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(...) Actually, it does. Oh, this is going to be confusing when SGI releases their XFS filesystem for Linux. And I'm already using a _different_ filesystem called "XFS" for AFS. *sigh* (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Check out: <URL:(URL). It's Nov '99, so pretty recent. It's actually got particular advice about Netscape, which I hadn't known and am now going to go experiment with. But it seems to apply to xfstt and doesn't say anything specific about xfs (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Have any of you looked into certifications in the Linux space? Red Hat appears to have a program(1), but I don't know what else exists and/or how valuable this/these certifications are being viewed "out there". -Steven (2 URLs) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) hmm. I was just digging through looking for something else today, and ran across (URL) which implies that it's a no-go, but if you've found something that says yes then more power to ya - just let us know how! :- (...) my 6.0/6.1 hybrid (6.0 (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Do you have any URLs/pointers/tips/Howto's on this? I didn't see anything in the RHL docs or online. Maybe I'm not looking for the right thing. Any magic keywords? :) I did find a Mini-Howto on TrueType with XFree86[1] but it seems to be a bit (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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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(...) Absolutely. I've seen it (or possibly a link) posted in the Sacry Devil Monastery and/or the Other Place fairly recently. The denizens all had a good laugh. (...) xntpd. Jasper (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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was 3.51, yes. *sigh* _Lots_ more to do to get "back in the saddle" - if I decide to even go that way. -- -Steven "Nothin' But Net!" (URL) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hrmmm - are you 3.51 certified or something? If not, your NT4 MCSE will be perfectly valid until ... December 31, 2001 according to M$'s cert page. I'll be taking the accelerated route to the 2000 MCSE, which will involve me passing 70-240: (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Congrats (late, I know). Funnily enuf, this is about the time that mine's expiring and I'm trying to decide if I should head off & start on the Win2K track or just bag it all and (try to) become a Linux "expert" -- -Steven "Nothin' But Net!" "Mike (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Contemplated it. I give my self some small credit for realizing that there was a better fix somewhere. Part of the problem is that our DCL manuals have been lost to history, so figuring out the answer would have been rather complicated, using (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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