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(...) Properly equipped with physical weapons, any piker can inflict physical harm (did I just make a pun? Whoops). It takes real talent to use an acid pen, though, as the acid is virtual. Come to one of my project reviews some time (for a seriously (...) (24 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: MSIE-- error in page?
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(...) Have you tried weblint? (24 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?)
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(...) But it's so messy. I use a laser pen, myself. Plus, you can turn down the intensity and use it as a pointer. ;^) ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (24 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?)
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(...) I've tried to cut back on launching poison darts... but it's hard. Very hard. My most effective weapon in project reviews is probably the acid pen, though. ++Lar (24 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Off Topic Dell Gripe
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(...) We really need an .off-topic.rant group, don't we? :-) That would be cool. And an on-topic rant. And rave. :-) --Todd (24 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Off Topic Dell Gripe
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in article G9DxCM.GpI@lugnet.com, Dave Schuler wrote: <snip> (...) Dear Lugnet User, Thank you for posting your message. Your post is very important to us. We are currently experiencing a high volume of posts. No one is available to reply to your (...) (24 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Back in June I purchased a computer from Dell. Nothing fancy, just something on which to do wordprocessing, net applications, and maybe some graphics software. Everything works fine, but I'm on a payment plan at a hideous interest rate, so I'm (...) (24 years ago, 26-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Ok, frustration-- I can't find this error (and I can't duplicate it) but what sort of error would cause MSIE 5.01 to say "Error in page", and nothing else? I'm pretty sure javascript errors just report the error (in the lower left corner, kinda) and (...) (24 years ago, 26-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?)
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(...) Is it hot-swappable with the optional poison dart launcher? ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?)
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(...) Yeah, the guy across the aisle from on last week's flight from New York was watching "Midnight Cowboy" on his Vaio. Pretty Cool, if you're really jonesing for a personal inflight movie. Steve (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?)
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(...) No, I use the one built into my laptop. Less to carry that way. ++Lar (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?)
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(...) Do you bring your forearm mounted mini-crossbow, Lar? ;^D ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?)
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(...) Which, if you're a road warrior, you would leave home. People ask me why I drag out my laptop to listen to MP3s on the plane, when a CD player (or an MP3 player or minidisk player, Sony has one that is the size of a minidisk plus a very small (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: LCAD for Risc-OS (was LCAD/LDraw.org Formal Organization)
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(...) I'm not sure if the GTK libs are availbe for RO? ( I seem to recall GTK+ being a acronym fro GIMP TOOLkit+ a distinctly non RO program... But if porting the GTK+ to RO would mean better RO software... Altoguh ISTR there being an ARM BSD or ARM (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Oops. I looked closely at my experiment with Marc Atkin's movie, "2001: A Lego Odyssey". It's not so easy to compress. The Sorenson 2 video codec does ruin the quality. Maybe it would improve with the professional package -- the basic codec suffers (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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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