From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 27 21:29:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA26182 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 21:29:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA26176 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 21:29:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA11435; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 13:58:39 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199608280428.NAA11435@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Wallpaper images? To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 13:58:38 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, chat@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199608261501.PAA02541@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> from "Sean Kelly" at Aug 26, 96 09:03:37 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sean Kelly stands accused of saying: > > >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Smith writes: > > Michael> Nothing obvious (short of spending weeks downloading images > Michael> off Windows archives) pops up from AltaVista - anyone have > Michael> any pointers? > > Some of background page patterns suggested by Netscape work pretty > well---that is, they aren't visually noisy, color intensive, etc. > Others are awful; I'm sure you'll see what I mean: > > http://home.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/bg/backgrounds.html That's not bad; Michael Searle suggested Albino Frog Software at http://www.frii.com/~afs/ - they have some very nice stuff too. (I'm currently using "Blood Lizard" and am generally very happy with it as an altenative to gray50 8) > Sean Kelly -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[