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(...) I work in the real world and I am usually at the leading edge where we are trying to get the basic concepts down. So UML is overly precise for what I typically need to convey. I am usually at the lines and boxes level and showing a mishmash of (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Heh, good idea, I just submitted it to quotes-r-us.org. If you go to "advanced fatures", set keyword to "mothers", the second or third quote should be this one. ;-) -Shiri (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Wow, quite a "quote of the day", huh?..:-) Selçuk "We're like a whole bunch of mothers, standing over your shoulder" (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Fifteen, but yeah, it does go by fast... sorta. ;-) I remember when you first found out how old I was (in that demented intern thread - gahh!). (...) Ahhhh, ain't no such thing as too old. If you're playing with lego, you can't be that old, (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Wow!.. Little Shiri grows too fast..:-) You were fourteen when we first meet you here, right? Time really rolls too fast. Congrats..:-) Selçuk (will be officially end of his 30 (i.e. too old) in a few months) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) English. (...) He hooked up with a publishing company from Europe, actually, it might even be the Netherlands, but I forget. The publishing company is getting the book out at *their* expense, and he's getting a percentage of the profit (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I've gotta ask the obvious question (or not so obvious?): Is he writing it in English or in Hebrew? Or both? As an editor myself I'm interested in how he's positioned himself and how the publishing process works outside the US and Europe. Is (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Larry Pieniazek writes: <snip> (...) Very. Definitely. BTW, Larry, speaking of geeks of some sort, you're a system architect, right? My dad is writing a book (1) about system modeling, and I'm actually his editor (nobody (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Find your Birthday Buddy
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July 24, 1969 (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.people)
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XFUT lugnet.people Hi all! Well, I'm sure the geeks of us all know that in a room with 30 people, there's a fairly large chance of having two people with the same birthday. (I can explain to the non-geeks if you really want... not now though.) Since (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.people) !!
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(...) We would never do anything like that. (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hey Chris, Isn't it nice to know that LUGNET folks are going to nag you to do your backups from now on, though? We're like a whole bunch of mothers, standing over your shoulder (say...a new LUGNET motto...). Don't make us have to tell you (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Selcuk/Steve Yeh everything has been backed up in several places. I've been slow to do backups of late for a number of reasons. Lack of PC zip disks and getting a new computer and not having the ambition to swap the cd-burner into it. rest assured (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I'm happy to hear that you recovered them...:-) Here are some advice: ** Make at least *two* *more* copies of any data you don't want to lost. ** Never Trust Floppies, they are volatile, literally. ** Make your HDD defargmented by using either (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: What the *bleep* is Brickfest!? and Flexiclaw, one of my best mechs
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(...) Well, okay, this makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Without actually going through the efforts of looking into this, I must wonder about the nature of this software. Is it a self-installing ActiveX control, or is it instead a (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) And now you've backed up the data, right? More than once? Steve (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: What the *bleep* is Brickfest!? and Flexiclaw, one of my best mechs
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(...) Well-- Comet Systems Inc. is the manufacturer of the software... anyone who downloads it apparently has their history traced when using MSIE. (...) Well, no. AOL is actually a version of MSIE :( (...) Honestly, I don't know (nobody knows for (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Seriously? You mean cometzone is putting trackers on the dude that use it? Oh crud, that stinks... phooie... hmmm.... oh well, I use the AOL browser( finally a good thing about AOL) so i have nothing to worry about, and plus as to how a company that (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) ... (...) ... This is off-topic for .debate! FUT .geek ++Lar (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Wow. GOOD. Take better care of it. Get another hard copy. -Shiri (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) That's GREAT Chris! I'm happy I could help. Matt (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Thanks Matt.... I owe you one... I lost only about 10% of the total file set... I guess because of netscape caching pages and my searching for the files. It took me a while to figure out that I had lost them. Luckily, I had just copied some of (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Nah, it's long gone I'd bet. I just added tons of files to my computer this week, unknowingly... downloaded all my pictures from zing.com (they're closing their doors, unfortunately :-( ) plus added over 200 songs to my mp3 collection over the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) "I blame myself." (Egon Spengler, Ghostbusters) Sorry, Shiri...you might still try though, you never know. Oh, and since I didn't think to say it, download the file and run it from a removeable disk (ZIP if ya' got it). DON'T DOWNLOAD IT TO (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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ooooh. Great piece of advice. Too bad I didn't hear about this about two weeks ago, I lost two very important pictures (group pictures of my parents' conference, they were *really* mad). I bet it's all gone by now... :-/ -Shiri (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Chris, First of all STOP SAVING FILES TO YOUR HARD DRIVE...the data should still be present, as the file system in your OS just opens the AREA of the disk with the data on it to be overwritten, not actually wiping out the data itself. Each (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I was using what I thought was a great little program- CoffeeCup Free FTP when I encountered a little problem... I used the softwares 'delete this file' function on a directory that I discovered I didn't want deleted. I had thought that the program (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I did write such a scripty, and I can email it to you if you want. What I did was just bind it to a key so I can auth a post without starting up a webbrowser. Let me know if you want the script. I do like the idea of the hash sig... or better (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Thanx Matt! All the info you've provided is great... But I'll just cut and paste directly from your post. My 2¢ --==Richard==-- (Richard, who's a bit slow but catches on eventually!) (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Of course it could verify that I wrote the message. I could add a seemingly random hash function output to the signature of my messages, or to some arbitrary "X-" header. Finding the function that generated the "random" code would require (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) If you would have automated that process, that would make you vulenerable to identity theft. If someone would forge your ID the message will be accepted by a script that is not able to verify if you really wrote that message... -Frank (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Richard (and anyone else who has been *aching* to use the ¢ sign: From: (URL) (cute page, go see it) Mac users have it really easy. In whatever application you are in, type option-4. Viola! (gotta' love them Macs!-Matt) Windows folks... well, (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Some Lego buying stats
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(...) Hi again, Selcuk (sorry I don't know how to type the proper "c"!), All of the answers to your question so far have been pretty representative of the middle class (and we are probably more highly educated on Lugnet than average), but I don't (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: How do I print a File Directory
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(...) More ways: Hit the PrintScrn key and paste the image into your picture editor, cut out the crap and print. (makes perfect CD-covers w/o much work). Or to get rid of some of the DOS info from the dir > filename.txt tip, Open it in M$ Word, make (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Blame it all on Unisys
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(...) (23 years ago, 14-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(URL) - jsproat (23 years ago, 14-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Selcuk: An interesting topic. Housing costs in the US varies widely based on geography as well as supply and demand. I live in Cincinnati OH, where house prices are pretty reasonable. An exsisting 3 bedroom 1-story house averages about 90,000 (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) My soon-to-be wife (6 weeks!) is currently looking for employment in a school in the Central Kentucky area, so I have some numbers from that for a comparison. (...) Here, a starting teacher with no experience makes from $25,000-$32,000 based (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'll jump in here. I can actually give you info for two different scenarios, since I just went through a location and employment change semi-recently (2 years ago). Background: B.S. in Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering, U of Washington (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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