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That's how I do it. But then I'm using an editor and an FTP program so there is no "Live" editing. Naturally, if it's important (whatever it may be) I make a backup before playing.
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A little, but not at the level you're working with. Nothing I've done has been live. Sorry. Sounds interesting though. From a Nerdish perspective.
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Wow. That's just awful. I'm glad to hear he's alive and will make it. Prayers, prayers, prayers for a speedy recovery!
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That SHOULD be pretty easy in FrontPage, particularly since the site is already set up using it. You SHOULD be able to just load up FrontPage, click on the text you want to change, delete it, type in what you want, then save it. OO would work that way too, but you'd still have to put it online. That would make it a step more complicated. It's not hard, but that should be built into FrontPage. Either way there'll be a learning curve since you've never worked with either. Could you have the guy who's doing it for you now stand behind you and tell you what to do step by step? That's how I teach people how to do stuff on the computer. I find that if their hands are actually doing the work they learn much more quickly.
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Don't worry Gary, we're speaking Nerdish. It usually goes on the loose nut holding the handlebars.
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Sounds like it's a case of folks just not using the page startup template. Does it have a character encoding statement in one of the header lines? If so it should be good enough to get folks started. Keep in mind that the online validator can fail in odd ways over coding errors. e.g. If one writes javascript without properly declaring text/type it can misparse the rest. Not always, but sometimes. None the less, it can be a hugely useful tool. Have you tried the Opera browser? You can run the W3C validator against anything you can load into Opera by right clicking the page and selecting validate. I test my pages on my local machine before publishing all the time. Comes in pretty handy, though Opera is standards compliant and does not always render IE specific code properly. A lot of sites have text that does not display properly because of an old bug in IE that has been there so long everyone codes to it without knowing it.
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I can't claim anything close to guruhood, but I have a huge book and have used it to make a few databases. I've used it as a command line tool and with a front end called Rekall.
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Personally I've found the "pros" to be the worst. If it works for the guy who signs the check it's good enough. No actual pride of craftsmanship at all. I don't know what Beer30 actually has in mind. That's why I answered the way I did. If he's doing a page or two OO should be adequate. It will generate valid html, so why pay for more? On the other hand, if he's doing more perhaps he should look into a decent tool. That's why I asked about the templates. The site generation programs I've looked at on Linux have all had a startup template that included proper DOCTYPE and character encoding declarations. I've come to wonder if FrontPage simply doesn't have this, or if nobody uses it. If it does not, or the code is inadequate, then it would seem the novice would be well served to look elsewhere.
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It's better to do the SWR without the headset plugged in so you can't accidentally talk into the mic while pressing the button. It's just a little safer that way. It reduces the chances of letting the magic blue smoke out of the CB.
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No but I have a light gray tinted tail light lens (they also have clear) with an LED tail light similar to this one (older 128 LED version). Tail light lens red clashes with Black Cherry. I also have LED inserts for my turn signals, of course with clear lenses. It all looks clear until the lights come on and the LEDs are very bright.
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I know what FrontPage purports to be. Since I use a standards compliant browser I also know just how buggy sites designed with FrontPage tend to be. That's what lead to my question. The W3C is the organization that sets the standards for HTML, XHTML and the like. The W3C has been there since pretty much the beginning of the web. W3C validation is used to determine if the page is valid HTML/XHTML, etc. It is, more or less, the official version of Tidy.
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Not really all that strange. Irene and I can't make it to PiP again this year so we're doing the best that we can. If you come up this way a little earlier you're welcome to join us.
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Care to elaborate? OO.o WILL generate valid html. It WILL also read and display html in a wysiwyg manner as well as displaying source. Are you saying it is not designed primarily as an html generation program? In that you have taugh courses in FrontPage, perhaps you can clear something up for me. A very large percentage of sites generated by FrontPage are unable to pass W3C validation. Is this the result of poor coding by the author, poor template design by Microsoft, or just poor code generation by FrontPage? Thanks.
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Air suspension pressure
Bummer replied to magnum-pei's topic in Royal Star Venture Tech Talk ('99 - '13)
This place has both the 0-15 and the 0-60 pumps. It's best to get both. It may not be the cheapest solution, but the 0-15 does the best job for the fronts since you can be more accurate with it. Obviously the 0-60 is for the rear. This is a pretty nifty thing to have also. It makes balancing much easier. This is the Works Performance site. It's best to call them up and chat. You're going to have to give them information anyway. -
Open Office will generate valid web pages from documents. It will also read html documents. I do my web pages by hand in a high-end text editor, so I don't know how good a job it does or how easy it is to work with. I can tell you that it doesn't work as well for a coder as a good editor does, but you have to know what you're looking at to use an editor. As a coder I'd quit before I'd use FrontPage.
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I don't do Windows, so I can't say for sure but most everything is smaller than the Microsoft version isn't it? The Windows install file is a 127mb executable. I don't know what size it'll install to. OpenOffice is free. All you have to do is download it. If you don't have the space right now, can't you uninstall Microsoft Office, install OO.o and see? Then if it doesn't work out just reinstall MO?
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The Linux version, and probably all of them, will read/write "97/2000/XP" doc format. I'm not sure if that refers to "office 2003" or not. What I get out of it, as someone who's never used Windows at home, is that it'll do the latest format. Just thought I'd mention it for those uncertain about changing.
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Sorry, I must have read the history of the discussion page. I don't remember a date but a couple of Venturers were discussing doing it so I dropped the idea for a time. I'm wondering if their page is the one that was merged with your page. Theirs should have been prior to '07 since I haven't been a regular there since late '05/very early '06. I'm just glad someone started it. By the way, I've done a bit of editing and added a picture. Now if I can just find a picture of a first gen...
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The Yamaha Venture page was started by a couple of guys from Venturers. There was also a Yamaha Venture Royale page, but the two pages were merged into the one that's there now. I don't know who did the Yamaha Royal Star Venture page. I got an account to do the same thing but was a day late, so to speak. I added the Yamaha Venture and Yamaha Venture Royale listings, linking to those pages, to the disambiguation page - kind of like an index. We can put anything we want on there, bearing in mind it can be edited by others. The problem is that we need to find some sort of actual paper to document this. Anyone know where there are write ups? Magazines articles? Books? Online will not do. All photos must be in the public domain. Anything copyrighted will be removed.
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The reviews were about half four out of five stars, and half two out of five. Not having been to either it really was a coin toss. I won't mind going back to check it out. I like southern Indiana. I'm trying to do my part to get the word out.
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Now Dan, no effort is too great for my brother VentureRiders. I'll be glad to have you along if we can work it out.
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Nope. There are two restaurants in Leavenworth. One is The Overlook, the other is The Dock. We flipped a coin and The Dock won. The google maps reviews of The Overlook were about 50% ambience, 50% food. So what do you like about it? There were no reviews of The Dock. It's in "Old Leavenworth" down on the river. Sounds like we'll have to go back and check out The Overlook too. Whip me, beat me...
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Air suspension pressure
Bummer replied to magnum-pei's topic in Royal Star Venture Tech Talk ('99 - '13)
The gauge measures kPa - that's kilo Pascals. 100 kPa is 100,000 Pascals. 100 kPa converts to 1 bar. 1 bar is 14.5 psi. Inside the trunk is a sticker that tells how much air to run in the tires. It's in kPa first then lists psi. The manual lists pressures for the shocks. Pg 3-17 for the fronts, pg 3-18 for the rear. The fronts are maxiumu 50 kPa or 7.1 psi. The rear is listed at maximum 400 kPa or 57 psi. All of these are g, meaning psig, kPag - that assumes starting out at atmospheric pressure. If you want absolute pressure you have to add atmospheric to the gauge reading. By the way, this whole kPa thing is why we have such odd pressures on the shocks. 7.1 and 57 are uneven to us, but 50 and 400 are even everywhere else. I hope that cleared that gauge thing up for you. As to shock pressures, I run 5 in the front 20 in the rear all the time. I run 7 in the front and 55 in the rear when Irene and I are touring. These pressures compensate for our weight and the bike handles better. Then there's the premature shock failure thing. What's premature? I consider the shock a disposable/wear item. At nearly 26,000 miles my rear shock is going soft. I'm not going to have Yamaha replace it. I'm going to get a Works Performance shock. The idea of expecting a shock to last the life of the vehicle is totally alien to me. I guess I'm not young anymore. I used to have to replace shocks a lot more often than this. Then there's the pump issue. If you'd have spent another ten grand you could have had a pump with the bike. I just bought a couple of good pumps and counted the money I'm ahead. -
Irene and I are going down and riding the Ohio River Road looking for ice cream and a restaurant as part of planning a late September or October Meet & Eat in that area. We'll probably be in the Corydon area by 11ish. We expect to be at Emery's Ice Cream Parlor, 112 W Walnut St, Corydon at around 4 or so. We're planning on having lunch at The Dock in Leavenworth, then going by Tell City on the long way back. We're leaving here by 9am, which is pretty much three hours or so ahead of you guys. Maybe we can meet up at the Ice Cream Parlor? Otherwise I'm afraid we'll have to just wave this time. Sorry. Wish we'd known you were planning this (and vice-versa I imagine.)
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Sig pics were supposed to be a max of 100px tall. Here's one that should fit the prior official standard.