From: Jim Thompson on 10 Feb 2010 14:27 On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:13:37 +0100, jw(a)eldorado.com wrote: >On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:41:21 -0700, Jim Thompson ><To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com> wrote: > > >>51�F here (Arizona, 8:38AM), cloudy, may rain... you East Coasters >>will get dumped on... enjoy your snow days ;-) >> >> ...Jim Thompson > > >Jim, I regret to say - we are now and have been for a while in a >blizzard condition and in a state of emergency. All non-emergency >vehicles have been barred from the road. Total white-out. I can't >see the road 50 feet in front of my house. Snow plows have been >parked. > >I had to open my big mouth. I was living in East Campus (Ames Street) during the winter of 1959-1960... 19" in about an hour. We bunked all the Polaroid workers in our dorm rooms, because _nothing_ was functional ;-) ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, CTO | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
From: jw on 10 Feb 2010 08:47 On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:24:13 -0700, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com> wrote: >I presume "J Williams" is Jim Williams... he's semi-famous as an >electronics hacker. I don't know anyone with last name "Beckett". > >> >>I ended up in Geo Wash U '62 BS Math > >I was born in Geo Wash U Hospital ;-) > > ...Jim Thompson Not Jim. Now dead, as are all my compatriots Small world, eh? Duke
From: jw on 10 Feb 2010 08:55 On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:15:57 -0800, Steve Urbach <dragonsclaw(a)NOTmindspring.com> wrote: >>Heck I can hardly see vertical scroll bars, especially in ForteAgent, >>which I am in right now. The movable 'scroll box' is very light blue >>on a white background. I can hardly see it. I have Agent's fonts >>working pretty good though otherwise. >> >>Duke >Your desktop "Theme" is doing this to you. >(Running Agent on Ubuntu here). Eudora is still my mail program of choice. I changed to Windows Classic and changed all fonts and made them bold. Scroll bar still mostly invisible. Eudora email text still light gray on white. I have not re-booted yet though - Maybe I have to? Duke
From: jw on 10 Feb 2010 08:57 On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:15:57 -0800, Steve Urbach <dragonsclaw(a)NOTmindspring.com> wrote: >>Heck I can hardly see vertical scroll bars, especially in ForteAgent, >>which I am in right now. The movable 'scroll box' is very light blue >>on a white background. I can hardly see it. I have Agent's fonts >>working pretty good though otherwise. >> >>Duke >Your desktop "Theme" is doing this to you. >(Running Agent on Ubuntu here). Eudora is still my mail program of choice. I changed to Windows Classic and changed all fonts and made them bold. Scroll bar still mostly invisible. Eudora email text still light gray on white. I have not re-booted yet though - Maybe I have to? Duke
From: Jim Thompson on 10 Feb 2010 15:47
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:47:57 +0100, jw(a)eldorado.com wrote: >On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:24:13 -0700, Jim Thompson ><To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com> wrote: > > >>I presume "J Williams" is Jim Williams... he's semi-famous as an >>electronics hacker. I don't know anyone with last name "Beckett". >> >>> >>>I ended up in Geo Wash U '62 BS Math >> >>I was born in Geo Wash U Hospital ;-) >> >> ...Jim Thompson > > >Not Jim. Now dead, as are all my compatriots >Small world, eh? > >Duke Indeed! As we used to joke in Latin class... if you calculate the volume of air surrounding the world, and count up all the people, we've all shared a breath of air with Julius Caesar ;-) ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, CTO | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food. |