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(...) It certainly takes a lot of trial and error to come up with a word which sums to 100 exactly. So to find one word at 100 starting with each letter from the alphabet could easily take a few days if you're not using any computer tools. The (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Look for patterns or workarounds. Whenever something comes along that, like this, appears way too hard to be reasonable, I just assume it's a trick question. Which way the smoke blows depends on where the survivors were buried.(1) (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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My son came home with a homework assignment today that I think is a bit tough. Here it is If you assign the letters of the alphabet numeric values with 1 == a and 26 == z, find a word starting with each letter that sums to exactly 100. Or at least (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) well, if you have access to the server logs, it's just a matter of counting the lines that requested the file counted. if you don't have access, you'll have to write a small CGI that will serve the file, after incementing a counter. HTH -- Dan (...) (23 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I'm not even sure of the precise terminology to use, but I'm looking for something to register the number of times a file is downloaded. I've seen such things online at a number of places, but can anyone advise me where I might acquire one? Thanks a (...) (23 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | A Little Advice From the Geeks
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Greetings: For the past few weeks I have been unable to open Brickbay from my machine. I'm using Netscape 4.7, and I've fiddled with my preferences every way that I know how. Is this possibly a configuration issue? Any advice would be appreciated! (...) (24 years ago, 2-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: older G3 300 coming home from work - possibilities?
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(...) Hey John, LTNS. ;) (...) This model has the drive attached to the bottom of the case. So I guess I could stick another 6gb drive out of one of the others (probably one of the two I snagged memory from already) into the spot above the Zip. I'm (...) (24 years ago, 1-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hi Mike, Is the internal drive in the upper left bay or attached to the bottom of the case? most of the ones with IDE drives have them in the lower case position and the SCSI ones are in the upper left bay above the zip drive. you ought to be (...) (24 years ago, 1-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Well, we're surplussing a bunch of older G3's (266 AV-capable towers and 300 desktop models) and I'm bringing one home to fiddle with. I figured the 300 would be better to mess with, although I'm not so sure after seeing how little internal (...) (24 years ago, 1-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: New RFC to be released this Sunday
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You can get Country style "FOO" stickers from (URL) got one on my car. KL (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Winux 2004 shirt on sluggy.com
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(...) I actually have two replies to this post... ---...--- So... that's what the kids are calling it these days... <grin> Jude ---...--- OR ---...--- Is that true Chris? Jude FUT o-t.fun (24 years ago, 30-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 3092 Title: Etymology of "Foo" Author(s): D. Eastlake 3rd, C. Manros, E. Raymond Status: Informational Date: 1 April 2001 Mailbox: (deleted to protect the guilty) Pages: 14 (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hey you geeks, check this out :-) (URL) think Pete Abrams' shirt design here is hilarious, and I'm not even a geek! -Shiri (who's not getting paid in any way to do this ;-)... I'm just a sluggy lover) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Geeks and Toys on Netslaves
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(...) No no. Think sorted pens. Pocket protectors. (24 years ago, 30-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Geeks and Toys on Netslaves
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(...) Marriage is not an indicator - nerds can marry other nerds and have a flock of little nerdlings. Hey, even though I earlier cited being an artist as a non-geek profession, one of the world's best known nerds is Van Gogh. (...) Depends on the (...) (24 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Guess I'm a geek, then -- by virtue of the fact that I'm married? In fact, if it weren't for the arrival of my son (turned five last week), I wouldn't have gotten sucked back in to the world of Lego. You two seem to be split over the issue of (...) (24 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) A geek *may* have social skills, a nerd does not. Looking around at clutter on desk...at least I'm not a nerd. :-) Bruce (though I feel constrained to point out that I have seen many computer-geeks that are tidy) (24 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I've thought of the difference between geeks and nerds to be that geeks usually are in the computer industry, and often untidy; nerds may work in a more academic or scientific field and are rather tidy. :-) --Ryan (24 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Geeks and Toys on Netslaves
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(...) A geek? Moi? I guess. Exactly what distinguishes a geek from an "ordinary" nerd? :^) My occupation? Pretty geeky, yep. Research biologist. Presently a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University, studying molecules of the immune system. (...) (24 years ago, 28-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Geeks and Toys on Netslaves
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(...) I'm a geek, and proud of it. I'm a technical support engineer for very high speed cut sheet printers. I need a good knowledge of Unix/Solaris, TCP/IP, Windows, Macintosh, Novell, PostScript and PCL. I'm finding Perl and shell programming (...) (24 years ago, 28-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Geeks and Toys on Netslaves
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(...) Dunno about Pat, but I had to do that...kinda, sorta. The product existed, but none of the commands were set, so I had to make 'em up as I went along in one 24 hour straight orgy of writing. It went on to be a best-selling computer game. :-) (...) (24 years ago, 28-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Geeks and Toys on Netslaves
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(...) Ummmmm, errrrrr, Field Analyst (fancy way of saying computer geek) at a World Famous Research Center (Geek Central). It gets worse. Fanatic game player (Super-Geek). Former computer game designer (World-class Geek). Artist (Whew! Saved!). (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Geeks and Toys on Netslaves
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(...) Aeronautical engineer. Worked once as a rocket scientist (literally..:-) nor working as an manufacturing engineer (...) Not that much (...) Of course yes. Has all the novels and at least 15 reference books and all four of the movies. (...) (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Networking Round 2
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(...) Yeah just you wait 'til they open up new TLDs; if it's done right, .foo will be one of the first to go. (And then .bar, of course....) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Averaging a set of images?
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(...) Did you want pic 33 to have way more weight than pic 1? Unless you do, you need to do the 2 at a time as a bracket instead of linearly if you're using PSP. (average 1 and 2, then 3 and 4.... 31 and 32, 33 and 1-2, 3-4 and 5-6 ... 27-28 and (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) d'oh! I never even looked up convert for this task. Seems kinda anti-intuitive for this to be a conversion task. I was using "mogrify -average" (and, failing that, "combine -blend"), which describe having the average function in the docs but (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I used to do a lot of that... of course, using matlab it's really really simple... odd, I tried useing 'convert' from the ImageMagick package and it seemed to work ok for me... how's it failing you? (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hey folks, I'm trying to average a bunch of images in batch process. Basically, I have 33 pics, so I average pic 1 against pic 2, then average the result of that against pic 3, and so on, until I process pic 33. Paint Shop Pro doesn't let you do (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | All LUG's/LTC's with registered domains - Especially those at Pair Networks!
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All, While visiting the Pair Networks Website ( www.pair.com ) recently I found they have recently started their own Domain Registration Service call PairNIC ( www.pairnic.com ). Their prices are very good running from between $19 for 1 year to as (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.org, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: HTML URL question
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(...) I like it when website designers use relative URLs. On WebTV, when a link is highlighted, you press crtl + cmd to see the target address; however, you're limited to the number of characters displayed in the little window, so the final (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: HTML URL question
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(...) Great, that was the answer I was hoping for. It will be alot easier for me to script from an absolute reference than it will for me to constantly figure out the relative position of a given page. --Jim (...) (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Networking Round 2
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(...) Oh! Another thing: I wouldn't use local.com unless you actually own local.com and the root nameservers point to you to resolve local.com. But I don't _think_ that's what's causing your problem. I'd use something with a domain that doesn't (...) (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Networking Round 2
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(...) This may be a stupid question, but you didn't mention it: do you have your /etc/resolv.conf pointing in the right place? -JDF (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) As efficiency goes, no, it doesn't really make a whole lot of difference-- that all happens on the browser end and in today's world of piles o' graphics and javascript and ActiveX controls and who knows what else, a couple of strncmp()s and a (...) (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Heres a question; I am working of some web site scripting and wonder if any of you know which is more effecient to call; a) an absolute reference, e.g <a href="(URL) or b) a relative reference e.g. <a href="../../history.html"> Or doesnt it make any (...) (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Networking: Round 1
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(...) Mmm, postfix. Good for you, good for the earth, good good good. (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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