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  Help! Possessed monitor!
 
I was wondering if any of you could give me some advice on the odd behavior of my monitor (Compaq 700T Trinitron)... A few months ago, right after the warranty expired, my monitor started randomly blinking off and back on about once every couple (...) (23 years ago, 22-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Macintosh Form Processing
 
(...) If it's really important, and you have access to it, I would recommend going the Acrobat route...then you have zero cross-platform issues with the forms, and can build your database from there. You will need the full Acrobat package, of (...) (23 years ago, 22-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Macintosh Form Processing
 
I've been volunteered to build a website for a conference that is being held on my college campus. The website will have a registration page so that the attendees will be able to register online. Sounds easy, right. The space I have to host the site (...) (23 years ago, 22-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Problem with Brickbay?
 
In my opinion, more of the blame should be directed at Microsoft for their lack of planning and security. I am just amazed at the amount of viri spreading lately, and NOT 1 has affected me using RedHat Linux. Given the resources Microsoft has, there (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Now that we have a range of pictures...some thoughts...
 
(...) Hmmmph. Beaten by a VIC-20. My Apple ][+ had 16K, 10K of which was ROM. But then I had my TI-59 calculator with magnetic card reader and a whopping 960 (floating point) bytes!! Nyak, nyak!! Like to see *you* write a micro-chess (5x5) game on (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  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)


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