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(...) well, only as a router between our home network and the "DSL-network". I have an external "DSL-modem" which does the actual routing, but it's connected to one interface on the firewall (486/25, 8MB ram), while the other interface is connected (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: broadband finally comes to my part of Knoxville
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(...) Do you use that as your router too? Is there a ready to read guide for the not very network technical on how to set up an older/cheaper box with Linux for the express purpose of being on 24/7 (in my case it would be in the basement where my (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: "jump.cgi" considered harmful ? (1)
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(...) I, at this client in the UK at a time when no one else is in the office and the connection SHOULD be lightly loaded (it's all new hardware here but we go somewhere else before it goes public) don't get quite the same results Mike does... same (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"WSP Layerd Service Provider wasn't installed as the 1st LSP" I'm puzzled about this message, when checking the status of (non-functional)WSP-clients the system concludes with this message. Does anybody have a clue as to how to resolve this problem, (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Very cool ship
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Mark Sandlin wrote in message ... (...) It's no huge deal, Mark, but ... it's mainly the fault of Outlook Express, scrolling up a (very) large list of threads to re-examine an old thread is handled very clumsily. Frankly I'd like to use the web (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Mark Sandlin" <sandlin@nwlink.com> wrote in message news:B64BFD42.8138%s...ink.com... (...) PC version here. (...) I say we find out if others are having a similar problem. Maybe you could test it out in off topic test. -Jon (...) This (...) Fast (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hmmm, I'm using OE 5.02 for Mac, and my post shows up as a new thread. Maybe the PC version puts it into the old thread if it has the same name? I suppose I will have to consider this next time I post a MOC. Perhaps I could put a date in the subject (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Actually this is strange. Mark where did you post the message? .space? This has happened before and I'm at my girlfriend's on a different comp. I am using the newest version of Outlook express (the same on my computer) According to the (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) the only thing we use (though I do like ZA) is a linux firewall, that does the NAT for us as well... (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Took it long enough, but as of day before yesterday I actually have ADSL. Getting pretty good speeds, probably because I'm a little more than a stone's throw from the phone company's remote DSLAM. Kinda cool browsing the web at home and having pages (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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| | Re: laser Safety and cats
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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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| | Re: "jump.cgi" considered harmful ? (1)
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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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(...) OK, I put in links to that nine different ways -- each of (3 URLs) each of those with %3A substituted for : in the jump.cgi parameter, and without jump.cgi. Note: On the numeric raw-IP versions of the URLs, the webserver reports "No web site (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Sounds good in theory, but I confess I don't know one offhand that would be a good test. Large ones are likely to use caching weirdness and small ones may have thin pipes that might throw us off. Or so I surmise. Hmm... how about my firm? as (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, I've got mixed feelings about that. :) (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ah. Let's try a different URL, then. You name it. And let's put in a raw IP address as well, so we can rule out DNS. --Todd (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) exact URL and hadn't flushed any caches. Don't forget, though, that this may not be the best test destination, since www.yahoo.com isn't a single DNS location, it's many, due to that technology whose name I can't remember... Akatomi? Doing a (...) (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) But, reading lugnet on the web, it doesn't. -Shiri (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Or, uh, e-mail and usenet news (like lugnet), which should *always* use fixed-width fonts. (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Fujita does it again! (was: Re: "jump.cgi" considered harmful ?)
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(...) featuring Mr Fujita's LEGO Star Wars!! Their review: "The product of over 2,500 hours of monomaniacal determination, the Lego Star Wars Trilogy recreates 180 key scenes from the original series. Relive all of those magical moments through (...) (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: "jump.cgi" considered harmful ? (1)
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(...) both times. :) Dan (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
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(...) Not to mention that modern word processing software takes cares of inter-sentence spacing by itself. The typing of a second space is a wasted keystroke. (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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