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(...) Oh, and: last I checked, they had a free two-connection-only license. Maybe that's changed. (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Get DNews. It's not a proxy, but it can be configured as a "sucking" news server, which won't require a lot of disk space. (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) well, $set gets assigned each element in the array, in order. so if your array is "1", "10", "20", "this-string", $set will get each of these values, then run the code block. (...) maybe I'm misunderstanding again... @array = split /\t/, (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) The example at (URL) suggested using : for (@lines) {do stuff} But that didn't seem to work. I'm looking at a simple tutorial on foreach, but I don't get what the $set means or does for the loop. In your example, is it doing something like (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) first of all, you're running an open ended loop on the array, when you can just run through each element: foreach $set (@sets) { (...) that trailing ']' is a typo, right? I'm not running this, but I think that would be a syntax error... (...) (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well, I've discarded the first part...the explanatory text up through the big ________. Then I've read the rest of the file into an array where each item in the array is one line. So now I'm trying to split() the @array[items] by column, (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) ahhh, you said the magic word (perl) :) If you could explain to me exactly what you need, I'll give ya a script that will do it :) (...) you could use perl for that too, except that why load the server more then you need to? get the list file, (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I were a programmer! I've spent the last eight hours trying to learn enough perl to massage the data into a multidimensional array, but I think I'm giving up, for the day at least. I can't find a reference, tutorial, or FAQ that describes more (...) (23 years ago, 17-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I'm trying to find a free NNTP proxy I could run on NT and/or 2K. I have a home connection with an ISP that does not provide a news server for reading/posting, but at work my whole LAN has full read/post access via the ISP used there. What I would (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I knew I was above average. It seems that my height is as well. :) (...) Quite true. I wonder, does this hold true for women as well as men? I've noticed that men in the south are definately generally taller than men up north, but what about (...) (23 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Eh, only marginally. It's mostly like Lode Runner, with space references built in. Have a look at (URL)I love those old adventure games and lighthearted shareware arcade games. (...) What's cool nowadays is that people are starting to write (...) (23 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) weigh a bunch of stuff tomorrow night anyway, I bring a 2x4 brick along. -c (23 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) "looks like he's heading for that small moon" .....[snip some dialogue] "that's no moon... it's a space station (made out of a quadzillion lego bricks)." -c (23 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I get (going by volume) approximately 22,029,937,442,631,307 2x4 bricks that would fit, which of course isn't accounting for air pockets or anything. Assuming that probably 3/4 of the Death Star is empty space, that's [only!] (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) heh, would that be enough mass to actually have it's own (significant) gravity? like a very small moon, or something? :) XFUT lugnet.off-topic.geek (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Worked for me when I just tried it again. This is way way cool, it's just the thing to access when trying to evaluate "clearance" at jackup places like KB if you don't already have the data on a Palm (which I don't have, too much stuff to (...) (23 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'm a long time user too! I used to use the phone book more than anything and it sucks that they removed it. Now I use the traffic keyword more than anything, but I drive more than I fly so that might account for our different focus. (...) (...) (23 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hi! I've been a TELLME user for ages, since they were in early beta actually. It's a neat idea (although not sure it's a moneymaking one), and I use it a lot to find out weather in destination cities or just to kill a little time in the (...) (23 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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so what? I am Danish, even that I live in Estonia. I don't give a damn. But what bothers me is that there were no films but sports in the evenings on the telly. FUT:lugnet.off-topic.geek Mani <manuelclara2@hotmail.com> wrote in message (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Possibly the coolest bit of innovation I've seen in some time, saving a research satellite from oblivion with a clever hack! (URL) It's silly little things like this that prove, to me, that the space program really isn't wasting all those millions. (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: LDraw.org MOTM/SOTM voting for March is open
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"Fredrik Glöckner" <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote in message news:qrdsn7kplob.fsf....uio.no... (...) I do this too - although I panic when it happens, as it's the alert that my web server is no longer visible to the internet! Dan (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I do this too, and I find it very useful. Especially when I'm abroad. I have a list of friends, and any mail from either of them is copied to my phone. I use compression of the mail, removing surplus quotes and so on to fill the 160 available (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Certain messages arriving in my mailbox are copied to my phone through a SMTP to SMS/GSM gateway. The status report from the program that updates the MOTM/SOTM voting pages is one of that kind of messages. Another example is the report the (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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G'Day Both products work well (most off the time). Just make a backup of important data files. We use Ghost 7.0 at the office everyday. My method with Ghost, make a WIN98 boot floppy to boot with, flip in a diskette with Ghost.exe on it and run from (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"richard marchetti" <blueofnoon@aol.com> wrote in message news:Gs6u4H.6KB@lugnet.com... (...) create (...) whatever (...) I tend to use it mainly to reconfigure that partitions on a new machine when our company buys one - I'd rather have 2 or 3 (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Yeah, I have used PartitionMagic for years and never had problems with it. It's a decent recommendation over the other products being discussed. The interface is straight-forward enough that one refers to the manuals only sparingly. One of the (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:Gs58o4.Hnv@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) Sorry, I should have explained that part. Partition Magic creates the boot disks - one to boot from, the other you insert when it asks which (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi! I've used both and they should be able to do what you want if you boot from a DOS-type floppy (make a rescue disk from a Windows '98 computer, works splendid and even starts most common CD-drives) and start Ghost or PQDI from there. Just make (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Thanks. I wasn't sure I followed you on creating two boot disks, though. Could you elaborate on that a bit? Wouldn't one be sufficient? (assuming the boot disk enables Partition Magic to use NTFS formatted drives) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:Gs3HBz.H0L@lugnet.com... (...) I (...) one (...) want (...) get (...) leftover (...) My advice - don't use Ghost or Drive Image. Get Partition Magic. I did this last year with my work (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Dan's advice about installing from scratch is good. But I've also thought of another work-around. A bit more time consuming, but it should work. If you boot from the new drive, since it has 2000 on it, you could dump the contents of the old (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Well, we used an older version of Ghost at PGP, and it was good for what we used it for - restoring a standard image to a pc. This is not what you're asking though, since you want to restore the image contents, but not the drive geometry. You might (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) That helps a lot! Thanks! I guess I'm sort of stuck then as I only have one machine with only one internal drive and one external caddy (these are laptop drives). I HAD two machines as late as last week but turned one in. (however I did't have (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Speaking as someone who has much experience with Norton's Ghost, I have to say that I like it a lot. I haven't used Drive Image, so I can't say anything about it. I haven't used the latest version, so some of what I'm about to say may be (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Well my current HD has gotten a bit too small (or I've got a bit too much crud, er, useful stuff packratted away).. I've lined up a larger one, and I have an extra drive cradle so I can put both in my laptop at once (as well as an external floppy to (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Descent: Freespace 1
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Way, *way* off topic, but as LUGNET is one of the most visited boards on the Net I'd thought I might find some help here. Does anyone have Freespace 1? And if you do, have you played on Parallax Online? There's a Freespace Frenzy going on today, and (...) (23 years ago, 16-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Graphics Gems covers basic stuff only where the presenter has an innovation. But they've been very good over the years. You can get any of their example source code online. Do pay a visit here: (URL) guys were in Gems IIR, and their book is worth (...) (23 years ago, 13-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Sproaticus" <jsproat@io.com> skrev i meddelandet news:GrGFrK.9nJ@lugnet.com... (...) There must surely be one (or more) in Graphical Gems (URL) (if that URL still is valid, otherwise search for Graphical Gems) a bit dated, c code, but useful. -- (...) (23 years ago, 13-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) If you don't mind C code, there's the zAddTriangle() function in stub.c in the ldlite or ldglite source code. The old 1.6 ldlite source is a bit easier to follow since it doesn't have all the extra shaders. Also, it's a linear z-buffer, which (...) (23 years ago, 13-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I may be missing your point/problem but... Think you may need to go bi-linear in your Z calcs. Yes this makes a Suppos'dly one pixel lookup method a two+ per pixel but if you are already using a scan line method you have the precalculated (...) (23 years ago, 13-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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