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Heh, a coworker wrote this on a whiteboard in the lab: # rm -f /bin/laden :) I just thought it's funny, but FUT set to debate, incase one flares up :) Dan (23 years ago, 27-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Macintosh and MP3s
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(...) Naw, I needed to know for the sake of a less than tech-savvy friend. I could have searched myself, but that would not have given me the benefit of a user's experience. I figured it was simple enough to just ask... I like Winamp myself, and it (...) (23 years ago, 25-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) So, did you come back over to the Light Side willingly? 8?D The best MP3 player out there (IMO) is the free one Apple gives you...iTunes. It does everything you would want, plus integrates with your CD burner to make discs, has a way cool (...) (23 years ago, 25-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hey Y'all: I haven't had a Macintosh for years, so I was wondering if someone could briefly give me the heads up on what the best MP3 players for Macintosh might be, and if there are any freeware MP3 players for Macintosh. Thanks in advance, -- (...) (23 years ago, 25-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Macintosh Humor...Gotta' Love It!
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Mac old-timers should find this funny: (URL) (23 years ago, 23-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Solving a trigonometric equation
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(...) I've solved it myself now, so no worries! ;-) Fredrik (23 years ago, 23-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: DVD players (Was: Re: From a mailing list)
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(...) I replaced more than a few, I guess, but I certainly didn't try to replace everything. Although I guess I should, for those things I really like, as I haven't watched a single one of my pre-recorded VHS tapes since I bought my DVD player (...) (23 years ago, 23-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Solving a trigonometric equation
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Arg, I can't remember how to solve an equation like this: a = b sin (x) - cos (x), where x is in the first quadrant, and a and b are known factors. Can anybody help me, please? That would have been great! Fredrik (23 years ago, 23-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: DVD players (Was: Re: From a mailing list)
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(...) Yes, I got a chance to play with a DVD version of The Matrix at a friend's house on a really really big TV with Dolby surround. Pretty amazing.... (...) We would have to decide WHICH room/VCR gets it though... Family room, where the kids watch (...) (23 years ago, 22-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Help! Possessed monitor!
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(...) It just did...and I had to turn the monitor off and back on for the image to come back. --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (23 years ago, 22-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Help! Possessed monitor!
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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)
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| | Re: Macintosh Form Processing
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(...) 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)
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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)
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| | Re: Problem with Brickbay?
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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)
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| | Re: Now that we have a range of pictures...some thoughts...
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: English question
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(...) It means A/B. ---...--- TWS Garrison tgarriso@math.purdue.edu (URL) (23 years ago, 12-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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)
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| | Re: Web Hosting Services Question
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(...) (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)
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| | New Bill expands the DMCA
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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)
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| | Re: Web Hosting Services Question
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(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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| | Re: Web Hosting Services Question
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(...) ... (...) 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)
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| | Web Hosting Services Question
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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)
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| | Re: Excel Question
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: Excel Question
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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)
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| | Re: Excel Question
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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)
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| | Excel Question [DAT]
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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)
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| | Re: Confusion, help?
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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)
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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)
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| | Re: Image re-sizing help
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Never mind, figured it out. -Geordan- (...) (23 years ago, 2-Sep-01, to lugnet.publish.photography, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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)
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| | Re: Gasaraki 1, any good?
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: Gasaraki 1, any good?
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: Gasaraki 1, any good?
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(...) 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)
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| | MonkeyBoy Redeux (was: The MonkeyBoy Returneth) (was: When Bill Gates dies)
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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)
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| | Re: Gasaraki 1, any good?
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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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| | Re: Gasaraki 1, any good?
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(...) Not quite sure what you mean here. A ship could fly in space with similar flightpaths to how it can fly in an atmosphere. Nothing says that it can't. If you want to execute a smooth sweeping turn like in the atmosphere, you need only have (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: Gasaraki 1, any good?
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(...) I don't see how this question is even debatable, because you're talking about fictional technologies, most of which disobey all current known laws of physics. You might be able to debate specific cases, but it's still extremely difficult to do (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: Gasaraki 1, any good?
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(...) Sure they can co-exist, if the creator of the show wishes them to. :) Now, if you want TV show/movie examples, try Macross/Robotech, Nadesico, and Gundam. But since it is all fantasy anyway, anything a creator deems possible, is, well, (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | space/mecha combat theories... (was Re: Gasaraki 1, any good?)
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In starfox, there is a level where you fly around in space and kill robot/mech things, I dunno if that's what you mean though. But I think (from a non-anime oriented perspective) that mecha could easily be pitted agains't spacecraft and have a (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: Gasaraki 1, any good?
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Wow, quite a few replies here! Let me try to explain my theory in a different way and you can tell me if you guys agree with me or not? "Mech combat are not compatible with non-mech space combat." or rephrased: "Mechs fight with mechs and they can (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
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