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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:fkj14t027aoqrer...4ax.com... (...) OK, maybe we should have put something up along the lines of "given the 3 available answers, which is the correct one". Did anyone find the one about my (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Matthew Miller" <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrn941i9m.71t.....bu.edu... (...) We're still waiting for Macromedia to tell us why it doesn't work properly. How many times did you refresh the page? Our developer reckons you may have to (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Oh yeah, that's right! I wonder what CP/M used.... Ctrl-C is the really stupid one -- I dunno what apple was thinking with that. (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) And DOS, and even Windows. If you're at an MS-based command prompt, and you enter COPY CON FILE.TXT, you won't get your prompt back until you hit ctrl-z. Steve (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, I did that. Also closed the browser, and cleared the cache. No good. This is Netscape Communicator 4.76. (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Actually, you can move it from there, and place it where you link, or even place a shortcut where you would like it to be. See ya Rui Martins (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Tim Courtney" <tim@zacktron.com> wrote in message news:G5tvtx.KDC@lugnet.com... (...) news:G5ttBJ.EDA@lugnet.com... (...) anyone done (...) ought to (...) the (...) still run (...) files (...) You can also get the command prompt up by going to (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Matthew Miller" <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrn940c7m.spr.....bu.edu... (...) the (...) Try hitting refresh if you're looking at the SWF in a browser - there's something funky in Flash 5 where sometimes the version check we use fails (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, I ended up just grabbing the Flash program and running it against strings to get the questions. I didn't know that your toothbrush is supposed to be a certain distance from the toilet, though. :) Chris (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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A lot of the questions are very Microsoft-biased, or at least personal computer biased. What does ctrl-c do? Well, it sends sigint, yeah? What does ctrl-z do? It's EOF on VMS. "Supporting dynamic and static drives" is a bit weird -- I suppose Linux (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I just rebooted my system into Win98, installed the Flash 5 player into Netscape, and the swf tells me I don't have Flash 5. So I guess I'll try the exe version... (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Any Win32 based software package should function great. IE ML-Cad. However LDraw most likely will not run due to the DOS mode that will make direct hardware calls. I'm currently running Windows 2000 on another computer and was playing with ML-Cad on (...) (24 years ago, 19-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Heather Patey" <hpatey@nfld.com> wrote in message news:G5ttBJ.EDA@lugnet.com... (...) be (...) I've already made the move. As far as I can tell, everything works except the original LEdit, becuase win2k doesn't like DOS applications. You can still (...) (24 years ago, 19-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I'm about to upgrade my operating system from Win95 to Win2K. Has anyone done this yet, and are there issues with the common LCAD software that I ought to be aware of? Wouldn't want to be stuck without my virtual bricks. Thanks, Heather -- Heather (...) (24 years ago, 19-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) That's odd... You're right, the system requirements page at (URL) that Flash 5 is available for Linux. But when I try to download it I can only get Flash 4, and the download page says the same thing: (URL) to be on the safe side I downloaded (...) (24 years ago, 19-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) There was a restriction when EIDE first introduced. When you connect two IDE drives (one slow, one fast) to the same cable, both drives transfer data at the same rate, which is the slower one. So techies always suggested that connecting fast (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I think that in such a case, it'll only run at 33. (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Is there any speed penalty when mixing ATA-33 and ATA-100 drives on single IDE device? The IDE controller is ATA-66. I have only got two IDE drives, so I might as well put them on either device as master. But if there is no speed penalty whatsoever (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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<nod nod> Thanks for letting us know. I'm no geek in any means, but first things first, I would limit the search. Sometimes a single search brings up thousands of posts. I suggest if the search is too broad, say it and make the searcher narrow it (...) (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Did you look at any of the other "news" items on that site? I think it is obviously a joke. (...) (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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