[thelist] MS ACCESS - Bypass limit on memo field
Collins, Mike
MCollins at alston.com
Fri Aug 3 08:19:14 CDT 2001
Use CFFile to create the text file. It has a WRITE attribute. Tons of
custom tags out there to do that.
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1. RE: How do I handle an anticipated overwhelming load on
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2. RE: BBEdit-messy code (Cory Preus)
3. Re: Weird Log Entries (Matthew Brooks)
4. Flash & Gif (Cancilla Dominick)
5. Re: redirecting in perl (Jeremy Marx)
6. Re: Flash & Gif (sfmalo)
7. Re: Browser Stats (Manish Sharma)
8. Netscape Enterprise Web Server on a Novell Netware platform (Manish
Sharma)
9. Netscape 4.7 playing havoc with forms (sfmalo)
10. Re: ie6 smart tags Long reply.. (the head lemur)
11. ie5 kiosk mode link (Kevin)
12. MS ACCESS - Bypass limit on memo field >> outputing to a text file
auto... (Kevin)
13. RE: My chat with Network Solutions (Matthew Tarpy)
14. RE: My chat with Network Solutions (Hugh Blair)
15. Re: How do I handle an anticipated overwhelming load on our
server (martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com)
16. Smart tags, but a *good* use for them this time (Jon Haworth)
17. Re: Flash & Gif (Chris Houston.)
18. RE: Netscape 4.7 playing havoc with form pages (Phil)
19. Re: Meta tags... keyword repetition (Cayley Vos)
20. Re: ie6 smart tags (Eric Benvenue-Jennings)
21. Re: ie6 smart tags (Eric Benvenue-Jennings)
22. Re: ie6 smart tags (Phil)
23. RE: ie6 smart tags (Chuck Hergenroeder)
24. mozilla 0.9.3 (Joxn)
25. Re: Flash & Gif (aardvark)
26. RE: MS ACCESS - Bypass limit on memo field >> outputing to a text file
auto... (Tab Alleman)
27. Re: mozilla 0.9.3 (Chris Garrett)
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Message: 1
From: Rebecca Milot-Bradford <RMilot-Bradford at nsca-lift.org>
To: "'thelist at lists.evolt.org'" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Subject: RE: [thelist] How do I handle an anticipated overwhelming load on
our server
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 15:51:06 -0600
charset="iso-8859-1"
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Thanks everyone who responded. I think I have an idea where to go from here.
Best Wishes,
Rebecca Milot-Bradford, MBS
NSCA Web Administrator
www.nsca-lift.org
rmilot-bradford at nsca-lift.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Nicole Parrot [mailto:nicole at parrot.ca]
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 3:22 PM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] How do I handle an anticipated overwhelming load
onour server
> > Other then host the site remotely for that time (like a month)? No.
> >
> No need to host the entire site remotely just some files right? the report
> and maybe the images and the page you expect to be hit. unless I'm not
> understanding fully.
If you're really expecting a huge load from all over the world, then Akamai
your files
http://www.akamai.com
( I am not involved with akamai at all)
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Message: 2
From: Cory Preus <cory_preus at cnt.com>
To: "'thelist at lists.evolt.org'" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Subject: RE: [thelist] BBEdit-messy code
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 17:03:24 -0500
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> I've tried checking the word wraps, but can't seem to figure it out. Any
> ideas, BBEdit users?
It is the difference between platforms and how they render carriage returns.
Chances are your host is Unix and this problem occurs in the "pure" BBEdit
file format which is of course, Macintosh carriage returns.
There's a little tab on the window which will allow you to select text file
types. Instead of Mac, pick Unix and your problems should be solved. It
won't affect how BBEdit renders the text -- just how it saves it.
Cory
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 00:23:27 +0200
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
From: Matthew Brooks <m at pleonasm.com>
Subject: Re: [thelist] Weird Log Entries
<50A821699F5FCB4585601CDD0EC89D28038EDA at flash>
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
More than one person wrote:
> Code Red.
Ah, that explains why it's once a month, then. Thank you. Not IIS, so all
OK.
<tip type="Perl CGI">
In Perl CGI scripts, trap die in called functions thus:
eval {
&main_function($whatever);
1;
} or do {
&oops();
}
If main_function dies, instead of the usual blank screen or user-hostile
error message, the oops function can display a nice web page explaining
that something has gone wrong, and/or email the webmaster that something
went awry, etc. [This was originally from one of the O'Reilly Perl books,
but I can't remember which one.]
</tip>
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Message: 4
From: Cancilla Dominick <cancilla.d at buckconsultants.com>
To: "'thelist at lists.evolt.org'" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 18:33:23 -0400
charset="windows-1252"
Subject: [thelist] Flash & Gif
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
I haven't used Flash before on a site, but I have a client who wants to
incorporate a small bit of it into a home page. However, the client doesn't
want to rely on users having Flash, and I'd rather not code the page twice
(once for with and once for without Flash).
Can someone tell me if it is possible to have a page which displays a GIF
file if Flash is not available? Is it possible to do this without using
JavaScript? Is there a Website I should be turning to for answers to
questions like this?
Thanks (and pardon my ignorance).
--Dominick
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 18:08:29 -0500
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
From: Jeremy Marx <devnull at subject2change.com>
Subject: Re: [thelist] redirecting in perl
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
At 04:58 PM 8/2/01, you wrote:
>hello evolters,
>i was just wondering how i can redirect in perl after I've
>set a cookie because to set the cookie i us
>
>print "Content-type: text/html\n";
>print "Set-Cookie: information=$set_value; expires=$set_expires;
path=\n\n";
Put the second newline(\n) after the redirection. Two newlines in a
row(which is essentially a blank line..) signals the end of the headers.
Both your cookies and your relocation need to be in that header. So, save
the blank line for after the redirect. Also make sure the redirection is
the last thing in the header. Here's a sample:
print "Content-type: text/html\n";
print "Set-Cookie: information=$set_value; expires=$set_expires; path=\n";
my $place = "http://localhost/".$redir;
print "Location: $place\n\n";
.jeremy.
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Message: 6
From: "sfmalo" <sfmalo at msn.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Subject: Re: [thelist] Flash & Gif
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 16:33:34 -0700
charset="Windows-1252"
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Cancilla -
Yes, I've done it for a client. Made an animated gif in Flash by making the
.fla file, testing it (which makes the .swf file), then publishing it ONLY
as a .gif (animated). You just name it, check off the "GIF" box choice (no
other check marks), and choose how many times you want it to loop, etc. etc.
It will then publish as an animated GIF, voila!
To keep file size down, a kind Flash creator advised me to:
a) avoid "blending" (that is, make your text pixels as "one-color solid" as
possible, either using the background color or the text color to fill in any
pixels that are anti-aliased). This makes them "blocky" which reduces file
size. Space between the letters compresses better if the characters are
solid (blocky). Try using a font that is not fancy, with smoother lines and
curves. You may have to edit each text character to this end ... and
b) use a background, text and object colors that contrast well with each
other.
This explanation is thanks to Mark Ottenberg on the Flash Sizzlers list. If
you would like, Cancilla, email me offlist and I can send you his email to
me explaining this in full (with examples).
I made a simple one which you can see on the splash page at
http://www.datablocks.com. I did a little blocking work on it but I need to
do much more when I have time to further reduce file size.
Hope this helps.
Sharon
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From: "Cancilla Dominick" <cancilla.d at buckconsultants.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 3:33 PM
Subject: [thelist] Flash & Gif
> I haven't used Flash before on a site, but I have a client who wants to
> incorporate a small bit of it into a home page. However, the client
doesn't
> want to rely on users having Flash, and I'd rather not code the page twice
> (once for with and once for without Flash).
>
> Can someone tell me if it is possible to have a page which displays a GIF
> file if Flash is not available? Is it possible to do this without using
> JavaScript? Is there a Website I should be turning to for answers to
> questions like this?
>
> Thanks (and pardon my ignorance).
>
> --Dominick
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Sharon F. Malone
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http://www.24caratdesign.com
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Message: 7
From: "Manish Sharma" <msharma at satyam.net.in>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Subject: Re: [thelist] Browser Stats
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 05:45:52 +0530
charset="iso-8859-1"
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Can someone give me a quick link to browser usage statistics that sort by
> platform, in addition to browser type?
>
Statmarket.com. I get this newsletter from them. Excellent.
Regards
Manish Sharma
http://www.simplygraphix.com - Extreme web design
http://www.fontmagic.com - Largest True Type Fonts archive on the Internet
http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com - Tutorials, tips, tricks, graphics,
resources and much more
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Message: 8
From: "Manish Sharma" <msharma at satyam.net.in>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:12:08 +0530
charset="iso-8859-1"
Subject: [thelist] Netscape Enterprise Web Server on a Novell Netware
platform
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Hi all,
A client of mine runs Netscape Enterprise Web Server on a Novell Netware
platform. Here are my queries
1). How can he know that perl is installed?
2). Which program (similar to sendmail in Linux/Unix) is used to send emails
via HTML forms?
3). How can the client know that this "Mail" program is installed?
Any replies...pointers will be greatly appreciated.
Manish
Regards
Manish Sharma
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http://www.fontmagic.com - Largest True Type Fonts archive on the Internet
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Message: 9
From: "sfmalo" <sfmalo at email.msn.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 20:44:22 -0700
charset="iso-8859-1"
Subject: [thelist] Netscape 4.7 playing havoc with forms
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Dear Aardvark, Alastair, and Phil -
Thanks for your advice. Will use it for future reference.
Changed the nested tables to fixed width pixels, including all relevant
<td>s. In the <textarea> tag, I changed the cols= from 45 to 25 and inserted
a "wrap"=soft. That corrected the horizontal scrolling without getting
involved in CSS...except I broke my cardinal rule.
Still can't get NN4.7 to quit scrolling in 640x480 by just a scootch. But
looks fine in 800x600. In Netscape 6.01 and I.E. 5.x all resolutions look
fine. My eyelids are drooping. Maybe I shouldn't give up on NN (I'm
facilating) because if you scoot the screen over once, you can see and work
with everything at 640x480. So close but no banana (but you get a pear).
Again, thanks for your comments and time you took to take a look at the
code.
Sharon
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Message: 10
From: "the head lemur" <headlemur at clearskymail.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Subject: Re: [thelist] ie6 smart tags Long reply..
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 20:55:08 -0700
charset="Windows-1252"
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> If you don't want your images stolen, don't put them on the web.
<snip>
"Mike, If you want to keep your material virginal,
DO NOT PUT IT ON A WEBSITE!!
You will see this Material Again----Make a Note of it!"
</snip>
Source: Piracy and the Internet - the head lemur
[Posted] June 08, 2000
http://www.lemurzone.com/edit/converse26.htm
Karma whore?
As a web designer/developer/network engineer/pundit/lunatic and now Karma
whore, having been surfing since 1994 with mosaic, when you needed a email
program, newsreader, lynx and the Trumpet dialer program to make
connections, to do all of the things a lot of us take for granted with the
new browsers, we sometimes forget that a lot of folks are just joining us.
Now that we have that out of the way, let's move along.
I have received more email on that page than anything I have ever done. From
"atta boy" to "()&(^%". The page in question is on my personal site.
http://www.lemurzone.com/ie6.htm
The original point of the IE6 page was to raise consciousness regarding the
evil of smart tags. Since the current reports from MS are 'smart tag'
technology will not be in the browser, the page is Almost pointless.
(I have removed the JavaScript sniffer as I don't do it very well nor as a
general rule do I design with it. Besides. I made my point.)]
In answer to the original poster, my statement is:
"We have disabled the Image Tool bar feature to prevent the theft of our
images which are protected by copyright in over 180 countries worldwide.
They are not your images they are mine.
They are posted for enjoyment, not to be stolen wholesale as the Image Tool
Bar would lead you to believe is okay. It is not."
This "feature" IS in the shipping version.
I personally have had images, code and entire sites stolen and passed off as
someone else's work. I am not alone here, the evolt archives, the HWG
archives, and just about every other maillist archive has the same tales of
woe.
I now only do work for hire under contract, just to eliminate surfing the
web using the Alta Vista link:filename search and starting another round of
emails, phone calls and threatening letters to folks who are not bright
enough to use the idea and write their own code or at least rename the
images.
The primary reason is that my clients have made an investment in me, as a
professional. Being a professional in web design is far more than getting
stuff to show up in a browser, the odd search engine placement, and putting
up a site saying that you are.
As an earlier poster said, he had to show his relative that it was possible.
We all have downloaded code, images, and pieces. That is how I learned, that
is how you learned. The majority of us already know about right click, save
as, rooting around the cache, using site rippers and other methods of
'borrowing' things.
Everything you see on the web belongs to someone. It is covered under the
Copyright laws of the country in which you live. Everything. It all is
copyright the creator unless you have sold, assigned, or place it in the
Public Domain.
It doesn't matter if it is a picture of my dog, your 12 hours of work in
photoshop, or a International Brand Name Logo. It belongs to someone else
unless it is yours.
As soon as it is posted and someone looks at a page the copying begins. From
the cache to site rippers. The browsers have given us this ability.
Because this ability is there, should we use it? This freedom we are
currently enjoying has a responsibility side to it. Even in the most liberal
democratic societies, limits in the form of responsibility are drawn to
enable the largest amount of freedom with the minimum amount of
interference.
I make my living on the web. I do not it to be regulated, censored, taxed,
or turned into a cash cow for a few companies who would control what we see,
what we will be allowed to do, or be legislated out of existence because
someone with a very narrow world view doesn't think that I should see that.
You are reading this because a group of folks marked out a series of
protocols to enable this communication to take place. We have agreed to play
by these rules. You are reading this because this is sent from my machine to
your machine using a common set of rules. You have accepted this by being a
member of evolt. My freedom comes in the contents that I type. You can
agree, disagree, delete, mail me back, mail the list. That is where my
freedom ends and yours begins.
The nature of the code and the simplicity of using them along with the free
and in relationship to any other form of communication, very cheap tools has
made the internet the thing that it is.
The web has been called a publishing medium. A lot of the words we use
regarding the process from Ideas to Posting on a server come from the
publishing world. It is much more, but it is regarded as a publishing
medium so that the laws that were written to cover thing like books,
records, videos are being bent out of shape to try and cover this web thing.
Copyright, Trademark, Fair Use, Infringement, Plagiarism and Libel.
There are courts around the world whose calendars are filled with lawsuits
on these issues. A large portion of the traffic on this list is concerned
with the mechanics of web page design, both front end and the incredible
capabilities backend and serverside. This is not a criticism, it is an
observation.
There are much larger issues that need examination and vigilance. Any
attempt to change the rules to censor, or to create an atmosphere of Fear
Uncertainty or Doubt must be turned back. If you attempt to ignore these
issues, someone else will not.
I look on the web as the greatest accomplishment of the human race. I see
the global village and the ability for everyone to share what they will, as
well as the ability to offer us products and services. These are not
mutually exclusive goals.
Does a 14 year old girl deserve to be harrassed by a company who uses the
same word in their product that she uses to post information about animals?
Do legislators who do not represent you or understand the internet get to
tell you what you can do or see on your machine at your house?
Do companies have the right to track you across the web and sell your
personal information to anyone with a checkbook?
Do foreign nationals giving technical lectures deserve to be arrested and
incarcerated for speaking about encryption?
Do university professors following the rules of a companies challenge
deserve to be sued for wanting to publish their research?
These are happening now.
Image theft may be small potatoes to you, but where will you draw the line.
When you find yourself needing a lawyer to defend you in a copyright
infringment suit, a trademark dispute, when you find someone has stolen your
work and passed off as theirs, when your domain name is taken by some
company who wants it for themselves, when you have to send your material to
a political commissar before you can post?
Or will you decide that it is too much work and unplug yourself?
the head lemur
Web Standards
http://www.webstandards.org
Evolt
http://www.evolt.org
lemurzone
http://www.lemurzone.com
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Message: 11
From: "Kevin" <krr at ix.netcom.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 22:20:01 -0700
charset="iso-8859-1"
Subject: [thelist] ie5 kiosk mode link
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Message: 11
> From: Scott Schrantz <scotts at rci-nv.com>
> To: "'thelist at lists.evolt.org'" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Subject: RE: [thelist] ie5 kiosk mode link
> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 13:06:10 -0700
> charset="iso-8859-1"
> Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Arthur Sutherland [mailto:holarchy at home.com]
> >Howdy folks,
> >Does anyone know of a way to link to a URL from the Windows 98 desktop in
> >such a way that the page loads in IE5 kiosk mode? Thanks.
> http://www.netinsites.com/hottips_power.cfm#p20
>
> Add a -k switch to the IE5 shortcut.
Browsing thru the digest and came across your posting.
Adding the -k switch and altering the registry to customize the
IE browser are totally cool. Now I just need to use Icon Forge
to alter my Blue E to something that will suit the project.
"What ever it may be!"
Great web page!
Thank You :-)
Kevin
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Message: 12
From: "Kevin" <krr at ix.netcom.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 22:32:22 -0700
charset="iso-8859-1"
Subject: [thelist] MS ACCESS - Bypass limit on memo field >> outputing to a
text file auto...
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Message: 6
> Subject: RE: [thelist] MS ACCESS - Bypass limit on memo field
> charset="iso-8859-1"
> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 15:01:50 -0400
> From: "Tab Alleman" <Tab.Alleman at RealMetros.com>
> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> I'd recommend storing the long data in .txt files, and store the
> path/name of the files in your access db.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jon steele [mailto:jjsteele22 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 2:45 PM
> To: TheList Evolt
> Subject: [thelist] MS ACCESS - Bypass limit on memo field
> Hi,
> I am using ColdFusion and Access and I was wondering if I can have a
> field with unlimited limit size. Memo is the largest but it still has a
> limit.
>
> The table in question is being created from ColdFusion, so I'd need to
> set this infinite limit from <cfquery>. This can probably be done from
> ASP (causs it's MS) but I need it from ColdFusion.
> I REALLY need to do this because I am storing long data, and it gets
> cut off.
I have been wondering what it would take to setup a textarea field in such a
manner
so that I can set the output to a text file for later retrieval.
Your mentioning the .txt document and access to hold the file path brought
this one
back to the front of the file.
"I have a very long list of how to's floating around! :-) "
So with this in mind can you give an example of how I could set this up so
that when the user sends the webpage's textarea to my server I can
automatically reroute the output to a .txt file so as to by pass the
restrictions
of my database and then maybe a way to set a file path up so that I can
create dynamic web addressing for the files?
All of this material is theory or rather conceptualizing on my part. I still
have
quite a ways to go before I complete my languages C++, Java, CF certified
etc...
So any insight would be greatly appreciated
Thank You
Kevin
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Message: 13
Reply-To: <tarpy at pobox.com>
From: "Matthew Tarpy" <tarpy at pobox.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Subject: RE: [thelist] My chat with Network Solutions
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 22:31:25 -0700
charset="us-ascii"
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Actually, I have a slightly tangental question:
I recently had a domain come up for renewal, and moved it from NSI to
another registrar. I just got paper spam (two months AFTER the move to
the new registrar was finalized) from NSI telling me my domain could be
in jeopardy if I didn't renew ASAP. I just checked with the new
registrar, and I'm good for another year (well till 10/7/02
apparently)...my question is, can anything bad happen? NSI apparently
thinks that they are still the registrar of record...can they smack me
in any way, or am I just being a silly git?
--Matthew
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Message: 14
Reply-To: <hblair at hotfootmail.com>
From: "Hugh Blair" <hblair at hotfootmail.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Subject: RE: [thelist] My chat with Network Solutions
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 01:54:55 -0500
charset="US-ASCII"
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
You're safe. But if you want, you still can think of yourself
as a "silly git". Sometimes that's fun.
-Hugh
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> -----Original Message-----
> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Matthew Tarpy
> Subject: RE: [thelist] My chat with Network Solutions
>
> Actually, I have a slightly tangental question:
>
> I recently had a domain come up for renewal, and moved it from NSI to
> another registrar. I just got paper spam (two months AFTER the move to
> the new registrar was finalized) from NSI telling me my domain could be
> in jeopardy if I didn't renew ASAP. I just checked with the new
> registrar, and I'm good for another year (well till 10/7/02
> apparently)...my question is, can anything bad happen? NSI apparently
> thinks that they are still the registrar of record...can they smack me
> in any way, or am I just being a ?
>
> --Matthew
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Message: 15
From: <martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 09:41:08 +0100
Subject: Re: [thelist] How do I handle an anticipated overwhelming load on
our
server
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers
-------------------- Start of message text --------------------
Have you looked at http://www.akamai.com/ ?
Essentially, they cache a copy of the files, which are then accessed by a
URL along
the lines of
http://www.akamai.com/somestuff/yoururlwithescapedcharacters
(actually, it is possible to feed them *any* URL which they'll then cache -
an
interesting way of getting under the radar of domain-blocking proxies,
which
is of course very, very bad and should never be done)
Cheers
Martin
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> Other then host the site remotely for that time (like a month)? No.
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No need to host the entire site remotely just some files right? the report
and maybe the images and the page you expect to be hit. unless I'm not
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Message: 16
From: Jon Haworth <jhaworth at witanjardine.co.uk>
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Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:19:32 +0100
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Subject: [thelist] Smart tags, but a *good* use for them this time
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http://www.w2knews.com/subscribe.cfm?id=MSX (watch the video, it's a
Microsoft TV ad)
<tip>
If your site is complex, or has lots of off-site links, make sure you
regularly give it the once-over with a decent link checker (I use Xenu,
available at http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html, which will not only
give you a report on broken links but generate a <ul>-based site map for you
as well). The W3C provides a link checker at
http://validator.w3.org/checklink if you prefer web-based software.
</tip>
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Message: 17
From: "Chris Houston." <chris at nabumedia.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Subject: Re: [thelist] Flash & Gif
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 11:45:52 +0100
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Sharon said that Mark Ottenberg said:
> a) avoid "blending" (that is, make your text pixels as "one-color solid"
> as possible, either using the background color or the text color to fill
> in any pixels that are anti-aliased). This makes them "blocky" which
> reduces file size. Space between the letters compresses better if the
> characters are solid (blocky).
This has got to be wrong. Flash stores the vector outline of each letter
from each font it's going to be using, then renders it on the clients
machine. Whether the file says "write these letters and antialias them" or
"write these letters and don't antialias them" isn't going to make any
difference to the file size, per se. It might make the rendering speed
higher, though.
The current trend towards little, aliased fonts isn't technologically based,
it's fashion based.
Chris Houston.
Creative Director
Nabu Media
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Message: 18
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 06:56:43 -0400
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
From: Phil <info at webdisplays.com>
Subject: RE: [thelist] Netscape 4.7 playing havoc with form pages
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:55:04 +0100 alastair wrote
>
>Netscape usually does this, can't remember the exact reason but basically
it
>measure character widths differently (??). One way to fix is to use css.
>
>> From: "sfmalo" <sfmalo at email.msn.com>
>>
>> Just revised a client's site and discovered that the two form pages
>> are displaying catywampus in NN4.7 at 800x600 resolution. The boxes in
>> the forms are distorted and I'm getting horizontal scrolling on each
<tip>
If CSS styles (text/css) can be avoided, the simplest work around is to use
Netscapes original, native (text/javascript) style language which will
correct the
N4 presentation and be ignored by other browsers which now only use the css.
To avoid the nuisance of classes and ids with varying form elements, here is
the universal workaround for otherwise "fontless" form elements:
<style type="text/css">
input {font-family: monospace; font-size: 7pt;}
select {font-family: monospace; font-size: 7pt;}
textarea {font-family: monospace; font-size: 7pt;}
/* sets a HTML 4.0 (t) base font */
</style>
<style type="text/javascript">
//<!--
tags.input.fontFamily= 'monospace';
tags.select.fontFamily= 'monospace';
tags.textarea.fontFamily= 'monospace';
tags.input.fontSize= '9px';
tags.select.fontSize= '9px';
tags.textarea.fontSize= '9px';
// tweaks an equivalent to IE-N6 size for N4 -->
</style>
Note that for N4 to present an equivalent font width to IE, the "px : pt"
ratio must be as shown. "pt" is not rendered the same between the two
browsers! N4 might, at first, honor the css, but then, the more intimate
javascript takes precedence.
Example is about the smallest you can go.
</tip>
Phil Stark
webdisplays
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Message: 19
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 04:26:03 -0700
From: Cayley Vos <cvos at netpaths.net>
Organization: NetPaths.net
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] Re: Meta tags... keyword repetition
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
single quotes are no good in the meta keywords string. Only use
keywords/phrases with commas
separating them, no spaces. Also, if you must repeat a keyword, try
repeating it at the beginning
and end of the string. Keep it below 15 keywords/ key phrases and remember,
google ignores all meta
information. this has major implications, as the only other pure search
engines, excite, fast and
inktomi are notoriously easy to spam, making them hard to reverse engineer
(read optimize)
-Quoth the Audrey Blumeneau:
> Also, (question #2) scrubber.com is saying that I have repeated a keyword
> too many times. I am not sure how to handle this because here is what I
> did:
> shirts, dinosaurs, dinosaur shirts, reptiles, reptile shirts, insects,
> insect shirts,
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Message: 20
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:05:16 -0400
From: Eric Benvenue-Jennings <eric at rapid13.org>
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] Re: ie6 smart tags
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> From: Matthew Brooks <m at pleonasm.com>
> Subject: Re: [thelist] ie6 smart tags
>
> "timmee" <timmee at timmee.org> wrote:
> >
> > http://www.lemurzone.com/ie6.htm
>
> Lemurzone says "If you were using any other browser or IE5.5 or earlier
you
> would not be reading this." Hmmm. I was using Opera 5, but was reading
> that. My user-agent is "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows ME)
> Opera 5.11 [en]" - anyone know why Lemurzone didn't parse it correctly?
They also incorrectly identified me as an IE6 user. I'm using IE5/Mac which
doesn't include Smart Tags or the Image Tool Bar.
You would think they'd be more careful in who they are blocking.
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Message: 21
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:05:16 -0400
From: Eric Benvenue-Jennings <eric at rapid13.org>
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] Re: ie6 smart tags
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
<<< No Message Collected >>>
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Message: 22
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 08:54:35 -0400
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
From: Phil <info at webdisplays.com>
Subject: Re: [thelist] ie6 smart tags
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>From: "timmee" <timmee at timmee.org>
>
>I don't quite get it. Lemurzone avers, "[images] are ... not to be stolen
>wholesale as the Image Tool Bar would lead you to believe is okay," but how
>is that really any different from being able to right-click and save an
>image, or File/Save As, which one has always been able to do? The Image
>Toolbar doesn't really change much - it just moves the "image save"
>dialogue to a different part of the screen.
>
IMHO, This is just Microsoft's lame attempt to pirate another broken, goofy
imitation of Netscape 4's vastly superior "<shift> rightclick"...
Nobody's ever complained about that, but this is a really dumb and wasteful
"crack" of yet another most basic Netscape usability feature.
Phil
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Message: 23
From: Chuck Hergenroeder <chergenroeder at redsiren.com>
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: RE: [thelist] ie6 smart tags
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:58:10 -0400
charset="iso-8859-1"
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
You actually went directly to the error page. That page is the one you get
re-directed to if you are using IE6. You see it because you specifically
went to it, not because you are not allowed to view that site.
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Brooks [mailto:m at pleonasm.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 4:39 PM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] ie6 smart tags
"timmee" <timmee at timmee.org> wrote:
>
> http://www.lemurzone.com/ie6.htm
Lemurzone says "If you were using any other browser or IE5.5 or earlier you
would not be reading this." Hmmm. I was using Opera 5, but was reading
that. My user-agent is "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows ME)
Opera 5.11 [en]" - anyone know why Lemurzone didn't parse it correctly?
> please could someone explain the theft of images issue to me?
For the unitiated, Microsoft describes the Image Toolbar thus:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/preview/imgtoolbar/default.asp
I don't quite get it. Lemurzone avers, "[images] are ... not to be stolen
wholesale as the Image Tool Bar would lead you to believe is okay," but how
is that really any different from being able to right-click and save an
image, or File/Save As, which one has always been able to do? The Image
Toolbar doesn't really change much - it just moves the "image save"
dialogue to a different part of the screen.
I guess Lemurzone's point may be that the Image Toolbar makes it that much
easier for people to take images, since it pops up whenever you point at an
image. Believe it or not, I have met people who use the web every day but
did not realize that you can save images until I told them. But now, with
the Image Toolbar, even your 90-year-old granny will be saving images left,
right and centre.
Lemurzone?
Matt
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Message: 24
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 15:01:32 +0200
From: Joxn <joxn at vernum.com>
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] mozilla 0.9.3
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Hey list,
As you all might already know Mozilla 0.9.3 is out - and rocks!
You can get it at http://www.mozilla.org/releases/
Well, there is only a lame net-install available rightnow, but even this
is way better than other net-installs I've seen so far as you can select
to download all the setup files for future installs.
But the greatest thing, for me at least, is that you can now check *all*
IMAP folders for new emails. This is described in bug 18266.
Add "user_pref("mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new", true);" to your
prefs.js and off you go. :)
This might be a performance killer if you have *really* many folders,
but my 10 small folders and checked in no time.
Did I say Mozilla rocks? :)
bye Joxn
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Message: 25
From: "aardvark" <roselli at earthlink.net>
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 09:04:31 -0400
Subject: Re: [thelist] Flash & Gif
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> From: "Chris Houston." <chris at nabumedia.com>
>
> Sharon said that Mark Ottenberg said:
> > a) avoid "blending" (that is, make your text pixels as "one-color
> > solid" as possible, either using the background color or the text
> > color to fill in any pixels that are anti-aliased). This makes them
> > "blocky" which reduces file size. Space between the letters
> > compresses better if the characters are solid (blocky).
>
> This has got to be wrong. Flash stores the vector outline of each
> letter from each font it's going to be using, then renders it on the
> clients machine. Whether the file says "write these letters and
> antialias them" or "write these letters and don't antialias them"
> isn't going to make any difference to the file size, per se. It might
> make the rendering speed higher, though.
that commentary was in response to a question on how to optimize
Flash movies for output to animated .gif... if it were just a
discussion of Flash, then yes, that would be odd, but it was all
about exporting to a different format...
> The current trend towards little, aliased fonts isn't technologically
> based, it's fashion based.
well, this is partly true...
the use of aliased fonts over anti-aliased fonts at smaller sizes
enhances readability... assuming the size of the font was legible to
the user to begin with...
the use of those 7pt aliased fonts, on the other hand, isn't about
readability, it's about design... yes, they read better than Arial at
7pt, aliased or otherwise, but they're still usually too small for your
users without decent eyes...
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Message: 26
Subject: RE: [thelist] MS ACCESS - Bypass limit on memo field >> outputing
to a text file auto...
charset="iso-8859-1"
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 09:02:14 -0400
From: "Tab Alleman" <Tab.Alleman at RealMetros.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Well, I'm an ASP dude, but I'm sure Cold Fusion must have a similar
means of doing this.. still, I'll not to be language-specific.
First, access your file system object and call its CreateFile method
(Make sure you've set write-permissions for the folder you'll be writing
the file to). Then use the write or writeln method to pass the
user-input to it. You already know the name and path of the file you
created, so then store that in a database entry along with the other
user-data.
That's it.. it's pretty simple once you know how. But then, isn't
everything?
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin [mailto:krr at ix.netcom.com]
I have been wondering what it would take to setup a textarea field in
such a
manner
so that I can set the output to a text file for later retrieval.
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Message: 27
From: "Chris Garrett" <chris at chrisg.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Subject: Re: [thelist] mozilla 0.9.3
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 14:23:07 +0100
charset="iso-8859-1"
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
No, dont download this! please! Much as I dont want MS to have a monopoly, I
dearly hope *someone* does soon in the browser world, it would make my life
so much easier ;O)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joxn" <joxn at vernum.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 2:01 PM
Subject: [thelist] mozilla 0.9.3
> Hey list,
> As you all might already know Mozilla 0.9.3 is out - and rocks!
> You can get it at http://www.mozilla.org/releases/
>
> Well, there is only a lame net-install available rightnow, but even this
> is way better than other net-installs I've seen so far as you can select
> to download all the setup files for future installs.
>
> But the greatest thing, for me at least, is that you can now check *all*
> IMAP folders for new emails. This is described in bug 18266.
> Add "user_pref("mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new", true);" to your
> prefs.js and off you go. :)
>
> This might be a performance killer if you have *really* many folders,
> but my 10 small folders and checked in no time.
>
> Did I say Mozilla rocks? :)
>
> bye Joxn
> --
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>
>
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