Neat blade fuse idea

Phil Launchbury wrote

Dunno. The first I came across HTML in the wild was from a bloke
recently demobbed from HM Navy where they were all ready using it for
stuff so secret I can tell *anybody* about it and he was trying to get
the company to look at it seriously for document archiving. This was in
the mid/late 80's.

 

Well, it *might* have been a 386 I suppose, I can't rightly remember.
And slackware 1.0 was kernel version 0.99-something-or-other, I reckon.
To be honest, I didn't really have a clue what I was doing - we needed
to install linux to run httpd so I kept pressing buttons until it looked
like it was doing what I needed it to. I do remember the box being on
the internet with no root password for several days before I worked out
how to use passwd.

'nix wizard, I certainly wasn't. Nothing changes.

 

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Our first website (hi-fi shop) had 'Best viewed in NN#' (Can't unforget
which version, now.) and viewed in Mosaic there was no colour - apart
from battleship grey.

They never complained to us.

Anyway, didn't Netscrape absorb Mosaic?

 

I suspect that would have been some time after Spry sent their e-mail
out. Did your hi-fi shop have a web site in 1994? I'd be quite surprised
if it did, TBH.

Netscape paid some US university X million dollars at some point,
because there was big hoo-hah over them nicking the code on which
Navigator was based from Mosaic, which was apparently owned by said
university at the time. Or something like that. There must be web sites
detailing all that stuff, I really can't remember it very well at all.

Can't really fully remember where Spry fitted into the picture either
(beyond the stroppy e-mail), I assume Spry Mosiac was a licenced version
of the original NCSA Mosiac or something.

Then (eventually) along rumbled Microsoft and steamrollered over the
whole sorry lot of them, of course. Hooray for capitalism!

 

oops. Mind, windows 95 was more floppies than that. Somewhere in the
house I have Novell dos 7 and windows 3.11 for workgroups, both on 6 3.5"
floppies each.

also discovered the other day that the win 95 universal boot disc will
front-end for the 98SE CD. Which was handy as I've no idea where the 95 CD
is.

98SE in theory should boot from the CD, but apparently not if you have a
single, unformatted HDD in the machine.

 

Can't remember exactly when, but it was in the first year of Zetnet's
existence, and that was (I think) 1995. So we weren't far behind.

....and tried to make its own rules and ignoring such protocols as had
been established, in the hope that everyone would be forced to use only
M$ products if they wanted to join in the fun.

I've used IE once - to go and get Netscape 3. Since then I've only used
Netscape, Opera and Firebird/Firefox. Now Bloody M$ Windows 2000 Update
Rollup won't work without IE6. This must be more anti-trust stuff.

 

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Hum. It should, if you have the BIOS set correctly. I booted from a Win
98SE CD and did the formatting from that on another box, since I didn't
have a boot floppy.

 

Heh. Get a Mac and stop worrying ;-))

 

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from (The Older Gentleman) contains
these words:

I'm alpha testing some software and it needs Windows - otherwise I'd be
all Linux by now.

 

well, the box I was fixing for someone flatly refused to boot from the CD,
irrespective of bios settings.

Pentium thing, it is.

 

More likely late 1995. I was in the next pigpen to the Sprynet guys, doing
CompuServe support. They had about 5 members at the time, including Damon's
girlfriend.

http://www.fillupflyer.com/csrv-update.htm

 

Shirley, I would have thought that as an alpha tester you are in a prime
position to nag the authors into compiling (or whatever the term is) it
for Linux?

 

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So was mine - Pentium II (233MMX)- which has since died.

I have a rather discerning PIII-450 which will not load any flavour of
Windows properly.

Managed to load Debian Woody, and now Sarge, and it runs Knoppix OK too.

 

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from Roger Hunt <> contains these words:

/ZIMACS?

No, it's being written in Microsoft.NET

The earlier versions will run in Wine

 

I dunno, I still think 1994 because it must have been very soon after
Navigator 1.0 was released (Oct '94). I think Netscape offered us some
sort of freebies to stick the logo on our website (possibly free
licences as Nagivator had to be paid-for for commercial use).

At one point (much later on...), we had both "Best viewed with Netscape"
and "Best viewed with Internet Explorer" logos on the site, because
Microsoft *defintely* were giving out freebies to MSDN members who had
the logo on their websites.

It was all a bit sordid really. I suppose Spry was right to get the hump
about it, but I'd have happily put a Spry Mosaic logo on the site too if
they'd sent some beer or chocolate or something instead of griping about
standards and stuff.

 

This is beyond my knowledge or experience - do you mean Microsoft net
stockings?

So is this.

 

Prior to which G. came out with that infamous thing about the internet
never amounting to anything (or some such - I paraphrase).

"Where does a ten foot gorilla with a spiked club sit?
Anywhere you like, Sir."

I was there too, running a small corner of HP's web site. I had a boss
who told me (at an annual appraisal) that the Web would never be any use
for technical support. Guess which of us still has a job there (hint, he
works in Colorado)...


Regards,

Simonm.

 

Wish they'd get their .NET web pages up-to-date! Trying to give customer
compelling reasons to use 2.0 (apart from "They've fixed the bad bugs we
knew about and we haven't found the new ones yet"), all I can find is
comparisons between 1.0 and 1.1. $bigmoney = $complacency;*

<glances at stack of Linux CDs> Sigh.

Regards,

Simonm.

*it's galling that perl is standard on the Mac, but even now not on Windoze.

 

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That's a whole new can of worms uou've opened there.