "Adobe Premiere 6.0 Certified Third-Party Capture Cards Capture Board Vendor Platform Driver Version Igniter Aurora Mac OS 9.04 / 9.1 v3.1 EZ-DV Canopus Windows 98SE v1.11 DV Raptor Canopus Windows 98SE / 2000 v2.11 DV Raptor RT Canopus Windows 2000 v1.00 DV Storm Canopus Windows 2000 v1.01 DV Rex RT Canopus Windows 2000 v2.93A DV Rex Pro Canopus Windows 2000 v2.93 Reality DPS Windows 2000 v1.5.0.141 or higher * With Adobe Premiere 6.0 plugins (by DPS), v2.0 build 23 DV.Now FAST - Dazzle Windows 2000 v1.6 DV.Now AV FAST - Dazzle Windows 2000 v1.6 Digisuite LE Matrox Windows 2000 DigiUtils 5.0 Digisuite LX Matrox Windows 2000 DigiUtils 5.0 Digisuite Full Matrox Windows 2000 DigiUtils 5.0 Digisuite MAX Matrox Windows 2000 v6.0 * For the Matrox Digisuite LE, LX and DTV configurations. Digisuite DTV Matrox Windows 2000 DigiUtils 5.0 RT2000 Matrox Windows ME / 2000 v3.0 RT2500 Matrox Windows ME / 2000 v3.0 DV500 Pinnacle Systems Windows 98SE / ME / NT / 2000 v2.0 DC1000 Pinnacle Systems Windows 98SE / NT v3.0 DC2000 Pinnacle Systems Windows 98SE / 2000 v3.0 Targa 3000 Pinnacle Systems Windows 2000 v1.5 Pro-ONE Pinnacle Systems Windows ME v1.0"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep  6, 2001 (17:07)", "body": "Adobe Premiere 6.0 Brochure The essential tool for professional digital video editing DV in, Web out. That vision is now a reality for Macintosh and Windows users alike. With Adobe Premiere 6.0 software, you can effortlessly capture digital video (DV), employ best-of-breed tools to craft your video productions, and then output to the leading Web streaming-video formats or to any type of medium. Whether you are a video professional or an aspiring producer, you'll enjoy the versatility, ease of use, and power of Adobe Premiere software. Robust DV Support Adobe Premiere 6.0 software provides built-in support for all types of DV devices, ranging from consumer to professional. Simply plug your DV camera into the IEEE-1394 (also known as FireWire and i.LINK) port on your Windows or Macintosh computer, select the camera model and manufacturer, and let the fun begin. With native DV support, getting started has never been easier. One-step Web Output Looking to output your video to the Web? Adobe Premiere 6.0 software provides a comprehensive set of video-to-Web tools that enable you to quickly produce streaming video in all the leading formats. Use the Save for Web feature for multiple Web output options, or use the customized Windows Media or RealMedia export options for more precise control over the streaming formats. Whatever your Web video needs, Adobe Premiere 6.0 software enables you to deliver content in the formats and at the speeds you and your viewers prefer. Enhanced Professional Tools New tools in Adobe Premiere 6.0 software, such as the professional-level Audio Mixer and the innovative Automate to Timeline feature, encourage creativity and experimentation. New storyboarding capabilities let you visualize the layout of your entire program before you begin editing. And you can take advantage of interface refinements, new palettes, and more visual feedback, which will help you produce projects faster and more efficiently. Seamless Integration Adobe Premiere 6.0 software shares a similar interface and tools with Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator applications. Adobe Premiere users will find it easy to work with these industry-standard Adobe software applications to achieve outstanding, professional results. The new Edit Original command lets you conveniently edit placed images and other content--such as Photoshop images--in their native software applications. And content created in Adobe Premiere and imported into Adobe GoLive software maintains its metadata, allowing you to further refine the content for the Web. Whatever your video production tasks, count on Adobe Premiere software to help you work productively as you explore your most creative ideas. Robust DV Support - Take advantage of cross-platform support for the latest DV-enabled hardware systems. - Experience native support for the Open Host Controller Interface (OHCI), a specification that provides Windows with a standardized way of interacting with the DV/1394 bus. - Ensure the integrity of your DV work with support for widescreen frame aspect ratio and the Anamorphic pixel aspect ratio. - Choose settings for the compressor, frame size, pixel aspect ratio, frame rate, depth, audio, and field order using DV presets in the Load Project Settings dialog box. - Experience more flexible and efficient DV capture with an enhanced Movie Capture window. Built-in device control provides maximum reliability, making the video capture process more precise. - View and edit your video capture settings and change your capture location and device control preferences using the Movie Capture Settings panel. - Quickly log video clips, set In and Out points, name clips and reels, effortlessly batch capture multiple logged video clips, and add comments about each clip using the Movie Capture Logging panel. One-Step Web Output - Choose from Premiere 6.0 software's multiple Web output options, including QuickTime Streaming, QuickTime Progressive Download, RealG2 Web Download, RealG2 Streaming, Windows Media (audio and video), AVI CD-ROM, MPEG-1, and MP3. - Generate high-quality, high-bandwidth video for playback on Windows Media Player and other applications with advanced Windows Media Export (Windows only). - Output video directly to the RealMedia streaming format with Advanced RealMedia Export from RealNetworks. - Set Timeline markers that include links to HTML pages. Using these markers, you can develop streaming videos that automatically launch Web pages at precise points during playback. Professional Tools Monitor window - Work efficiently with a traditional Source/Program editing metaphor. - Open, play, and edit source clips in the Source view. Play back an edited program in the Program view. - Split the video and audio In and Out points in the Source view to achieve more creative and dramatic effects. - Use the Insert and Overlay buttons to precisely position source clips on the Timeline. - Remove footage from the Timeline using the Lift "}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep  6, 2001 (17:08)", "body": "Optimizing Windows 95 and 98 for Working With Digital Video in Premiere 5.x What's Covered Optimizing Premiere Optimizing Windows 95 or Windows 98 This document provides general instructions for optimizing performance and troubleshooting configuration problems in Adobe Premiere 5.x for Windows 95 and 98. For information on optimizing your system for using Premiere with a specific video capture card, review the documentation provided by the card's manufacturer and search their Web site for additional details. For current summaries of the most common Technical Support issues regarding Premiere, see document 343358, \"Top Issues: Adobe Premiere 5.x for Windows.\" Optimizing Premiere Faster processors, more random-access memory (RAM), and faster and larger hard drives improve Premiere's performance. In addition, simplifying your system and hardware minimizes conflicts with other components. To optimize Premiere's performance when capturing, editing, or playing digital video, do all of the tasks outlined in this record. Install the Latest Version of Premiere 5.x Make sure that you are using the latest version of Premiere 5.x, and the latest supported version of the software for use with it by doing the following: A. The latest version of Adobe Premiere for Windows is 5.1. The Premiere 5.1 update resolves various problems with Premiere 5.0, and is available to all registered owners of Premiere 5.0. You can download the update from the Adobe's Web site at http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/LIBRARY/prwin.htm , or you can request the update on CD-ROM by calling Adobe Customer Services at 888-724-4507. Update Premiere and Drivers Make sure that you are using the latest update for Premiere 5.x and the latest supported drivers for use with it: A. The latest update for Premiere 5.x for Windows is 5.1c. The Premiere 5.1c update is available from Adobe's Web site at www.adobe.com/support/downloads/prwin.htm. (For information about upgrading to Premiere 6.0, visit Adobe's Web site at www.adobe.com/store/products/premiere.html.) B. Use the current drivers for your video digitizing board and video display card, as well as the current drivers for your SCSI card or disk drive(s) or both. Manufacturers regularly offer updated drivers, which are usually available on their Web sites, bulletin boards, and on-line services. Adobe Technical Support strongly recommends updating drivers as they become available, before installing any new hardware, and if you experience problems with your computer. For contact information, see document 143312, \"Digital Video Resources General Information.\" For current driver version information, see document 343358, \"Top Issues: Adobe Premiere 5.x for Windows.\" For a list of capture cards supported in Premiere 6.0, visit Adobe's Web site at www.adobe.com/products/premiere/6cards.html. Install and Test Hardware It is important to check for hardware compatibility problems that could interfere with editing video. To determine whether compatibility problems exist, do the following: A. Check for known compatibility issues before installing digital video hardware. Digital video card manufacturers frequently document testing, compatibility, and configuration details, then post these details on their Web sites, bulletin boards, fax-back systems, and on-line services. Before installing your video digitizing card, Adobe strongly recommends that you review your video card's hardware requirements, recommended configurations, and compatibility guidelines. For contact information, see document 143312. \"Digital Video Resources General Information.\" B. Install and test new digital video components. Install each digital video hardware and software component one at time, restart your computer after installing each component, then thoroughly test the components to ensure that they and your computer perform as expected. Adobe Technical Support recommends the following installation order: 1. Install Premiere, restart the computer, then test Premiere by following the Tour in Chapter 1 of the Adobe Premiere 5.0 User Guide. 2. Install your SCSI adapter and disk drive(s) using the instructions provided by the manufacturer, then perform tests suggested by the manufacturer. Restart the computer, then retest them. 3. Install your video digitizing card using the instructions provided by the manufacturer, then test the card by capturing video using either the capture utility included with it or the Captst32 capture utility in the Support folder on the Premiere 5.0 CD. For instructions, see document 343322, \"Testing Capture and Playback Problems in Premiere 5.x for Windows Troubleshooting Guide.\" NOTE: Never install two PCI plug-and-play cards at the same time. Before adding additional cards, make sure to restart and thoroughly test the card you just installed. For additional configuration and troubleshooting information, see Related Records. Optimizing Windows 95 or Windows 98 Digital video editing places unique demands "}, {"response": 9, "author": "KarenR", "date": "Thu, Sep  6, 2001 (17:51)", "body": "What do you know about Dazzle? Can't get it loaded on my computer. :-( Also, I have a Windows Media file uploaded, but it can't be played from my site. I imagine that the proper software isn't installed on our server to enable it. Right?"}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep  6, 2001 (23:27)", "body": "I don't think it requires a special server, but I could be wrong. I know very little about Dazzle because I haven't used it. Which Dazzle did you get? They have several versions. What is the software you can't load?"}, {"response": 11, "author": "KarenR", "date": "Fri, Sep  7, 2001 (09:18)", "body": "This is the Windows Media file that won't play unless it is downloaded to your own PC, then it plays fine. http://www.spring.net/karenr/vid/gqcolin.wmv I have Dazzle Digital Photo & Video Maker. I couldn't even load the hardware device. My PC won't recognize it in the right hardware category."}, {"response": 12, "author": "dliford", "date": "Thu, Jan 17, 2002 (09:50)", "body": "I need expert help with an issue concerning video editing with Premiere 5.1 The PC I have been assigned to edit on is a PIII 850 256 RAM with a 20g h.d. All this seems well and good. However, I think the IEEE-1394 card that was installed is incompatible with Premiere 5.1 The card is a SIIG, and according to sources from their web site, it is compatible with 6.0, but nothing earlier. I need to know the best Firewire card to get that would be compatible with 5.1 and 6.0 in case we decide to upgrade Premiere. The Premiere interface pulls up fine, but when I hook up the camera (Sony DCR-TVR720 NTSC), it cannot find a source in the configuration settings. Can anyone help me out?"}, {"response": 13, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jan 17, 2002 (23:06)", "body": "I'd recommend Adaptec's new card, it has both firewire and usb version 2, the faster usb. Poke around on Adaptec's site and you'll find it. Look for the DuoConnect Combo Firewire and USB 2.0 Card. It drops in to a pci slot and supports both specs. Three FireWire ports (one internal) and 4 usb ports. It is backward compatible with usb 1.1 so it will support your older usb devices. This \"Kick Ass\" product survived heavy traffice from simultaneously conneect burners and drives wiht all ports full in tests done by Maximum PC. Comes with dv editing software which you probably won't need if you have Premiere. My latest digital video project is on the Spring's main page. http://www.spring.net/boomquest Hope this helps Denny!"}, {"response": 14, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Jan 17, 2002 (23:38)", "body": "Looks like your home, Terry. I'll look for the family portrait when this all loads. It takes a bit of time. Patience is the price we pay for being bandwidth impaired, I guess."}, {"response": 15, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jan 18, 2002 (07:08)", "body": "It does take a a while to load if you're on 56k. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 74, "subject": "404", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Nov 30, 2001 (10:07)", "body": "http://www.webreference.com/new/011004.html Is a site on how to produce cuddly 404 error messages under Apache and IIS. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 75, "subject": "Dreamweaver", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Nov 30, 2001 (11:55)", "body": "http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2001/11/02/dreamweaver.html"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Nov 29, 2002 (12:42)", "body": "I'm taking an online course in Dreamweaver and using the book DreamWeaverMX FiresworksMX Saavy by Christian Crumlish. I'm using http://www.spring.net as my site since this is the one that needs a remake. So I start out by opening index.html on spring.net adn renaming it indexdream.html on my local site at home. The first thing I want to do is clean it up and set up for local editing. I already have a site map in Frontpage. It gives you a nice graphical view of the site and the major links. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 76, "subject": "instant messaging", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Nov 30, 2001 (12:08)", "body": "Trillian has a very large featureset. Many of the features aren't documented yet (as we haven't written official documentation for the v0.6 release). As such, this is by no means a definitive list, but just a taste. We'll try to keep this up to date as we move along! Also, look at our comparison chart. IRC support AIM support ICQ support MSN Messenger support Yahoo! Messenger support Multiple server connections Custom graphical interface Encrypted DCC Chats Normal and Encrypted DCC Conferences Non-rectangular windows Skinnable window system (through XML) Buddy List Friends List Sound support Transparent windows Backgrounds No Nag screens No Built-in ads Scripting"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Nov 30, 2001 (12:13)", "body": "http://www.trillian.cc Note the .cc! web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 77, "subject": "The Semantic Web", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Nov 30, 2001 (12:37)", "body": "A Technology Review article http://www.techreview.com/magazine/nov01/frauenfelder.asp > describes how Tim Berners-Lee and others would like the web to evolve. And here's the URL for the World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web Activity http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ And a link to a Scientific American article found on the W3C site... http://www.scientificamerican.com/2001/0501issue/0501berners-lee.html > http://www.w3.org/Metadata/RDF/Overview.html web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 78, "subject": "Web Site Analysis and Mapping", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Dec 23, 2001 (12:59)", "body": "By meticulously examining your Web site, Funnel Web Profiler identifies and documents any problem areas relating to HTML coding, design or implementation. Each page undergoes a series of comprehensive checks which are then given a quality rating so you can tackle any problems according to their priority. Funnel Web Profiler then creates a series of informative maps, diagrams, graphs and reports which enable you to highlight and correlate navigation paths, page quality, download times and page content. Not only does Funnel Web Profiler provide detailed explanations of any deficiencies, its unique problem solving advisor suggests possible solutions. Corrections can be made immediately using the built-in editor. Funnel Web Profiler is the ideal tool for evaluating a site before it goes live or testing changes to ensure the user's experience is a positive one and the integration with their browser is seamless. http://www.quest.com/funnel_web/profiler/ web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 79, "subject": "Ecommerce 101 - shopping carts and such", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jan 12, 2002 (09:15)", "body": "http://www.kagi.com has a relatively transparent shopping cart."}, {"response": 2, "author": "visitor", "date": "Fri, Jan 18, 2002 (11:36)", "body": "for a look at some different carts, check out http://www.onlineorders.net/ web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 8, "subject": "Search engines - which are best and how to use them", "response_count": 58, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Sep 22, 1996 (09:22)", "body": "I love http://www.webtaxi.com . Check it out!"}, {"response": 2, "author": "tedchong", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (00:29)", "body": "I use www.altavista.digital.com everyday, the good thing is it can find lots more info that are not available from other search engines."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (00:55)", "body": "I user altavista 90% of the time, occasionally I like yahoo for its organization."}, {"response": 4, "author": "sunspot", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (11:19)", "body": "anyone tried savvy search? check it out"}, {"response": 5, "author": "arch1234", "date": "Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (00:32)", "body": "I find www.infoseek.com the best search engine.It gives me all information which I wanted.It is precise and you can get to-the-point information.My second favourite site is www.altavista.com.But I usually use infoseek.com"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (07:53)", "body": "I'll have to take infoseek for a run!"}, {"response": 7, "author": "tedchong", "date": "Fri, Dec 13, 1996 (08:45)", "body": "Here are the search engines in my Netscape' bookmark:\" http://www.altavista.digital.com/ http://www.metacrawler.com/ http://www.lycos.com/ http://metasearch.com/ http://www.search.com/ http://webcrawler.com/ http://www.yahoo.com/ http://www.stpt.com/"}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Dec 15, 1996 (00:04)", "body": "You can see an example of freeWAIS-sf based searches at: http://www.genmagic.com/search.html http://www.macworld.com/search/search.html http://www.ragan.com/pubs/search.html Macworld and Ragan also use Yapp."}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Dec 14, 1997 (22:40)", "body": "Reviews search engines: http://www.searchenginewatch.com/ Cool!!!"}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jan 26, 1998 (18:03)", "body": "Exsqueeze me if you're reading this twice! (put it in the wrong topic the first time). www.searchenginewatch.com is a Meckler Publishing site that evaluates search engines."}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Aug 30, 1998 (16:22)", "body": "What do y'all think of these sites: http://www.jailbabes.com/white/aw28490.html and there's also http://www.womenbehindbars.com/"}, {"response": 13, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Oct  8, 1999 (17:47)", "body": "http://www.altavista.com is still the best search engine out there - and has the benefit of an image search (which is where a lot of those goodies I download for Geo and for Drool celebrations originate.) http://www.google.com is another new and very good one."}, {"response": 14, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Oct  9, 1999 (11:22)", "body": "google rocks. Also, not strictly a search engine, but http://www.refdesk.com is great launching pad for finding things."}, {"response": 15, "author": "Irishprincess", "date": "Sat, Oct  9, 1999 (12:38)", "body": "I use www.goto.com most often--I just found some really useful stuff for a class of mine in which I'm studying Byron (you probably all know that by now,) but sometimes you get some really strange stuff, too."}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 11, 1999 (01:00)", "body": "For random searching, there's http://www.etour.com . I like http://www.google.com 's \"I feel lucky\" option, it's amazing how often it comes through."}, {"response": 17, "author": "sociolingo", "date": "Sat, Oct 16, 1999 (10:52)", "body": "I use the multiengine http://www.dogpile.com a lot. It searches about 15 engines for the same query."}, {"response": 18, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Mon, Oct 18, 1999 (13:08)", "body": "My fave is Hotbot's Super Search - the best filters I ever found! Plus it shows a hundred hits a time ( http://www.hotbot.com/?MT=&SM=MC&DV=0&LG=any&DC=10&DE=2&_v=2&OPs=MDRTP&act.super.x=59&act.super.y=8 ). You can search by geographical areas, domain-extensions (.edu, .com), whole websites (!!!) like this here..."}, {"response": 19, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, Oct 18, 1999 (15:37)", "body": "Is that the one you used to find out if I was a real person or not? Not all search engines carry my little article...!"}, {"response": 20, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Thu, Oct 21, 1999 (12:32)", "body": "Would be either that, or Goto.com. I don't use anything else, unless I keep getting 0 hits. Then I pop over to Yahoo!, and check if there's a category for what I look for. If all fails, I'll go Boolean on Altavista (expert search mode - I love the proximity switch you can set there - haven't used it in three years, though)."}, {"response": 21, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Oct 21, 1999 (13:00)", "body": "The only search engine I could find me on was Yahoo. I generally go Altavista first since I can do image searches so easily, then go to Metacrawler and Webcrawler which gives you far more (25) URLs at a time than the others do. And one of them gives you the top 10 entries from several engines...but not always the ones for which you are looking. Too narrow!"}, {"response": 22, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Mon, Oct 25, 1999 (16:28)", "body": "Hotbot gives a top 10 AND returns 100 (THAT'S ONE HUNDRED!!!) hits, with description + URL. AND! you can go \"search only a certain website\", or \"hits must contain a certain file type, e.g. gif\". That's cool if you look e.g. for some images of a certain artist, or topic."}, {"response": 23, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, Oct 25, 1999 (16:56)", "body": "This is true - particularly helpful if you are searching for information on a current personality or event - it saves you from having to sift through old material."}, {"response": 24, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Oct 26, 1999 (10:21)", "body": "I find lots of my spring posts when I search for Walhus on any of the engines. This site gets searched heavily by most of the big ones."}, {"response": 25, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Thu, Oct 28, 1999 (14:35)", "body": "Found only 16 hits through Hotbot using my name, though. Not that I mind not being found easily..."}, {"response": 26, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 29, 1999 (14:36)", "body": "Try using http://www.egosurf.com and see what your name turns up. Does it have any of your spring postings?"}, {"response": 27, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Oct 29, 1999 (15:00)", "body": "I am about to test your new search engine for me, but I did find my post in Drool / Olivier listed. That is odd because I have posted so many more places than that and have a conference full of my posts. It is most capricious the way it picks and chooses. It does not bother me to be found easily, either...I am just curious how it decides which of my many MANY posts to list. I'll report back on egosurf!"}, {"response": 28, "author": "sociolingo", "date": "Fri, Oct 29, 1999 (15:08)", "body": "I tried it on the phrase search and it looks like it may be helpful.. it turned up a couple of papers I haven't found elsewhere. It'll be interesting to see what it turns up in the next week and posts to me."}, {"response": 29, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Oct 29, 1999 (15:12)", "body": "I did Hotbot, Google, and Egosearch. None of them had ever heard of me, but neither had Hotbot heard of Alexander Schuth. What am I doing wrong?"}, {"response": 30, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 29, 1999 (21:24)", "body": "Submit the url of one of your posts to them and try them in a few weeks."}, {"response": 31, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Oct 29, 1999 (22:30)", "body": "ok, I will...I am in telnet via my just installed crt. The print is tiny, but I think I can fix that."}, {"response": 32, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Oct 30, 1999 (05:18)", "body": "Yeah, crt is very cool. Be sure to set your buffer size to 9999 so you can scroll back through your session. You can set the character size and stretch out the window so you can have more rows. Right now I'm using 49 fows and 80 columns in VT100 mode. You can set up an automatic login if you want, as well."}, {"response": 33, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, May 25, 2000 (14:54)", "body": "northernlight.com is new and interesting. It finds obscure and archived articles about the person / topic in which you are interested and posts a brief bit of it. You then have the option of purchasing the entire article (usually about $2.75 US with the $5.00 free to new users.) I have done such and was pleased. You also have the option of not purchasing it if you read it and find it is not what you thought it would be - something I have also done. It is not the search engine Google.com is, but it is a good companion for Google. http://northernlight.com/"}, {"response": 34, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, May 25, 2000 (15:09)", "body": "Did all of that CRT modifying stuff you mentioned, thanks! It sure is involved getting into Spring via telnet from Hawaii-on-Line. Wish there were an easily-used bookmark system. Each time I do it I have to wander around looking for which part of Lynx will get me here. Tried Gopher and Archie and got tired of waiting to connect to whatever.edu for the latter. I need to do more practicing and taking notes..."}, {"response": 35, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, May 25, 2000 (15:17)", "body": "I got no response to submitting my urls to Google or northernlight, but when I submitted MarciaH it came up with 63 hits from 36 sources (including the copy of your telnet session which you post on index - northernlight - not all of which were pertaining to me) and 333 from Google which actually were! Yesterday it was 405 hits. Hmmm..."}, {"response": 36, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, May 25, 2000 (15:33)", "body": "altavista.com could find only 6 places... So much for my former favorite search engine. Times have changed and it has not."}, {"response": 37, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Tue, Mar 13, 2001 (13:05)", "body": "http://www.indexdata.dk/zap/ An Apache module that lets you provide a search interface to any library collection that makes their bibliographic data available via the Z39.50 standard. Collections such as the Library of Congress, Bell Labs/Lucent, or MIT can be searched directly from your web site with this module. The Library of Congress provides their own gateway to what looks like a couple hundred different collections: http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/gateway.html"}, {"response": 38, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Tue, Mar 27, 2001 (13:42)", "body": "cool stuff..."}, {"response": 39, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Apr 30, 2001 (02:15)", "body": "http://www.google.com is putting karenr's site at the top of their list."}, {"response": 40, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Thu, May  3, 2001 (09:12)", "body": "just checked it out...she appears to be no. 2 now. still, a great achievement :-)"}, {"response": 41, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Thu, May  3, 2001 (09:13)", "body": "although a link to spring.net somewhere on the page wouldn't go amiss...."}, {"response": 42, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Nov 30, 2001 (09:55)", "body": "http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html I may try to use internetseer to monitor my sites, since it's free. Unless they bog you down with free offers."}, {"response": 43, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jan  1, 2002 (01:48)", "body": "http://www.searchtools.com/robots/"}, {"response": 44, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, Jan  1, 2002 (20:06)", "body": "Hmmm. I will add that to my arsenel. Nice Lights, Terry!"}, {"response": 45, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Thu, Apr 28, 2005 (08:32)", "body": "Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:34:11 -0700 From: AllinOne Webmaster To: terry@www.spring.net Subject: Re: search page (resending) First let me apologize for my blank email yesterday! Here is the email I was trying to send you. I noticed your search related info on your page http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/public/read/web/8 I was hoping you would consider mentioning our search engine too. It has been gaining a lot of popularity lately. I think our new \"grouping\" feature makes finding what you want VERY easy. I was hoping you might try it and if you like it you might mention our search engine on your site too. Our search engine is at http://all4one.searchallinone.com PS. Please drop me a note and let me know what you think. :-) Thanks in Advance, James http://searchallinone.com Seems like a decent search engine. Kind of like http://dogpile.com . Want to have some fun? Try http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/searchspy/results.htm?filter=1 and you'll get to see, in real time, what folks are searching. It's like a stock ticker for searches."}, {"response": 46, "author": "WERoland", "date": "Sat, Oct  8, 2005 (08:30)", "body": "Here's a cool little search engine I found while doing some editing at the ODP... http://www.bananaslug.com/"}, {"response": 47, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Oct  9, 2005 (13:36)", "body": "Try sports calendar with world cities. It gave me an awesome result. banana slug rocks."}, {"response": 48, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Dec  8, 2005 (00:19)", "body": "great graphical representation of the top search engines. http://www.search-this.com/search_engine_decoder.asp"}, {"response": 49, "author": "WERoland", "date": "Sun, Mar 26, 2006 (19:34)", "body": "Dear Valued Zealots and Contributors, Thank you for being a part of the Zeal community and contributing your time and knowledge to the Directory. After trying to put the deserved resources behind Zeal, we have made the conscious decision to shut down Zeal.com. On March 28, 2006 Zeal will no longer be available. We are not selling Zeal.com and have no future plans for it at this time. We think that avid Zeal users will appreciate the large, interesting and vital community at Furl.net (www.furl.net). Furl is an online book marking service that helps you save information that\ufffds important to you, share it with others and see what others are saving and find important. With Furl you can: - Save Web pages to a personal, permanent archive with 5GB of storage - Revisit the full text of your favorite Web pages - Share articles and information with friends and family members with simple email pass-along tools - Use Furl as a platform for social networking and discovering useful information - Share articles and information with people that share common interests using RSS feeds - See what other Furl members are saving and sharing - Save your favorite Zeal content Whether you are browsing the Web, travel planning, recipe sharing, house hunting or researching, Furl is a wonderful tool. Join the thousands of people that are using Furl every day to find, save and share information that is important to them."}, {"response": 50, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar 27, 2006 (15:25)", "body": "Furl is in the same league as http://delicious.com which is an amazing bookmarking website. While at http://sxsw I noticed that the http://pluck.com had developed a competitor to delicious which will import delicious bookmarks. If you use http://mozilla.com 's Firefox, there's an excellent delicious plug in and I'm sure there are plugins for furl."}, {"response": 51, "author": "WERoland", "date": "Sat, Apr  8, 2006 (18:39)", "body": "Here's a cool little one being developed right here in Austin... http://www.iboogie.com/"}, {"response": 52, "author": "WERoland", "date": "Sat, Apr  8, 2006 (18:48)", "body": ""}, {"response": 53, "author": "weroland", "date": "Sun, Apr  9, 2006 (12:21)", "body": "http://www.kosmix.com/"}, {"response": 54, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Apr  9, 2006 (15:13)", "body": "Good heavens - this is still decorated for Christmas a few years ago. Hmmm I wonder who did that? (S)He left the lights on !"}, {"response": 55, "author": "WERoland", "date": "Sun, Apr  9, 2006 (15:22)", "body": "Things get lost or undone (or both) when one moves...*sigh*"}, {"response": 56, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Apr  9, 2006 (15:24)", "body": "I know ! Been there and done that. A year later I am still *sigh* ing. I checked http://iboogie.com/ Very impressive selections of categories on the left column."}, {"response": 57, "author": "WERoland", "date": "Sun, Apr  9, 2006 (15:33)", "body": "That's the cool clustering part...each one of those cats gives a subset of the total search results."}, {"response": 58, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Apr  9, 2006 (15:50)", "body": "So I noticed. I will explore this one further. I have already emailed one researcher I know about it with his name searched for and his subcategories. Very impressive. It is like someone has put a magnifying glass to his life."}, {"response": 59, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Tue, Jul  3, 2007 (21:52)", "body": "The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines, July 2007. Below we\u2019ve got the list in HTML format. 50matches.com* www.50matches.com Social Powered Search Accoona* www.accoona.com A. I. Search AfterVote (past SEM) www.aftervote.com Social Search Agent 55 www.agent55.com Meta Search Allth.at www.allth.at Continuous Search Answers.com www.answers.com Facts Search Audiobaba www.audiobaba.com Music Recommendation Blabline www.blabline.com Podcast Search blinkx www.blinkx.com Video Search Blogdigger* www.blogdigger.com Blog Search BlogDimension www.blogdimension.com International Bookmach www.bookmach.com Bookmark Search ChaCha {#1 2006} www.chacha.com Guided Search ClipBlast! www.clipblast.com Video Search Clusty mobile http://m.clusty.com Clusty Mobile Cognitionsearch www.cognitionsearch.com Semantic Search Collarity* www.collarity.com Social Search Congoo www.congoo.com Premium Content Search CrossEngine www.crossengine.com Meta Search Decipho www.decipho.com Filtered Search Deligio* www.deligio.com Software Search Dialogus SE of the Month http://dialogus.ru International Exalead www.exalead.com International Factbites www.factbites.com Facts Search Faroo http://www.faroo.com International FeedMiner www.feedminer.com RSS Feed Search Feedster ww.feedster.com RSS Feed Search FilesTube www.filestube.com File Sharing FindSounds* www.findsounds.com Sound Search Fisssh!* www.fisssh.com Filtered Search FyberSearch www.fybersearch.com Multi-featured Search GameSkoot www.gameskoot.com Games Search GenieKnows (Games) www.genieknows.com Games Search Gigablast www.gigablast.com Blog Search gogo www.gogo.ru International GoPubMed www.gopubmed.com Health Search GoshMe (past SEM) www.goshme.com Meta Meta Search Grabble wwwlgrabble.co.za International Grokker www.grokker.com Meta Search guruji www.guruji.com International Hakia www.hakia.com Meaning Based Search Healthline www.healthline.com Health Search Helia www.helia.cm Health Search iBoogie www.iboogie.com Clustered Search Icerocket www.icerocket.com Blog Search indeed www.indeed.com Job Search ixquick* www.ixquick.com Meta Search KartOO (past SEM) www.kartoo.com Clustering Search Knuru www.knuru.com Business Search KoolTorch (Past SEM) www.kooltorch.com Visualization Kosmix www.kosmix.com \u201cSmart Search\u201d Krugle www.krugle.com Code Search lijit* www.lijit.com People Search Like www.like.com Image Search LivePlasma* www.liveplasma.com Music Recommendation Mojeek www.mojeek.com Custom Search Engines (CSE) Molu www.themolu.com International MP3Realm http://mp3realm.org MP3 Search Ms. Freckles www.msfreckles.com/?lang=en Google Mash Up nnseek www.nnseek.com News Group Search Nutshell www.nutshell.com Meta Search Omgili www.omgili.com Social Search Pagebull www.pagebull.com Visual Results Picsearch www.picsearch.com International Pipl http://pipl.com People Search Pixsy www.pixsy.com Photo Search Pluggd www.pluggd.com Podcast Search Podnova www.podnova.com Podcast Search Purevideo* www.purevideo.com Video Search Quintura (past SEM) www.quintura.com Discovery Search Quintura kids http://kids.quintura.com kids search engine Revolutionhealth www.revolutionhealth.com Health Search RSS Micro www.rssmicron.com RSS Feeds Searchbots www.searchbots.net Continuous Search Searchles www.searchles.com Social Search SearchTheWeb2 www.searchtheweb2.com Search the Long Tail SeeIt* www.seeit.com Image Search Serph www.serph.com \u201cTrack buzz in real time\u201d Sidekiq www.sidekiq.com \u201cSearch anything quick\u201d Simplyhired www.simplyhired.com Job Search Skreemr www.skreemr.com Audio Search Slifter* www.slifter.com Mobile Shopping Search Sphere www.sphere.com Blog Posts Search Sproose* www.sproose.com Social Search Srchr www.srchr.com Meta Search Sugar Code the Web www.sugarcodes.com Command Line Surfwax www.surfwax.com Meaning Based Search Swamii* www.swamii.com Continuous Search TheFind.com www.thefind.com Shopping Search Trexy www.trexy.com \u201cSearch Trails\u201d Turboscout www.turboscout.com Meta Search Twerq www.twerq.com Tabbed Results ViewFour www.viewfour.com Visual Results WasaLive http://en.wasalive.com RSS Search Wazap! www.wazap.com Games Search Whonu?* www.whonu.com Meta Search WiseNut www.wisenut.com Clustered Search Wize http://wize.com Product Search Yoople! www.yoople.com Collaborative Search Zuula* www.zuula.com Tabbed Search web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 80, "subject": "SXSW Web Awards 2002", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Mar 17, 2002 (08:20)", "body": "Here are all the contenders! Animation/Cartoon Deep Fried, Live! Hey Now The Story of[fill in the blank] Testimony: A StoryMachine The Toonery Art/Culture Dichotomy. . . GigPosters Michael Jang Redberger Thinkcollective Content/E-zine Burning Word Dots Magazine LiP Mageazine Suckarepellent Tales of Slacker Bonding Developer's Resource Deviant Art Flash deCONSTRUCTION ITCAT MEDIA Designer's School JoshDura.com Ultrashock v4 Film/Film Industry Donnie Darko Jump Tomorrow Pickled.tv Tongsville Turner Classic Movies Green/Non-Profit Bill Moyers Reports: Earth on Edge Center for Max. Potential Building Systems DSVCs Rough NorthPole2002.com ROTC: PUSH Grrl Site Artetic Charlotte Russe La Femme Royale Lisawhiteman.com WhatsHerFace.com Humor/Satire Eugenemirman.com Herbzipper.com Made in Canada Survivor Cam Unpluggedtv.com Music Industry GotTheBlues.com LoneStarMusic.com LostRock.com Realia Music Sonica Recording Musician/Band Edison Woods Mick Jagger My Fabulous Plum - Peter Himmelman Perry-Farrell.com Utah Carol Online Education Resource Columbia Interactive On Good Grounds Pinhole Spy Camera Remembering Pearl Harbor What is a Print Online Gaming Aliveis.com Butthole Surfers Game Postopia Sliding Puzzle Weakest Link Enhanced TV Game Online Movie/TV American Field Guide American High Cubix I Witness Sleeping Giants Personal/Online Diary Damn The Pacific JasonZada.com Mastication Is Normal Self Portrait Sugati Redesign/Relaunch 2advanced Born Magazine The Brand Called Me Photomontage Popular Front Interactive Services Creatas HomeCity Innerblitz OK47 Steel+Tocquigny Streaming Audio/Radio AMP Radio with DJ Kylie Jish.vox LBJ for Kids Looplabs Rhapsody Student Allison Foust Design Booster Shot Cafe First Annual Weblog Awards Ry-guy.com Where Were You? Weblog Adnan.org Backwash Bambino's Curse: Diary of a Red Sox Fan Blogdex Dollarshort.org Weird/Extreme Allmylifeforsale.com Bubblesoap Kill The President NewZoid Teddy"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Mar 17, 2002 (09:06)", "body": "And the Winners are! Animation/Cartoon Deep Fried, Live! Art/Culture Thinkcollective! Content/E-zine Burning Word! Developer's Resource Ultrashock v4 Film/Film Industry Tongsville Green/Non-Profit NorthPole2002.com Grrl Site WhatsHerFace.com Humor/Satire Unpluggedtv.com Music Industry LostRock.com Musician/Band Utah Carol Online Education Resource What is a Print Online Gaming Aliveis.com Online Movie/TV I Witness Personal/Online Diary Mastication Is Normal Redesign/Relaunch Born Magazine Services Creatas Streaming Audio/Radio Looplabs Student Ry-guy.com Weblog Dollarshort.org Weird/Extreme Teddy People's Choice Award Deviant Art Best of Show Tongsville"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Mar 30, 2002 (17:57)", "body": "I've been listening to the four hours of audio recorded at Fray Cafe 2 and I wish I could have made it past the doorman for this event, but listening to these is the next best thing. The place was packed and there was a long line of folks waiting to get in, maybe next year they'll do it in a bigger theater or a place that can handle the crowd. http://fray.org/cafe2/ from the website: \"Fray Cafe rocked! Fray Cafe 2 was amazing. Four hours of some of the best stories I've ever heard on stage. I'm still buzzing from it. We were so packed that there was a moment when we realized that the fire department would have every right to shut us down. So we wound up turning a few people away. Like fifty. If you were one of them, you have my sincere apologies. But don't fret: The whole event was captured in ones and zeroes. If you'd like to listen in, and you've got RealPlayer, click a tape below or you can listen to the whole shebang from the beginning.\""}, {"response": 4, "author": "wolf", "date": "Thu, Apr  4, 2002 (19:13)", "body": "they give out real awards for websites? *wow* web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 81, "subject": "web robots", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Apr  6, 2002 (08:23)", "body": "What other kinds of robots are there? Robots can be used for a number of purposes: Indexing HTML validation Link validation \"What's New\" monitoring Mirroring"}, {"response": 2, "author": "wolf", "date": "Mon, Apr 15, 2002 (22:15)", "body": "i don't think i get it....i'm sure that most of us have found so many pieces of info just by doing a simple search (info like bulletin boards that mentioned the subject, PDF documents and the like)"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Apr 16, 2002 (08:33)", "body": "This is something that can help stock our site with more content. It's not only more, it's how we organize what we have. I did a site redesign the other day an I'm trying to make our content more accessible. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 82, "subject": "RSS - syndicating news and content", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 83, "subject": "content management systems", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Aug  9, 2002 (17:20)", "body": "http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/fog0000000068.html web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 84, "subject": "File ownership on the Spring's webs", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "admin", "date": "Thu, Sep 19, 2002 (06:53)", "body": "I found this system used at Worcester Poly: File Permissions for Web Pages Note: A separate set of rules apply to CGI scripts in your cgi-bin directory. Please read the notes on the CGI Guidelines page for more information. Security is a big deal these days, especially as more and more people start to use the web. Your web page really isn't any good if anyone can come along and change what you've written. There are a few ways to restict access to who can see and modify your web pages, then. (This is most pertinent for keeping people with access to WPI machines from modifying files in your \"public_html\" web directory.) If you are interested in knowing how to restrict access to your web pages from across the internet (i.e. through Netscape or some other web browser), please refer to our access restriction page. To modify file permissions under UNIX you use the chmod command. It is described in detail on the chmod page, but there are a few important specifics for web writers to keep in mind. The files in your public_html directory you want displayed in a web browser, including images, must be world-readable. You can make a file world-readable by typing \"chmod a+r [filename]\" at the UNIX prompt. If they are not world-readable web browsers can not access them. Your web directories must be world-executable. You can make them so by typing \"chmod a+x [directoryname]\" at the UNIX prompt. This ensures that web browsers can access the directory and files within it. Note: your \"public_html\" directory must also be world-executable. Permissions and .htaccess-related files If you are using .htaccess files to restrict access to your webpage you will want to ensure the associated security files (.htaccess, .htgroup and/or .htpasswd), are secure. To do this WPI has installed a program which will change the read permissions for a file to the owner (you), and \"nobody.\" The result is a secure file you can modify and the webserver (thus the web browsers) can see, but others local at WPI can't modify. To set a file's group to \"nobody\" run the nobody command at the UNIX prompt. The argument for this program is a directory name. It will descend a directory tree and change the files in it to the \"nobody\" group. After removing the access for \"others\" the web would be private. Examples: nobody ~/public_html/directory-to-protect chmod -R o-rwx ~/public_html/directory-to-protect If you want to return the files to a different group, use the reclaim program at the UNIX prompt. It takes a filename as an argument, and is not recursive like nobody. Another way to make them accessable to the web server is to make the files world readable: chmod a+r .htaccess; chmod a+r .htpasswd"}, {"response": 2, "author": "admin", "date": "Thu, Sep 19, 2002 (06:55)", "body": "In basic UNIX permissions you can divide users into three groups: user - the owner of the file. group - users that belong to the same group as that of the file. other - all other users. For each group, you can set combinations of three permissions: 'read', 'write', and 'execute.' The 'execute' permission is a little odd in that when it applies to directories it allows users to enter the directory and is usually called the 'passthrough' permission. To illustrate, let's examine what the output of ls -l mycgi.cgi might look like. -rwxr-x--x 1 dmah staff 6707 Feb 19 08:47 mycgi.cgi The first character will indicate what type of object that you're looking at. The '-' means it is a file. The other common one that you'll see is a 'd' which indicates that it is a directory. The next three characters represent what permissions that the owner of the file has. In this case, the owner has read, write, and execute permission on the file. The next three characters represent what permissions that anyone in the group 'staff' would have on this file. In this case, that would be read and execute permission. The final three characters are the permissions that everyone else has and the only permission assigned to these people is execute. Let's take a look at a directory now: ls -ld public_html drwx--x--x 6 dmah staff 1024 Jul 09 10:59 public_html Here we see the 'd' for directory which we expect. The first three characters show us that 'dmah' has read, write, and passthrough permission on this directory. The second and third set of permissions indicate that only passthrough is allowed for users in the 'staff' group and anyone else. This means that everybody, other than the owner of the directory, will be able to enter (or cd to) the directory but will not be able to read (or ls) from or write to the directory. Now let's combine these two pieces of information in order to get our CGI program to run. We know that usually the Web server will run as the under-privileged user 'nobody.' Also 'nobody' usually only belongs to the group 'nobody.' So the minimum set of permissions that we need to run our CGI program is 'execute' permission for everybody. So how do we set our file permissions? For that we need to take a look at the command: chmod. Generally the command is specified as: chmod [options] mode file(s) There are a few options available to this command but the most useful, and the only one I'll mention, is the '-R' flag which will descend directories recursively changing the file mode or permissions of each file. The 'mode' can be described in a couple different ways: symbolically and numerically. Symbolically, you create the 'mode' by indicating who this change applies to, what the change is, and what permissions you are changing. Who the change applies to is one of: 'u' for the user/owner, 'g' for the group, and 'o' for everybody else. There are three changes that you can make to a file: '+' add permissions, '-' take away permissions, and '=' set the permission. Finally, there's the permissions themselves which are indicated by: 'r' for read, 'w' for write, and 'x' for execute or passthrough. So let's take a look at some examples, chmod u-x mycgi.cgi Take away execute from the owner of mycgi.cgi. chmod o+x mycgi.cgi Add execute for everyone. chmod g+rw mycgi.cgi Add read and write for the group. chmod =rx mycgi.cgi Set permissions for user, group, and other to read and execute. The last example left out the 'who' that the mode change would apply to and so it defaults to all three groups. The numerical method can only be used to set permissions for all three groups at the same time. The 'mode' is created by using a number from 0-7 for each group so we will end up with three digits: the first digit represents the user/owner, the second the group, and the third everybody else. Next, each permission is assigned a value: 4 represents read, 2 represents write, and 1 represents execute or passthrough. To have combinations of permissions, you add the numbers up. So 0 would represent no permission while 7 would represent read, write, and execute. For example, chmod 210 mycgi.cgi Write for user, execute for group, nothing for other. chmod 543 mycgi.cgi Read/execute for user, read for group, write/execute for other. chmod 765 mycgi.cgi Read/write/execute for user, read/write for group, read/execute for other. chmod 755 mycgi.cgi Read/write/execute for user, read/execute for group/other. The last one is typically the one that you want to assign to your CGI programs. As long as your CGI programs are doing simple things like reading from or writing to world-accessible files or sending output to displayed on a Web page, this should be enough to get them working through the Web. However, if you are going to be reading or writing private files, you'll need to go a step further and learn about setuid which will be covered in the second half of this tutorial. http://www.evolt.org/article/UNIX_File_Permissions_and_Setuid_Part_1/18/224/"}, {"response": 3, "author": "KarenR", "date": "Thu, Sep 19, 2002 (14:10)", "body": "Terry, My permissions are gone *again* today for both my directories within spring.net karenr (and) fanfic Wot happened???? Please fix. I need to update."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep 19, 2002 (15:23)", "body": "I'll update right now. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 85, "subject": "Help fo authors and administrators at Spring Websites", "response_count": 7, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jan  5, 2003 (06:41)", "body": "I'll lead off with an email I got from WX5U - Mickey McInnis - this morning. OK, I think I understand the FTP stuff now. You're using ProFTPD. The config file is /usr/local/etc/proftpd.conf. You have directives in there of DefaultRoot ~/../ siteadmin DefaultRoot ~ !wheel ## May need a change. See below. This uses \"chroot\" to \"jail\" all FTP users not in the \"wheel\" group or in \"siteadmin\" in their own home directory and not let them cd to any higher directories. I think members of the \"siteadmin\" group will also end up in their respective www.SITENAME.TLD directory (Actually the parent of their home directory.) If I understand the structure correctly, wx5u needs to be in the \"siteadmin\" group. That way, ftp will chroot me into /usr/home/sites/www.tcares.org. Then I can go under there via ftp, but can't access any other web site files via ftp. I read something that makes me think this configuration may do some wierd things if a user is in siteadmin, but not in wheel. See http://proftpd.linux.co.uk/docs/faq/faq_full.html It says \" If two DefaultRoot directives apply to the same user, ProFTPD arbitrarily chooses one (based on how the configuration file was parsed).\" If I understand correctly, this means that a user in \"siteadmin\", but not in \"wheel\" may end up in ~/../ or in ~ with the configuration you have currently. If I understand correctly, this needs to be DefaultRoot ~/../ siteadmin DefaultRoot ~ !wheel,!siteadmin This way siteadmin FTP users end up reliably in the parent of their home directory. Wheel ends up in root, and anyone else ends up in their home directory. So, I think if you add wx5u to siteadmin group, and change the /usr/local/etc/proftpd.conf file, no files need to be moved. You still need to chmod -R wx5u /usr/home/sites/www.tcares.org/web chgrp -R site35 /usr/home/sites/www.tcares.org/web You know, this is actually sort of fun. Thanks again, 73 de WX5U ."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jan  5, 2003 (07:21)", "body": "Here's and example site I just created for wolf www# pwd /usr/home/sites/www.midnightwolf.com www# ls Merchant2 email web wolf cgi-bin logs web2 www# ls -l total 14 drwxr-xr-x 3 wolf site24 512 Dec 30 09:47 Merchant2 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nogroup 512 Jan 5 06:15 cgi-bin drwxr-xr-x 3 vpopmail site24 512 Dec 30 09:47 email drwxr-xr-x 2 root nogroup 512 Jan 2 13:49 logs drwxr-xr-x 9 wolf site24 512 Jan 5 06:16 web drwxr-xr-x 10 root site24 512 Dec 31 07:07 web2 drwxr-xr-x 4 wolf site24 512 Jan 5 06:18 wolf www# cd web www# ls -l total 24 -rw-r--r-- 1 wolf site24 383 Jan 5 06:16 .htaccess drwx------ 2 wolf site24 512 Jan 5 06:16 _private drwxr-xr-x 4 wolf site24 512 Jan 5 06:16 _vti_bin drwxr-xr-x 2 wolf site24 512 Jan 5 06:16 _vti_cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 wolf site24 1754 Jan 5 06:16 _vti_inf.html drwxr-xr-x 2 wolf site24 512 Jan 5 06:16 _vti_log drwxr-xr-x 2 wolf site24 512 Jan 5 06:16 _vti_pvt drwxr-xr-x 2 wolf site24 512 Jan 5 06:16 _vti_txt drwxr-xr-x 2 wolf site24 512 Dec 30 09:47 images -rw-r--r-- 1 wolf site24 72 Dec 31 07:23 index.html -rw-r--r-- 1 wolf site24 2453 Jan 5 06:16 postinfo.html www# If Ias in the wolf directory I would have to cd ../web to get to the website general files."}, {"response": 3, "author": "Moon", "date": "Sun, Jan  5, 2003 (14:25)", "body": "What is the IP (numerical) address for the message board at the DWG? This problem is three days old and I am not the only one who has it. Can someone help?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jan  5, 2003 (14:32)", "body": "Ann Haker is the one to ask. The ip address returned from a ping is 63.119.175.10."}, {"response": 5, "author": "Moon", "date": "Sun, Jan  5, 2003 (15:51)", "body": "I did ask Ann and this is her response: I don't know it. The only IP number I have leads to Spring.net, not Austen.com."}, {"response": 6, "author": "KarenR", "date": "Sun, Jan  5, 2003 (15:59)", "body": "Evidently, Terry has set up this new server has having \"virtual\" domains, which is why the numeric address plus the conference stuff didn't work. I don't particularly like that setup and don't see any advantages to anyone, whether at spring.net., austen.com or firth.com. It's nice to have unique IP addresses, in case the DNSes go haywire, as backup. This way, everyone is stuck at spring.net's main page."}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jan  8, 2003 (18:47)", "body": "We had virtual domains on the old server also. The only exception to this was the the austen.com which had a unique ip address. We only get 5 ip addresses and two of them have to be used for our name servers. One if for all our virtual domains (64.106.200.50). That only leaves two spare ip addresses which I need to use for another name server for backup purposes. We woul d have to pay a lot more for a large block of ip addresses web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 86, "subject": "wiki", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jan 21, 2003 (02:43)", "body": "I was inspired to tart this topic by the fabulous farmwiki started by Richard. He's done an awesome job supporting a community of users, Farmies. Here's an information repository using wiki: http://www.voght.com/cgi-bin/pywiki?DenhamGrey Group co-operative editing: http://www.yedit.com/ Wiki FAQ: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiWebFaq"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jan 23, 2003 (11:50)", "body": "That DehamGrey site is very cool. He says: Wiki is more than just social writing, easy and intuitive web publishing and the ability to do hypertext. There is the potential to anneal joint meaning, synthesize something greater than the direct combination of individual parts, there is the potential for building a community ethos around direct collaboration at the artifact level. MichaelSchrage says The best shared spaces are an invitation to innovation..the prototype or models are driving our processes and learning.. if you do not have a shared space you are not collaborating, ...it's creating opportunity for others to add value! That's exactly what this KM Wiki is!! MichaelSchrage talks: http://www.linezine.com/3.1/features/msmcosp.htm Wikipedia's description of Wiki: http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/What_is_a_wiki TheWikiWay Why do I maintain this web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 87, "subject": "open directory project - dmoz.org", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 88, "subject": "bloki", "response_count": 5, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Apr 23, 2003 (22:28)", "body": "neat. Have you tried it yet Paul?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr 23, 2003 (22:53)", "body": "Yeah, I set up some experimental sites, one is at http://terry.bloki.com"}, {"response": 3, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Apr 23, 2003 (23:21)", "body": "Very nice! Did you format yourself or are you required to use a template? I just signed up and will play when I get confirmation! BTW, I really like the abalone interface. But how come I can't access inner from there?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Apr 25, 2003 (10:20)", "body": "I'm not sure, I'll look in to that. 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Ask your obscure, technical questions here", "response_count": 20, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "wolf", "date": "Tue, Feb  9, 1999 (19:07)", "body": "i've got an obscure question. if i want to register a domain name, i must provide two servers. what are they talking about? my computer or my internet provider? and how do i know what isp address to give?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "ratthing", "date": "Tue, Feb  9, 1999 (21:49)", "body": "when you register a domain, you need to tell Internic which name servers will be \"hosting\" the official name of your site. you cannot do this yourself unless you have access to the servers you enter in there! you can, however, use the servers here at the spring and just host your site off of here. you will have to ask terry how much he might want to charge you for that wolfie. i will gladly do all the setup for you, including the actual domain name registration. i have to do this anyway for this site that terry has asked me to set up for him, and that i havent done yet. (i know, i know...)!!!!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, Feb  9, 1999 (22:23)", "body": "and to find out what the Spring's two numbers are (just for your own knowledge) go to http://www.internic.net/ and look up spring.net it will give you the primary and secondary numbers for here..."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Feb 10, 1999 (06:44)", "body": "[9/58] Respond, forget, or pass? !whois spring.net Registrant: Spring (SPRING9-DOM) Rt 2 Box 56R Cedar Creek, TX 78612 US Domain Name: SPRING.NET Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Walhus, Paul Terry (PW30) terry@SPRING.NET 512.303.4000 (FAX) 512.303.3200 Billing Contact: Walhus, Paul Terry (PW30) terry@SPRING.NET 512.303.4000 (FAX) 512.303.3200 Record last updated on 06-Mar-98. Database last updated on 9-Feb-99 15:17:13 EST. Domain servers in listed order: NS1.SPRING.NET 206.97.234.70 NS2.SPRING.NET 206.97.234.71 The InterNIC Registration Services database contains ONLY non-military and non-US Government Domains and contacts. Other associated whois servers: American Registry for Internet Numbers - whois.arin.net European IP Address Allocations - whois.ripe.net Asia Pacific IP Address Allocations - whois.apnic.net US Military - whois.nic.mil US Government - whois.nic.gov !"}, {"response": 5, "author": "wolf", "date": "Wed, Feb 10, 1999 (11:15)", "body": "thanks guys. gotta determine if i have the funds to splurge on this adventure!"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Feb 10, 1999 (13:55)", "body": "We'll give it to you for nothing or next to nothing. The main cost will be the $70 to the Internic to secure the name."}, {"response": 7, "author": "wolf", "date": "Thu, Feb  7, 2036 (01:20)", "body": "i saw that it went down. which is good. now the big question \"what do you need it for?\".....i'm not interested in making money off of it, just would be neat to have a domain of my own without anybody else's rules to follow."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Feb  7, 2036 (02:06)", "body": "The sky's the limit!"}, {"response": 9, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, Feb 11, 1999 (17:53)", "body": "then Terry's the guy for you, Wolf!!!"}, {"response": 10, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, May 21, 1999 (11:38)", "body": "I need a script that displays when a page was last updated, but it needs to give a 4 digit year something like <script> document.write(document.lastModified + \" GMT\") </script> but with a 4 digit year... any suggestions?"}, {"response": 11, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Tue, May 25, 1999 (14:06)", "body": "I got it! Used HomeSite's Javasript utility to make two different file last modified scripts which I then cut and pasted together until I got the one I wanted."}, {"response": 12, "author": "mikeg", "date": "Wed, May 26, 1999 (17:24)", "body": "great...any chance of posting the final code??"}, {"response": 13, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Wed, May 26, 1999 (23:39)", "body": "yep...I just keep forgetting to do so... probably will put it up on Friday (maybe tomorrow)"}, {"response": 14, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, May 27, 1999 (16:49)", "body": "<script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\"> <!-- // new options introduced by Bernhard Friedrich; should work in all browsers // additional code to display date in Month Day, Year format by Robert Crooks var lutext; var lutime; var ludm; var ludd; var ludy; function sstr(a,b){ //extract substrings ret=lutime.substring(a,b); if (ret==\"Jan\" || ret==\"01\") ret=\"1\"; if (ret==\"Feb\" || ret==\"02\") ret=\"2\"; if (ret==\"Mar\" || ret==\"03\" || ret==\"Mrz\") ret=\"3\"; if (ret==\"Apr\" || ret==\"04\") ret=\"4\"; if (ret==\"May\" || ret==\"05\" || ret==\"Mai\") ret=\"5\"; if (ret==\"Jun\" || ret==\"06\") ret=\"6\"; if (ret==\"Jul\" || ret==\"07\") ret=\"7\"; if (ret==\"Aug\" || ret==\"08\") ret=\"8\"; if (ret==\"Sep\" || ret==\"09\") ret=\"9\"; if (ret==\"Oct\" || ret==\"Okt\") ret=\"10\"; if (ret==\"Nov\") ret=\"11\"; if (ret==\"Dec\" || ret==\"Dez\") ret=\"12\"; return ret; } lutime = unescape(document.lastModified); if (lutime.length == 17) { // Netscape 3 and higher, Internet Explorer 4 ludm = sstr(0,2); ludd = sstr(3,5); ludy = sstr(6,8); } if (lutime.length == 20) { // Netscape on MacOS ludm = sstr(0,3); ludd = sstr(4,6); ludy = sstr(16,20); } if (lutime.length == 25 || lutime.length == 24) { // Netscape 2 ludm = sstr(4,7); ludd = sstr(8,10); ludy = sstr(20,24); } if (lutime.length == 29) { // Opera 3 ludm = sstr(8,11); ludd = sstr(5,7); ludy = sstr(12,16); } if (lutime.length == 23) { // Internet Explorer 3 ludm = sstr(3,6); ludd = sstr(7,9); ludy = sstr(19,23); } lutext = \"\"; // US date format if (ludy.length==2) { if (ludy >= 90) { yearNow = 19 } else { yearNow = 20 } } else yearNow=\"\" lutext += ((ludm.length < 2) ? '0' + ludm : ludm) + \"/\" + ludd + \"/\" + yearNow + ludy; document.write(\"Last Modified \" + lutext); // --> </script>"}, {"response": 15, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Thu, May 27, 1999 (16:50)", "body": "sorry the tabs, etcetra, aren't formatted to look right through a browser..."}, {"response": 16, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, Aug 24, 1999 (19:04)", "body": "You cannot imagine how useless those tabs really are when one is posting via telnet. I still do not know what is special about posts done this way. pine is incredibly slow and fixing errors is a huge job. I just abandoned the first attempt at this. I got two rows of\u001bOC\u001bOD thingies and you cannot access the row above to eliminate them. What are they \u001bOA\u001bOA\u001bOD\u001bOD and how do you get up one row to rid your post of inadvertent ones? Is that obscure enough?"}, {"response": 17, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, Aug 24, 1999 (20:02)", "body": "If I could have seen the script you posted, I would not have bothered anyone with my stupidity on the telnet problem...I am humbled and sorry to have bothered you."}, {"response": 18, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sun, Oct  3, 1999 (17:58)", "body": "ok, well, i have no idea what all that other stuff was. gotta question for terry: i tried my userid and password at access and it didn't work. suggestions?"}, {"response": 19, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Oct  3, 1999 (18:27)", "body": "Were you FTP-ing? That is the only place I have to use mine and I have it saved automatically."}, {"response": 20, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sun, Oct  3, 1999 (18:33)", "body": "i sure did, marcia, am trying to get something going on my website and i must be doing something wrong. terry??? web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 90, "subject": "Google's web based email service - gmail.google.com", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "WERoland", "date": "Sat, Dec  2, 2006 (19:31)", "body": "Man, what a dated topic...btw, my gmail addy is tex.italian@gmail.com"}, {"response": 2, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Sun, Dec 24, 2006 (11:13)", "body": "I just found out you can put dots in gmail addresses. It's a good way to get having a gmail handle like texitalian18 Mine is walhus at gmail dot com. google has some cool new services for websites that I'm checking in to that you can run on your own domain. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 91, "subject": "spring.net", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep 16, 2004 (10:59)", "body": "Spring is a fantastic, lightweight application framework for Java that has some real benefits over more traditional, heavyweight frameworks. It may not be the be-all, end-all, but for a wide variety of projects, it is a better target platform then some of the big boys. Spring.NET has the chance to revolutionize the way .NET applications are configured, deployed and hosted. Its \"inversion of control\" or, more recently described \"dependency injection\" model has a lot to offer if your team is struggling through issues of over-coupling and objects that are hard to unit test. Additionally, if you are looking for a host environment and COM+/EnterpriseServices seems like overkill, Spring.NET will have a lot to offer. The project is only in development right now, no distributions available yet, but I'm hoping that as the project grows and matures, it will garner more attention. I'll certainly be talking about it..... Justin Gehtland is a programmer, author, mentor and instructor, focusing on real-world software applications. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 92, "subject": "CSS - cascading style sheets", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  1, 2004 (12:07)", "body": "Entreprise de service et de conseil pour la cr\ufffdation et l\ufffdint\ufffdgration de solutions informatiques libres, eLeDo vous propose un accompagnement professionnel pour tous vos projets de d\ufffdveloppements techniques et de communication en r\ufffdseau. Vous avez besoin de r\ufffdaliser un site web rapidement, de vous doter d\ufffdun intranet, d\ufffdun extranet ou de renforcer et d\ufffdam\ufffdliorer vos syst\ufffdmes de communication, eLeDo vous apporte toute l\ufffd\ufffdcoute, la rigueur et le savoir-faire d\ufffdune \ufffdquipe de professionnels engag\ufffds pour : le d\ufffdveloppement de produits et de prestations fond\ufffds sur le logiciel libre ; l\ufffdint\ufffdgration souple et rigoureuse de solutions techniques adapt\ufffdes \ufffd vos besoins particuliers ; l\ufffd\ufffdthique et la puissance m\ufffdthodologique d\ufffdun mode de production solide et transparent - celui du logiciel libre - au service du client et de ses besoins sp\ufffdcifiques ; l\ufffdaccompagnement du client \ufffd toutes les \ufffdtapes du projet, pour la r\ufffdussite technique et l\ufffdappropriation d\ufffdusage des outils d\ufffdvelopp\ufffds pour les \ufffdquipes concern\ufffdes. Coeur de m\ufffdtier d\ufffdeLeDo, l\ufffdint\ufffdgration de solutions techniques et de logiciels libres, constitue une identit\ufffd forte de l\ufffdentreprise, totalement op\ufffdrationnelle pour tout ce qui concerne : le conseil informatique en entreprise (cr\ufffdation et int\ufffdgration de syst\ufffdme de gestion de contenus pour votre communication Intranet/Internet par exemple) l\ufffdadministration et la maintenance de vos dispositifs techniques (plates-formes logiciels libres) l\ufffdensemble de vos d\ufffdveloppement sp\ufffdcifiques en logiciels libres (conseil, int\ufffdgration, suivi et \ufffdvolution) Choisir eLeDo pour l\ufffdaccompagnement de vos projets technologiques, c\ufffdest non seulement choisir la comp\ufffdtence, la rigueur et l\ufffd\ufffdthique, mais aussi soutenir le d\ufffdveloppement de technologies libres, performantes et solides. C\ufffdest pr\ufffdparer d\ufffds aujourd\ufffdhui l\ufffd\ufffdvolution de vos besoins, et optimiser votre investissement, en optant au pr\ufffdsent pour des solutions d\ufffdavenir. eLeDo, situ\ufffde \ufffd Ganges, au nord de Montpellier, travaille tout aussi bien dans la proximit\ufffd qu\ufffdau travers des possibilit\ufffds ouvertes \ufffd distance par les technologies du net."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jan 23, 2005 (08:15)", "body": "I read a good book on css last week and I'm ready to start redoing literally thousands of webpages using css. I'm looking forward to really honing my css skills, along with xhtml (xml). It's the way things are done these days. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 93, "subject": "<A HREF=\"http://realsocial.com\">http://realsocial.com</A>", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jan  3, 2005 (09:45)", "body": "I made some updates today, a pretty comprehensive list of social networks was added under the \"hot\" list on the left sidebar of the site. I'm reviewing some of these solutions. web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 94, "subject": "Advertising - google, yahoo, ebay, amazon and banner ads", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jan 23, 2005 (08:13)", "body": "When Mice Attack Internet scammers steal money with 'click fraud.' By Brad Stone Newsweek Jan. 24 issue - Assaf Nehoray's online ad campaign bogged down in Germany. The European businessman runs a Web marketplace for cargo firms; for the last two years he has attracted customers to his site by putting ad links on the major search engines. The model worked perfectly\ufffduntil last summer. When he tried to expand into Germany, Nehoray found that his site was getting lots of new visitors but unusually few paying customers. Nehoray (who prefers we don't name his company) analyzed his Internet logs and made an unsettling discovery. Someone\ufffdperhaps a competitor\ufffdhad written a simple software program that relentlessly clicked on his ads, burning up his ad budget and pushing his links off the search sites by lunchtime each day. After spending weeks complaining to Google about the problem and getting a partial refund, he finally yanked the ads. \"It was really bad,\" he says, estimating that he lost $50,000 in potential business. \"Nobody knows how to solve this problem.\" more @"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jan 23, 2005 (08:14)", "body": "http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6830802/site/newsweek/ web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 95, "subject": "WiMax", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jan 26, 2005 (08:00)", "body": "PARK CITY, Utah -- It was a film without film, a movie without moving parts. The premiere of Rize that took place last Saturday at a ski lodge here was a historic event -- the first feature film to be delivered via wireless internet technology. Industry execs and VIPs including Pamela Anderson, her boyfriend and her lap dog, were on hand for the screening. But if Sean Maloney of Intel hadn't described the process before the film started, many audience members might not have known they were seeing something special. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66380,00.html?tw=wn_4culthead web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 96, "subject": "Google", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jan 27, 2005 (03:54)", "body": "BERKELEY, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- One of the earmarks for the year 2005 will undoubtedly be the myriad stories that will develop around Google and its machinations. Dvorak speaks, I've been reading this guy for years. http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BCB1AB36C-D097-4451-93C4-A19141400FB5%7D&siteid=google&dist=google web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 97, "subject": "Internet Phone and Voice over ip (VOIP)", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jan 27, 2005 (03:58)", "body": "When Kevin Cocco's friends in Montreal want to chat, they dial a local Quebec phone number - but it rings 2,300 miles away in his Utah home. http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2005-01-26-managing-tech-usat_x.htm"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Apr 23, 2006 (19:02)", "body": "This is sort of indirectly related to this topic, I just couldn't think of another place to post it. Jingle Networks, which runs a free 411 service called 1-800-Free411, has raised $26 million in a Series B financing. The round was led by existing investor Liberty Associated Partners. Also participating were existing investors First Round Capital and IDG Ventures Boston, as well as new investor Comcast Interactive Capital. Our earlier profile of Free411 is here. The service is a free alternative to $1-$2 directory calls. The catch? You have to listen to a 12 second advertisement. It works mostly like normal directory assistance. You dial their phone number and go through an automated system that asks for the location, type of listing and listing name. While you are waiting for the number, you must listen to a 12 second advertisement from a competitor to the service. If you choose to use the competitor instead, you simply dial \ufffd1? to redirect your call. Another difference is that if there is no local advertiser for the business type you have requested, the business receiving the call hears a short message at the beginning of the call telling them that the call is via Free-411. A tele-sales group follows up with the business to try to get them to advertise. Free-411 claims a 13% success rate in converting businesses to advertisers. And they are seeing explosive growth. Free411 is now handling 7 million calls per month - out of a total of 500 million directory assistance calls per month in the U.S. That\ufffds about 1.5% of the total market. Investor Josh Kopelman from First Round Capital has another way of looking at it: \ufffd1-800-FREE411 has the potential to shrink an $8 billion market.\ufffd 1 800 free411 is also 1-800-377-3411 Pretty clever! web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 98, "subject": "xhtml and xml", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jan 27, 2005 (08:28)", "body": "XMLmind XML Editor XMLmind XML Editor is a validating XML editor featuring a word processor-like view (more info). XMLmind XML Editor makes content authors more productive (more info), excels at editing a mix of XML data and XML document (more info), has an integrated spreadsheet engine which makes it suitable for a broad range of applications (more info), is highly extensible and its extensions are easy to deploy (more info). from http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/ Best thing, it's open source. I know I should just be using notebook but I'm attracted to crutches."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jan 27, 2005 (08:29)", "body": ""}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep  8, 2005 (08:05)", "body": "(Please help spread the word) Hey. I bet you never though your knowledge of the regular expression could ever help save peoples lives and reunited lost love ones who's lives were destroyed in our greatest national tragedy. But you are wrong. http://192.122.183.218/wiki/index.php/PeopleFinderTech There are 50+ websites that help people find the status of people the know who were living in New Orleans. But currently none of the data bases are synced and it is an absolute nightmare to try to find relevant information. But a bunch of industrious geeks have stepped up to help save the day.... Since Friday we have * Created a XML specification (PFIF - http://zesty.ca/pfif/ ) for data interchange between systems * Scraped the majority of structured data sets * Organized swaths of volunteer data entry people to key in virtually every unstructured piece of data (from craigslist, message boards, etc.) * Contacted and persuaded many site admins to implement PFIF on their sites But there is still a bunch of work left to do! We still need lots of help * Scraping and periodically rescraping the data sets * Helping site admins implement PFIF export for automated interchange * Deduping If you can help out please: * Read through http://192.122.183.218/wiki/index.php/PeopleFinderTech * Join our mailinglist: katrinadev@civicspacelabs.org * Contact Zack AIM: uberzacker Cell: 724 612 7641 * Jump in! http://192.122.183.218/wiki/index.php/PeopleFinderTech#How_to_get_involved -Zack web conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 99, "subject": "BitTorrent", "response_count": 5, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jan 27, 2005 (09:24)", "body": "It's peer to peer file sharing. http://dessent.net/btfaq/ http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/romeria/howto.htm The above faqs will help get you going."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jan 27, 2005 (09:26)", "body": "You'll need a client. Here's one. http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/ I get a lot of good, open source free software on sourceforge these days. Then the next step is to find a \"tracker site\" http://www.torrentbox.com/ http://www.demonoid.com/ http://www.torrentreactor.to/index.php Here's a site that keeps track of tracker sites: http://www.btsites.tk/ You'll also need a few players like RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, Quicktime and maybe even Divx for mpeg4's. Get one on http://divx.com"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jan 27, 2005 (09:29)", "body": "I've heard good things about http://azureus.sourceforge.net It will take you anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour to download a 30 minute tv show. I've heard good things about Bittornado also. Be careful, make sure you have a good firewall and anti-virus program before you mess with this stuff."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jan 27, 2005 (09:30)", "body": "http://www.btefnet.net/ is a good tv torrents site."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jan 27, 2005 (09:33)", "body": "BlogTorrent Blogtorrent is a package that makes Bittorrent easy to use. Bittorrent is the most popular way to distribute large audio and video files online. Right now Bittorrent constitutes about 35% of all internet traffic (for real). Using Bittorrent, anybody with broadband can distribute a large file (for example, television programming) to a mass audience, without needing a big expensive server. This works because with Bittorrent, everyone who wants the file helps distribute it. Bittorrent Basics Here's how it works. First, people make files available on their webpages using Bittorrent. In order to download these files, you need to get a Bittorrent client for your computer. Once you have the client, you can download files from any website that uses Bittorrent. When you click on a link to a file, you actually just get a tiny \"torrent\" file that tells your Bittorrent client how to get the file you're looking for. Specifically, the torrent file tells your client to connect to a special type of server (called a tracker) to find other people who have all, or parts of, that file. Once your client finds those people, it starts downloading from them. As long as one person has a whole copy of the file, everybody will get it eventually. Blogtorrent Basics The problem with Bittorrent is that downloading files can be confusing to first time users, and making files available is difficult for everybody--even geeks. Blogtorrent is a specially packaged version of Bittorrent that solves all these problems by letting the Bittorrent client communicate with the tracker. Blogtorrent also makes it really easy to set up trackers. Just upload the folder to your website, change some permissions, and it's ready to go. The Details Downloading Once you have Bittorrent installed, using it to download files is really simple. But--and this is going to sound crazy to all you programmers out there--there are tons of people who just never make it over this hurdle. So, what blogtorrent does is give users \"easy download\" links in addition to links to the torrent files. The \"easy download\" link gives them the torrent file they want wrapped in an executable installer. The installer just installs Bittorrent, asks them where to save the file, and starts getting the torrent they want. We can pass information to the installer by using PHP to append data to the .exe file, and a modified version of NSIS that's aware of any data appended to the exe. If they already have Blogtorrent installed, the \"easy download\" links just give the user a torrent file. We only have a Windows version of the Blogtorrent client (help fix that!) so for now we just detect when people aren't using Windows browsers, and don't show them the easy download links. For Mac users, we give them instructions on how to download and install the OS X Bittorrent client. And for non-Mac, non-Windows users, we assume that since they're running some weird OS, they can probably figure Bittorrent out themselves. Uploading This is where things get cool. By letting the tracker talk to the client, we can make starting a torrent as easy as uploading a file to a webpage. When somebody who already has the client clicks upload, they get a small file, that Blogtorrent is registered to handle. The file contains all the necessary information about the tracker, so when the client opens the file, it knows exactly where to upload torrents to. The client just asks the user to pick a file to upload, and when the user picks a file the client makes a torrent out of it, uploads the torrent to our tracker, and begins seeding. There's also an authentication process so that unauthorized users can't upload torrents to the tracker. Finally, we use the same pass-data-to-the-exe technique, so that when a first time user wants to upload something, the get asked to choose a file right after they install (no need to go back to the upload page and click again). The Tracker The tracker is a simple PHP tracker (based on FBTT) designed to be easy to install. We chose to use flat files instead of MySQL so that people don't have to fiddle with setting up a database. Just upload the folder and it's ready to go. Some people might need to change permissions on certain folders, but if that's the case the tracker realizes it and tell them so. The first person to login can make an account, and then they can manage the tracker. Another feature we're really excited about is RSS. Every tracker makes an RSS feed of all publicly available torrents. The RSS feed supports enclosures, so it will work with programs like Torrentocracy or iPodderX that can automatically download RSS feeds of torrents. The RSS feed also includes \"stats\" data on your most popular torrents. If people want they can ping Blogtorrent.com with the URL to their RSS feed. At some point, we hope we can put together an awesome, blogdex-style \"Blogtorrent Top 40\". More at http://www.blogtorrent.com/ web conference Main Menu"}]}]}