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Hello Wayne - 

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RJT>> but I have some bugs to get out of the modelines in the
RJT>> config file before that's working right. I also have an
RJT>> IBM monitor here that'll only do 640x480 and 1024x768,
RJT>> but _not_ 800x600 for some strange reason -- was told
RJT>> that before I got it. I had that hooked up to the OS/2
RJT>> box and at the higher resolution things got very small. 

WC>> That is a problem for me. 

RJT>> Wouldn't be a problem on a bigger monitor, I guess. 

WC> Long range plan. 

Tom Walker has said he is buying 17" monitors for $49 US from a
San Diego retailer. They have 19" at comparable discounts. 

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WC> I did a buffered streaming video last night and the quality
WC> was remarkable. If they get the DSL lines up to spec to
WC> what is now technically possible we'll be able to watch
WC> HDTV unbuffered on a monitor!!! 

Bill Gates predicted that the Internet would replace TV about
two decades ago (back when he hated the Internet). 

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WC> Seems these artistic expressive types are now using some
WC> rather high quality digital cameras or scanners to post as
WC> the images on this system are in many cases as good as
WC> chemical photography 8x10's. 

Not really, photographic images are something like 150,000
times more 'pixels' than the best monitor can display right now. 

RJT>> Once you get linux going, you'll also have to play a
RJT>> little with "the gimp", that's one hell of a powerful
RJT>> program, 

btw: The GIMP is available in a Windows version. :-) 

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RJT>> Start out with a .gif file that's up around 600-700K, and
RJT>> removing this sort of junk cuts the size in half. Convert
RJT>> it to .jpg and the end result is down around 40-60k! I
RJT>> guess that padding lets them look like they're filling up
RJT>> a cdrom, when in reality they're not doing anything close. 

I would advise caution when moving GIF to JPG. JPG is a lossy
format which seems harmless enough the first time you use it.
If you must reload to alter the JPG and re-save it there is a
_second_ reduction that eventually deteriorates the graphic to
a fuzzy mess. GIF can be reloaded and resaved as often as you
need to with no losses at all. 

WC> Someone sent me a PDF with just a short message and photo,
WC> around .5 meg, later sent same photo JPG, 66K and the image
WC> was larger. 

See above. 

RJT>> One nice thing about the browser window that's currently
RJT>> on the screen is a pair of magnifying glass icons on the
RJT>> toolbar, one with a + next to it, and one with a -. These
RJT>> will let you get real comfortable and scale things to
RJT>> whatever works for you... 

WC> I need that. Looking at Barnes & Noble they had Redhat 7.3
WC> with a book but it said it required 128 Meg RAM :-( 

Opera browser has this built in to magnify or reduce the entire
screen including text and graphics. 

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WC> Just had a unpleasant thought I might _have_ to buy
WC> Norton's firewall and virus package as I'm not certain
WC> Internet Junction allows you to access the server directly
WC> to review mail before downloading it locally. I would think
WC> they would though I'll have to check into it. I've filtered
WC> out a lot of malicious file attachments that way as well as
WC> cut my spam now down to 10 percent of what it once was.
WC> Norton's not too bad at 30 bucks after rebate but it's 60
WC> out of pocket at CompUSA. 

Downloading malicious anything using POP3 is harmless. MS
Outlook being as automated as it is is a problem. If you use
Eudora or any normal popmail program you just delete any mail
you do not recognize the sender of or do recognize and know
them to be a putz. Women tend to forward mail without any
thought to where they got it from and I tend to delete those
even from my own daughters without reading them. 

ZoneAlarm works for most people and AVG virus scanner is free
as is F-Protect but only in their CLI version. Useful as a
backup scanner for individual downloads prior to installing
them. Ad-Aware is free and will help remove the spyware. No
need to spend any money on these at all. 

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