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| | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | (...) Cool! So what's the "Surprise LEGO Toy" they mention? Is it one of those FreeStyle models shown in the picture? --Todd p.s. Tip: Always (always, always :-) test web pages after uploading them and before telling people to look there. The SRC (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Richard Dee
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| | | | | | On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 17:02:38 GMT, Todd Lehman uttered the following profundities... (...) I did test it! And it loaded it just fine! (OF COURSE IT DID!, as it looked on my hard drive!) Anyway, I have corrected it. Please accept my apologies for any (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) My apologies then for concluding that you didn't test it! :) I'm curious, what web browser did you use to test it... I thought SRC="file:///...etc..." was necessary to include local files... --Todd [followups set to lugnet.publish] (25 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Richard Dee
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| | | | | | On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 21:10:28 GMT, Todd Lehman uttered the following profundities... (...) It was IE4. I had loaded it locally before uploading to make sure it looked passable, and that the side-frame link had worked. I then uploaded, checked from (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | | (...) There y'are then. The curious abomination that is IE4, being explorer as well as a browser, needs to accept non-URLs in the location box. And beacause of the directories in HTML code, it needs them there too. G:\etc. is not a URL, as (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | | (...) I don't know about that--it makes offline web development much easier. I edit pages in WordPad, so I'm not much worried about bogus references sneaking into my HTML. Steve (25 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) What makes it easier, than, say using Netscape 3, which is way faster, and older to boot (which is a Good Thing for web development, unless you're looking to limit your audience)? As far as WordPad goes.. Yick. Notepad all the way. :) Jasper (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Don't know, never used Netscape 3 for developing web-stuff. Does it deal with relative paths to hard-drive files?[1] If so, great. I have no further IE vs Netscape opinion. Why is WordPad better than Notepad? Because it has Replace, not just (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Anders Isaksson
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| | | | | | | | | | | Steve Bliss skrev i meddelandet <36c99572.9426225@lu...et.com>... (...) dragging (...) You can in WordPad too, if You drop the file on the toolbar instead of the text area (I think this goes for Word also). -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Cool! Thanks for pointing this out. That will save me a few (important) close/open mouse clicks. Steve (25 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Richard Dee
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| | | | | | | | | | | | On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 18:35:36 GMT, Anders Isaksson uttered the following profundities... (...) Thank you!!! One of the most useful things I've learned in quite a while!!!! (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) All browsers (that I know of) deal with _relative_ paths to file:/// links. It's declaring your starting page as G:\web\lego.html instead of as file://localhost/G|/.../lego.html that's not possible in Netscape, AFAIK. And that is a Good Thing, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Except when you are adding to a file, and cross over the size limit. Then you get either an 'out of memory' error, or Notepad just won't let you add any more text. You can almost always save your file at that point. (...) Don't tell me what (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Useful? Jasper (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) What about Editpad? It can open multiple files, find and replace across files (very useful for making a multi-page web site), convert upper to lower case & vice versa, as well as tabs to spaces and spaces to tabs. On top of all that, its free! (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Well, free except for the price of a postcard and postage. :) Great program - I use it all the time, although rarely for html editing. (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) I like EditPad. Here's a link: (URL) stuff. (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —John DiRienzo
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| | | | | | | | | | Mike Stanley wrote in message ... (...) Myself I have NoteTabPro - which is the best of three or four versions of NoteTab - sounds a lot like EditPad - its at www.notetab.com - its a luxury which has become a necessity for me. John (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Richard Dee
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| | | | | | | | On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 22:19:32 GMT, Jasper Janssen uttered the following profundities... (...) It's free, and it caches by actual file name, and shows the address, which makes it easier to locate a picture or something I would like to save, but had (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | | | (...) As is netscape free. (...) And no wonder IE4 is so damn slow. BTW, just get ACDsee and turn the thumbnail mode over the cache directory. with my (admittedly small) Netscape cache of 20 megs, I never have trouble doing that. And of course, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | | (...) Wasn't the problem in this case that the path was _hard_coded, rather than soft, albeit hardcoded to the wrong place? :) Jasper (25 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) How so? Other than the standard problem of changing the directory structure, and not updating all the soft-links. My experience is that hard-linking bites harder and sooner. And often requires tetanus shots. Now, don't get me started on file (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | (...) As is right and proper. Ones that aren't case-sensitive bite hard. Solution: Never, Ever, Use capitals in a file designed to be published over the internet. Avoid elsewhere. Jasper (25 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) Why? (...) Sure. Steve (25 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | (...) Because it's the Unix way! But seriously.. I mean, think of a _logical_ reason why ShElLL.bMp and shelll.bmp should refer to the same file - the main reason lose98 does that, is beacuase DOS _had_ no capitalisation in its filenames. And as we (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) Is 'Reason' the same word as 'reason'? Filenames aren't just some internal computer identification. They're used by people, and people are not (generally) case-sensitive. Well, they might be case-sensitive if you don't capitalize their name (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | | (...) Amen. But if that really happened then Unix geeks wouldn't be able to walk around thinking they're better than everyone else because they know how to do things the hard way while looking down on people who get the job done doing them the easy (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | (...) Hmm. Since you put it that way, Unix is serving people. But only some people, and not in the way I intended. Steve (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | Unix geeks —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | Steve: (...) I think it's a matter of perspective... When someone who is a Unix geek is doing something the hard way, In my experience they're actually doing it the easy way -- it just looks cryptic if you don't speak the lingo. They're often also (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Unix geeks —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | | | (...) Does uniq mess up the sorting? I don't see why you have to pipe it through sort twice otherwise. I mean, Yick. sort is a slow program anyway, so doing it twice where once would do :) Jasper (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Unix geeks —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | (...) sort it once to get the word prefixes in order. uniq -c to get you a count of the prefix occurrences prepended to the prefix after removeing dups, sort it again to put the prefixes in order by number of occurences. If you really were the geek (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Unix geeks —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) I'd have known what uniq did, yes. I don't, my box doesn't have it, nor TAFM, and I don't want it. :) (...) A lazy one? Jasper (25 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Unix geeks —Alan Shutko
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Well, I looked at it (at least, I looked at qsort... I haven't looked to see if I could speed the io of the sort command). GNU qsort is incredibly coded. It has a list of references, and during my lit searches, I couldn't find any they'd (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Unix geeks —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | | I was talking about sort. GNU qsort rocks in a major way. (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Unix geeks —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | (...) uniq doesn't mess up sorting, no. uniq -c does, though -- in the sense that it adds an additional field at the front of the line (man uniq). Technically, in this case, the first sort isn't necessary because the words file is already sorted, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Case-sensitivity in programming languages —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Well, one of the reasons many high-level languages are case-sensitive is that it vastly increases flexibility and expressiveness. Languages such as Lisp, Forth, PostScript, Perl, etc. with advanced string manipulation capabilities, dynamic (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Case-sensitivity in programming languages —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | [I suppose this should move to off-topic. Oh well.] (...) If you say so. (...) I'll disagree that it only *seems* restricting *on the surface*. When I read "assert(x)" and "ASSERT(x)", my brain thinks they mean the same thing. I've used systems (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Case-sensitivity in programming languages —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Well, I dunno, maybe those languages wouldn't be severely hampered by case- insensitivity. I always thought that was the reason they were designed to be case-sensitive. (...) OK, yes, that's certainly a readability restriction. What I meant (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Case-sensitivity in programming languages —Roy Earls
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| | | | | | | While the discussion to Case or not to Case is very interesting and I hope it continues, I would like inject something at this point. A bit of history if you will. Way back when ( Mr. Peabody please set the Wayback Machine for the cusp between main (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Case-sensitivity in programming languages —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | | | (...) Oh yes it's broke (.... because I just changed some chars into caps randomly, but we don't need to tell the boss that, right?) (...) And second because people don't want to take the time to type in: Print_A_Line_To_The_Screen ("Hello World"); (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Case-sensitivity in programming languages —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | There's one problem with the 'shorter to save storage space' issue: COBOL is much older than C. I believe COBOL was the second compiled language (right after FORTRAN). C came quite a bit later, after a significant amount of improvement in the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Case-sensitivity in programming languages —Roy Earls
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| | | | | | | | Steve Bliss wrote in message <36cc20bc.5396372@lu...et.com>... (...) This is true, Steve, but even COBOL used all caps on the 80 column cards. Most of the early keypunch machines had only caps. Did you ever wonder why the standard VDT line length (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Case-sensitivity in programming languages —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | (...) True. It just wasted more bytes with long source code than it saved with a small character set. Then again, when it really mattered, the source code was prolly kept in card decks, and only the compiled code ever made it to magnetic storage. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Case-sensitivity in programming languages —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | (...) I'm reading into your response that I wasn't very clear in my earlier 'if you say so'. I meant to say that I don't have much knowledge on the languages and concepts you mentioned. I've been in a VB & SQL ghetto for the last few years. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Case-sensitivity in programming languages —Roy Earls
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| | | | | | Steve Bliss wrote in message <36cd9ed5.15435527@l...et.com>... (...) Oh, geez, now were did I put that cane? (...) I had the same problem right after I exited the purely computer room environment. ( Are there any of those still left? Maybe in lower (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Case-sensitivity in programming languages —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | | On Fri, 19 Feb 1999 22:02:28 GMT, "Earls HouseHold" <brandone@mounet.com> wrote: <cross your 0's and dot your z's> That's not a computer habit, it's a mathemathician's habit. Of course, the one flows from the other. Jasper (25 years ago, 20-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Case-sensitivity in programming languages —Roy Earls
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| | | | | | Jasper Janssen wrote in message <36ddfaf9.136179631@...et.com>... (...) Ah, yes, Connections. Now were did I put my TV Guide? I always did need reminding that everything has connection to something else. Thanks, Jasper. Roy (25 years ago, 20-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Jason Spangler
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| | | | | Looks like the image link is broken, by looking at the page source I found the picture of the egg packaging here: (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.announce)
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| | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Huw Millington
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| | | | | Which shop? Richard Dee wrote in message ... (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Richard Dee
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| | | | | | On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 19:15:57 GMT, Huw Millington uttered the following profundities... (...) Woolies. I have seen K'nex eggs at Tesco. I imagine they will be everywhere soon enough. Not the best chocolate. Continental by the taste. If only it were (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Richard Dee
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| | | | | | | | On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 01:12:28 GMT, Carbon 60 uttered the following profundities... (...) Woolies, Tesco, they all discount Easter Eggs after Easter, usually half-price. Okay, let's deal then. I won't open any of the polybags. As duplication is (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Huw Millington
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| | | | | | (...) I'll check my branch tomorrow! Wollies always sell off their stock half-price on Easter Monday so if they are as revolting as you say, there should be plenty left at a more resonable price. Huw (25 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Richard Dee
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| | | | | | On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 19:38:25 GMT, Huw Millington uttered the following profundities... (...) I had suggested to C-60, should I and he have duplicates, that we not open the polybags, and trade during the sale period. Same for all lugnet.loc.uk (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Steve Scott
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| | | | | | Sounds good to me :) Cheers [SteveScott] Richard Dee wrote in message ... (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs! —Huw Millington
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| | | | Richard Dee wrote in message ... (...) These are 4 for the price of 3 in Wollies a the moment. I'm still waiting for Easter Monday discounts.... Huw (25 years ago, 27-Feb-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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