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That's what I thought. Thanks again. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. who is going to lock himself in his computer room this weekend and install Linux. "Daniel Crichton" <danielc@helio.co.uk> wrote in message news:G6A89s.Aro@lugnet.com... (...) in (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.test)
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"Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D." <arcanamachi@netzero.net> wrote in message news:G69vzz.DCz@lugnet.com... (...) my (...) I'm (...) Unfortunately OE treats all messages, whether news or mail, as the same thing. You're better off getting a dedicated news (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.test)
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Earliest I remember is in Star Trek the original. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D.who isn't that big of a Star Trek know it all. "Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message news:G6A7Kn.8z5@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Anybody have a GOOD suggestion for a free website that doesn't have a ton of banner ads and popup ads?. I'm already looking into Geocities. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. who wants a site for his creations (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Does anyone know who coined this term and when it might first have crept into the scifi lexicon? Dave! (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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"Daniel Crichton" <danielc@helio.co.uk> wrote in message news:G69uI6.BDn@lugnet.com... (...) where (...) Thank you, but isn't this a global option? I don't want this happening in my mail only on my news. Oh well never-mind cause as soon as I get (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.test)
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"Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D." <arcanamachi@netzero.net> wrote in message news:G69E79.6us@lugnet.com... (...) text (...) a (...) Try Tools -> Options -> Send and make sure the "Include message in reply" option is checked. Also make sure that News is set (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.test)
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I use Outlook Express 5 as my newsreader, how do I get it to put in the text from posts that I am replying to? For some reason I cant find it in where a sane person would put it. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. who cant wait to get Linux on his new PC (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.test)
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I use Outlook Express 5 as my newsreader, how do I get it to put in the text from posts that I am replying to? For some reason I cant find it in where a sane person would put it. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. who cant wait to get Linux on his new PC (24 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) The Speed "Fast" is broken up over several parts. Fast for the processor and there for appears faster to the user. Fast for the data moving and in bigger gulps resulting in stalls, pops and slowdowns giving user false impression of beeing (...) (24 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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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