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(...) How'd you manage to get a discount PS2? I've been thinking about buying one. I really don't like Sony, but with the death of the Dreamcast and the Gamecube and XBox not coming out until next year I figure I should pick up a PS2 before (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Good lightweight shelving for display?
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(...) gone, but it doesn't matter. If you don't have a recent browser, you get this friendly message: (...) Not even any contact information. For what it's worth now, the URL for IVAE is: (URL) what a friendly URL... Sometimes I wonder if companies (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.storage, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: SW Trilogy (SE) VHS Nov. '00 Release - Widescreen?
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(...) Indeed. I finally snagged my discount PS2 a few weeks ago, I bought Star Trek: First Contact (I lost my VHS version : ( ) It is really nice, you will need a remote for it, though. It also plays a good deal of PS1 games faster, Twisted Metal 2 (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Off Topic Dell Gripe
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(...) Except I'm willing to bet that an unfortunately large number of people wouldn't be able to tell you which group was for which purpose, and we'd end up with incorrect cross-postings all over the landscape. "Rave" really is just general carrying (...) (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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(...) The acid pen is, if I'm interpreting Lar correctly, from the same class of weapon as the razor wit and the pointed review. :) James (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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(...) 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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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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| | Re: Titanium PowerBook
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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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| | wireless (was: Re: Pictures for set #3032 - No interest?)
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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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| | Re: Microsoft spreads Linux FUD
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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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| | Re: Microsoft spreads Linux FUD
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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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| | Anyone using MSN Messenger and NetMeeting?
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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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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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