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Serial buses seem to be fashionable right now. The most common ones are probably USB and Firewire. Some say that these, or some ancestors of them, will replace parallel connections like SCSI and IDE ATA in the future. I can understand that serial (...) (24 years ago, 26-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well, actually, it's a standard histogram, with snapping to tens on the range. In contrast, a stemplot (a.k.a. stem and leaf graph) uses the numeric digits of the constituent values as part of the actual bars, which is a bit different. But (...) (24 years ago, 24-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I have a Web site with about 1400 of my plant photos. I recently added a voting mechanism to help me order images of the same plant by quality and to help me figure out which need to be replaced. The problem that I'm seeing is that people aren't (...) (24 years ago, 24-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) In general, good to specify the operating system. Not all geeks are microsoft geeks. :) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, I did it more than that, even. (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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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