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(...) Why did you not choose to be a craftsman and fix the problem correctly? The true craftsman makes the back side of the dresser just as good as the front, it matters not that there is no one to see it, for the craftsman would know, and be (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Leap-seconds (was: Re: Leapyears (was Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help...)))
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(...) at least not back in '83 :-) nah, actually never did that I know of at any point afterwards either. oh well, would have been a cool feature. -S (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hey, look, you want it, you can have it. Comes with a buncha professors who they think that it is the center of the computing universe. Which it probably was, in 1970whenever-the-fir...e-machine. (Hardware's been upgraded several times since (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Leap-seconds (was: Re: Leapyears (was Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help...)))
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(...) Nobody said they were or weren't! DEC was just saying that they chose not to be a supplier. Whoever it was at DEC that wrote that response is a brilliant master of the art of educating and amusing at the same time. At least that's my opinion. (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Leap-seconds (was: Re: Leapyears (was Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help...)))
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(...) Come now, atomic clocks aren't that expensive. Probably you can get one for $10k or less. Surplus should be way cheaper. Jasper (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) <pouting>Hey, stop that decommissioning talk - that hurts.</pouting> :-) -Steven (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I just finished reading William Gibson's "All Tomorrow's Parties" (Which, BTW,is a pretty good book, albeit with a weak ending.). In the book, one of the funny things that he postulates is that in the future, there pretty much will not be any (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Discovered and squashed a Y2K-related problem today. The weekly full backup on our (soon to be decommissioned but still limping along) VMS failed, complaining "Volume label too long." Turns out that the volume label for a tape must be six letters or (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Leap-seconds (was: Re: Leapyears (was Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help...)))
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Thanks for the redirect... I realized it should go in .geek but unfortionately that realization came post-posting. -S (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Leap-seconds (was: Re: Leapyears (was Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help...)))
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(...) LOL! --Todd (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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