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  • Re: "comp.soft-sys.qt"

    From Mr. Man-wai Chang@3:633/10 to All on Mon Jun 1 13:26:41 2026
    On 5/31/2026 6:24 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:

    There should be a newsgroup "comp.soft-sys.qt" or
    "comp.soft-sys.misc". But since these do not exist...


    I did entered "qt" into the search-box of Thunderbird for newsgroup
    server Eternal-September, only "netscape.public.mozilla.qt" came up. Of course, it's not related to the QT library.

    Usenet is definitly not actively tracking new toys in the computer
    graphics world. :)

    Qt (software) - Wikipedia
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software)>

    Qt History - Qt Wiki
    <https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_History>

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  • From Marco Moock@3:633/10 to All on Mon Jun 8 07:58:10 2026
    Am 01.06.26 um 07:26 schrieb Mr. Man-wai Chang:
    Usenet is definitly not actively tracking new toys in the computer
    graphics world. ?

    You can start an RfD to create such a group if you think there is interest.

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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@3:633/10 to All on Mon Jun 8 18:24:16 2026
    On 6/8/2026 1:58 PM, Marco Moock wrote:
    Am 01.06.26 um 07:26 schrieb Mr. Man-wai Chang:
    Usenet is definitly not actively tracking new toys in the computer
    graphics world. ?

    You can start an RfD to create such a group if you think there is interest.


    How could you talking about graphics and GUI when image attachments are
    NOT even allowed in Usenet and external links are suspected? :)

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  • From The True Melissa@3:633/10 to All on Mon Jun 8 08:23:15 2026
    Verily, in article <110658h$356pv$2@toylet.eternal-september.org>, did toylet.toylet@gmail.com deliver unto us this message:

    On 6/8/2026 1:58 PM, Marco Moock wrote:
    Am 01.06.26 um 07:26 schrieb Mr. Man-wai Chang:
    Usenet is definitly not actively tracking new toys in the computer
    graphics world. ?

    You can start an RfD to create such a group if you think there is interest.


    How could you talking about graphics and GUI when image attachments are
    NOT even allowed in Usenet and external links are suspected? :)

    External links aren't suspicious if they're to some reasonable site. Use dropbox or imgur or similar, and interested people will follow it.

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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@3:633/10 to All on Fri Jun 12 12:35:14 2026
    On 6/8/2026 8:23 PM, The True Melissa wrote:
    Verily, in article <110658h$356pv$2@toylet.eternal-september.org>, did toylet.toylet@gmail.com deliver unto us this message:


    How could you talking about graphics and GUI when image attachments are
    NOT even allowed in Usenet and external links are suspected? :)

    External links aren't suspicious if they're to some reasonable site. Use dropbox or imgur or similar, and interested people will follow it.

    You were talking about modern day internet. I don't remember people
    talking about image hosting back when internet was first opened to
    public use, or maybe I was not allowed to learn, discover and know about it.

    Also, back then sound, images and hence movies were not an important
    part of internet. Things changed in these decades with hardware
    improvement, but slowly...slowly...slowly and being managed/moderated/regulated. :)

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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@3:633/10 to All on Fri Jun 12 12:37:19 2026
    On 6/8/2026 8:36 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:

    One can just show GUIs directly in posts.

    ASCII art? Your example is overly simplified. Maybe you have and had
    tools to convert an image into ASCII art.

    A toy nobody was allowed to know about until very later. Nationaly
    security stuff? :)

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  • From The True Melissa@3:633/10 to All on Fri Jun 12 06:07:31 2026
    Verily, in article <110g2e1$1ufut$2@toylet.eternal-september.org>, did toylet.toylet@gmail.com deliver unto us this message:
    ASCII art? Your example is overly simplified. Maybe you have and had
    tools to convert an image into ASCII art.


    There are tools like that. I saw some available in the late 20th
    century, and surely they're still around somewhere.

    They were never great compared to what talented ASCII artists did, but
    they worked after a fashion.

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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@3:633/10 to All on Fri Jun 12 18:48:50 2026
    On 6/12/2026 6:07 PM, The True Melissa wrote:

    There are tools like that. I saw some available in the late 20th
    century, and surely they're still around somewhere.

    They were never great compared to what talented ASCII artists did, but
    they worked after a fashion.

    Back then, VT-100 and Unix terminals are simple. It's easy to talk about console text interface problems. Modern day GUI might be a little bit difficult to communicate without image attachment/hosting/HTML. Anyway....

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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@3:633/10 to All on Fri Jun 12 12:21:56 2026
    On 6/12/2026 3:48 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
    On 6/12/2026 6:07 PM, The True Melissa wrote:

    There are tools like that. I saw some available in the late 20th
    century, and surely they're still around somewhere.

    They were never great compared to what talented ASCII artists did, but
    they worked after a fashion.

    Back then, VT-100 and Unix terminals are simple. It's easy to talk about console text interface problems. Modern day GUI might be a little bit difficult to communicate without image attachment/hosting/HTML. Anyway....


    Fwiw, around 25+ years ago in several of my proxy servers, I coded up a
    little embedded web server. It listened on a special port where I could
    go in and alter settings, see status, ect using a browser. I never coded
    up a GUI using Windows for it.

    Iirc, I also had another port where I could telnet into it and issue
    commands.

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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@3:633/10 to All on Sun Jun 14 00:44:53 2026
    On 6/13/2026 3:21 AM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    Fwiw, around 25+ years ago in several of my proxy servers, I coded up a little embedded web server. It listened on a special port where I could
    go in and alter settings, see status, ect using a browser. I never coded
    up a GUI using Windows for it.

    The interesting part of your little server is security. Was its door key
    safe? :)

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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@3:633/10 to All on Sat Jun 13 14:39:24 2026
    On 6/13/2026 9:44 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
    On 6/13/2026 3:21 AM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    Fwiw, around 25+ years ago in several of my proxy servers, I coded up a
    little embedded web server. It listened on a special port where I could
    go in and alter settings, see status, ect using a browser. I never coded
    up a GUI using Windows for it.

    The interesting part of your little server is security. Was its door key safe? :)


    Iirc, it was password protected. SHA2-HMAC iirc, hash of the password
    with some internal server state. But this was for some of my
    experimental work wrt mutating my server settings from a web page.

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