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  Re: What makes an acronym (was: Re: quick question)
 
(...) 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)
 
  What makes an acronym (was: Re: quick question)
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) 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)
 
  LEGO Cursors
 
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)
 
  Servlet security?!?
 
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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