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(...) Well, not quite...I'm not ready to posit a cause-effect chain. I was merely trying to say that I couldn't fathom how the script itself could add anything more than a small fraction of a second. Slow DNS is one possible answer, but if it (...) (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: "jump.cgi" considered harmful ? (1)
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(...) It seems that slow DNS is the culprit if Todd is right. Why does cutting and pasting make it go faster? If Todd is right, you would have to pay the same DNS price either way. Or is it just a perceived speedup? Well, I've set FUT o-t.geek to (...) (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
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(...) That's an out-dated concept taught by keyboarding instructors who were originally taught on fixed-width font systems e.g. typewriters. There is no longer a need to extend distances between the end of one sentence and the beginning of another, (...) (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Not generally true in common internet style. Furthermore, *defintely* not true when using proportionally-spaced fonts. With e-mail and news, everybody should be using a monospaced font, so using two spaces is acceptable [1], but if you're (...) (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: laser Safety and cats
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(...) Ya but yours contains characters I can't easily type! :-) ++Lar (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I wasn't able to predict you'd say that, given the premises available to me in this frame of reference! ++Lar (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Do you really think that your sig is a nice one? It is several times longer than your message!.. Selçuk (...) (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Just a simple question
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I'm pretty sure you can change it in the registry. (...) Cheers, (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yes, it is untrue. There should be two spaces after the period, not one. Of course you could argue that the spaces are not part of the sentence. :) Cheers, (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: SETI@Home?
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(...) Get a UPS. Real nice in power failures. :-) Cheers, (24 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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