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| Jasper Janssen wrote in message <36ccaaf5.56473925@l...et.com>... (...) Not that easy, takes 10M years to come by...:-) Selçuk (1) Preliminary answer?..now I'm at the middle of fourth book, and probably will start fifth one this weekend...:-) nice (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) That would be "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency". If the translator translated "holistic" to Turkish-for-"holy", then you might be better off to read the English language originals. (...) There is also "The Long Dark Tea-time of the (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| On Thu, 11 Feb 1999 10:58:54 GMT, "Selçuk <teyyareci>" <sgore@nospam.superonline.com> wrote: Follow-up to .fun, for obvious reasons. (...) Well... I'm not sure if this is a spoiler or not. I think not, because I think it's book 3... yes, it is. It's (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Oh, yeah..I get it. When I saw the word "preliminary", the first thing that came to my mind was "Is there a secondary?", not that it was given 8 million years ago (so it is preliminary)..or..is being given 8 m years ago?..:-). (...) Oh yes, (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| Jasper Janssen writes: <snip> (...) Last Chance to see is AFAIK the only non-fiction book Douglas Adams ever wrote. It is an account of his travels to remote regions of the world in exploration of nearly-extinct animal spieces. It has a fair amount (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Yeah... I do it the parts way too. Someday soon, I'm gonna get me a celeron 300a on a Abit BH6 board and run slightly faster than a P-II 450 :) - I'm saving up for it. (...) Yeah.... It's 140 meg, tho. (...) I'll burn you a CD and send it to (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) It's my far future dream, too. Overclocking what I have on top of my Asus P5AB(1) board is the only way to go for now. (...) Really?..I would be greatly appreciated...:-) What about a "payment" with my readily available first two CD's of Lego (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Asus Rocks. Period. No doubt about it. <other stuff taken to email> (...) Yeah... I started with a dx2/66 clone something or other, stayed with that for 3 years, and decided it was time for something new. So I got myself an Asus TX-97, (335 (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) So, here is my story then. I started with a 386SX16 in 1992, with 1M of ram, 40M of hdd (Seagate ST157A, with an amzing(!) 500+ K/sec. of data transfer rate), a 512K Oak 067 vga card, a mono vga monitor, other regular stuff plus a 5.25 fdd (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 04:38:22 GMT, "Selçuk <teyyareci>" <sgore@nospam.superonline.com> wrote: <Sa'snip> (...) Not _that_ boring to a fellow geek - and I imgaine that lugnet's geek content is as much higher compared to AFOLs in general, as AFOL are to (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Might as well go with the Abit BX6 rev 2 now. It has 4 DIMM sockets and supports higher clock multipliers. And you won't really outperform a real P2-450, but you will come close to matching it. I'd say in some things I outperform my P2-400. (25 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) But how stable is it? :-) (...) Hmm.. I believe the difference was... 1-2% at most. Of course, games traditionally do better on celerons than Office apps, because of the lack of cache. I'm not sure how that balance has shifted with the albeit (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) ACK! I just read here that production of 300a, aka 450a, has been ceased :(( Let's see now... 83 * 5 = 415, 92 * 5 = 475, but that's pushing it. Jasper (25 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Seems as stable as my BH6. Don't know why it would be any less stable. In another month I'll have 3 oc'ed 300a's. Two will be running in BX6-2's, one in a BH6. (...) It's hard for me to tell the difference in games because in my Celeron 450 at (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Yup. If you don't have a 300a by now you're gonna have to be lucky to get one, especially a retail one like the 3 I have. I bought 2 of mine a month or so ago before I needed them because I knew they'd become scarce. Wish I'd bought 4 like my (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) If someone has a 10 meg spreadsheet, it's time to move it to Access, at least. Maybe even move it to a real RDBMS.[1] --Steve [1] Don't get me wrong, I like Access a lot. But sometimes you just need to push all that processing off on some (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) That depends entirely on what kind of spreadsheet it is - some types just aren't suited to being pushed in a DB. (...) Well, why are you running Access at all, if you have a Linux box? All kidding aside, for a nice C/S DB solution, you _could_ (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Rilly? I guess that's possible, I just haven't seen them. I _have_ seen too many spreadsheets trying to be applications, because the person who put the spreadsheet together was an Excel pro, and didn't know there were better ways to present (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 15:53:16 GMT, Steve Bliss uttered the following profundities... (...) In my department, the 2 of us, are neither Access nor Excel pros, however, the data we have needs to be presented as well as analyzed. We store the (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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