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(...) D'oh! 'Scuse me while I yank out more of my hair... :-, It's pretty much in the past now; I've given up on Cygwin. I discovered that MKS Toolkit offers a *lot* of POSIX command-line functionality that we needed on our project, and I never (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Wow, you're right. I just tried all combinations of locations of .inputrc [c:\, c:\bash, c:\users\default] with all combinations of stuff in .inputrc ["set editing-mode vi"[1], "set vi-editing-mode"[2], "set vi-editing-mode on", "set (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I think i posted later... about this.. i loved the tricords when they were around (alas, oh my, no more)... i love the compaq prolient servers now.. (not the old ones, the newer ones... 6500s and 8000s and such) they were built with me in (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Jennifer L. Boger writes: off of them that our procurment department finds off trucks somewhere :) and i (...) What do you prefer for servers? (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) For $975 I just got all of this: Abit BE6-II PowerUp $133.00 Celeron 566 + Heatsink/Fan + Slotkit PowerUp $230.00 (tested to 850) 128mb PC133 DIMM PowerUp $126.00 Creative Labs X-Gamer Retail Comp-U-Plus $68.00 Maxtor 30.7 GB U-66 7200rpm HD (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Actually, you have the honor of being the first to reply! :-, (...) Yeah. And they still stand. :-, Mainly, I was trying to figure out how to get Bash to recognize my .inputrc; specifically, how to get Bash to set editing-mode to vi. IOW, I (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Erm, did you ever get a "yes" from anyone? We're using cygwin32 here at work, but beyond setting it up once and then running stuff in it every day, I don't know much about configuring it. Do you remember what questions you had, 10 months ago? (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) oh yes, i love the dell laptops too... though, vaio's have a special place in my heart :) (as for servers, i love compaqs and tricords (yes, i know they're not made anymore, but when was the last time you saw a 75mhz machine with 1000 people (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) laptop is far and away better than the Compaqs I've had to deal with. But for non-laptops, I prefer to build my own. Bruce (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Nope. Not my problem. :) (...) Very nice. (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) laf... okie, have you found a window box that doesn't suck? We have a bunch of users that seem to resist the idea of converting to RH (for some reasonable or not-so-resonable reasons :) and I havn't found a platform I'd recommend for them, (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) i deal with dells at work (like 30,000 of them or so) and i just love them to pieces (except the dimentions (sp) they suck)... i've dealt with compaqs, hps gateways and the special no-name brands that have the serial numbers scratched off of (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Heh. I deal with dells at work, and I think _they_ suck. Nice case design, sub-par performance. (This is the optiplex line; others may be different.) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) ewewewewewew. Sorry, I have to deal with some gateways at work, and they all, without exception, suck. If you want a windows based machine, why not go with dell? a quick look shows 1GHz PIII, 256MB 19" monitor, 40GB HD, DVD and CDRW for $4029 (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) vs (...) Dual PIII 600 vs Athlon 1Ghz is probably a toss-up. With most things, the 1Ghz Athlon will be faster, but rendering is a great best-case application for SMP, so the two PIIIs might be faster for some of what you're doing. And really, (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) But I do some programming and stuff too, so I don't want a Mac. (...) I was more inclined to get a Windows machine and put on a copy of Linux, but as I'm going into engineering, maybe I'll get more into Linux... (...) I use Corel Photopaint 8, (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) You can probably get student deals on Apple stuff (which would fit in well with what you want to use your system for). But even with the discounts, that may not be the most economical choice. I've personally been looking at Penguin Computing (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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All, I'm shopping for a new PC. My budget is <$4000, and I'm a student, so maybe I can get student discounts? I know I want a DVD-ROM and a CD-RW drive, but other than that I don't really know much other than I want it to be fast :) Stuff I use my (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Caffeine! (URL) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Not neccessarily :) The slightly redundant '$' in '$x USD' led me to thinking that maybe it was there intentionally. At least in tcl, 'x' has a different meaning from '$x', ie -=-=- #!/usr/bin/tclsh set x 21 set $x "\$500" puts [set x] ;# (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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