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Well Shiri i discoverd that switching to an altered e-mail addie every 3 months for a year tends to reduce spam-don't ask why but it works ravi (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Which reminds me of one of my fave acronyms... for an editor somewhat like the world's best editor. MINCE = MINCE Is Not Complete Emacs (...) As for what I keep in *my* wallet? (this *is* .geek, after all)... a vi reference card. vi is the devil's (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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The way I heard it was: "It is said that an infinite number of monkeys at keyboards will eventually produce great works of literature. But now that we have the internet, we know that is not the case." (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yeah, they had it at my old work.. I heard that it staggered like a lame dog that had just licked up one broken bottles worth of whisky, and had currently forgotten that it had only three legs. I never tried it though, I was happy with (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Sometimes I wonder about those monkeys on the typewriters (1), and how similar that is to spamming. One of the stories relating to that theory, is that if you put those said 6 monkeys on typewriters, they'll write every book in the Great Library... (...) (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) letters (...) but (...) This calls for something I like so much, I keep it in my wallet: ACRONYM: A Contrived Reduction Of Nomenclature Yielding Mnemonics Frank (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Good thing I already have my shillelagh(1) out... *whap!* Bad Pun!! :) Jeff [FUPs to .o-t.pun] 1 - check offtopic.fun (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) Neither diesel nor ohm are acronyms. Both are words formed from the inventor's or discoverer's name. So while an interesting point, it's not germane. (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Huh? What? Oh, you mean "what happens when you forget to set the 'Allow All Uppercase Names' option". I'm with you now. Steve (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) [long snip] (...) Hey, leave his winkie out of this. This is a family forum. ;-) XFUT .ot.fun (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Frank: (...) You mean things like insisting that a file you name "LEGO" has to be called "Lego"? Maybe we should as TLC to sue MS for trademark infringement. :-) Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL: (URL) > -- (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'll never forget the day my Intro Calc prof was talking about capitalization and adjectives. He said, "The highest recognition -- the highest honor -- we can get as mathemeticians is a hundred years after we die, to have our name written in (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Cool, I will probably look into it. (...) I'm bummed right now because I can't run at more than 1280x1024 at 75Hz, not because my video cards or monitor won't do it, but because the Sybex 4-port switchbox I use doesn't handle anything higher (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I think so, until they cross over into regular noun "worddom", cf. scuba, radar. Words like "diesel" or "ohm" are no longer capped when impersonally used. Much in the same way, I've noticed that many hyphenated terms gradually lose their (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) But you see on their website that balug is a linux user group. Alan (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Surely! It's an ATI XPERT(tm) 98, the 8-MB PCI version. UPC sticker says "XPERT 98 NA PCI 8M 100-419031 / 7 27419 40420 4". Says it's "Designed for Windows 95/98" but worked *absolutely* flawlessly (100% autodetected) under RHL 6.1. The only (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Make and model, please? I'm wanting to put a better card in my dual Celeron (366 running at 512) machine that is running RH 6.1 since the piece of junk Diamond thing in there now isn't good enough. (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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*sigh* (...) s/Why they decided/Why Microsoft decided/; Like the Unix filesystem, hate the Win32 filesystem. For the record... Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) When doesn't it preserve case? Or are you talking about when you create a new file or dir in Explorer, and Explorer munges the case for you...? Explorer was a neat idea that I liked at first, but it's starting to get more and more annoying. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I finally just gave up on trying to get XFree86 to work with my video card... finally just went out to Comp U.S.S.R. and bought a cheapo $69 card that was known to work with it (XFree86 3.3.5 at the time). Not bad, BTW, for $69 -- pumps out (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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