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Hey all, I just discovered that my employer is offering DSL for way cheap for employees. I'm seriously considering throwing away my stone-age 33.6 and going for it, but I have a ton of questions no one at work is willing to answer: 1. Where to find (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Factoring going off line for a while
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(...) BSOD, huh? Sounds like Bill Labs (not Dell or Murphy) did the picking! <duck> <er, penguin ;-> --Todd (happily 100% BSOD- and MS-free, now living on 100% Linux & FreeBSD) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: C++ Data Types
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Bryan, int is an integer variable, float is a non integer variable, ie: with a ddecimal place, and a double is also a non integer variable but capable of storing more digits than a float. Adam (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | C++ Data Types
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Hi, Could somebody help me differentiate between an int, float, and double? (How can one "know" the language but not the basic data types!) Thanks! Bryan (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | LEGO Mac Model
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At the KEN-TUCKY works site, I saw this Mac built of bricks: (URL) message's random set is: 8412, (URL) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Stupid Question
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(...) Attendance is mandatory. Be a good citizen. The computer is your friend. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Stupid Question
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(...) You think you can exit? Mwuahahahahahahaha - you are here to stay, my friend. We never let anyone go. (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Stupid Question
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Help I still cant exit!!! (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Stupid Question
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How do you exit Lugnet? (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Help me with this!
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(...) Haven't played a whole lot with Toshibas, so I'm not sure what the BIOS access keys are...your manual should tell you how to get into and check BIOS settings. Hmm. Did Matthew's suggestion help? That would be my next guess. Then confirm that (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Help me with this!
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(...) Windows. (...) Toshiba Tecra 530 CDT, Win 95 (...) LCD/CRT didn't help, and I have no idea how to mess with BIOS. Alan (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Help me with this!
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(...) What kind of Laptop? What version of Windows? My instinctive response is "check the bios" and "toggle the LCD/CRT setting" HTH James (URL) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Help me with this!
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(...) This is a guess: your laptop has a 1024x768 or 800x600 screen, and some program has decided to shift you into 640x480 mode. On a desktop PC, that'd be fine -- it'd just make the pixels bigger. Things would be blockier, but you'd have the same (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Help me with this!
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The used screen space on my laptop shrunk for no specific reason. Could you people help me fix this? I can't do anything major like reinstalling Windows. Please help! TIA Alan (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: gnome-terminal colors
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 20:10:36 GMT "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote concerning 'Re: gnome-terminal colors': (...) Well, take a look at rxvt - I think it's installed by default in RH 6.1... one sec, yup, it is - though it's ver 2.6 instead of (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: gnome-terminal colors
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(...) Uhm, Hmm, I dunno. It's what's installed by default from RHL6.1 when I click the terminal icon at the bottom of the panel, and I like it. What others should I try? Looks like xterm is somewhat configurable but I haven't read its manpage (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: gnome-terminal colors
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 19:46:51 GMT "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote concerning 'Re: gnome-terminal colors': (...) display... but now I must ask why are you using gnome-term anyhow? :P (...) that's always a good idea... may I ask what it is? (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: gnome-terminal colors
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(...) Well, I'm not exactly trying to do anything weird, but I would like arbitrary- colored text to display properly on a white background. Here's what I'm doing: (URL) get that to work, I had to tell it to make red-on-black text, gray-on-black (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: gnome-terminal colors
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(...) I've never been able to read white-on-black (or gray-on-black) text comfortably at small point sizes, due to the way raster CRT displays scan. White-on-black characters are constructed like this: _______ _(_______)_ (_) (_) (_)_______ (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: gnome-terminal colors
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 17:08:53 GMT mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) wrote concerning 'Re: gnome-terminal colors': (...) I have to agree to that, but some people just have to be different :P Dan Boger - Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: gnome-terminal colors
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(...) I'm pretty sure God meant for terminals to be white-on-black. (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: gnome-terminal colors
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 01:53:22 GMT "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote concerning 'gnome-terminal colors': (...) I'm not sure why, but I can't recreate your problem... it seems to work fine for me, unless you're trying to do something weird with (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | gnome-terminal colors
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Anybody figured out any good settings for gnome-terminal which support black text upon a white background but still work OK with both ANSI color escape sequences and Curses(ncurses)? To make things to work, I've had to use Custom/Custom in the (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: CGI programming
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Thanks for the tips, I'm going to start with Learning Perl and then move into the CGI book if needed (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: accessing email away from computer
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(...) hotmail or yahoo mail to check it for you, and access their sites from the web... I haven't tried it myself, so I cannot give you any more directions... sorry. Dan (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: accessing email away from computer
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(...) Mostly safe, yes. I've used mailstart.com - it works. I also have my Yahoo! mail account setup to check my 3 main non-Yahoo! addresses. I prefer to use Yahoo! now, mainly because I like the interface and I actually use it for dealing with a (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: accessing email away from computer
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Hi Julie, you might see if you email provider is offering a web based option. At the university, they set up a web based email access that all you have to do is has internet access and use a browser to load the web site. You can set any computer (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | accessing email away from computer
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I've seen sites where you can join up and access your email from a different computer. Is it a good/safe thing to do? I'm going away soon and I'd like to keep up with my emails from my parents computer. Any advice is appreciated. Here is one site I (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Making Communicator 4.5 forget headers ?
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(...) f:News:host-lugnet.c...eneral.snm (...) How about In the Newsgroup window doing a View | Messages | New. That should only show the new messages and get rid of old, read threads. Paul (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Ray Sanders wrote ages ago, but I've been away: (...) Same here. One thing that could possibly work is deleting the lugnet.general.snm (I think) file in the lugnet.com subfolder of the news subfolder of the Netscape user folder (good grief, that's (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Databases and the Internet Question or Two
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(...) Bill Vaughn. And now I'm not sure he was a project manager. *sigh* the brain's rotting away here... -- -Steven "Nothin' But Net!" (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Databases and the Internet Question or Two
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(...) Agreed. As [oh, geez, I can'r remember his name now - MS database project manager guy at a conference I attended] said, "sure, there's a time to move up from Access. That time is when the second user will need to connect." -- -Steven "Nothin' (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Databases and the Internet Question or Two
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If you're talking large scale commercial you need a RDBMS, nothing else will scale big enough (well, maybe IMS but that's pretty trailing edge at this point, you need a CICS/MVS box to drive it) And from among the RDBMS's your choices are basically (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Databases and the Internet Question or Two
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(...) I'm using MySQL. It has it's limitations (I bet Larry will expand on that) but it's open-source and free (in most cases). For a comercial project I would use Oracle (which is about as far from free as you can get with databases). KL (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Databases and the Internet Question or Two
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Hello! Curiosity: What kinds of database systems are used (i.e. Essbase, Sybase, dBase, Access, Approach, AS400, whatever..), are typically used by companies, or recommended by consultants, when the source of the data would be supplied by internet (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Netscape Navigator 4.[67] memory leak under RHL6.1+Gnome?
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(...) Yah, I sure would if it were...it can't be that much worse than NN. The Win32 version of Opera drove me insane in the way it rendered stuff and handled cookies, but at least it was stable. BTW, I gave Sun's StarOffice browser a twirl tonight (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Netscape Navigator 4.[67] memory leak under RHL6.1+Gnome?
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(...) Yeah, makes you want to switch to Opera for Linux when it comes out... :) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Netscape Navigator 4.[67] memory leak under RHL6.1+Gnome?
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(...) Well, did some more digging and there actually are hundreds of Usenet posts about this very problem, scattered across various newsgroups. There doesn't seem to be any fix. --Todd (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Netscape Navigator 4.[67] memory leak under RHL6.1+Gnome?
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(...) Ack, what am I smoking? I'm looking at the wrong number. 30M is the non- swapped-out portion. The real size is actually up there around 80M, and slowly climbing. Now 90M. :-/ Well, at least it's less bad now, even if it's still pretty bad. (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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