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===...=== T H E T O P F I V E L I S T We laugh hard, so you don't have to! ===...=== November 9, 2001 NOTE FROM CHRIS: The newest version of the Windows operating system is in stores (and all over your TV) now. The Top 15 Rejected Slogans for (...) (23 years ago, 9-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Help with Mac Netscape 6.2
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I got it to work now.Apparently it just took an insanely long time for the lugnet server to respond with confirmation that my re-setting had worked. (23 years ago, 8-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Help with Mac Netscape 6.2
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(...) 6.2 from scratch, or coming from 6.1? (...) The newsreader is returning that message, or the LUGNET server? (I'm assuming you're talking about LUGNET posting, as opposed to Usenet?) (...) I don't use it regularly, but I do set up the most (...) (23 years ago, 8-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Help with Mac Netscape 6.2
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Hi guys, I just decided to use Netscape 6.2 for Mac, and I've been able to set it up mostly the way I want. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get the newsreader to allow me to post. It keeps giving me the message about "Please see news/post/setup" I've (...) (23 years ago, 8-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: To all my friends!
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(...) Cool. Thank you to both of you--I can work with that formula. Dave! (23 years ago, 7-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: To all my friends!
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(...) r = sqrt[(A^2/8D + D/2 - B^2/8D)^2 + B^2/4] where: A = chord 1 length B = chord 2 length D = perpindicular distance between A and B or you could search on cyclic quadrilateral and solve for r using that mess, simplifying for the quadrilateral (...) (23 years ago, 7-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: To all my friends!
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(...) I am just guessing, but don't 4 points uniquely (over) determine a circle, because any 3 noncollinear points actually uniquely determine a circle? If you can calculate the radius from any 3 non collinearpoints you can do it from this info as (...) (23 years ago, 7-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | To all my friends!
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The way I show my gratitude when I receive informational help from people is by shamelessly exploiting their knowledge again, so here goes: If I know the lengths of two chords of a circle, both of which are smaller than the diameter and which are (...) (23 years ago, 7-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Busted laptop? How can I tell?
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Fixed it - fan had stopped working and it was an alarm on the mainboard. That also explains why it was hot to touch after just 30 minutes :( Dan (23 years ago, 5-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Busted laptop? How can I tell?
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I have a laptop that starts making a continuous tone when it's turned on. I have tried removing all PCMCIA cards and it doesn't help. Sometimes the tone has little variations in it - sounds a bit like a modem, but there's no modem built-in to the (...) (23 years ago, 5-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Robot 'bugs' - the new fad?
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(...) Only if the other species attacks by trying to bite the enemy's eyeballs. (Yes I know that you saw it coming. I know you did. HA!) LFB (23 years ago, 5-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Robot 'bugs' - the new fad?
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Just like the look of these, thought I'd share the story! (URL) by this excerpt: They are designed to "herd" with their kind and battle with other species by, as Tilden himself put it, "stomping on the other one's head." Is this guy related to (...) (23 years ago, 5-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Directory listing?
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(...) That's cool too, but Dan's "DIR > FILE" suggestion worked, since I had to monkey around with the information. I played with the output file and came up with what was needed. Thanks all the same! Dave! (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Directory listing?
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(...) pretty close, it should be: dir >LPT1 This might not work over a networked printer, but you could always redirect the dir to a text file and print it from there. As in: dir >c:\foo.txt -- Hop-Frog (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Directory listing?
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(...) Hmm. You're laughing, but I think that'll do just what I need. Thanks! Dave! (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Directory listing?
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(...) but I (...) heh, 'fraid I won't be much help here - I don't use NT, if I can avoid it... maybe, something like dir > :PRN dir > PRN: (maybe LPT instead of PRN?) or, dir > file and open the file in notepad and print it :) *grin* Dan (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Directory listing?
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Can someone (probably Dan Boger, since he always comes to my rescue on computer questions!) tell me how to print a directory listing? I'm using Windows NT at work; at home I'd use ACDSee to pull the directory info, but I don't have that option here. (...) (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | lenses, webcams, magnafication
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As part of my masters research I need to collect images of the leaves of the plant that I study for later image analysis. Typically this is done through a destructive harvest of the tissue and the image is captured using a flatbed scanner. My (...) (23 years ago, 29-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | WOW! Ever loose a web page?
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This is VERY cool! Has a web site you loved gone belly up? Loose track of a page with important info? Return to a site to see that special something, only to find that the site has updated and that special something no longer exists? I found this (...) (23 years ago, 27-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Pop-Up Stopper (was: Re: Photos of my MOCs)
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(...) I tried it, it seems to work well for me. Ironically, the outfit seems to be quite active in privacy issues and has some good resources for research into the topic if one is so inclined. (23 years ago, 21-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Pop-Up Stopper (was: Re: Photos of my MOCs)
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(...) Or, use Mozilla, and put this in your prefs.js file: user_pref("dom.disab...ing_load", true); Disables almost all automatic popups, yet allow legit ones through. (23 years ago, 20-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Pop-Up Stopper (was: Re: Photos of my MOCs)
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(...) It also nukes his intended popups. Like his instruction pages... Sigh... Dean (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Help! Possessed monitor!
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About a year ago I had exaclty the same problem with a Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 720 (supposedly one of the best brands). The lil' bugger started to do the blinky after you'd left it on for a few minutes. Until one day I tried to turn it on and it (...) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Pop-Up Stopper (was: Re: Photos of my MOCs)
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(...) Try this if they bother you: "Pop-Up Stopper" (URL) have not tried it, but I am told it works. It is free. Scott A (fut : lugnet.off-topic.geek) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Using LDGLite with Xvfb
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Dan: (...) LDGLite still seg-faults on Linux/Alpha. I have been playing with LDGLite and Xvfb on a Linux/IA32 system this weekend. I suppose that the source of the segmentation fault is a mismatch in the size of C integers and pointers on the Alpha (...) (23 years ago, 14-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Using LDGLite with Xvfb
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(...) well, we could try it with VNC - if you got LDGlite to work now? :) Dan (23 years ago, 14-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Using LDGLite with Xvfb
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(...) Making the screen even wider was not a practical solution. There is a screen width limit somewhere between 2048 and 4096 pixels. Now I simply made Xvfb work with a 2048 by 2048 pixel display: Xvfb :9 -screen 2048x2048x24 -ac This gives (...) (23 years ago, 14-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Using LDGLite with Xvfb
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I have experimented a bit with using Xvfb as X server for LDGLite. It seems to work, but there are some things to be aware of. I start Xvfb with the command: Xvfb :9 -screen 0 2048x1280x24 -ac "-ac" means that there is no access control. That's kind (...) (23 years ago, 14-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Online Tone Generator?
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We (ok, I) managed to detune our zither and now, since we are not particularly musical, we are seeking a tone generator so we have something to start from. Surely there has to be one out there? We found this ((URL) dulcimer guide but what I am (...) (23 years ago, 13-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Homestead: No longer free
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Dear Everyone, I'm very sorry that I have delivered this information so late, much to my demise Homestead is charging money for their websites. It is a small fee but if you don't want to waste good money that you could be spending on Legos I'd (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Brickshelf downloader (Perl script)
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Hey all, I've uploaded my beta Brickshelf downloaded perl script. You can see it here: (URL) you have perl installed and would like to play with it, please feel free. It currently relies on the following libraries (found on CPAN if not the core Perl (...) (23 years ago, 8-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: test
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(...) Hi Elena, is this really a test? Just in case you actually want an answer I'm redirecting to o-t.geek. Maggie C. (23 years ago, 6-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.test, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | webcams
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Does anyone know the macro capabilities of the LogiTech QuickCam® Pro 3000? Or can recommend other good webcams with reasonable close-up capacity? Thanks -chris (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: PC Troubleshooting...
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(...) anyway. (...) One other thing you may want to check is that the CPU fan's working OK, and the thermal connection is good. IIRC Pentium IIIs shut down when they overheat. Regards ROSCO (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: PC Troubleshooting...
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(...) Soft boot generally refers to ctrl-alt-del or rebooting via software (which Windoze generally does every time you make a change to the system 8?() Hard boot is pressing the reset button (reboot using hardware). Using the on/off switch is (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | An interesting possibility ...
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(URL) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Does anyone now how to install windows at an angle???
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(...) Darn you, Rick. I was going to suggest putting a telephone book under the legs on one side of his chair. :D Sick people, we are. LFB (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: PC Troubleshooting...
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(...) I meant hitting the reset button, which I've always heard of as a soft boot because it doesn't cut the power. Is it called something else? (...) Actually, I am pretty sure that it was the motherboard -- the part I was most loathe to have to (...) (23 years ago, 30-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: PC Troubleshooting...
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(...) Is this while running Checkit, or regardless of what the system is doing? I'm not 100% clear on that. And what do you mean by soft boot? I'm familiar with that term being a restart using software (i.e. cntrl-alt-del) but I think you're meaning (...) (23 years ago, 29-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | PC Troubleshooting...
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Hey Y'all: Someone I know is giving me slightly old computer parts and I am building 3-4 different computer systems from the parts for use by friends -- I may even end up with one or two machines in return to give to people in the neighborhood. (...) (23 years ago, 29-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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