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  Re: Normal to get e-mail 1 month after it was sent?
 
(...) A lot longer, considering that any IP connection first sends a SYN packet, then waits for an ACK, and only then starts tranmsmitting.. Jasper (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Any cygwin32 users out there?
 
Hey fellow geeks, Does anyone use cygwin32 (GNU compiler and utils on Win32 platform) for anything? I gotta buncha "how the hell did you configure this" Q's I might want to bounce off your head, mostly re: bash and readline... Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
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  A Beautiful Irony
 
I just noticed a curious URL in this message... (URL) one with the embedded parentheses, near the bottom of the message. The code in the web interface for parsing this is incorrect, but it happens to display the hyperlink correctly there because (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: What happened?
 
(...) I'm going to work someplace else instead of CTP. My CTP email won't work any more. That's the scoop, the whole scoop and nothing but the scoop. Really. What part didn't you get? :-) Oh, ok. It's not the whole scoop. You want more details? :-) (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
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  Re: Win32 GUI woes
 
Michael Ulring wrote in message ... (...) Gah. That's too obvious. Thanks for the reminder :) Hmm, maybe I should have rebooted after removing the SB16 drivers. I just blue screened (again) when I tried to install the SB-PCI driver. Oh well, they do (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  WebBoard by ORA
 
Just wondering, since I'm planning on giving this a test run on my new webserver at work. Has anyone implemented WebBoard by Oreilly & Associates? I would imagine several people have used it, even if they don't know it, since several large (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Win32 GUI woes
 
(...) Doesn't seem to hurt. Doesn't seem to matter, though, simply clicking the X by itself does the same thing on my machine. (25 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Podracers Guild?
 
(...) While that is certainly amusing (although not being able to dl the stuff I need isn't) I'm still stumped as to why this is happening. I've dl'ed their 128-bit stuff for a couple years now with no problems, and this is a problem that is (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Win32 GUI woes
 
(...) I've found in the Win NT FAQ (1) that pressing the CTRL key while closing the window will save that window's settings. I wonder if this feature also exists in Win95/98...? Cheers, - jsproat 1. (URL) Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com> (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: X-Face: usage?
 
Once upon a time, (on Sun, 13 Jun 1999 16:23:59 GMT, to be precise!), Tim Rueger uttered the following profundities.... (...) Please tell me, what is in X-face? It shows up when I choose to display the full header, but what, pray tell, is this (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Normal to get e-mail 1 month after it was sent?
 
Once upon a time, (on Mon, 14 Jun 1999 15:07:11 GMT, to be precise!), Steve Bliss uttered the following profundities.... (...) Outlook '98. Open the message, and then view....options. It transpires that at least half of these messages are (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Podracers Guild?
 
(...) No, you're outside the United States of Microsoft. Its borders are just beyond the Redmond city limits. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 16-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Podracers Guild?
 
(...) Hrmmmm.... have you upgraded to the latest (4.0, I think) version of AOL? Also, you CAN use another web browser, if you want. My parents have AOL 4 at home, which uses IE as the built-in browser (for a while, anyway, until they replace it with (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Geometry problem
 
Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:376526fe.117992...net.com... (...) Bingo. That is the answer to the problem. I had one similar to this in a gometry class once. It is a sort of optical illusion. The angles are close, but (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Podracers Guild?
 
(...) I have no clue, I only have AOL. some sites work fine, others just come up with a stackdump error. (25 years ago, 16-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Win32 GUI woes
 
(...) the (...) Of course to uninstall (as you inquired) you'd just click "Remove" not "Add" - I assume you're removing some other sound card first and then adding the SB16? Sometimes when I read the meaning just gets mixed up before I can fully (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Win32 GUI woes
 
(...) I've always done it through Control Panel->Multimedia->Devices Tab Click "Add" and away you go. For SB16 you should have no problems assuming the card can get the IRQ it wants etc. -Mike (25 years ago, 15-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Win32 GUI woes
 
(...) Change your hardware and reinstall NT. (The above should be read with only a half-joking tone) Steve (25 years ago, 15-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)


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