[ale] Xterm (and a little OT)

[Geoffrey]

Scott Castaline wrote:
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 13:22 -0500, Jim wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>I don't know about anyone else, but maybe I'm color blind.  I find a 
>>>black background makes it incredibly hard to read any color except 
>>>white.  putty forces a black background and when I end up on a system 
>>>with a color ls command, I can't read half the file names.  The 
>>>especially bad color is blue.  I know there is something there, but no 
>>>way I can read it.
>>>
>>>That brings up another point.  I've been cursing the idiots whose web 
>>>sites have blue letters on black backgrounds until the other day my wife 
>>>was complaining about the same thing at her school.  I had a brainstorm 
>>>and brought up the site in IE.  Hm, the colors were just fine.  I hope I 
>>>have the opportunity to take a potshot at Bill someday.
>>>    
>>
>>You'll be in a line...

> I heard you gotta get a number like at the deli counter....mine is 
> 125,256,490.........................

See, I've been in the line much longer then a lot of you.  My number is 
1034.

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Until later, Geoffrey