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  Re: English question
 
(...) It means A/B. ---...--- TWS Garrison tgarriso@math.purdue.edu (URL) (23 years ago, 12-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  English question
 
I have a question about the English language. If I say "the ratio of A to B," does this mean (in mathematical notation) A/B or B/A? Or something completely different? Fredrik (23 years ago, 12-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Web Hosting Services Question
 
(...) (URL) have been a couple bumps along the way getting stuff up, but the support is very fast (I usually get an email reply within 24 or fewer hours). You get a ton of stuff for what you pay too. (Subdomains, MySQL, PHP, etc...) And if you need (...) (23 years ago, 11-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  New Bill expands the DMCA
 
I just read this article on Wired.com, about a new bill to expand the DMCA: (URL) will force manufacturers to place copy protection on all electronic devices that deal with digital media. In addition, this supercedes Fair Use, and sounds to me like (...) (23 years ago, 11-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Web Hosting Services Question
 
(URL) $9.95 a month with unlimited transfers, dedicated ip, telnet access etc. One shell email account is provided with five mailboxes. It seems they are offering RealAudio server setup for free as well. (...) (23 years ago, 8-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Web Hosting Services Question
 
(...) ... (...) I'm giving (URL) a go at the moment, I have only just signed up for it, so I can't give you a big thumbs up yet, but it seems reasonable. Another one I have found that looks good is (URL) again I can't really tell you what they are (...) (23 years ago, 8-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Web Hosting Services Question
 
Hey Y'all: This is off topic, but may be of interest to those looking for web hosting for their MASSIVE lego sites... A friend of mine, a celtic folk harpist, is looking for a service to host her website which I will be helping her design and (...) (23 years ago, 8-Sep-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Excel Question
 
(...) Nbd. (...) [snip] (...) Just to be completely clear - I should have written "VBA Macro". Which is within Excel. But this approach would be harder than using [h]lookup. (...) Umm, I don't know about this one. Other than making sure you've got (...) (23 years ago, 6-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Excel Question
 
Thanks Steve (...) Trying to keep it simple and within one package. (...) thought about- didn't want to go there (...) neat idea! (...) again- I'm trying to stay within excel. It's wierd- I've encountered so many people in the sciences who haven't (...) (23 years ago, 5-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Excel Question
 
In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Christopher Tracey writes: [snip description of problem] (...) Here are some options: 1. Use MS-Access instead. 2. Brute force it, using a formula with a nasty set of nested =if() functions, like (...) (23 years ago, 5-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Excel Question  [DAT]
 
here's the sitiuation... I have an excel data set in the following format: obs 1am 1pm 2am 2pm 3am 3pm ... 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x and so on up to 560 observations. This is data describing seedling germination (1am refers to germinated the first day in the (...) (23 years ago, 5-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Confusion, help?
 
What you need to do is look at your newsreader, which by the headers reads Outlook Express, and then reregister yourself as a new identity within the newsreader. You might also need to register yourself as a new user within your Windows operating (...) (23 years ago, 3-Sep-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Confusion, help?
 
Reposted from Friday and cross-posted to geek ---...--- -- Ok so I was nicely asked to make it so that the from thing had MY name and not my husbands. Well we tried and the option is either grayed out and unchangeable or when other ways were tried (...) (23 years ago, 3-Sep-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Image re-sizing help
 
Never mind, figured it out. -Geordan- (...) (23 years ago, 2-Sep-01, to lugnet.publish.photography, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Image re-sizing help
 
Hi, does anyone know of a free program that let's you select multiple photos and re-size them, without having to do each one individualy? Also, I'm sure that there is a size select feature on the digital camera I'm using, Kodak DC265, does anyone (...) (23 years ago, 1-Sep-01, to lugnet.publish.photography, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Gasaraki 1, any good?
 
(...) Not at the time. That realignment came much later. LFB (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
 
  Re: Gasaraki 1, any good?
 
(...) Ah, ok, I was going to bring up the reference for him ("The Livin Legend", with the late Lloyd Bridges playing Commander Cain). Yes, he took the Pegasus with 2 vipers (Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict, who else?) point blank against 3 base (...) (23 years ago, 29-Aug-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
 
  Re: Gasaraki 1, any good?
 
(...) With a system that can counteract an almost instantaneous accelaration to Warp nine I think it can cope with a little 180 degree spin in an instant. Steve (B5 is a lot better than Star Trek) (23 years ago, 29-Aug-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
 
  MonkeyBoy Redeux (was: The MonkeyBoy Returneth) (was: When Bill Gates dies)
 
The MonkeyBoy just won't die... You've seen him acapella... (...) You've seen him dripping wet... (...) Well, now, you can hear him in all his glory... (URL) to Digital Droo, of Mac Addict Magazine fame! Finally...the words "Microsoft" and "cool" (...) (23 years ago, 29-Aug-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Gasaraki 1, any good?
 
The Minbari, and to a lesser extent the Centauri, are suspected of using drives that interact with the Zero Point Field (don't have time to explain the ZPF right now), thus enabling them to use a reactionless drive. Your're wrong about the (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)


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