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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 $10k or less. Surplus should be way cheaper. Jasper (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) <pouting>Hey, stop that decommissioning talk - that hurts.</pouting> :-) -Steven (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I just finished reading William Gibson's "All Tomorrow's Parties" (Which, BTW,is a pretty good book, albeit with a weak ending.). In the book, one of the funny things that he postulates is that in the future, there pretty much will not be any (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Discovered and squashed a Y2K-related problem today. The weekly full backup on our (soon to be decommissioned but still limping along) VMS failed, complaining "Volume label too long." Turns out that the volume label for a tape must be six letters or (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Leap-seconds (was: Re: Leapyears (was Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help...)))
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Thanks for the redirect... I realized it should go in .geek but unfortionately that realization came post-posting. -S (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) LOL! --Todd (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Oh, that usually is the case - but universities and corporate environments do tend to be more forgiving of late-night downtime than ISP, as far as I can tell. (...) You and everybody else in the business, apparently. (...) barney:~$ telnet (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I am looking for some help with what seems to be a simple task. I am trying to re-install my master Front Page web file that contains my Minifig Museum of Art. I saved my "web" on a zip disk and then did a complete re-install of Windows and Explorer (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Very similar to my situation, actually. My friend wanted to start an ISP so he could have net access after college and not have to pay for it. There was a time a few years ago when it was possible. 56K modems really raise the bar, though; it (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I don't know why but this reminds me of a guy I know via IRC who started up his own ISP literally in his own home using a Linux box and a handful of lines, providing service mainly to local teachers, with the initial goal being to simply pay (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ah, ok. Well, aside from the fact that I treat all my clients/customers with respect, I agree. But I tried especially hard when I was in charge of the network support center for the students on campus and all our dial-up stuff. But even then, (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Eep, yes. This is exactly what got me into Linux in the first place. My friend was trying to start an ISP running NT. They were having trouble, so since I'd done some work getting PPP to work on the ancient terminal server at the small college (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well, there are generally _much_ more users per server, per admin, and per company. And they're all clients which have to be treated with respect. And there'more bandwidth involved. In general, though, the main difference is that as an ISP you (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ok. So what do you mean by "completely different"? I'm curious as to what you see as the differences betweeen "ISP" adminning and "corporate" adminning. I've actually done ISP "helpdesk" stuff before (in fact my last job was managing an office (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!
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(...) Concurrent Versions System. <URL:(URL) It's primarily used on Unix, but there is support for clients on many operating systems, including MS Win95/NT, OS/2, MacOS, etc. You probably would still want a *nix box to use as the server (central (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Unix. C<ommand?> Versioning System. See the man pages. Jasper (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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