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(...) Except when it isn't... (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:56:29 GMT Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> wrote concerning 'Re: Website': (...) *grin* - just go work for someone who "understands"... All our servers (aside from /usr/local for SGIs, Suns, etc) are linux, as are 1/2 the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I know. I've regretted taking it off my test machine at work! :-, But I know I'm going to have some configuration headaches with setting up the VPN back into work, and IP Masquerading so that Barbara's machine can surf the Web too. Not to (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:43:06 GMT Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> wrote concerning 'Re: Website': (...) heheh... why anyone would use it... ;) But that's what you get when you patch (win98) a patch (win95) an application (win3.1) and call it an OS. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Woohoo! You won't regret it (once you get it working). --Todd (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) The filesystem in Win32 is case-preserving, but not case-sensitive. e.g. if you open a file named "FiLeNaMe.txt" but the file was really saved as "FILENAME.TXT", it'll still load. Compare this to the Unix filesystem, where "A" != "a". Why they (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hey geeks :) I'm trying to encode WAMALUG's stop-action movies into mpegs, since doing it with a META-REFRESH it way to slow for most people... I was trying to encode with Berkeley's Mpeg_encoder, on linux RH 6.1, and got the following results: (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Is it a always requirement of acronyms that they be written in all caps? It's interesting about the "y" thing! -- the only way to get BayLUG to be an actual acronym is to pull the "y" from "Bay", thus also pulling the "a" from "Bay" and (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I used to think Merriam Webster was "one smart woman". Now, I know that she employs others to do most of her thinking for her ;-) Wellllllll, okay. As long as it's a friendly nit pick :) I defer to superior wisdom and sit corrected. Of course (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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(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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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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