Re: [techtalk] Screen colours :-)

2000-01-14 Thread Jenn V.
"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 rep

Re: [techtalk] Screen colours :-)

2000-01-14 Thread Telsa Gwynne
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 colou

Re: [techtalk] Screen colours :-)

2000-01-14 Thread Marie Fischer
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, m

Re: [techtalk] Screen colours :-)

2000-01-14 Thread Sunnanvind
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

Re: [techtalk] Monitor Size

2000-01-14 Thread Nils Philippsen
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

Re: [techtalk] Pine and Reply-to

2000-01-14 Thread V Clarke
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

Re: [techtalk] Screen colours :-)

2000-01-14 Thread Britta Koch
>> 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) -

Re: [techtalk] Which PGP?

2000-01-14 Thread Michael Carson
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.

Re: [techtalk] Monitor Size

2000-01-14 Thread J B
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

Re: [techtalk] Screen colours :-)

2000-01-14 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
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'

Re: [techtalk] Pine and Reply-to

2000-01-14 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
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 header

Re: [techtalk] Monitor Size

2000-01-14 Thread Nils Philippsen
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 t

Re: [techtalk] Pine and Reply-to

2000-01-14 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
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 ca

Re: [techtalk] Please help

2000-01-14 Thread Julia Frizzell
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.

Re: [techtalk] question

2000-01-14 Thread K Kirby
> > 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 win

RE: [techtalk] Monitor Size

2000-01-14 Thread Linda Walsh
> -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 resolut

[techtalk] Test (fri) try#4

2000-01-14 Thread moebius
Test Harry Hoffman Product Systems Specialist Restaurants Unlimited Inc. (206) 634-3082 x. 270 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

[techtalk] Please help

2000-01-14 Thread moebius
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 [EMAI