magma

may be of interest to some here:
http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/magma/

forget if I ever gave this link:
http://www.math.odu.edu/~bogacki/lat/

-Carl

--- In tuning-math@y..., Carl Lumma <carl@l...> wrote:
> may be of interest to some here:
> http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/magma/

are you sure that's the correct link?

>> may be of interest to some here:
>> http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/magma/
>
>are you sure that's the correct link?

Yes. -C.

>>>> may be of interest to some here:
>>>> http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/magma/
>>>
>>>are you sure that's the correct link?
>>
>>Yes. -C.
>
>well, i just get "The page cannot be displayed"

It's been coming through fine here. Maybe something
between you and it is just down. Try "refresh"
lately?

>carl, why won't you answer us on the tuning list? we're asking about
>the cd you made for me of various a capella groups. could you discuss
>them please on tuning?

Gee, I thought I did respond... here it is: 34636. I've switched
to digest mode for tuning and single e-mails for this group and
harmonic entropy (stayed web for metatuning), so tuning may take a
little longer.

BTW Gene, those ad blocking services work by filtering all your
http traffic through their server. I think it's safe to say this
cannot be a good idea, even without resorting to paranoia.

-Carl

--- In tuning-math@y..., Carl Lumma <carl@l...> wrote:
>
> >carl, why won't you answer us on the tuning list? we're asking
about
> >the cd you made for me of various a capella groups. could you
discuss
> >them please on tuning?
>
> Gee, I thought I did respond... here it is: 34636.

i actually posted that message a long time ago -- look at the date in
that message. the list is blowing its nose again.

> BTW Gene, those ad blocking services work by filtering all your
> http traffic through their server.

are you serious?? someone tell me this isn't so.

--- In tuning-math@y..., "paulerlich" <paul@s...> wrote:
> --- In tuning-math@y..., Carl Lumma <carl@l...> wrote:

> > BTW Gene, those ad blocking services work by filtering all your
> > http traffic through their server.
>
> are you serious?? someone tell me this isn't so.

It's not true of Proxomitron, at least, since that is a program, not a service:

Some time ago I began to notice that many of the wonderful new features added to web browsers, far from making pages better, were instead making the web a more and more hostile place! Cramped frames, pop-up windows, music you can't shut off, stroboscopic animations, and and ever increasing deluge of slow loading advertising content were making web viewing something akin to trying to read a novel in the middle of Times Square on New Years Eve!

I decided to try and create a general purpose solution - one that could not only stop the aggravations of today, but also any demonic HTML tags lurking in the future. Thus the Proxomitron was born!

At it's heart is a powerful text matching engine. Similar to wildcards and regular expressions, but specially designed for HTML, it can re-write web pages on the fly. Think of it like a very powerful "Search and Replace" for the web. Troublesome HTML can be altered or removed and new content can be added - even your own JavaScripts!

By simply selecting some of the many included filters, you can say goodbye to common nuisances like animated GIFs, pop-up windows, advertising banners, dynamic HTML and more. Best of all, these rules are not hard-coded. More than simply flexible - You can completely change them, make them more powerful, and of course, add rules of your own! If it can be written in HTML, it can probably be controlled by the Proxomitron.

The final power is yours!

Not only can the filters stop general aggravations, but web pages you visit often can be completely customized to suit your own taste. Don't like someone else's choice of colors, fonts, or backgrounds? Use your own instead. Delete useless frames or even change their JavaScripts to work the way you want. There's really no limit!

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>It's not true of Proxomitron, at least, since that is a program, not
>a service:

Clever; the program itself is a proxy server running locally on your
own machine. Other ad blocking programs I've seen use a remote proxy
server.

Ad blocking software still doesn't address many of my concerns.

-Carl

--- In tuning-math@y..., Carl Lumma <carl@l...> wrote:

> Ad blocking software still doesn't address many of my concerns.

It doesn't address all my concerns either, but it seems clear a Usenet
group isn't about to happen.

>It doesn't address all my concerns either, but it seems clear a Usenet
>group isn't about to happen.

I've never used the usenet, but it seems like it would be so much
better.

-Carl