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(...) at a solid 1.2mb over my ADSL connection, with most websites popping up near instantly, the way they used to at the office before Napster killed our DS-3. Win98 SE IE 5.5 Colon about 4 seconds to get to the bricksmiths page encoded colon about (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Codes, Cyphers and Sequences, Oh My! (LONG)
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Hi all! Fire up your decryption algorythyms and sequence degenerators, the fun's about to start... Delete this if not interested. 1) Child's Play: What's the next letter in this sequence? O,T,T,F,F,S,S,... 2) Teenagers Play: What's the next set of (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Hot Paper?
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(...) Note that I think the LDEF had some paper/cardboard panels, you might try spelunking the NASA site for the writeup on what happened to them. I could be misremembering, maybe LDEF only had metal and plastic panels. But there were over 500 of (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) So all we need to do to solve this is build and launch a satellite made out of paper. Think of how little fuel we'd need! Dave! (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Incident radiation. The paper may BE in a vacuum, but it, itself, is not a vacuum, it has density greater than 0. Hence paper is not a vacuum. Consider why some satellites spin. To keep their surface temperature within bounds, by allowing the (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Now we're getting somewhere! But what would happen to the paper once it got that hot? That's what I was trying to get at in the first place... Dave! (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Hot Paper?
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(...) Sure, it'll get hot, but boiling is way different from burning. (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: STUPID QUESTION?
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(...) I am waiting for the stupid question... In the mean time I will answer this non-stupid question. "+cypress +tree" There you go, add a plus in front of each word. Jude FUT lugnet.faq (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.faq)
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(...) Is there a way to search for a phrase without getting results for each component word? For instance, can I search for "cypress tree" without getting 1000 results for "tree," 200 results for "cypress," and no results for "cypress tree?" I don't (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Okay, you caught me on my technical imprecision. More precisely, I mean simply an evacuated chamber in which, I suppose, one could position IR lamps over the aforementioned paper sheet. For that matter, even in its approximate vacuum, the (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Being in a vacuum, how would you heat the surroundng nothingness to 500 degrees? Aren't vacuums, by definition, a few degrees above absolute zero? --Electro-- (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Is it possible there's any firewall issues? I know at work I regularly see situations where it takes ages for a page to come up, during which time, I can't do anything else in Netscape because the whole thing is locked up (it won't even re-paint (...) (24 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well being in a vacuum I know it won't burn. My guess is that nothing will happen but I could be wrong. Eric K. (24 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Just venturing a guess, I would say it depends on how long it was in the vacuum before you heated it. If you heated it quickly, it might char a bit (using oxygen trapped within the paper interstices) but I would expect that in most cases it (...) (24 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Thanks to Ray Bradbury, we all know the combustion point of (at least some kinds of) paper. What would happen if you had a sheet of paper in a vacuum and heated it to 500 degrees F? Dave! (24 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hey, you shouldn't say something like this in a geek group..:-) So, It's (extended?)ASCII 135(ç) and 128(Ç). Of course could be dependent to platform (must work in any Windows or DOS box in anyway). Just use the alt key and numeric keypad of (...) (24 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It's these guys: (URL). They've secretly taken over most of the internet. (24 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'm a little confused about the caching issue. Are we talking about DNS caching, or some sort of in-between proxy cache? Or is it the browser cache? Initially I thought that we were talking about DNS lookups taking the most time... If the (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Use (URL) or (URL). These are both on a fat pipe and don't use caching. (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
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(...) I've always hated it. Historically, the reason it uses Times Roman (or else the browser's default) rather than Courier (or whatever <PRE> results in) is because the default fixed-width font in both NN & MSIE on low-end 640x480 displays (common (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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