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Good post! (...) I agree with most all you say, but I am surprised that you consider this: in-memory compilation of arbitrary code constructed on-the-fly, necessary for a language to be "high level". I rather consider it a potential pitfall for the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: What happened?
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(...) Enough to make me quite happy. For whatever reason, in the US, it's rude to ask specific details, and it would not be prudent for me to answer publicly in more detail. Why salaries and comp are closely guarded may be an interesting .debate (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Fun with JAVA
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Make sure JAVA-script is turned on and look at (URL) (25 years ago, 19-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Perl rules!
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(...) Amen to that. Perl is the first general-purpose programming language I've ever used* which hasn't yet made me mad at it because it couldn't do something in a clean and straightforward way. It's amazing: I just never get mad at Perl. Instead, (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: What happened?
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Once upon a time, (on Thu, 17 Jun 1999 17:52:22 GMT, to be precise!), Larry Pieniazek uttered the following profundities.... (...) Ah ha. Hmmmm. How much %age of the company were you offered? (25 years ago, 19-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Geometry problem
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Kevin B wrote in message ... (...) Cool problem. I am actually visually able to see the fact that the "hypotenuse" of the combined area is not straight. I see the top hypotenuse as concave, and the lower as convex. It sometimes amazes me at the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Getting a bad impression?
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(...) [Snippage] (...) [more snippage[ (...) The from header looks worse. Are you sure that was actually there like that? I'd tell my sendmail to reject messages with a From: that badly formatted... Jasper (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Geometry problem
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(...) A very similar one is in my mothers' bundle of Lewis Carroll works, originally published before WWII... Jasper (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: X-Face: usage?
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(...) a 64*64*4bit grayscale image, IIRC. Something along that lines, anyway. If your software supports it, it's a small image of the users' face (or whatever part of his anatomy he would care to show) Jasper (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Serial Connection Distance
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(...) Depends. RS232, standard PC serial cables, should get 25 metres, IIRC. RS432, which is a balanced serial system, has reaches in the hundreds of metres range. Jasper (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Normal to get e-mail 1 month after it was sent?
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(...) 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)
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| | Any cygwin32 users out there?
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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
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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)
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| | Re: What happened?
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(...) 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
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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)
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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)
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| | Re: Win32 GUI woes
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: Podracers Guild?
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: Win32 GUI woes
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: X-Face: usage?
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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)
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| | Re: Normal to get e-mail 1 month after it was sent?
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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)
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| | Re: Podracers Guild?
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: Podracers Guild?
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: Geometry problem
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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)
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| | Re: Podracers Guild?
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: Win32 GUI woes
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: Win32 GUI woes
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: Win32 GUI woes
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(...) 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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| | Re: Win32 GUI woes
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(...) No, but I know that it can be cured :) My NT4sp4 runs at 1200x1000 ONO both at work and home, and NT Explorer pops up as a tiny wee box, exactly as specified. Perhaps try running one only copy, make it the right size, close it. Open another (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Getting a bad impression?
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(...) Hmm, let's see what happened to the other copy... OK, found it. The headers are kind of odd: From Mookie@execpc.com Sun Jun 13 21:55:14 1999 Received: from mailgw00.execpc.com (sendmail@mailgw00.execpc.com [169.207.1.78]) by lugnet.com (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Win32 GUI woes
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Hey all, I'm wondering if anyone knows any cure for the following teeth-gnashing features that Win NT 4.0 has: 1 - You open a new window, launch an app, etc. and it takes up an ungodly amount of real estate on the screen. Like 80% of the pixels (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Geometry problem
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(...) [Spoiler space added] Hmm, haven't checked all figures, but the two triangles are not similar (same shape): the green triangle has a slope of 2/5, the red triangle is 3/8. So the two aggregate figures (which appear to be triangles, but are (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Normal to get e-mail 1 month after it was sent?
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(...) If you're using Outlook or Outlook Express, right-click the message (maybe the subject line in the Messages list). Choose Properties. On the dialog that shows up, click Source. The gunk at the top is the SMTP headers. Steve (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Geometry problem
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I admit that this puzzles me, but then again, it's the end of the working day. (URL) (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: X-Face: usage?
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(...) Yep, but I seem to be the only one. In addition to Tim Rueger, that is. Tim, your images reads out clearly in my end. Fredrik (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: X-Face: usage?
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(...) I think Fredrik Glöcker uses it. --Todd (25 years ago, 13-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | X-Face: usage?
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Hi, Does anyone else out there use the X-Face: header (either able to view it or post it)? I think I've got it working with my newsreader, but I just want to know if it was worth the effort. -Tim (25 years ago, 13-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: New URL for Ed Boxer sites
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(...) [snip] (...) This counter stat tool is just too cool. 23% of 63 hits to my LEGO sites over the last day were referred from a LUGNET URL. 46% of the 37 hits to my Opera Review site were referred from the Taipei Symphony Orchestra site (I guess (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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