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Mike Stanley <cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com> wrote in message news:ngsc8s0avjcgrn0...4ax.com... (...) establish (...) trade (...) $8!! Here, the cheapest ones are 16GBP = $25 going up to 25GBP = $40 for Titanic!! So, any help gratefully appreciated :-) Huw (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I've actually sorted it now. I got a little excited and forgot to use the bin switch when I uploaded (yes I still use DOS prompt FTP). Thanks for you help. Scott A (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I've uploaded some files to my account. I can see the file names at: (URL) when I click on the file names it does not load the graphics: Try: (URL) even: (URL) files do load (but not the pictures within them): (URL) am I doing wrong? I just move (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Aw, never mind. 4.7 was a snap to install. Didn't even blow anything up. :) Seems to run a bit faster than 4.61, that's good. Maybe it won't have the same bogus memory consumption...we'll see. But it looks like 4.7 has the same problem with (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) BTW, are you running 4.6x or 4.7x? I'm seeing the problem in 4.61. Have 4.7 downloaded but am hesitant to install it so quickly. --Todd (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I disagree. Or should I say DISAGREE?? (see the difference? :-) ) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Oh, I don't think I'm quite up to 100 yet. Maybe 75 or so. But I've only had my player for about 9 months, I think. Never bought a single DVD locally as far as I can remember. (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Keeping it down to $8 on average takes a good amount of work, but you can keep it between $13-$17 with no effort at all online. Here's my good deals site. Updates have been a little slow lately, but are picking up. Easiest way to get at least (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) $8 dollars a disc? How? Where? And to think I've already bought 100+ DVD's (I've had a player for at least two or three years now) usually at only slighly below retail at COSTCo. (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) At my prices? You mean an average of around $8 per disc? Or do you mean US retail or near-retail sale prices - quite a bit more? :) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I doubt that future OS's will be case-sensitive. If anything, I expect future OS's to be case-INsensitive. Most people (esp. non-geeks) don't see that FILE.doc as different from file.DOC, and it is counter-intuitive for the filesystem to use (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Bruce Schlickbernd <corsair@schlickbernd.org> wrote in message news:FoJxoF.GCF@lugnet.com... (...) what (...) massive (...) Thanks for the pointer. I am trying to avoid getting them from a 'shop' because I will almost certainly have to pay import (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) What will happen when that happens? My prediction: core routers will implement IP-level filters on the entire AOL domain. Hey presto, no more problems. And yes, I _know_ there are enough people who can and will do something like that if it (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) (URL) these guys a try. I see that they have international shipping, but what is involved, I have no idea, but they have been around for years and do massive amounts of Laser Disc and DVD business. Staggering selection. Bruce (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Yes, I thought there might be... :-) I have just invested in a player (multi-region) and would like to establish a trading relationship with someone in the US so that I can get the discs early and at your prices. Anyone interested in helping me out? (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) The best kind always does. This is FUN alarmist propaganda, a variant of one of the canonical forms of "imminent death of the net predicted", but a good read nonetheless. Larry Pieniazek larryp@novera.com (URL) - - Web Application Integration! (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Check out this article for some scary predictions of what will happen when AOL'ers get that high speed connection to the internet and start using it in the same way the unsophisticated web user uses AOL. Sending 30mb E-mails, bombarding sites with (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) -- -Steven "Nothin' But Net!" (URL) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) (URL) A general lack of clue to go along with MCSEs unfortunately is not (...) "why did you take the MCSE?" "So I can tell my boss to use $FREE_UNIX_OF_CHOICE and be listened to." Jasper (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well, yes. But NT? My NAT box[1] would quite happily function with a few extra network cards in it as a router, I'm sure. (...) Just get a _real_ router. If it doesn't fill up two 19" racks to six feet... ;) Jasper [1] 386DX40/12M/100M. And (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) give (...) Hi James, I do have also a problem to upload .DAT & .MPD files. Now i just found at there following page that they *** don't support .CGI & .EXE files for security reasons.*** For more information abouth the supported file name (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) give (...) And I do have problems to post .DAT and .MPD files to Geocities. They answer me that those are invalid extensions. What to do ? Any help welcome. Regards, Ludo (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Could someone help me? I have a Geocities account (URL) you want to check it out. anyway, what I need help with is this: I have a video clip on the page right now, but I cannot get it to the right file name (.exe) or figure out how to type in html (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Done. I wrote a little C program, which grabbed everything I needed from the bynumber.txt file almost instantly (for 168 sets). For some reason, it couldn't handle 3 digit numbers, but there were only three of those, so I copied them manually. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Jasper wrote... (...) BOFH? I know by the time they get to me, I want to see technical compenancy, though for the NT Support folks they won't have even gotten to me without the paper. (...) unfortunately, I agree - though that goes for CNEs as well (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Jasper Janssen" <jasper@janssen.dynip.com> wrote in message news:3890e51e.248055...net.com... (...) or (...) or... (...) been (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Heh. Yeah, for small networks, you really can. In fact, for usability's sake, I'd much rather turn one of my spare PC's into a "router" than buy even a used Cisco router. Not sure I'd do it with NT rather than Linux, though. I'm hoping I can (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) If you're being hired by HR, they're useless. If a BOFH is sitting in, he may give you a bit of benefit of the doubt. If the panel is composed of BOFHs only, they'll want you to show competency rather than the ability to get certified. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I can't seem to be able to click on links with in the LUGNET news posts, and have explorer automatically load that link. I recently got a new computer, and I suspect tat it is just a setting somewhere, but I can not find it for the life of me. Any (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Thanks. I'll see what I can do with it... --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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BramL@JUNO.com (Bram Lambrecht) wrote in <FoCz5y.DMp@lugnet.com>: (...) <STDIN>; (...) copy of (...) some (...) Bram, check out: (URL) think the files referenced on those pages are already basically in the format you're looking for. That's where (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) What exactly does this bit of code do? How do I use it? (I've done some programming, but only in C, and nothing really fancy) Where can I get a copy of bynumber.txt?--if it includes all the info I need, I could probably throw some code (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I don't care how ugly it is as long as it works and its not to hard to use...where can I get it? --Bram (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hmmm... My kneejerk reaction to that is, "Wasn't Bill already in the fun part?" After all, he just likes to make money. He personally has demonstrated or technical expertise or vision. Unless BASIC can be considered state-of-the-art... But I (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) or like Bill has finally gotten sick of the business of business and wants to get back to the fun part... wouldn't we all! -- -Steven "Nothin' But Net!" (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I wrote such a script. However, it is really ugly: it's mostly Tcl but it calls perl to do the DB query. It should be all perl (it would be much easier/shorter/quicker) but it grew out of something else I was playing with in Tcl. Steve (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Here's a q&d pseudo-grep, if that helps... #!/bin/sh cat /home/username/lego/...number.txt | \ perl -e 'my %x = map {(split(/\t/,$_,2))[0], $_} grep {/^\d.*\t/} <STDIN>; print join "", map {$x{$_}} @ARGV;' $* --Todd (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) :) now. (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) If you have time, please do :) (When's your vacation?) --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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