[Coco] Coco Cartridge Prototyping Pak PCB

Thu Oct 9 14:33:43 EDT 2014

Kip, the problem in this case wasn't the lack of <...> around the link, the
insertion of which didn't help.  It was that your mailer inserted a space
in the middle of the link.

Art

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:

> Hi Guys!
> Sorry for all the trouble with the links folks.  Gene, I guess I'm one of
> the users of mailers you are talking about since I use Outlook 2010.  I
> really like it a lot.  Outlook performs well for me.  I use and prefer HTML
> emails specifically because of links in the email.  Outlook makes it a lot
> easier and cleaner to see.  I've never really liked text only email clients
> because of how difficult it is to read an email that's an html encoded
> email.
> I'll start using <...> around my links to help the text only email users
> find the complete link.  It may take me a few times to remember, so please
> be patient with me.  I would appreciate it.  I never really thought of all
> that before.  I've always been able to gather a link together quite easily
> from other people that got wrapped around on multiple lines, so I was not
> aware of any difficulty.  I can also understand your apprehension to click
> that html button, Gene.  I rely heavily on My Security software to protect
> me!  Your advice as well as everybody's kind advice is always welcome.
> Thanks everyone for pointing this out to me.  Sometimes I have to be hit
> over the head with a 2x4!  :)  As I said before, please be patient with me.
> I'll get it!   Take care my friends.
>
> Kip Koon
> computerdoc at sc.rr.com
> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon
> http://computerpcdoc.com/
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Gene Heskett
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 10:23 AM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Coco Cartridge Prototyping Pak PCB
>
> On Thursday 09 October 2014 04:29:52 Arthur Flexser did opine And Gene did
> reply:
> > Um, Gene, both of your examples give me a 404 error, using Gmail.
> > Generally, I have no problem with links that wrap over more than one
> > line, so it seems possible that the <..> surrounding the link is
> > actually CAUSING the problem for me.  (The part starting with ak%20
> > isn't highlighted, indicating it wasn't seen as part of the link.)
> >
> > Art
> >
> Damn emailers. That space I did not see is illegal in a URL.
> That should have been Pak%20.
>
> The %20 is how most spaces are encoded.
>
> Honest, I was trying to be helpful, but its difficult when trying to fix
> the
> mistakes that the use of a web mailer, as opposed to a text based client do
> to the output.
>
> rant:  I as you might expect, have no use for so-called email clients that
> wrap a 2 sentence, 300 character reply with punctuation marks that are
> perfectly legal, up in 3 to 10 kilobytes of html markup that when viewed
> with a text only viewer, takes the human eye 10x longer to read because of
> all the html markup crap injected and that to make sense of what the person
> wrote, has to be mentally removed.
>
> And yes, kmail can display html encoded messages, but they MUST be properly
> MIME encoded too before I even get a button to allow me to enable the html
> translation back into readable text.  Not all "web mailers" do that, and
> fewer yet get it right.
>
> Maybe its just me, being the now 80 yo curmudgeon I am, but folks who post
> using a web mailer because its pretty, don't grok that it is in fact pretty
> ugly unless viewed by that same web mail service because each has its own
> version of whats correct.
>
> Besides that, automatically decoding an html message also opens your system
> up to all the various and sundry web based attack methods, methods that I
> generally don't worry about because I don't click on the show html button
> UNLESS I know the sender.
>
> Thats just plain good practice. In 16 years of running linux, I have had a
> router or 2 bricked, but that still didn't gain the attackers a path into
> my
> machines.  And I don't worry about it other than to replace the router with
> one that can be re-flashed to dd-wrt.  No one gets thru it that isn't privy
> to the username/password used, and even then I would have to enable access
> to it from a remote address.  That isn't going to happen.
>
> /rant
> More below.
> > On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 4:15 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 09 October 2014 01:05:21 Bill Nobel did opine
> > >
> > > And Gene did reply:
> > > > Hi Kip,  I donأ¢â‚¬â„¢t know if it is just me, but the links you
> > > > provide to dropbox give me error 404? something happening on my
> > > > part? others seem to see it.
> > > >
> > > > Bill Nobel
> > >
> > > That is probably because we haven't trained Kip to use a set of <>
> > > around the link, which indicates a complete, long enough to get line
> > > wrapped, link.
> > >
> > > > > On Oct 8, 2014, at 11:01 PM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi Guys!
> > > > > Here is the second version of the Coco Cartridge Prototyping Pak
> > > > > with all your suggestions.  How did I do Ed?  Not only have I
> > > > > included the links to the renderings from OSHPark, but I have
> > > > > also included the Schematic and PCB layout in PDF form since so
> > > > > many people are expressing an interest in this project and have
> > > > > made suggestions. The following links are the top and bottom
> > > > > renderings of the PCB from OSHPark.
>
> I have now disabled word wrapping, which meant I had to take 10 minutes to
> re-format my message above by hand, and will try fixing these again.
>
> > > Examples:
> > >
> <
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/yy17jwamkejx94s/Coco%20Cartridge%20Prototyping%20
> Pak%20-%20Top.png?dl=0>
> > >
> > > Should just work, and
> > >
> <
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/euo6vq5ukkr8gvu/Coco%20Cartridge%20Prototyping%20
> Pak%20-%20Bottom.png?dl=0>
> > >
> > > When you post long URL's, please use the <> convention and it will
> > > work for lots more people, Kip.
> > >
> > > > > Here are the links to the schematics and the PCB layout.  The
> > > > > first schematic has all the decode logic.  All the second
> > > > > schematic has are the holes.  The third link of course is the
> > > > > PCB layout from Eagle Pro. V6.4.0.
> > >
> <
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/amvqf8nf5xfvznl/Coco%20Cartridge%20Prototyping%20
> Pak%20sch%201.pdf?dl=0>
> > >
> <
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/pu3o328c8aolm9d/Coco%20Cartridge%20Prototyping%20
> Pak%20sch%202.pdf?dl=0>
> > >
> <
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/0736lzhlvs7w1of/Coco%20Cartridge%20Prototyping%20
> Pak%20brd.pdf?dl=0>
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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