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(...) Right. Any editor that makes you be in a special mode to *edit* is fundamentally flawed. (24 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) You can *sort* of do this -- if the red line finishes while your black line is still going, you can start another red line. This is actually a pretty important tactic for getting high scores. It wouldn't be too hard to actually implement the (...) (24 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: OT: P!$#ed of at ebay.com.au
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(...) Both have cool properties, but the DIN A4, B5, etc. paper sizes are based on sqrt(2) because if you cut them down the longer side, each half retains the original aspect ratio -- perfect for 2-UP and 4-UP and saddle-stitching documents when (...) (24 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) heh, make it allow to start multiple walls! so I can start one, and start another BEFORE the first one finishs! :) (24 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: OT: P!$#ed of at ebay.com.au
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(...) not to start a holy war, but vi has all sorts of weirdnesses in it... like, oh, modes? :) *grin, duck and run* (24 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: OT: P!$#ed of at ebay.com.au
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(...) And the sixth dumbest thing is how vi makes a big deal about "all the most import keys are right on the home row", and then a) foolishly has your right hand shifted one key to the left of where it should be and b) makes you hit ESC a lot, even (...) (24 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'll nominate a fifth dumbest thing: contemporary use of QWERTY keyboards that were originally designed to make typing slower and more difficult. John (24 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I thought the DIN A4, B5, etc. paper sizes were based on the Golden Mean, not the square root of 2. Or are those two different flavors of the same universal constant? But your #3 item is just a variation of #1. Heck, so is #2. Earlier in the (...) (24 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Uh-huh. But that's not limited to US - as I've found out several times after a power blackout... Regards ROSCO (24 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Paper sizes ! Weights and measures are bad enough. (...) Working rotating shiftwork, this happens. In the eighties I was working nightshift (midnight-8am) one night, when one of the operators on evening shift came rushing in at 6am, thinking (...) (24 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: OT: P!$#ed of at ebay.com.au
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(...) ...oh, I forgot to mention...the DIN paper sizes fully rule. :-) I just remembered the fouth dumbest thing: it's 12-hour clocks with a.m. and p.m. instead of 24-hour clocks -- especially digital alarm clocks. I wonder if anyone has ever -not- (...) (24 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.org.au, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Awesome. Lemme know if you find any problems. Or have any suggestions. I've fixed a few minor bugs and such and am gonna release the 1.0 version real soon now.... (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) funny you should write, dan's playing it again now :) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) :) thanks. (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It's a bug in the way that MSIE 4.5 sends new lines. I had this problem as well, until I upgraded to MSIE 5.0. HTH, ~Mark (24 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Your SW Custom Work
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(...) That's so bizzare, but IIRC it seems to be consistent with other posts you've made being chopped, IIRC. Anyway, if by "this service" you mean MSIE 4.5 for Mac_PowerPC (the browser used to post your message, according to its headers), that (...) (24 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Reducing fussiness in automated password appraisal
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Many people feel that the Member password checks on LUGNET are overly stringent -- that it is too hard to come up with a good password that passes the strength appraisal: (URL) is also comfortable to remember. In anticipation of lowering the (...) (24 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.people, lugnet.general)
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(...) heh, cool and fun :) (24 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(URL) :) (24 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Writing A Proposal
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(...) Ugh, that's what I was afraid of. This means it would be really nice to have the info in the lugnet database .... (24 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.database)
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To follow-up on my own post, I do most of my shopping at the LEGO Outlet Store in Potomac Mills Mall, Woodbridge, Virginia, and scan the codes on the packages using a Wasp bar code reader directly into a relational database table from which I (...) (24 years ago, 2-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Does anyone know where I can get the best deal on a Coolpix 990? Thanks, --Bram (24 years ago, 30-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Yes, there are cases where this is not true. Sets using 00428840 as the company identifier follow with the set number and checksum digit. However, Lego has another company identifier which is 57020109 followed by the set number and checksum digit. (...) (24 years ago, 30-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Lego blew it AGAIN...
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(...) hmm... it's registered to a MacGenuius.com.... *boggled* (24 years ago, 29-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Paypal down?
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(...) Thanks, Larry. But just for the record, I didn't confuse the circumstances with anything. I had maybe twenty minutes to handle some matters late last night and I was annoyed that I was not going to be able to accomplish them. I did not know (...) (24 years ago, 29-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Paypal down?
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(...) Some people, even people who are "of scarey" (sic) "high intelligence" sometimes confuse a service being down with network or DNS problems elsewhere. Not being able to get to a site at all often (not always) is symptomatic of a nameserver (...) (24 years ago, 29-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Lugnet Sherlock-plugin?
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Is there a Sherlock Plugin available for Lugnet News/the Pause set Database? Is it easy to make your own sherlock plug-ins? (I'm not going to make one for Lugnet, just being curious) --Tobias (24 years ago, 29-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Space and Arch photos (was Re: BrickShelf error )
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(...) Spaces aren't allowed? Oh - OK - <tries again with no spaces...> Hey - It works. Since space was the problem, I uploaded my photos from the Air & Space Museum that I shot on my visit to Virginia. :-) (URL) photos that I was trying to upload in (...) (24 years ago, 28-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: BrickShelf error (was Re: Fun with Track Designer...)
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(...) Do your filenames have any spaces in them or are they longer than 32 characters (including extension)? I just noticed a bunch of failed uploads with spaces in filenames. KL (24 years ago, 28-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Why does lugnet force my to re-register periodically?
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(...) Is that the _only_ cookie you see for .lugnet.com in your cookies file?? If so, your browser has dumped the other LUGNET cookies that were there and only left you with that one cookie. (...) The above cookie you list isn't expired (otherwise (...) (24 years ago, 28-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: BrickShelf error (was Re: Fun with Track Designer...)
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(...) It didn't work. I moved my computer "outside the proxy" and tried again, but no dice. I even tried making a new folder and uploading just that little 6K photo to it. "Internal Server Error" Grrrrr. SRC (24 years ago, 28-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Why does lugnet force my to re-register periodically?
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Periodically (every month or so) Lugnet wants me to re-register and be re-verified, even though there is a cookie for Lugnet in the cookies.txt file in my Netscape directory. The cookie looks like this: .lugnet.com TRUE / FALSE 2147483602 (...) (24 years ago, 28-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: BrickShelf error (was Re: Fun with Track Designer...)
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(...) I just tried again with a file a mere 6K in size and I still get the error message. The jpgs I uploaded a week ago are five or ten times as big - they worked fine. A possible clue - after the inital error message, the Upload | Reload | Edit | (...) (24 years ago, 28-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Unexpected Email Message
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(...) Thanks for the correction. Yes, it is indeed the 'Precedence' header and not the 'X-Precedence' header. The outgoing news-to-mail gateway on LUGNET sets 'Precedence' to 'list' for both regular and digest messages. --Todd [followups to (...) (24 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.general)
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| | RE: Unexpected Email Message
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They possibly do...I checked your message, and it's Precedence, NOT X-Precedence....is this something you could check on and fix if required? [or is this just my mail server here...the one that prevents threading? ] Benjamin Whytcross (...) (24 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.general)
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(...) Obviously not everyone who implements an autoresponder has thought of that. :( (24 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hmm, that's too bad. :-( I thought auto-responders were supposed to look at the X-Precedence header of the SMTP message and not respond if the value was set to 'list' or 'bulk'. --Todd [followups to .off-topic.geek] (24 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: BrickShelf error (was Re: Fun with Track Designer...)
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(...) Are you using AOL? Some AOL users have reported problems with their computer complaining about too little memory while uploading, which causes uploads to abort. If that is the case, reduce the size of the images or make sure you have enough (...) (24 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Yeah, well, I don't have any control over it (Corporate America, you know) - it has to send that one. (...) | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (24 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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