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(...) You just need to make sure that the "From" line matches what Todd has exactly. (slrn needs to be patched in order to be able to cancel LUGnet messages properly, though.) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I'm looking for some advice. I'd like to improve/streamline my way of reading and posting to LUGNET, but I'm not sure how. There are three computers I use, at various times, pretty much equally: a Sun Solaris box at work, and two Macs at home (for (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yes, this is true. Or some more Type 1 fonts. (...) The problem is that there's very few scalable fonts installed. So it's making do with bitmapped ones, which it can't actually scale. Sometimes it pretends to scale bitmapped fonts, but that (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Erin Windross <dwindross@pacificcoast.net> wrote in message news:Fnn1F5.JsM@lugnet.com... (...) Real life sucks. Why would you want a real life computer game? Just go outside, buy things and interact with real people. Good grief. The only thing that (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Shiri <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Fnn323.MwJ@lugnet.com... (...) Not necessarily. You'd just come up with a seriously complicated and adaptable rules system, plus a Reality Physics engine (MathEngine springs to mind). -- Mark Rendle (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Anyone know how to make Netscape Navigator display the font sizes correctly under Red Hat Linux 6.1 + Gnome? What looks great under Windoze 95 comes out looking like scrap under my installation of RHL... :-( Here are a couple screenshots: (URL) the (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Oh, BTW, that worked great -- thanks for the help. I put in an ATI XPERT98 card (8MB, PCI, 3D Rage Pro chipset) and it FLIES, even at 1600x1200x16bit. Very happy! --Todd (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Friday brickshelf had another 90,000 page views and 12 Gigs of transferrs. Although by now I suspect it's mostly people downloading the whole site, it's still amazing. The funny thing is that it was slashdotted in December for the 2000 consumer (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Does anybody out there know their way around the OpenGL API? I could use some suggestions right now for a problem I have with the interaction between the Lighting and Material functions and the Back Face Culling. It looks like I'll be spending a (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) aka "reality", as it's known outside the publishing world. (...) I doubt that that will continue for more than a few decades. There's just so much you can do with a computer - immersive VR with more objects than you can handle is probably the (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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