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(...) Don't forget Pokemon (PO_c_KE_t MON_ster) :) <ducks> seriously, though... lots of things that we encounter every day are acronyms, even if their original meaning has been forgotten by most people... two examples I can think of off the top of (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | What makes an acronym (was: Re: quick question)
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(...) Just a friendly nit to pick... :) Acronyms don't actually have to be words which come from only single letters (such as scuba = _s_elf _c_ontained _u_nderwater _b_reating _a_pparatus), but can actually pull multiple letters from words. An (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
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(...) XV Rules! I do like the GIMP but for some things there is absolutely no substitute for XV. The color editor and visual browser functionality is unmatched. I even wrote some of my own filters for XV for cleaning up mars images. Someone else (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | LEGO Cursors
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There are some LEGO mouse cursors at (URL) halfway down, legser.zip. They are 1x1 plates with a 2x2 brick bottom. Alan Random set: <set:6842> (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.general)
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Does anyone have any experience with the Java Servlet API, eps. with the HttpSession.putValue() function? It seems that *any* Java object may be bound to an HTTP session by placing it in the key/value set of the HttpSession object. However, the (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | SJ on OS X
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(URL) Jobs says OS X's main design goal was for users to want to lick the screen..." :) --Todd (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | How to melt Win95/98 kernel with bad filename
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Gotta love that old DOS legacy device driver stuff... (URL) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Hotmail account with new stuff
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(...) Yeah. I keep pointing at the 'insert address' button, where 'send' used to be ;-) The only thing I like about it is the Bulk mail thingie. It's about time I stop getting the amount of trash I do. The only address I care about that isn't (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Hotmail account with new stuff
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(...) Not really much of a surprise - they did the same thing with Windows 2000. Oh, and the MCSE certification - changing the "retire things that are 2 versions old" plan just to try to force people to upgrade. I'll still be supporting Windows NT (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Hotmail account with new stuff
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Typical M$ to change the interface, then tell us that the changes are what we want. I won't complain too loud (it's free, after all) but it's maddening to just get used to the way it works, then BAM! Totally different GUI. -Cheese (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Hotmail account with new stuff
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(...) They may have a few bugs to work out... I was in the middle of typing out a message to someone last night and Hotmail (without warning) suddenly decided to send my mail before I was done! Gremlins at work. Thomas (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Hotmail account with new stuff
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(...) Hate it. Requires Javascript. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Hotmail account with new stuff
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Hey, Anyone else out there that uses a hotmail account? What do you think about the new interface? -Shiri (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Lego Mindstorms (and me) at IBM's "barcode" party tomorrow
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Hey people in the Boston area: IBM's developerWorks is having a "barCode" party at Jillian's tomorrow night. The main attraction is Miguel de Icaza (of GNOME fame), but there's also gonna be Lego Mindstorms there to play with and look at. (URL) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: Another request to LDlite programmers...
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(...) It seems slightly better, but still ain't whatcha might call "robust". (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Another request to LDlite programmers...
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(...) i've heard good things about clemson (no details, just sits in my mind as a good thing) (...) our problem is that the 3000 that are already in the enterprise network are splitting up into different groups (yikes, ever split a tree in 4? ew) (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Another request to LDlite programmers...
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(...) yah, that fits my experience with their install - you say that the 6.2 isn't any better? I havn't tried it yet... (...) nod - I ran into that trying to upgrade 6.0 to 6.1 in place, and failing misrably... ended up going a full install. (yay (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hrmmm.... I'm sitting in on the directory services committee in my organization (utk.edu) and we just heard the eDirectory show from Novell today. They're supposed to be setting up a conference call between us and people at Clemson. Maybe we (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Another request to LDlite programmers...
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(...) ha ha :P earth days... hey man, we had a IBM Model 95 running netware 3.2 (don't ask, legacy sucks) that was up for over 500 earth days... but y2k finished that one for us (actually, we unplugged it from the network at midnight, since we had (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Another request to LDlite programmers...
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(...) 100s of Mercury days or 100s of Earth days? --Todd (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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