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(...) I can see the new & improved LEGO site fine with Netscape 4.7x under Linux -- but I thought I'd give it whirl with Lynx because I could always find the press releases easier that way. Problem is, when I try acessing it with Lynx (2.8.x), I get (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: FreeBSD/Linux
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(...) I don't know anything about that, but one related issue is that Linux does not yet have a journalizing filesystem which means that power failures can be a real pain, especially if you have to fsck a large disk. There's a bunch of journaling fs (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | FreeBSD/Linux
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(...) I like both. Linux is what I run at home on my main system. Linux has excellent disk write caching, but I think by default it writes things in disk-spin order rather than temporal data-write order, which could affect integrity in the rare (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Uncle Bill's new toy
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Hmm, can't say anything -I run a Mac! But maybe my Windows friends has heard anything about it? I thought that Windows 2000 was a new system, not an upgrade to NT. All I'm waiting for, is MacOS X! --Tobias (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Uncle Bill's new toy
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(...) Yet another version of Windows called Windows Millenium Edition (ME), It is to Win 98 SE, what Win 98 was to Win 95. A new upgrade to the Win 9x platform, not to be confused with Windows 2000 (the recent upgrade to the NT platform). It was (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Upgrading your system
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I'd like to upgrade my MacOS 8.6 to MacOS 9, or perhaps X if it's compatible with iBook, which I believe it is not. Will an upgrade erase everything on my harddrive? (like reformatting?) Or do I just launch the installation app, install, restart, (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Uncle Bill's new toy
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ME? What's that? Millenium aka Windows 2000? Or yet another version? --Tobias (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I've downloaded the QTVR Edit Object application (only for Macs) from (URL) and it runs fine. I have some POV-ray objects that I want to convert to QTVR. I know how to set up the clock and animation stuff. So far, I've managed to make a simple (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Uncle Bill's new toy
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Has anyone upgraded to Windows ME yet? If so, what do you think of it? How did the installation go? Jude (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: www.ldraw.org
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(...) Oops, you got it backwards. TTL=1 is the limit, you start at 255 and each router (or seconds held by router) decrements the TTL by one before forwarding. If TTL=1 the packet is discarded. KL (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: www.ldraw.org
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(...) To be sure that you can eventually connect to it try: ping -i 255 www.ldraw.org That is to use the maximum TTL. I tryed it and Got: Reply from 130.226.51.217: bytes=32 time=240ms TTL=227 Which is very near the limit. (...) In Fact the packet (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: legoland.co.uk attack
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(...) That has to be one of the nicest hacks...no profanity, no porn, it even relates to the site hacked! And that is a pretty cool Falcon... --Bram (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: www.ldraw.org
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(...) After some poking around with traceroute: Looks like it's directly connected to darenet.dk, and going through nordu.net to get there, and it looks like nordu.net's main connectivity (URL) to the US is through a tangled mess of ebone.net (8 (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: legoland.co.uk attack
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(...) Millennium Falcon. Here's a mirror of the hacked site: (URL) Anyone seen that model before? Also, he did leave a nice message for the admin. :) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: www.ldraw.org
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(...) we've seen this problem before... it seems that the ldraw.org site lives in the far depths of the internet. A lot of people seem to need more than 30 "hops" to get to it, and apparently, there's software out there that is just not patient (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Is it perl or C? (was: Re: Programming Brain Teaser)
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(...) Well, this is an example of horrific code, because it was purposely written so that it would parse, compile, and run in two different languages ... actual C code or Perl code is usually much nicer to look at and understand. BUT, let it be said (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Is it perl or C? (was: Re: Programming Brain Teaser)
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When looking at this, I can't believe I actually wanted to learn how to program ^-^ I thought it was much more simple, like AppleScript or the POV-ray scene description language. --Tobias David Eaton wrote: <SNIP> (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | legoland.co.uk attack
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boooo... (URL) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Japanese in Windows or Linux
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(...) There is supposed to be pretty decent Japanese support in Linux. Check out (URL) for the most popular Japanese distribution. (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Japanese in Windows or Linux
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I don't know anything about Linux, but Microsoft has some multilanguage support packs for Windows 98 and Explorer at their Windows update site. I'm sure they already have the far east languages, too. To go there, just click on the "Windows Update" (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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