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  Re: Website
 
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:11:54 GMT Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote concerning 'Re: Website': (...) oh - ok, I agree... having a case-insensitive platform, well, it just isn't good :) I thought the jab was at W2k or somesuch that finally does (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Website
 
(...) Actually, the EVIL part isn't uppercase filenames per-se, it's that WinDOwS is case-insensitive about filenames, even to the absurd point of allowing filenames in IIS-served URLs to be case-insensitive. There are few things more evil. --Todd (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Website
 
(...) MS made evil uppercase filenames popular. Inherited them from CP/M in 1981 and didn't begin to get rid of them until 1995. --Todd (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Trying to understand
 
(...) gun (...) It's not the solution to the bigger problem, but I don't see how it's a bad idea. Are you railing against the seatbelts in your car because they impede your movement when you're driving and trying to change the radio station? It's a (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Trying to understand
 
Dan, (...) How can requiring gun manufacturers, providing this gun lock, making the consumer pay more (I don't care how "cheap" it is, this is used for taxes as well, and I don't buy it), and them going in the trash, going to solve anything? Bad (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)


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