Re: [techtalk] Screen colours :-)
"Wendt,Andrew" wrote: > > Eek. I cannot understand why people have black letters on a light background > for viewing text... > What do you people prefer as colours for extended viewing of text? :-) Black on white, always. White on black is literally painful! For me. Jenn V. -- "We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor. This is women's work!" Helix, Freefall. http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/ Jenn Vesperman[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simegen.com/~jenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Screen colours :-)
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 08:26:06PM +1100 or thereabouts, Jenn V. wrote: > > What do you people prefer as colours for extended viewing of text? :-) > > Black on white, always. White on black is literally painful! > For me. I remember when I started using X finding that the combinations of colours that I thought I would like actually gave me a headache. Some messing with my .fvwm2rc later, I found some pale green, lilacs and neutral browns which I liked for backgrounds and stuck to black text. Changing windowmanagers and using Gnome, I had transparent terminals which showed a very dark background, with a light grey (it looked white but wasn't so glary) for the letters. Now I have the default theme for windowmaker, I think, showing through: a purplish colour with white (which I suspect to be pale grey, again) text. And a panel of greens and greys. They're not bright. I find them restful! I was interested to hear from a friend that greens and lilac/purple are said to be good for people with long sight; and that ambers and (I think) reds are sometimes better for short-sighted people (which includes me). He thinks this is pretty standard, but I appear to be an exception. If I'm looking at something in postscript, however, I prefer black on white, which ghostview does. Dunno why. And generally, for -extended- viewing of something, I prefer it on paper :) I think that url that someone mentioned earlier was right, too. It's not just the colours, or the fonts. It's the combination. I love the dec terminal font on the screen, but I'm not so keen on it when printed out. And I can cope with the black-on-white of postscript stuff better than I would cope with black-on-white on a window. Telsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Screen colours :-)
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Wendt,Andrew wrote: > [...] > >6. Get a color scheme that works for you, and stick with it. I like > >black text on a light yellowy background for major reading of computer > >text, purply or blue-green title bars, matching widgets, light yellowish > >text in the titlebars, menubars in a grey or purply shade with text in a > [...] > > Eek. I cannot understand why people have black letters on a light background > for viewing text... [--snip--] > What do you people prefer as colours for extended viewing of text? :-) Definitely white/light grey text on black background. My first installation (redhat 4.2, i think) came with a .Xdefaults which did just that and I keep copying it everywhere :) -- marie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +37 250 43 040 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Screen colours :-)
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Wendt,Andrew wrote: > What do you people prefer as colours for extended viewing of text? :-) On my old monitor I preferred white text/black background - on this one I find that anything except white background is okay - even light yellow. Sunnan (mm, how can I change away the annoying white background in Kmails textfield?) -- http://home.swipnet.se/sunnanvind I am you [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Monitor Size
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Sunnanvind wrote: > CRT screens are *never* 21" of usable screen. Objections :-). I once read a test of a CAD workstation (PC hardware) which had a monitor with an 28" tube which might give some 26" or 27" usable screen. That thing almost looked like one of those TVs of the 70s, you know that round edge stuff. Weird. And expensive. The thing cost something like 30.000DM (~15,000US$) at the time (computer + monitor). Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Pine and Reply-to
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Jenn V. wrote: > So I suspect it's a function of the end-user's mail. Do this experiment > with the various lists you're on - see what you get when you hit > reply/replyall. I'd love to, but this version of Pine doesn't _have_ replyall. It prompts you when you hit reply; if you choose the replyall option, it replies to the sender with a CC to the mailing list; if not you only get the sender. It also prompts for reply-to headers, although you can set it to default to using them. Somewhere in the config file there's an option to 'use sender not x-sender', which may affect that in some way, but I'm not sure how; there is also an 'always use reply-to' option. I can arrange filters on sender because the Pine in question is running on the uni mailservers, which are all nicely configured with a menu system to organise filters, blocking, vacation messages and so on. Whilst i'd be interested to know what that fist config option does, the rest of it looks very much like it's up to me... > Certainly the list admin can't do anything about it once the end user has > hit their preferred 'reply' button. And given that some people WANT to get > the duplicate mail, and some don't, it's impossible for them to please > everyone. :/ *sigh* No progress there then... Vicky -- 'Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.' [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Screen colours :-)
>> What do you people prefer as colours for extended viewing of text? :-) If I'm reading a README while installing, it'll probably be less in an Eterm with randomised picture bgs - sometimes hard to read, but I love the pics!!! Else, it might be black on white in emacs or netscape (for html) - preferred on paper, if I can print it at work! (I'm too cheap to print much at home ;) Britta > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Which PGP?
Telsa Gwynne wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 12:13:34PM -0500 or thereabouts, Subba Rao wrote: > > On 0, Nils Philippsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I wouldn't use the "original" PGP as it has a pretty dumb license and this > > > backdoor crap. I use the GNU Privacy Guard (www.gnupg.org) and am content > > > with it so far. > > > > Thanks for replying. Is GNU PG easy to use? > > I personally (and your mileage may vary on this) find it easier than > PGP. Can you interoperate with PGP? If so, which versions? Also, does anyone know the technical details of exactly what the PGP 5.X backdoor is? C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Monitor Size
trueand the resolutions on those screens are comparable to the resolution on a TVpretty sucky, not adaquate for AutoCAD at all. - Objections :-). I once read a test of a CAD workstation (PC hardware) which had a monitor with an 28" tube which might give some 26" or 27" usable screen. That thing almost looked like one of those TVs of the 70s, you know that round edge stuff. Weird. And expensive. The thing cost something like 30.000DM (~15,000US$) at the time (computer + monitor). __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Screen colours :-)
On Jan 14, Wendt,Andrew conjectured: > What do you people prefer as colours for extended viewing of text? :-) I personally like white letters on black background. And word processing apps are always black letters on white bg. This is why I prefer to use paper copy for extended reading. I can't read long web stuff either, if it's dark words on light background. If it's light words on dark bg, I'm fine. Conni -- You can't kill me. I have a cat. http://www2.one-eyed-alien.net/~ccovingt http://www.angelfire.com/anime/Galadriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Pine and Reply-to
On Jan 14, V Clarke conjectured: > I'd love to, but this version of Pine doesn't _have_ replyall. It prompts > you when you hit reply; if you choose the replyall option, it replies to > the sender with a CC to the mailing list; if not you only get the sender. > It also prompts for reply-to headers, although you can set it to default > to using them. > You can always hand-edit your headers. I do this for another mailng list I'm on that sends a cc to the list. I ctrl-k the to, then ctrl-k the cc:, then ctrl-u up in the to: field. works fine. Conni -- I'm having some difficulty with the idea that an AI needs nookie. -Michael, User Friendly 6/01/99 http://www2.one-eyed-alien.net/~ccovingt http://www.angelfire.com/anime/Galadriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Monitor Size
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, J B wrote: > trueand the resolutions on those screens are comparable to the > resolution on a TVpretty sucky, not adaquate for AutoCAD at all. I'm pretty sure that the thing I described was capable of doing CAD, otherwise why would it be a CAD workstation? I think that at least half of the price was for the monitor, so it must have been something good. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Pine and Reply-to
You can also use roles (depending on version of pine... if it is below 4.0 probably not). Roles will recognise a line in a header and form a pre determined (by you) header to base the response on. I guess I don't see the point in manually editing it too many times... kind of like code. If you catch yourself writing similar code more than twice, put it in a function. If you catch yourself changing the same header more than twice, put it in a role (or edit your .pinerc to change your from: or...). Of course if you are stuck with version 3.96 this would be a different story. Version 4.10 is very stable and I personally would recommend an upgrade ;o) -Nicole Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun wrote: > > > I'd love to, but this version of Pine doesn't _have_ replyall. It prompts > > you when you hit reply; if you choose the replyall option, it replies to > > the sender with a CC to the mailing list; if not you only get the sender. > > It also prompts for reply-to headers, although you can set it to default > > to using them. > > > > You can always hand-edit your headers. I do this for another mailng list > I'm on that sends a cc to the list. I ctrl-k the to, then ctrl-k the > cc:, then ctrl-u up in the to: field. works fine. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Please help
At 1:06 PM -0800 1/14/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hello All, >If anyone recieves this please let me know. I seem to >have seriously goofed up my sendmail. I have not been >able to post for weeks. Everything gets denied on my >end. Came through fine here, Harry! [copied directly to him as well.] -- Julia Frizzellhttp://www.netspace.org/~glyneth [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.theblackroad.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 8458071 "The courts have ruled that Microsoft has performed an illegal function and will be shut down." -- Rewind, NPR [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] question
> > Britta.. I'd love to have this link.. but, this > > one didn't work.. Would you mind sending it again? > > That link did work for me. However, the url at the site is > http://faqfinder.ics.uci.edu:8001/ . > > = > Glen Strom > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks G.. I found that Netscape in windows didn't like the link.. April sent it to me in an im window and it worked fine. I appreciate the extra link.. I'll use it. Kakirby -- = http://www.MAILPUPPY.com == 10MB, Auto-Reply, Address Book, & more FREE! Your FREE E-Mail Retriever! powered by OutBlaze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
RE: [techtalk] Monitor Size
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nils Philippsen > Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 9:14 AM > To: J B > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [techtalk] Monitor Size > > > On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, J B wrote: > > > trueand the resolutions on those screens are comparable to the > > resolution on a TVpretty sucky, not adaquate for AutoCAD at all. > > I'm pretty sure that the thing I described was capable of doing CAD, > otherwise why would it be a CAD workstation? I think that at least half of > the price was for the monitor, so it must have been something good. -- Yeah...there are larger monitors. I'm running a 20" SGI monitor and it's actually 19" -- we also have 21" monitors that are actually 20" and we also sell a 24" monitor that is likely 23" actual. It's a weird size though, running at 1800x1200 -- panoramic. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
[techtalk] Test (fri) try#4
Test Harry Hoffman Product Systems Specialist Restaurants Unlimited Inc. (206) 634-3082 x. 270 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
[techtalk] Please help
Hello All, If anyone recieves this please let me know. I seem to have seriously goofed up my sendmail. I have not been able to post for weeks. Everything gets denied on my end. Thanks, Harry Hoffman Product Systems Specialist Restaurants Unlimited Inc. (206) 634-3082 x. 270 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
