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C Scene Issue #05
Letters To The Editor
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From mah@eecs.tulane.edu Mon Jul 20 22:14:30 1998
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 10:19:25 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mark 'Hex' Hershberger <mah@eecs.tulane.edu>
To: cscene@mindless.com
Subject: Postal Codes


The postal code for Arkansas is AR, not AK.  As in:

    Hot Springs, Arkansas

AK is Alaska.



From elzubeir@acm.org Mon Jul 20 22:14:42 1998
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 11:35:22 -0500 (CDT)
From: Moe Elzubeir <elzubeir@acm.org>
To: Mark 'Hex' Hershberger <mah@eecs.tulane.edu>
Cc: cscene@mindless.com
Subject: Re: Postal Codes

On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Mark 'Hex' Hershberger wrote:

> 
> The postal code for Arkansas is AR, not AK.  As in:
> 
>     Hot Springs, Arkansas
> 
> AK is Alaska.
> 

Ahh, thank you for the comment [although, it is a bit too late, as those
mirrors have been removed]. I have no longer been able to contact those
mirroring the site, so I took them off the official one. On the two other
mirroring sites remaining, they still have old links that should have been
removed by now.

Thanks again for the comment [I don't know how everyone just missed on
that one;)]

Later
Moe Elzubeir
Editor of CScene
http://cscene.oftheitner.net/




From mvitalo@sprynet.com Mon Jul 20 22:14:52 1998
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 12:19:52 -0700
From: Michael Vitalo <mvitalo@sprynet.com>
To: cscene@mindless.com
Subject: Run some banners...

Run some banners, get some money, this magazine is super! Make some
money off of it. Do what you have to to keep it going! The articles I
have read are useful to me, the JNI and sockets articles, so I will
definetly keep reading.

take care
mike




From avery@vip.cybercity.dk Mon Jul 20 22:15:09 1998
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 05:48:43 +0200
From: James Avery <avery@vip.cybercity.dk>
To: cscene@mindless.com
Subject: A few comments.

Hi.

As the subject states, I have a few questions / comments, not
necessarily related, though.

First of, it would be a great improvement for people without permanent
connection (such as myself) if it were possible to download a tar.gz
file of each mag to view offline, and since you already have each issue
in its own directory, adding this should take you about one minute.

Secondly, you wrote in the intro of issue #4: 
> I have been contemplating putting banners and other advertisements on >the CScene web page, to cover for the expenses, and perhaps pay the  >authors a little something that could push some others write. Due to >the fact that I hate banners, I have been deciding against it for >months now. 

Personally, my beef is with banners that change dynamically, forcing a
reload every time you hit the page. I wouldn't mind clicking on a few
links, though, if they were just _links_ at the bottom of the page, with
no annoying animated graphics blinking all over the place.


Third:

When is the deadline on issue #5? I thought about writing a short
article on doing mechanics in generalized coordinates (as opposed to
cartesian or spherical position coordinates - if it's not too
off-topic), but if the deadline is anytime soon now, I probably won't
have the time to do it. 


Well, that's about it. Thank's for maintaining the mag. :)


James Avery <avery@io.dk>



From elzubeir@acm.org Mon Jul 20 22:15:20 1998
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 23:02:53 -0500 (CDT)
From: Moe Elzubeir <elzubeir@acm.org>
To: James Avery <avery@vip.cybercity.dk>
Cc: cscene@mindless.com
Subject: Re: A few comments.

On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, James Avery wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> First of, it would be a great improvement for people without permanent
> connection (such as myself) if it were possible to download a tar.gz
> file of each mag to view offline, and since you already have each issue
> in its own directory, adding this should take you about one minute.

The reason this issue did not have an ASCII version avaiable was that I
was in such a rush to release the fourth issue on the 25th. I made a
promise to do that, and I did it by midnight. It was a hassle, and I
didn't want to go through stripping it and providing it in readble form
(specially that my article was put in a table, and I didn't want to go
through ASCII'ing it right away). But, I definitely will continue
providing ASCII versions of the ezine. Just give us a bit of time.

> 
> Secondly, you wrote in the intro of issue #4: 
> no annoying animated graphics blinking all over the place.

We have discussed that with other fellow staff members, and other people
and have decided to keep C Scene clean out of the banner business, since
we will have cscene.oftheinter.net as our host as long as we live. It also
turns out [i didn't know] is that it's running off of a university box,
which according to the university policies, is not allowed [to run
banners, etc]. Of course we thought about having the first page elsewhere,
with the banners, but that is just not worth it.

So, worry not ;)

> Third:
> 
> When is the deadline on issue #5? I thought about writing a short
> article on doing mechanics in generalized coordinates (as opposed to
> cartesian or spherical position coordinates - if it's not too
> off-topic), but if the deadline is anytime soon now, I probably won't
> have the time to do it. 
> 

The deadline for issue #05 is on the 20th of July. If your article misses
that date, it will automatically be evaluated for the issue after it. I
have given the staff and myself a 5 day break to clean up the articles and
provide them in an error free format [no spelling mistakes, grammar, etc]. 
So, we will be doing a bit  more than just verifying the code, and that
the technical stuff is actually accurate.

> 
> Well, that's about it. Thank's for maintaining the mag. :)
> 
Thank you very much for your interest. It's good to hear from people who
have actually liked the magazine. It's been a hassle getting it going
again after the third issue.. but we'll live ;)

Let us hear from you.

Moe Elzubeir
Editor of C Scene
http://cscene.oftheinter.net/




From dfe@axess.net Mon Jul 20 22:15:31 1998
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 14:14:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Doug Elznic <dfe@axess.net>
To: cscene@mindless.com
Subject: Nice work, And a suggestion or two.

Hello,
 I saw a post on slashdot about your zine. Nice stuff. I think that an
interesting thing would be to have a mailing list. Post only so that you
could send it out to anyone interested. 
Also it would be nice if you could have one file available that is the
entire issue. This would make printing C-Scene a whol lot easier...
 


From elzubeir@acm.org Mon Jul 20 22:15:44 1998
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 13:22:39 -0500 (CDT)
From: Moe Elzubeir <elzubeir@acm.org>
To: Doug Elznic <dfe@axess.net>
Cc: cscene@mindless.com
Subject: Re: Nice work, And a suggestion or two.

On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Doug Elznic wrote:

> Hello,
>  I saw a post on slashdot about your zine. Nice stuff. I think that an
> interesting thing would be to have a mailing list. Post only so that you
> could send it out to anyone interested. 

Good idea. I will see to that happening very soon. So, new issues are
announced, etc.

> Also it would be nice if you could have one file available that is the
> entire issue. This would make printing C-Scene a whol lot easier...
>  
> 
We usually have an ASCII version, except that the fourth didn't carry it,
because of the rush we were in. Soon we will put up the ASCII version.

Thank you for your input.

Later
Moe Elzubeir
Editor of C Scene
http://cscene.oftheinter.net/



From dfe@axess.net Mon Jul 20 22:16:12 1998
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 15:37:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Doug Elznic <dfe@axess.net>
To: Moe Elzubeir <elzubeir@acm.org>
Cc: cscene@mindless.com
Subject: Re: Nice work, And a suggestion or two.

On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Moe Elzubeir wrote:
> > Also it would be nice if you could have one file available that is the
> > entire issue. This would make printing C-Scene a whol lot easier...
> >  
> > 
> We usually have an ASCII version, except that the fourth didn't carry it,
> because of the rush we were in. Soon we will put up the ASCII version.
Thanks for the quick reply. I guess I was a little ambigous with my
printing suggestion. i would like to grab the whole thing as one big file
something like a cat *>>/tmp/the_whole_damn_thing so that it would come
out as one nice big doc. 
Do you have the facilities for a mailing list?



From hollister@iname.com Mon Jul 20 22:16:25 1998
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 18:31:30 -0400
From: Richard Hollister <hollister@iname.com>
To: cscene@mindless.com
Subject: Sunscription

Is there a way to subscribe to C Scene through email?

-Hollister



From elzubeir@acm.org Mon Jul 20 22:16:37 1998
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 18:26:52 -0500 (CDT)
From: Moe Elzubeir <elzubeir@acm.org>
To: Richard Hollister <hollister@iname.com>
Cc: cscene@mindless.com
Subject: Re: Sunscription

On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Richard Hollister wrote:

> Is there a way to subscribe to C Scene through email?

I am afraid there is not a way, but we will have mailing lists that will
announce each issue, and other important information to those subscribing
to it, underway. So keep on checking with us ;)

Later
Moe Elzubeir
Editor of C Scene