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(...) That's an intriguing thought. It looks like it requires Google to be able to crawl a site completely, though. I wonder if they play well with dynamically generated content... (...) Yes, it is. --Todd (25 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Whoa -- stop posting that. Something about it is chewing up tons and tons of CPU. How many whitespace lines are you putting in? I wonder if there is a regex speed issue. --Todd (25 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hi Todd, Did you ever consider a google search box? Like this one: www.sis.pitt.edu/~dist I don't know for sure, but I think that the search is done on google's server. Toki (25 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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has something changed to disallow lots of blank lines (ala spoiler prevention)? I have tried to post something that has a lot of white space several times now, and the server just times out. Another post at the same time without white space goes (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Elemental Challenge
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(...) Steve: Never mind on trying to repeat it -- I see the occurrence in the HTTP logs about 3 minutes before you posted the question about it. Your browser (apparently MSIE 5.01 for Win98) doesn't appear to be sending the referring page URL (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well, the good news is that, as far as I can tell, there's nothing wrong with the news server. The bad news is that, apparently, your web browser actually did submit the post three times. According to HTTP form the logs, the timestamps of the (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Bingo! That was it. Thank you! I must have accidentally discovered this feature. You know I looked all over the various IE preferences and all I found was a place where I could change the default font. I never found a way that change default size. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) exact time that it happened? I can check the logs and see what your browser is passing. Are you running a beta browser or did you do anything unusual like reload or set up an HTTP proxy? --Todd (25 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd, When I clicked on the set-image (to get the enlarged view) for URL below, I got the frowny-face "Direct Image Link Not Supported". What's up with that? Steve (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think there should be some site(s) where LEGO Movie makers can submit a link to their movie with a brief write up and maybe a still frame of the movie. I envision this as something like the films section at theforce.net with the movies (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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Do you have a wheel mouse by chance? I discovered in IE that when you have the CTRL pressed down and use the wheel mouse to scroll it enlarges/shrinks the font. I had the font set way big on a new computer and had to do the same thing to fix it. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Starting yesterday, I have started seeing the small text of the LUGNET website in really small text. So small that it is mostly unreadable. I don't know if this is a problem with a setting on my browser or a change of the font size on the website. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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<nod nod> Thanks for letting us know. I'm no geek in any means, but first things first, I would limit the search. Sometimes a single search brings up thousands of posts. I suggest if the search is too broad, say it and make the searcher narrow it (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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This one is wierd... I posted this message last night around 10pm EST (approx). (URL) suddenly for no reason 2 duplicates of that message just appeared. (URL) have no idea how this could have happened. Anyway I don't think I initiated these but I (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Not sure if this is the right group.... Todd. I keep a browser open to (URL) and hit refresh every so often to see if the message count on some groups have gone up. What I don't know is when the last time I refreshed the page. How hard would it be (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Error in Hash Database again?
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(...) well, since the error was a non-fatal one (if I recall correctly) the message will not bounce right away, but will try to resend for a while... If sendmail was refusing connections for, say, 4 hours, some messages might be delayed up to 8 (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Error in Hash Database again?
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(...) Indeed it does, and perhaps that is what it was. But I could swear I saw the very post that was mixed in there long long ago (on the 10th) and then it reappeared out of order. But it could have been a dup that got stuck somewhere and just now (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Is something updating the aliases.db file before sendmail starts up, like /usr/lib/sendmail -bi or makemap? Is it possible that one of these is older and using a different format than your regular sendmail daemon? I was recently bitten by an (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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The system crashed again. Either it's running out of memory and that's causing a downward spiral or it's running out of CPU cycles and starving enough processes to build up and cause a meltdown. Either way some tuning needs to be done. This is going (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.announce) !
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(...) I think this can happen when a post sits in the sender's outbox (perhaps because they are offline) for a while before it is posted - I am pretty sure it is listed by sent date, but the age is based on when it reaches LUGNET. Does that make (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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