Winken, Blinken & Nod

Would you tell us where you found an index to "Just Cross Stitch"? I'd love to know! Have often thought of doing one every time I'm looking for a project.

Kathy

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Dick Peters developed software that is a searchable data base of most of the popular needlework magazines. It goes back quite a few years. I don't have it installed on this computer so I can't check righ now. It works on various programs such as Microsoft Works and Access. I bought mine in 2002 and I think he makes updates each year. I have his email address if you are interested.

Mavia

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- it's not quite up to date, but does have a LOT of information about different x-stitch magazines! Hope it helps. Jennifer/Poetta Ladybug Lane Designs

EEK! Nice service, and I'm sure I'll make use of it, but jeez...it makes my head hurt just thinking about the poor web design choices. Why on earth would one use a java-based watermark crawl?

Excellent idea, iffy execution... Becky

It isn't necessarily that. Lots of people have limited access to the web, such as through libraries. Many libraries have limited resources and they are still using 2400 baud modems. My husband and I just got DSL service not too long ago. Parts of the U.S. still do not always have that option. And, it is expensive in comparison.

So, if you want to reach a wide audience, you temper your site to appeal to a wider audience.

Dianne

I think that's harsh rhetoric. In some parts of the U.S., 2400 baud modems is all that is available. And for some folks, that's all that is affordable. It's not that we're not "part" of the 21st century. Japan is light years ahead of the U.S.

I'm not sure we are talking about the same thing. Some sites are very forward thinking and have lots of bells, whistles, moving parts. In fact, I'd like to learn how to do some of these "tricks" (which require knowledge and Flash). People who have older technology often get frustrated with these sites. I suppose that some sites don't care, they have the audience they want. Other sites have to be more careful.

But as I said above, I'm no sure we are talking about the same thing. In order the understand, you'd need to elaborate about what you mean by "webmasters don't upgrade portions of their sites".

Dianne

Hi Jennifer: Did you ever find the Winken, Blinken and Nod chart that you were looking for? I spent the morning looking through my stash (for a different chart!) but I do have this issue with the W,B & Nod, if you'd like the chart. Marie and the cats

snipped-for-privacy@m> Sometime this past week I saw a post on here about the chart "Winken,

Hi, Jennifer. I have that book. I got it for the Teresa Wentzler Noah's Ark and later found the kit drastically reduced. I will try to email you my snail mail so you can answer it and I will send it to you. Frances

Actually, the users of the 2400 to 56k are usually smaller companies/small business. These companies (people) have just invented too much into their system at that baud. So many sites still have them and are slow. Big deal, if you have not invented into the new technology, people just go to other places. Some of folk just like it faster than 2400 to 56k. Now if you want to leave our site at 2400 just don't put large media/graphics on it. This has nothing to do with users dialup speed, and I talking about sites.

If the site has slow downloads , they are slow then. If that harsh, then reality is not a picture nice place.

I love speed the faster the bester and I been asking that for Internet since

1963. So sue me.

I'm still thinking we're not on the same page. And maybe it, in the end, doesn't matter. But I would like to actually visit one of these sites that you are condemning so that I can understand what you are talking about.

We have run our own server, so I'm not exactly ignorant of the Web and how it works.

Dianne

Genghis Khan's Wife wrote:

No we not on the same page. IT IS a personal thing. The site are great to go to but the download is slow. It goes back to the old saying " If you not with the techology, then get out of way". Like I said it a geekie thing and I don't like waiting for a download.

companies/small

I hate to point it out, but most websites are NOT self-hosted. The website sits on servers belonging to a hosting company. The coding can be sleek and sexy, but it makes no difference if the host's servers are capped or overloaded. You're pissed at the wrong person.

That said, I'm all geeked out about my ISP upgrading the lines in our area. They're bumping us up to a 1.0 megabit connection for free. I'm slightly annoyed that they're throttling some of the more common filesharing ports, but then there's a bazillion unassigned ports to choose from. I'm sure they're scratching their heads and wondering why a port sitting in the numerical boonies is pulling so much traffic.

The downside is that all three harddrives on my puter are full. Either I buy yet another drive or I fire up the DVD burner and archive the data.

200GB isn't as big as it used to be... Becky A

Becky, if you knew hard I laughed reading this. I remember when a 1 Meg of RAM was a lot!

Cheryl

Bah. I go back to the Amiga, which shipped with 256K of RAM, and we splurged on upgrading it to 512K, which MIL just couldn't see the need for on a home computer (she worked on the room-size computer at the university).

Man, we are old farts aren't we! LOL!

Cheryl

I have forgotten what my original Commodore had in the way of memory; I think it was 4K. I know the Commodore 64 (with 64K of memory) was a

*huge* increase. IIRC, the first Apple had 1K of memory.

You've made me nostalgic for the computer I learned on. It was an IBM XT, with I think a 6 mb hard drive, 128 kb of memory and one floppy drive. I used Multi Mate for a word processor and had to save every single thing I did on floppies. We would lock up those floppies every night as though they were made from gold, just in case they were stolen in the night.

It had a 12" black and white screen and was slow as molasses, but I produced a lot on that workhorse. Does anyone but me remember when the mantra for MultiMate and I think Corel was WSIWYG, that stood for "what you see is what you get?"

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