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What exactly do you expect, when MS is a large stockholder in Apple? (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Mac Java Clarification
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Drastically snipped... (...) Is there anyone that finds this as ironic as I do? To run the great anti MS language on the great anti MS computer from within a browser, the browser that works best is the MS browser. FUT .geek ++Lar (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Agreed. I've been particularly disappointed in the loss/lack of Usenet archives on Deja. What I miss now is the myDeja function. I hope Google can get that replaced ASAP... Improving upon what Deja had shouldn't be too hard. -Rob. (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) IMO this will be good in the long run. Over the past 4 years or so I have seen dejanews/deja change change from a respectable resorce to this scary ad infested beast that you have to jump thru hoops to find the message you want. I like Google (...) (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Boy, what a surprise this morning!! I'm in the process of setting up a mailandnews.com account so I can read rtl at work (during lunch, of course), Google seems to have shut off most of the Deja newsreading capability. This sucks... -Rob. (...) (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(URL) else know about this? -Jon (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Greg: (...) sunsite.dk - search for netpbm and your favourite platform I like the netpbm/pbmplus image processing utilities. You should be able to find source code as well as binaries for various platforms there. Play well, Jacob -- "simply because (...) (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Of course, if you're using Win98, the Paint program will do that (not exactly so in Win95). But, you're probably not using Win98, that's why you asked... BTW, I looked at that IrfanView site; looks like a great program! --Electro-- (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) YES!!! I love you man! I have been looking for a program like this for so long... (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Wrong. Austria. Mea culpa. best LFB (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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[following up on an earlier post...] (...) I got sick of doing calculations by hand, so I made a chart that shows a screen's DPI, given a diagonal measurement and a standard resolution: (URL) The most readable 1024x768 display I've ever seen was, (...) (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) IrfanView, put out by a fellow in Germany, is what I've taken to using. I know that others here use it, as they're the ones who clued me in to it. As a general image editor and file converter it's mighty nice: (URL) And the price for (...) (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi Does anybody happen to know of a site where I would be able to download a program that converts bitmap images to gifs and/or jpegs? I have searched up and down all to no avail. Thanks. (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?
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(...) Whoops. My dealer (DataVision) called. Scott only needed 3 words: "I want it!" While I was picking it up, I got the sense that if I'd been a few minutes tardy it would have gone to someone else. Installing software......... (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: From the first LEGO(r) Train Summit: LEGO(r) Trains are alive and well
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(...) Steve's rise to prominence was due to the Mac, which was a computer that he did not design. He packaged it, sold it, and there were boom times at Apple. Then Apple began to falter, Steve didn't come up with any new stuff, and he was asked to (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Urggghhhh......... My PowerBook dealer, Scott, told me I maybe can have a 500 mhz Powerbook G4 tomorrow if I want it! (assuming they materialize in the morning as expected.) I'm going to hold off until a 400 mhz model comes in. Ooh... (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: From the first LEGO(r) Train Summit: LEGO(r) Trains are alive and well
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(...) I use both. My desktop system is GNU/Linux, though. --Todd (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I seem to remember that you used FreeBSD, too. Is there any particular reason why you switched to GNU/Linux? (If my memory serves me correctly.) Fredrik (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Purple + SPUDs == Barney Lego?! Ack!!! Steve (dreading the day that his toddler is old enough to like Barney... or Steve Jobs) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'm under NDA... But look at what I've said in the past here on LUGNet(tm) about whether I wanted windows or not, and predict the likelihood that I never said anything about windows. :-) Or that anyone else there never did either. Also (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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