Internet SIG Meeting...7 Nov 1996



 Attended the meeting on Thursday night, and quite an interesting
discussion with about 14 attendees. Emil opened the meeting noting
that we just talk about the Internet and good sites or whatever comes
up. Some of the topics that were discussed were;

PowWow
There is a new version out, see 
http://www.tribal.com 
for the details. Up to 70 conferees, white board, text to voice and
other capabilities, it is worth giving a try.

mIRC seems to still be the most popular chatting medium, and it was
noted that TIP is likely to get its own IRC facility, for TIP only
use, sooner than later, read what you want into that !

W95 Registry
There has been some discussion in tip.general about getting more than
one service provider into Netscape or whatever. It all hinges on the
Registry, and this is not as friendly as the INI files in Win 3.x
Anyone knowing a good source of technical information concerning the
W95 Registry system, please post here.

Advanced Searching
With a mirror of Alta Vista now available in Australia,
http://www.altavista.yellowpages.com.au/
and apparently faster than the States side base one, advanced
searching was suggested for a faster find. There is a small "how to"
available, but in short:

"john doe" will return all the pages with john doe and John Doe
"John Doe" will return only pages with John Doe
john+doe will return all pages that have john in them as well as doe,
this number will be greater than a "john doe" search. Try it.

WS_FTP
Three people reported that their Ws_Ftp didn't go outside TIP. Looking
at the Options, there doesn't to be anything obvious to change to make
it go outside TIP. However no problems using ftp in Netscape. A bit of
a mystery, so if anyone has any clues, please post an answer.

The Resume function, (an FTP specification, but not implemented in
Ws_Ftp) was considered invaluable, allowing a file transfer over
several Internet sessions.  The registered version of CUTEFTP has this
and those that use it speak very highly of it.

Miscellanea
The expected melt down of the Internet during the US elections did not
occur. 

AOL had a decision made in its favour to block out spammers.

4.30 pm on Prime (channel 7) has a CNet presentation on the internet.
CNet is a US based provider, and their TV shows are real slick
apparently.

Publisher 97 has a sophisticated Web Page capability, and Nick Thomson
will be reviewing WebGraphics, possibly in December's Sixteen Bits.

You can't run a 32 bit netscape on a 16 bit trumpet.

If you are looking for the flags of the world, you can try some of the
latest Corel packages, straight flags or fluttering flags. There is
also a file, wrldflag.zip, 83937 bytes around which will do the trick.

If you haven't seen Nhan's help pages yet, have a look at;
http://www.pcug.org.au/~ntran/help/helpmain.html
and excellent production.

And few other things as well, but by and large, that was it, very
interesting and if you are ever free the first Thursday night of the
month (not January) and feel like of a bit of internet chatting, feel
free to come along.

For more details, have a look at;

Internet SIG page:
http://www.pcug.org.au/~ejoseph/intsig.htm


Owen


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