-=> CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

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

 WC> Long range plan.

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

Hopefully I'll be able to purchase one new
and guaranteed soon as the prices on CRT types is dropping
dramatically as people snap up the flat types.

 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.

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

It still looks comparable to these eyes though I know enlarging
would expose the difference. Had my own darkroom as a kid.

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

I'm aware of this but it serves the purpose for which intended.
Did you check out that web site for the worlds smallest
web server?


 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 :-(

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

That's good and will be kept in mind.

 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



 CA> Downloading malicious anything using POP3 is harmless. MS
 CA> Outlook being as automated as it is is a problem. If you use

 I deleted Outlook from my desktop first thing.

 CA> Eudora or any normal popmail program you just delete any mail
 CA> you do not recognize the sender of or do recognize and know
 CA> them to be a putz. Women tend to forward mail without any
 CA> thought to where they got it from and I tend to delete those
 CA> even from my own daughters without reading them.

I haven't noticed much of a gender bias.
I need to adjust my settings on Netscape mail as well.

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

Zone Alarm I've snagged, Ad-Aware I've got and F-prot doesn't
appear supported anymore last update being over a year ago.
Also F-prot seems to skip over long file names which some of
the malware executables employ.
 
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