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(...) I guess I won't be able to test this from my position. (...) The other cool machine on sale! (...) Yup. It's $900 difference, for a faster CPU, +128mb SO-DIMM (not sure if separate chip), and +10gb disk. The last two items are about $100 each (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?)
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(...) I heard somewhere (I think it was a discussion group on a Mac fansite) that the 400 MHz units didn't play DVD's as smoothly as the 500 MHz units. I can't remember if that was on battery power or plugged in. My Vaio C1VN (powered by a 600 MHz (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Thanks & LOL -- ya, it's an 11Mbps wireless PCMIA LAN card. It talks IEEE 802.something, which means it can talk to an Apple Airport as well as a Cisco base station. Now the only thing left to tweak is DNS settings and mail relaying for (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I did a google search for LFCR, and came up with (URL), which claims that the Amiga did.... (24 years ago, 22-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Is there/was there a system which wrote line breaks as 0x0A0D ? That is, line feed then carriage return. (24 years ago, 22-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?
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You can talk about my software, Steve... it's even on the web too. More of the this story: (...) Scott from Datavision called again today! "Everything ok there? I just received 4 or 5 of the 400mhz units. You know anyone waiting for one?" As a (...) (24 years ago, 22-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) And what a nice machine you got. You never NDA'd me, so I can talk about your software? Steve (24 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: MSIE5.5 New Window
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Also: I keep hearing people go on about how IE won the browser war by, admit it, being a better browser. Do these people *use* bookmarks? I mean, sure, Netscape's system isn't perfect, but it looks wonderful in comparison. (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Pretty sure that's a "feature". I hate it too. (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Microsoft spreads Linux FUD
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(...) I'm more concerned about things going the other way -- IP laws, especially software patents, but also bans on reverse engineering (as with DeCSS), being extended to the point where open source can't reasonably compete. The situation with DeCSS (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I'm using MSIE5.5 on my new computer...I like it a lot but I'm still getting used to some things. When I hit Ctrl-N to open a new browser window, for example, it actually makes a clone copy of the current window rather than opening a new blank (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Microsoft spreads Linux FUD
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(...) get your PhD from Georgia Tech and be this boneheaded (Or maybe you can, I am biased...). His arguments don't make sense in the context that this article is presented. On the other hand, it would be really easy to understand his arguments if (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) We had some of this debate before... I'm not sure what I think, exactly. Open Source clearly works and delivers good things but there has to be an incentive of some sort to cause clever people to do clever things. Whether IP is the best way, I (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I think that the point that they are inarticulately trying to make is: "The system of proprietary intellectual property rights provides an incentive to put money into research. The principles of openness and sharing demonstrated in the (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well, this part IS true, as far as it goes. That's the idea, after all!!! If you read the GNU Manifesto, it comes through loud and clear. MS has a simple answer to it though, make stuff that's so much *better* than what you can get for free (...) (24 years ago, 18-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Or, from (URL) "It's the business model around free software that concerns us, where people get sucked in to not paying for software." --Doug Miller, group product manager for the Windows Server Group (24 years ago, 18-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I am trying to sort out problems I am having with videoconferencing with someone in Germany. I can see him fine, but he can't see me. It might be because he is beind some form of internet sharing/proxy server arrangement, but I'd like to try and (...) (24 years ago, 18-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Oh my! I can believe he said that. Anything to secure his companies dollars. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. "Erik Olson" <olsone@spamcop.net> wrote in message news:G8y7Io.EDE@lugnet.com... (...) Allchin said. ''I can't imagine (...) stifle initiative (...) (24 years ago, 18-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Microsoft spreads Linux FUD
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Erik: (...) said. ''I can't imagine (...) Considering that the Open Source community probably are some of the best "educated" people when it comes to intellectual property rights, that is quite a joke. On the other hand. Laywers is probably also (...) (24 years ago, 18-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Microsoft spreads Linux FUD
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Microsoft Executive Says Linux Threatens Innovation (URL)''Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer,'' [Microsoft's] Allchin said. ''I can't imagine (...) .... (...) (24 years ago, 18-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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