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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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(...) 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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| | QTVR stuff -done the hard way
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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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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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| | LEGO(r) Vending Machine
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Hi to various groups. While I was in Brisbane, visiting Mark Harrison and friends, I heard rumors that the Brisbane airport had a Lego(r)vending machine. I can't recall if one has been reported before or not. If so, sorry, but if not, here is some (...) (24 years ago, 12-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: The Law of Falling Lego
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Here's a more accurate calculation (deals with different surfaces): L = (H(R/50)+B)/S Set H to the height of the table, B to the number of studs of the brick, R to the radius you get with (H*6) and finally, S to the "bounciness" of the surface. A (...) (24 years ago, 10-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: New LUGNET Feature: Crossword Puzzles
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This looks *great*, and I love crossword puzzles, but... (...) on my browser, but I sure can't find it... <frown>... should I pass this on to the geeks?... ;-) I guess I'll use the printable version for now. Great stuff! -Shiri (24 years ago, 9-Sep-00, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: SSH/SCP GUI Client?
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(...) There are two good 'doze programs I've found to handle this. Take a look at PuTTY (which does do scp also) and TeraTerm with the SSH plugin. Hope this helps. (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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(...) You got it right again you punk<grin>, Page 616:Programming Perl O'Reilly: Statement- A *command* to the computer about what to do next....Not to be confused with a *declararation* which doesn't tell the computer to do anything, but just learn (...) (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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(...) Yeah, I thought of that one, but I'm not sure it counts as a statement. In perl, of course, it's a comment. And in C/C++, it's a preprocessor directive.... (...) Well, #define thisisnotapalindrome enifed# :) (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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(...) Good one, works in perl, C, and C++ You win in my opinion. (...) What a nasty addition to the problem. Gonna have to think about it... DaveG (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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(...) ;("abcdefghijklmnopq...yz")ftnirp (...) 'Course, if ';' doesn't count as a statement, it makes it much more difficult, since most commands end with a ';', and therefore have to start with one as well if they're to be read in backwards-- making (...) (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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(...) Not even legal Perl and he did say Perl. Only works in C++ or in a C with C++ extentions. Kick him twice as much. And (MattM) you may be right that the ; alone is to taking a liberty with the term statement. DaveG (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: New Brickshelf Feature: Polls!
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(...) Doh! I forgot you can use specify more than one. KL (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: New Brickshelf Feature: Polls!
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(...) I've got: DirectoryIndex index.cgi index.shtml index.html (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: New Brickshelf Feature: Polls!
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(...) Replace /index.html with /index.cgi and make sure that you've got: AddHandler cgi-script .cgi somewhere in your .conf files and index.cgi in your DirectoryIndex record. --Todd (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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(...) 'Course, that's not legal C.... (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Richard Marchetti writes: <snip> (...) <snip> Yikes!!! Programmers are way too serious. I have heard of not being able to take a joke, but come on... :-) Jude (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Is it perl or C? (was: Re: Programming Brain Teaser)
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(...) Here's one that's MUCH better-- 'course most of you may have seen this already... someone made code equivalent to UNIX's wc command that can be compiled and run the exact same in perl and C... this one was really clever: (Grrr, it's gonna put (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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(...) Yeah, and maybe I am going to have to kick this guy until he is dead. His solution was: printf("abcdefghijkl...tuvwxyz"); // ;("abcdefghijklmnopq...yz")ftnirp Which I would like to point out doesn't print anything in the second instance (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Programming Language Choice
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(...) It depends what you're doing this for and what you're doing with it. If you're happy with VBA and wish to expand in that direction, Visual Basic is probably a fine choice. (I haven't used it since 1.0, so I can't really say too much about it.) (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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(...) Well the obvious answer is ";", but that's a bit too simple. I can't think of anything else that doesn't involve several variable and/or function definitions elsewhere. (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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