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If you already know VBA then I'd suggest you use Visual Basic. While it's not as powerful as something like Visual C++ it is remarkably good for building small utilities really quickly. I have been using Visual Basic for nearly 5 years and I'm (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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(...) Is ';' a "statement", though? (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Programming Language Choice
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Recently, I have gotten quite a bit of experience programming in VBA due to a database I designed for work. I have had experience programming in several languages before but haven't used it to much until now. I now have a desire to program for (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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(...) thx (...) I may be dense too, just thought of it a ; on a line alone fits exactly the definition as stated. Going to sleep now before I think of more [/:-) DaveG (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: I cannot connect to LDRAW.ORG - plz help!!!
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"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@sys-323.risoe.dk> wrote in message news:FzMpLH.K8A@lugnet.com... (...) Jacob, there is a problem with your tracert - if you compare it to Frank's tracert and my own you'll see that the packets take different paths (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: I cannot connect to LDRAW.ORG - plz help!!!
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"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@sys-323.risoe.dk> wrote in message news:G0GMuJ.JFL@lugnet.com... (...) No, definitely no proxy. I'm the admin for our firewall and internet connections and we don't have a proxy. Our firewall uses NAT and does not (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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(...) And a good one. Thanks for the replies. I think I am beginning to see some ways into it that I hadn't thought of. The way I was understanding the puzzle (and you know that people have a tendency to explain things quite poorly AND I tried to (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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(...) #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <time.h> void rof(void) {}; void main(){ int C; C = 0 // line below ; for (C;C;C) rof; // Ok so its lame } // Should be valid in perl too, but I am not sure. Just an off the cuff answer. DaveG (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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(...) Does the code need to compile in all of those, or just some of them? It's really easy in perl. :) Does it have to compile by itself, or can it be part of a larger program? The former is more difficult in C/C++... Also, what qualifies as a (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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(...) it doesn't have to actually produce anything, right? try this: perl -e 'print ,"lalal", tnirp' e- lrep :) I seem to recall some JAPH's code that would actually do things and would still qualify... but I can't find it yet... :) Dan (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Programming Brain Teaser
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Hey Y'all: Someone posed the following teaser to me, and I admit that it has stumped me completely. It has even stumped my programmer buddies (which creates doubt in my mind that there IS actually a solution to the puzzle). The question was posed (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: I cannot connect to LDRAW.ORG - plz help!!!
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(...) Using "www.anonymiser.com", I was able to get to the LDraw site to vote on the parts update. However, I was *not* able to download the file, *nor* was I able to see all of the images (exceeded the limits for "free" use of the anonymiser, and (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: I cannot connect to LDRAW.ORG - plz help!!!
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Daniel: (...) If your machine is behind a firewall, it is very likely that you are using a proxy without knowing it. It is not uncommon to put a "transparent proxy", which intercepts HTTP requests, in a firewall. Franklin: Did you get through to (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: I cannot connect to LDRAW.ORG - plz help!!!
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"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@sys-323.risoe.dk> wrote in message news:FzMpLH.K8A@lugnet.com... (...) I have run a tracert from my machine here and there are 32 hops to www.ldraw.org, but I can pull the pages up fine. I don't have my browser using (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: SSH/SCP GUI Client?
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(...) or, (if you can use it), ssh2 from ssh.com has a built in very nice sftp... Unfortunatly, their licensing is a bit harsh... Dan (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: SSH/SCP GUI Client?
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(...) I don't. Mindterm is nice, but it requires either getting a signed applet (anyone know how to do that? can you generate your own certificates?) or setting up a java virtual machine outside of the web browser, and that might be a pain. Another (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Maybe this has been asked before. Maybe I'm the one who asked. I don't remember, and I don't think so. Anyway, I've got to do some file transfer and file management on a remote server. This server is going to using SSH/SCP exclusively -- no FTP or (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | "Frag without the lag"
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Sitting in my hotel room processing factorings... I heard an ad for one of the Oz ISPs (optus) and their selling point was that if you went with their broadband solution, you'd get an unfair advantage on your online gaming buddies. The claim made (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: What's wrong with my PC?
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(...) I checked with my BIOS, and there does not appear to be any temperature alarm limit setting. This is the Asus P2B mainboard with a fairly recent BIOS upgrade. I also reset the BIOS settings to default, but this did not help. Anyway, thanks for (...) (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Announcing the Brickwise[tm] Shopping Report
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(...) For now, ya, that was the easiest first step. The main reason not to include non-U.S.-based retailers here for now was currency conversion issues. (...) Let's just say that two eight packs of Guinness played an important role and that it is (...) (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: What's wrong with my PC?
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(...) I didn't hear any beep, it was more like barely audible clicking sounds. Also, the flashing power led was very irregular, so I wouldn't think it was a warning signal. It appeared more like it was coused by a shortcut or failed power supply. (...) (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: What's wrong with my PC?
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Actually you already quite guessed the problem. It is overheating CPU or MB alarm. P2B motherboards have visual (flashing power led) and audio alarms for that (beeps that you heard). Either your CPU fan is gone, or your temperature alarm limit is (...) (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Announcing the Brickwise™ Shopping Report
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(...) Cool. Very cool indeed. Congrats! All the retailers seem to be US based, though? (just trying to beat some non US to the punch... (what can I say, I'm in Oz, whinging is a national pastime here!)) So can you talk about the technology behind (...) (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.market.theory)
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| | What's wrong with my PC?
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I have an ASUS P2B based computer in an ATX box. This is the kind with auto-power off. Recently there was a temporarily power cut in my aparatement. The PC was turned off at the time. The first time I tried to start it up afterwards, it was (...) (24 years ago, 2-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Tcl/Tk Book
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I'm looking for a Tcl/Tk tutorial book, similar to the O'Reilly series book such as "Learning Perl". O'Reilly only seems to offer a nutshell series for Tcl/Tk and I am looking for a learning type book. Can anyone offer some suggestions?? Paul (...) (24 years ago, 2-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Forced refresh of html pages instead of getting them from browser cache
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(...) Technically, yes - you should be using the HTTP "Expires:" header. (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Tactical nukes (was: Real Pics Of New Mecha)
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(...) LOL! "Military intelligence" hard at work. :-, In Starship Troopers (and Ogre/G.E.V.) anyway, this is addressed by the radiation suits the troops wore (as you later note). At some point in the book, when they need to penetrate an area (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Tactical nukes (was: Real Pics Of New Mecha)
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LOL! Good ones, Mark and Jeremy! Hmmm... Here in my universe, Spamnium is too powerful for our reactors to bear... Just last week 12 colonies were whipped-out when one reactor went critical! Damn spam, wish we never even mined it! ;-) Mladen (...) (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Tactical nukes (was: Real Pics Of New Mecha)
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(...) Sure. Look at the USMC...they _issued_ (to the div. level) 1.5kt nukes, that were man portable. Only one little problem...the rocket propelling the nuke had a range of about 2km, and the radiation was lethal at about 2.5km... (...) @22 lbs (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Tactical nukes (was: Real Pics Of New Mecha)
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(...) We at Sproat Labs tried working with Spamnium (including its dirivatives Spamtomium, Spamitillium, and the dreaded Twice-Baked Spamcake), but it emitted so many bogon particles that we quickly exhausted our reserves of Fruitcake shielding... (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I can't speak for Tom in this matter, but I've heard that Spamnium is a pretty powerful explosive source. ^__^ ~M (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) They're in the book, too. Some of the MI had Y-racks on their backs from which they could lob several tac-nukes to either side. Heinlein doesn't specifically mention yield, but it's inferred that the lethal radius of the blast is well below (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: visual confirmation
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(...) Looks like MSIE at home does. I'm not so sure at work. One problem is that sometimes the system can be sufficiently loaded down that the GUI doesn't respond (this is really bad with the Windows Terminal Server which I use to get access to (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hmm...doesn't your browser give you an hourglass or wristwatch cursor right away and update its status area at the bottom with a message saying that it's contacting the server? --Todd (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Dunno. Don't have NS installed, currently. If I remember, I'll snarf it and check. Steve (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: hey ms windows folks
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I just tried a Mozilla nightly (not K-meleon, which doesn't currently work with Win95) on my PPro 180 system (the Linux numbers were from my PIII 450 at work) and it took 12 seconds to load. (Communicator 4.75 takes 4.) If K-meleon isn't much better (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: hey ms windows folks
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(...) Huh. How long does NS4 take, for comparison? (IE of course cheats, by loading a bunch of itself at system startup time. One of the advantages (all other concerns aside) of tight OS integration.) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: hey ms windows folks
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(...) It's about 10 seconds to launch K-Meleon. That's after I've launched and relaunched a few times, so most of the files should be in the disk-cache. I've got a tempermental Gateway e-4200. That's a PII 400MHz, with 128MB RAM. Typical hard-drive. (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: hey ms windows folks
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(...) Like how long of a load time? Mozilla seems to take long (15 seconds?) to load the first time I run it (per user) after building, but then takes 4-6 seconds. Perhaps K-Meleon has this property too. (24 years ago, 24-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I downloaded it, fired off a few pages into it. It looks ok, but I haven't exactly tested it *rigorously*. I was a bit disappointed about the load-time. The whole push for this thing (reading the website lit) is the lightweightedness of it. (...) (24 years ago, 24-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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