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(...) Ya, exactly -- first name the URL components carefully and then put a user- friendly level on top of it. Best of both worlds. (...) Ah, I see. Yeah, that could be helpful in certain cases, if you're scouring tons of results! I've needed to (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It's indeed the Nokia 8110. Some special version since it has an "open panel" with a spring via a button. Mine is highly manual. The phone itself sucks. It's about as twistable as the 8448 Super Street Sensation (not that the 8448 sucks or (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I think that was the Nokia 8110, which is not available anymore. But there are many phone which have the same looks, for example 7110, 8850 and 8890. (3 URLs) I don't like phones which require a panel to be opened in some way to be operated. I (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hrmmm. Is this in a Compaq computer? That was the first thing my irc buddies asked me about it. They all seemed to think it more likely to be hardware than software, given this is essentially a "no-name" burner. Still, you might as well give (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) Wow! So you have terms for the ampersand options in a URL? My standpoint on this would be to put everything in a form and kill 2 birds with 1 stone - not having to think of how to name URL terms (unless you enjoy doing that) and having the (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) LG Electronics CD-RW 8x4x32x Internal Rewritable Drive CED-8080B A blank 80 minute CD shows up the same as a 74 minute one under "My Computer"...ie, labeled "-empty-" with 0 used and 0 free space. The only difference is that the burner (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) oops, doy! I didn't put in the propagation of that URL term. I don't consider it 100% "documented" yet (it's still subject to change without notice), but I still shouldn't have missed that. Thanks. I'll fix that. The reason it's subject to (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It works great! ... but the &qs doesn't carry over to the next page of results. So if I want to see more pages, I have to edit the querystring on each page. Since you already have the inner workings of this in place, it would be really easy to (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Are you sure it isn't your burner that doesn't recognize the 80 minute blanks? What model do you have? I know that when 80 minute blanks first hit the market there were a lot of CDRs that wouldn't burn on them. (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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The program that came with my CD-RW drive (just!burn by CeQuadrat--includes cd!backup, just!data, and just!audio) doesn't seem to recognize the 80 minute CD-Rs I just bought ($17 for 100 CDs!). Does anyone have a suggestion for a burner program that (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) <snip> (...) I would have to concur. (...) < goes away and tries it... > Umm - Would it not make sense to simply include the appropriate qualifier on the system side? (I tried it and got two year old results for "qs", but I'm probably doing (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Not yet, no. See "to-do soon" section in previous post. (...) For now, if you don't mind URL mucking, you can manually append &qs=<number> to the URL and it will use that number (in seconds) as a time delta. For example, to limit posts to the (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Could you tell us the URL syntax for those of us willing to modify URLs? (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) No we don't need to renumber all the previous years. We just need to give the year 1 BC two names. Or we can be non-anal about it and accept that to the average person, it makes more sense that the millenium starts in 2000 not 2001. On the (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Doesn't matter. It's the *2001st* year since we started counting. Not 2000th: I think that's what you're missing. *Last* year was the 2000th year; that's why it was called "2000". (...) Well, as I said in my post, you are *in* your 38th year. (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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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| | Re: Help Needed with Quick ebay Test-UPDATE
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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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| | News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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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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