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  Relativity Question
 
If a ship travels for 5 light years at .5c, for whom will the trip take 10 years? The occupants or an observer outside the ship? Jude (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
 
  Re: Arrggh!
 
(...) Well, I had my CPU overclocked from 66MHz on the bus to 83 so it's all my bad I guess.. (...) LOL! Well, I can get a hold of 'em again but all the work in getting them into the right folders etc. is gone :( /Tobbe (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Color name for Statue of Liberty Sculpture #3450
 
(...) Hey cool -- BU's subscription works there, and it's a much nicer interface than our primative gateway. :) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: GIF Freeware
 
Thanks for all your help. With a search engine, I have found MS GIF Animator, which is about 1.5 megs and quite useful. </alan> (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Color name for Statue of Liberty Sculpture #3450
 
Try www.oed.com but i'll warn you, it's pretty salty from what I recall. Markus (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Color name for Statue of Liberty Sculpture #3450
 
(...) Yes, when I graduated from The College of Charleston <www.cofc.edu>, SC in 1994 all I had access to was the 20+ volume set of the OED that we had in the library. There was talk about the OED being available online or that it was being (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Color name for Statue of Liberty Sculpture #3450
 
(...) Access online. It's restricted to Boston University though, so unfortunately sharing the link won't help you much. :( (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
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  Re: Splitting text files.
 
(...) thanks! that worked beautifully. (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Arrggh!
 
(...) Ouch... I'm similar...hasn't crashed yet. 4-5GB of MP3s on a FAT32, Win2k on a PII400 with 256mb RAM. Better do some backing up.... (Hopefully I won't have to) feel your frustration. :\ -Tim (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Problems viewing GS Homepage (was: Some important GS issues)
 
(...) Jude (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
 
  Arrggh!
 
10GB of MP3 on a FAT32 disk, Win2k, an Intel PII 266 @ 333 (4x 83MHz) is NOT a good combination, I just found out. The filesystem crashed and I now have about 4000 FILExxxx.CHK files instead of a nice directory-tree with sorted and labeled MP3's... (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Splitting text files.
 
(...) Since this is a gnu tool, you can probably get this on many non-Unix platforms too. (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Splitting text files.
 
(...) If you're using a UNIX variant the split command will do this for you. i.e. split -l 1000 [filename] Chris (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Splitting text files.
 
does anyone know of a way to split a text file into multiple files based on the number of lines? ie: 5000 lines split in to five files of 1000 lines each. i've been trying to figure out a way to do it with perl, but no luck so far. but any way to (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: GIF Freeware
 
(...) You could have it if you wanted. :) (24 years ago, 5-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: GIF Freeware
 
(...) (URL) for information about a windows version. ftp://ftp.gimp.org/p...001023.zip for the latest version available for download. HTH. (24 years ago, 5-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: GIF Freeware
 
(...) there is a Windows Gimp..where it is, I do not know. But it is out there, a friend sent me the URL a while back. I never got it because I'm experienced with Photoshop and don't have the time/energy to learn a new piece of software. -Tim (24 years ago, 5-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: GIF Freeware
 
It requires Unix or the like, which I do not have. Anyone know of one that is Windows compatible? </alan> (24 years ago, 5-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Colons in URLs (was: Re: Growth)
 
(...) :) (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.general)


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