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(...) Bah, it's all irrelevant. The universe was created last Tuesday, already in its present form. J (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Very good! Although the new search doesn't return most recent articles first like it used to. Is that how it should work? Now I can't see most recent posts that contain the keyword I want to search for, which makes the search pretty much (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Fredrik Glöckner" <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote in message news:qrdwvcj1aqi.fsf....uio.no... (...) This would probably be really complicated - you'd have to set the script up to interpret each different service and get the messages in their (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Kyle D. Jackson" <flightdeck@sympatic...mblock.ca> wrote in message news:G6HpuE.1L4@lugnet.com... (...) Are you accessing the web via a proxy? If so then the proxy is probably storing the pages and that's why you're only seeing updates when you (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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The LUGNET News search function is now re-enabled. I completely revamped the index data structures and list-merge algorithm and rewrote the core query engine in C. It's a much more solid implementation. Everyone's patience during the outage is much (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.announce) !!
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(...) You act as if what people did for all the centuries when our system WAS in use do not matter. In 1901 this was not an issue; they treated just as people did in 1801, and 1701. It is only our century that decided not to. (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) You're totally ignoring my point. My point is that the relevancy of how we call things is so little, that what makes the most sense to me is to say that decades start when the last digit of the year turns 0, centuries start when the last two (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) That's when the *1900s* start -- just as the 80s start at 1980. (...) Sure. But for whatever reason, we do say that we are currently in the year 2001. Note that it doesn't work like birthdays, which count the number of years *completed*. (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) in (...) 1989/12/31 (...) Well, my point would be that the 20th century most sensibly (to me) starts 1900/01/01 so the 9th decade would still start at 1980/01/01. But really its all pretty irrelevant. The 20th century isn't the 20th century of (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) But if you're talking about the 9th decade of the 20th century, aren't you referring to 1981/01/01 to 1990/12/31? --Todd (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I have a video in .ASF-format. The video uses the Windows Media Video V7 format. The needed codec is included in Mediaplayer 7.0. However, this program does not install on Windows 95. I have Mediaplayer 6.4 installed, but it does not have the needed (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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G'day folks, Thanx to everyone who helped me with the tests! :] I figure there no sense in doing any more at this point. I did a pile more experimenting and discovered that my favourite searches (the ones I was using steadily) are the ones that are (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Thanx for checking this for me John. I, too, noticed that the time at the bottom does not match my search time. There is also a time at the top called "current ebay time" or something which I think is supposed to match the search time. The (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) IE 5.5 on Win98 - have run several searches I've never run before and, no, the Last Updated time does not change. But the Last Updated time was not the current time of my searches to begin with. It listed the exact same time some six hours ago (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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See also: (URL) has a reply by me extolling my 800 (...) I have an 800 and like it a lot. The only thing I miss from my older camera (now defunct) is the swivel feature. I believe the 950 has more additional features than just the swivel, though. I (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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[FUT lugnet.off-topic.geek so I don't clutter .auction] G'day folks, As you've probably read I've been having problems with search result data on ebay. Well I've just now determined that the "problem" is being done deliberately by ebay. In their (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'll speak up in favor of the 800 as well. I love it. I took it as my primary camera on my honeymoon (to London) and got some absolutely incredible shots. J (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I couldn't disagree more. I *love* the swivel when composing shots from the LCD, which is what I do mostly. I wouldn't buy a digital camera without this feature. (And if you don't like the swivel, the Nikon 800 is still a nice camera -- most (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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As far as macro shots go (especially LEGO) I use the LCD for composing the shot, since that gives me an SLR effect and what I see is almost exactly what I will get in my shot. With any non-SLR camera, macro mode is near useless since parallax is (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Not if you have #7. I have a PCMCIA adapter for my desktop computer ($10 at the MIT flea; $50 online somewhere), and you can get $3 adapters for compact flash cards, and probably-slightly-mo...-expensive adapters for smartmedia. This is much (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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