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"Christopher Lindsey" <lindsey@nospam.mallorn.com> wrote in message news:3A3EEF5D.84BF58...orn.com... (...) gives (...) as (...) just (...) You (...) looking (...) Ah, the SWF file is also so there so as long as you have an OS that Macromedia have (...) (24 years ago, 19-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) or the Flash 5 requirement eliminate a fair number of techies? I was looking to put a team together at work, but nobody wanted to install Windows on a system just for this... :) Chris (24 years ago, 19-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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As a bit of a laugh (and to get people to use my company's web site) the company I run the web site for has written a Flash application that gives you 60 seconds to answer as many techie (and some non-techie) questions as possible, and there are a (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Perl5 regexen: exponential backtracking behavior when mixing \n and \s
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(...) Yup! lindsey@wolrab|/afs/...dsey|[65]> /usr/bin/perl -v This is perl, v5.6.0 built for i386-linux Chris (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) yah, that's what I got as well: greywolf$ perl -v This is perl, v5.6.0 built for i686-linux guess 5.6 kicks bootie :) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Cool. There's a large bunch of my brain cells devoted to storing obscure DOS config information; I'm glad it came in useful! (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Awesome. Was that Perl 5.6? So it's smart enough to compile \n\s into a DFA instead of an NDFA? Wow. --Todd (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, putting "LASTDRIVE=Z" in CONFIG.SYS did work! Thanks! Fredrik (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hm, that's something I can try... Thanks. Fredrik (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think that's related. I can still disconnect the new drive, and the SCSI CD ROM becomes available as E: like before upon the next bootup. So I think the drivers are all there. Fredrik (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) [lindsey@wolrab ~]$ uname -a Linux wolrab 2.2.16-22smp #1 SMP Tue Aug 22 16:39:21 EDT 2000 i686 unknown [lindsey@wolrab ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Linux release 7.0 (Guinness) s/(?:\n[ \t]*)+$// 0 0.00 1 0.00 2 0.00 3 0.00 4 0.00 5 (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Anyone out there running Perl 5.6 or higher? Try running this little test proggy that compares the approximate CPU execution times of two regexen: ---...---begin---...--- #!/bin/perl use strict; $^W = 1; sub cputime { my ($user, $sys, $cuser, $csys) (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I've had nothing but problems with www.hort.net/gallery/, which is all dynamically generated. Every month at about the same time we disappear entirely out of Google's search engine, which they claim is due to updates. Although it usually only (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) That's an intriguing thought. It looks like it requires Google to be able to crawl a site completely, though. I wonder if they play well with dynamically generated content... (...) Yes, it is. --Todd (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hi Todd, Did you ever consider a google search box? Like this one: www.sis.pitt.edu/~dist I don't know for sure, but I think that the search is done on google's server. Toki (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It shouldn't be. What about the LASTDRIVE environment variable? Does it still have to be set to 'Z' manually? (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Is it necessary to have MSCDEX operating to recognise a CD-ROM under Windows? I thought that was all embedded in the OS but one never knows. I haven't used SCSI peripherals since the days of Windoze 3.1. Just a thought, LFB (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Installing a new drive with Linux is easy. You just physically plug the drive in and boot up. Then you can issue three commands and you're all set. Under Windows 95 it is much harder. I originally tried to partition and format the drive with Linux. (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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At my workplace we have two printers for use by my small department. I don't know the specifics or even the brands off the top of my head, but they're those nice big clunky commercial printers such as "paperless" offices usually need. One is about a (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Mixing ATA-33 and ATA-100 drives on single device
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(...) In that case, it is a serious speed penalty... (...) I only have two fans: One on the CPU and one in the power supply unit. The new drive runs very hot compared with the old one, so I think I'm going to shuffle them a bit. Placing the new one (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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