[thelist] avoid hostpro
aardvark
roselli at earthlink.net
Thu May 10 02:25:27 CDT 2001
> From: Andrew Forsberg <andrew at thepander.co.nz>
[...]
> >thankfully their billing is so messed up that my 6 month overdue
> >payment didn't hamper my site performance at all...
>
> At 11:51 PM -0400 2/5/01, aardvark wrote:
> >still pilfering it up to that point... sure, you can justify it by
> >saying it made you buy it, but you stole it to begin with (i guess
> >it's your own fault)...
>
> hmmmmmm
>
> Now I would say that's far worse than using shareware / freeware. ...
> although I have heard that the shortening of credit terms was
> indirectly responsible for the first world war.
yeah, ferdinand was a pawn for the whole thing...
anyway, if they had bothered to bill me on time, i would have paid
it... as it is, i paid it, but not because they sent me any notices,
but because i was doing checks and realized it had been a while
since i was billed for my hosting... after some digging, i found a bill
that was sent out a month late, and so got batched into the next
group of bills since it didn't fit into that month's expected bills...
yes, i have a system, and yes it's odd...
<tip type="CSS">
The background CSS1 property is surprisingly powerful in NN4.x
browsers. Believe it or not, background-repeat works quite well, but
to prevent artifacts in the parts where the image doesn't tile, you'll
need to declare a background color via the CSS as well, ideally a
color that matches the page. Sample CSS:
#foo { background-color : #ffffff ;
background-image : url(foo.gif) ;
background-repeat : no-repeat ;
background-position : 0px 0px ; }
#bar { background-color : #ffffff ;
background-image : url(bar.gif) ;
background-repeat : repeat-y ;
background-position : 0px 0px ; }
You should find that both of these work fine in NN4.x+ and IE4.x+.
</tip>
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