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(...) Some browsers (I don't remember which ones, sorry) don't respect this. It's best to combine this with the expires header, I think. :( (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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In the header of the page add: <META HTTP-EQUIV="PRAGMA" CONTENT="NO-CACHE"> This tag also keeps pages from being cached by proxy servers... (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) IIRC, there is a pragma no-cache that you can add to the HTTP headers. --Todd (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Is there a better (any other?) way to force a page not to be cached but instead fetched from the server every time, other than using the META EXPIRES tag at the top of the page. That's the only way I found and am interested to learn if there are (...) (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: IE css help
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(...) Turns out the answer is: it's a bug in IE 5.0. Seems to be fixed in 5.5. (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: where can I find VB40032.DLL?
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Did you ever find the needed runtime file? It is posted at (URL) A" <s.arthur@hw.ac.uk> wrote in message news:Fxt5zz.GGp@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Also, you might take a look at spamcop - (from memory, www.spamcop.net?). it'll analyze the headers for you, and even send mail to the right addresses to complain... I've found it quite effective. :) Dan (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It's an old protocol, designed before people even thought about problems like this. (...) finger, probably, or the equivalent. One problem with this is that having sites give out information about the existence or nonexistence of given (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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You're right in that the "real" sender's identity (or at least, sending location) can be traced via the headers, etc., and I know how to change my options to see all the headers/trailers/etc. I can see now how they could fake a return address and (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Earthlink is a very popular isp -- second after AOL. (Or perhaps third after Juno; depends how you count.) So it's very likely that people pick Earthlink as a target for forged addresses. It's also common to see things purporting to come from (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Over the past several months, I have noticed that an increasing percentage of the spam I receive is from addresses in the "earthlink.net" domain. Has anyone else noticed this? When I forward said messages to EarthLink's postmaster, they invariably (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | IE css help
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Argh. Can someone help me understand some weird Internet Explorer behavior with cascading style sheets? Check out (URL). The text there should appear approximately like this: Lorum ipsum dolor sit ament, con; venami quis nostrud laboris nisi ut (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Castle World HTML help needed
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(...) That'll work! Thanks a bunch, Dan. 'Preciate it! -Chris (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Castle World HTML help needed
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(...) Like this? (URL) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi all, I was wondering if someone could give me a little help. On the CW member pages, when I try to add to the list of creatures that member has submitted, I end up making the entire table do some rather strange things. My HTML coding isn't that (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: What's with Brickbay
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(...) standardized, (...) Well, yes and no. This is a big topic, FUT to off-topic.geek. A few random points (spoken as a big XML fan who nevertheless has some reality awareness) XML itself is a standard, true, but most implementations that use it (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'd say so :) Knowing that they're two verticies side by side helps! By my calculations I get: if length of a single side of the inscribed octagon is 10: Radius of the circle: 13.06562964876 Diameter of the circle: 26.13125929753 Circumference (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) D'oh! I should have specified that the two points are vertices of a single side of the octagon; I'm sure of that much! Am I on the right track here? Assuming that the side of the inscribed octagon is 10 units long, I'm calculating the (...) (24 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Nope... again, not unless you know something else (like how many verticies there are in between the two points). You could probably come up with a good guestimate, though, since there would only be 4 possible values for X, all of which you (...) (24 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I have the coordinates of the points, so am I correct in thinking I can calculate X? In any case, thanks to everyone for the help; I have what I need to figure it out! Dave! (24 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well... yes, I guess... assuming you knew X, though, you could easily calculate the diameter of the circle even without knowing the distance apart the two points were... Then the diameter of the circle would simply be: (...) (24 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, John Gramley writes: **snip of some rather helpful stuff** How about this: Suppose the two points are vertices of an inscribed octagon whose sides are each of length X. Would that help? Dave! (24 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) The process depends on whether you want a numerical process or a construction process. I'm going to assume that you want a numerical process and that you know the coordinates of the three points. If you want a construction process to be able (...) (24 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Anyway, I'm assuming you know BOTH the distance between the two points (D), AND the distance along the circumference (L)... I just did it again to be totally geeky, without assuming knowledge of x1,y1 and x2,y2: In the equasion: (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) note (...) Well, I'm assuming that we know the coordinates of the two points-- in which case, you'll get slightly different results on the baseball and the basketball... Using the 1 inch string on the basketball will create two points which (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) if (...) Ok, I was more bored than I thought (assuming degrees, not radians): F(x,y)=90*pi*(sqrt((...2)^2))/2)/ (sqrt((x1-x)^2+(y1-y)^2))) SO, using the formula L = (all that garbage) and the equasion I got before: (...) you can solve for both (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) note (...) I think he means if you know *both* the distance on the circumfrence *and* the straight line. Or maybe he just missed that. But if you know both, then yes, you can. -Shiri (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) You sure about that? Let's say I have a basketball and a baseball. I use a bit of string to make two dots one inch apart on both of them. Are the two balls now the same size? (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hmm... That was my first instinct reaction, however, the thought occurred that perhaps what is known about the two points is their distance apart as measured along the circumfrence of the circle? (assuming closest distance, but furthest would (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, I was afraid of that. Believe it or not, almost immediately after I posted I was sitting at a circular table with a can of Coke, and I realized that the same 1 1/2 inch that defines the diameter of the can only describes a tiny portion (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) [x-post and f.u.t. to off-topic.geek since this could get complicated] Well, I have a B.A. in math, but I think this should be a simple enough answer: you can't. The main explanation is that it generally takes three distinct points to (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: What's with Brickbay
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(...) Ok, I need some serious help here. I just tried both out NT terminal server and our Linux box. The NT terminal server is running NS 4.05, the Linux box is running NS 4.72. Both get the same results: I can look at a vendor's listing, I can add (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: What's with Brickbay
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(...) Yea, I accept it, but I'll still complain every once in a while (another pet peeve here is that brickshelf uses Javascript to do a redirect when you use a menmonic URL instead of the folder/picture number URL, no reason why it can't do the (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Useless little message.
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(...) android:~$ whois legomovies.com Registrant: Platinumonium Productions (LEGOMOVIES-DOM) 301 W 21st St. #5 Sioux Falls, SD 57105 US Domain Name: LEGOMOVIES.COM Administrative Contact, Billing Contact: Wigg, Gavin (GWY121) plat99@YAHOO.COM (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I wonder who reserved it......... www.legomovies.com (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Netscape, image map and tables
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(...) That's not Netscape's fault entirely -- in HTML, CR is whitespace. (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Oh, just ignore me please :) I didn't notice that I have a CR between the IMG tag and the /TD tag - so since they weren't exactly one after the other, netscape was trying to be (too) helpful... :) Dan (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hey geeks, help me out here. Anyone know how to make Netscape not put a few pixels of space between rows that contain imagemaps? See here: (URL) thin line between the rows will just not go away... It works fine in Mozilla, but is there in Netscape (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Windows 2000
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On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 23:10:46 -0600, Tim Courtney wrote (in message <FxxIDy.7wF@lugnet.com>): (snip!) (...) Some folks can get *really* defensive of their favorite OS. That's all. (24 years ago, 20-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 2:09:01 -0600, Selçuk Göre wrote (in message <3975621D.DD740346@s...ine.com>): (...) I'd agree there. WinME (Millenium Edition) is more of an evolution than a revolution. Win2000 is the bomb IMHO. (He said, typing on his G4 Mac. (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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