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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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| | Re: Stupid Question
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(...) We have him where we want him, get guys!! Cheers, (24 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Jeremy, Jeremy, Jeremy, what are we going to do with you? Don't you know that you can patent __anything__ in the US?! For goodness sakes people are patenting mathematical equations (TrueType fonts)!! Cheers, (24 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Mine is inconsistent. Andrew (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'm sorry, but my knowledge of Goedel is incomplete. Dave! (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I agree. c.f. Goedel. This statement has the truth value "undecidable" (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) This is a restating of the "Liar Paradox" a la "Everything I say is a lie." If I recall my Logic course correctly, a statement of that sort has no distinct truth value one way or the other, in that (in context) it cannot be definably true or (...) (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yes you are... But I was hoping to start a discussion on whether or not the third error is untrue. Or is it? Cleverly yours, theirs, and everybody's, --Electro-- (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Yes it does help but the idea is that my lego folder has it's own icon (...) (24 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Note the "follow-up" redirected to "o/t.geek"... (...) I don't know if it can be done at all for a folder proper. I do know that it can be done to a _shortcut_ (for a folder or other item). Here's how (for "shortcut" icons): Right-click on the (...) (24 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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So was I right? "Jon Palmer" <jpalmer@oklahoma.net> wrote in message news:G4B9xn.JI7@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Really? All that mumbo-jumbo helped? We'll have to try harder this time. (...) Generally speaking, the specific cross-axles would be described as children of the Cross Axles category. And the Cross-Axles category would be a child of the (...) (24 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) heheh... let's not go there today :) (...) nod, could be cool :) (24 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) But.... but.... I thought Linux/Unix were already secure? ;) I'm staying at the conference hotel - I'm sure we can work out dinner or something! (24 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hmm let me take a shot... 1. substitute are for is 2. errors is misspelled. 2. there are only two errors in the sentence. -Jon "David M." <ElectroTX@webtv.net> wrote in message news:G4B7nt.FFn@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
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Hey gang, Here's a sort of logic puzzle: There is three errers in this sentence. What are they? Good Luck! --Electro-- (24 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Another heirarchical DB question
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Hi: First thanks to Christopher, Steve and Larry for your help with my last question. Here's todays question. Say that you had a list of data that needed to be not only in heirarchical order but also each child of a given parent needed to be in a (...) (24 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Arrggh!
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(...) Not because they had copies (that's fair use under the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, United States Code, Title 17, section 1008), but because they *distributed* copies for which they had no license (17 USC s. 1103). Chris FUT: (...) (24 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) But there's *exactly* no difference. If I make an MP3 of a track from my own CD, it'll be exactly completely the same as one I download from the internet (assuming the same software and options used to create it). If the law doesn't recognize (...) (24 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Because in one case it's deemed fair use; in the other you're republishing the work. But I don't claim to understand the legal intricacies to really be able to explain this intelligently. However, since MP3.com was sued for this exact same (...) (24 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Why would it be illegal to download an MP3 version of a CD you own, yet be legal to rip your own? I mean, the whole point of digital media is that two copies are exactly identical.... (24 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) You can always encode the MP3's from your own CD's. You'd need somewhere like 80 CDs to get 10 GB og .mp3-files, though. But that number depends heavily on the bitrate you choose when encoding, as well as the running lenght of your CDs! (...) (24 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Download? For most of the MP3s that I want, that would be illegal. So instead I rip my own -- now I can stream MP3s to work from home without people stealing my CDs any more. :) Not to mention how much easier it is to create playlists... Chris (...) (24 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Netscape 6 includes a mail client and all the stuff Communicator does. You can also install them in parallel with no problem. I really recommend getting a nightly mozilla build from (URL) instead of the "official" version. (24 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Question: I'm running Communicator 4.75 or something. Can I download navigator 6, and "integrate" it in Communicator? Or maybe they have Communicator 5 too? --Tobias (...) (24 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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How do you get *10 GB's* of MP3's? Doesnt that take *years* to download? Or maybe you're running DSL/Cable/ISDN/whatever? --Tobias, who only has about 300 MB of MP3's... Then again, the iBook harddrive isn't big... (...) (24 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: A heirarchical database question
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(...) Agreed. But the original design was broken. I proposed two alternatives, both less redundant and both "more correct", although flaws could be found in either one by the determined examiner. ++Lar (24 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: James Mathis really has caught the 8-wide bug!
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(...) Thanks for not poking fun....here, hear, they sound the same.... I use a fruity computer, so I won't be able to help, sorry. Chris (24 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah. I'm not too happy with it -- it's significantly worse than the current nightly builds of Mozilla. I understand the marketing pressure to release something, anything, but it would have been so much nicer if they'd waited another month. (...) (24 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Netscape 6
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(...) Yes, Netscrape 6 is indeed 'out'... (24 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Netscape 6 is out. </alan> (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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