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Fredrik, (...) As far as I know, you don't need a special license. (...) You put the car in nuetral, so the wheels turn when the RV turns, I believe. It depends on the towing apparatus as well. (...) Heh heh, I don't have an oversized vehicle, (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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When traveling in Florida recently, I saw a lot of recreational vehicles. I realized before traveling to the US that everything "over there" is large. But those RV's were extraordinarily large. Can you drive such a vehicle with a normal license? And (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Oh my. A guy on TV just called this Boston Marathon "the first race of the second millennium". (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Wow. (URL) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek) !
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| | Re: Another space render...
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(...) I'll need to dig out my Oldfield CDs this evening. The first Tubular Bells and "To France" are some of my favorites. I still like to play "To France" every once in a while when I get the urge to tickle the ivories. Listen well, Andreas Stabno (...) (24 years ago, 13-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Sure, isn't that how everyone makes webpages these days? Who wants to bother typing on a keyboard? That's so 1900's! :-) --Todd (24 years ago, 12-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hmmm... d'you jot down posts and later scan them with OCR? Or something else, maybe? I thought OCR doesn't read handwriting...? -Shiri FUT .o-t.geek (24 years ago, 12-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: My starship update (very small)
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Jon Palmer wrote in message <38f4d445.2584556@lu...et.com>... (...) it (...) (Am I X-posting this correctly? Anyone?) I use Microsoft <GASP> FrontPage 98. It's very simple for computerless-minded people like myself, and my father before me -- But (...) (24 years ago, 12-Apr-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: New newsgroups for LEGO Direct and the LEGO Company
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(...) The word you're looking for is "pithy" :) -- Asher (24 years ago, 12-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) RTFM (Read The Persistent Client State HTTP Cookies Spec! :) (URL) it looks at the 'path' field of the cookie. --Todd (24 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Question about HTTP cookies
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Hey all, When looking in my cookie jar, I see 4 cookies for LUGNET: NEWSPOST=x, NEWSMAIL=x, NEWSGROUPFILTER=x, /=x However, when I trace an HTTP GET, the only cookies transmitted in the query are NEWSGROUPFILTER and / . e.g.: GET (URL) HTTP/1.0 (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) started, (...) Following-up my initial post with some experience and recent findings. First off: CompUSA has a special on CD-Rs, today only. I don't have the newspaper ad with me, but the deal is a 5pack of 74min discs, free after rebate, 1 (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) In core, yah, but wot about in packed data structs on tapes? --Todd (24 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) at least at the unix epoch, most of the code won't have to be changed - the assumption here is that we won't be using 32-bit boxes anymore, so a long int will be a lot longer :) :) Dan (24 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Oh, but no one will *possibly* be using the same code in 29 years. We don't need to worry about that. *much laughter* The unix epoch rollover is gonna be another one.... (24 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, the windowing/epoching/whatevering isn't a big deal. The thing is, they *hardcoded* the 29. They didn't even make it a constant, defined at the top of the code (or in a copybook). So in some number of years, someone is going to have to (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Horizontal scrolling while posting? (was: Re: whoop de doo)
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Xfered from admin.general..... (...) Thanks a ton Matthew. I am now set at 1280x1024 with my browser fonts just where I want them and everything is most excellent. Re-installing ATI Rage did not help. However, the website for my monitor's (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Horizontal scrolling while posting? (was: Re: whoop de doo)
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(...) Well, honestly, it's not the best monitor out there. But: (URL) has some specifications [1]: 17" (16.0" visible) w/ .28mm Dot Ptich VESA, XGA, SVGA, VGA Compatible VESA 85Hz Refresh Rate Preset [2] 1280x1024 maximum resolution So I'd say (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Sure. That's a pretty typical Y2K fix. And it's basically what you do as a human when looking at a two-digit year. (If I tell you that the expiration date on my driver's license is 12-30-02, you assume 2002. If I tell you it's 12-30-98, you (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Scary bit of COBOL code one of my co-workers ran across today (he was given the code because it's the closest thing to documentation available for a file he has to deal with): IF FLD_XYZ_YR < 29 THEN FLD_XYZ_YR4 = 2000 + FLD_XYZ_YR4 ELSE (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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