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An interesting gambit. I see your picture -- and raise you an evil biker dude... (URL) - jsproat (22 years ago, 30-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I thought that this was just super fun + geeky looking with my bowtie and all: (URL) Deering (22 years ago, 29-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Indeed. At the office, just replace it. My own keyboard? I'll toss it in the dishwasher first, and let it dry two days or so. Usually works, and when it doesn't, well, I needed a new keyboard anyhow. -JDF (22 years ago, 29-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: I received a virus email today...
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(...) I get dozens every week -- see (URL). (This last seven-day period was especially bad.) I'm pretty sure it's getting my e-mail address out of the Readme file for IceBreaker, because it often uses subject lines that are clearly snippets from (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I get a few of these a week. All e-mail addresses, including mine, originate from the Super Chief registry page. -Rob. (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I get copies of Klez regularly, not from LEGO people. They're sent in emails with snippets of HTML code as the subject. For example, a subject 'cellpadding' or 'marginheight.' Just checked Norton today and I have 70 copies of Klez (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Keyboard trouble!
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(...) Two reasons: 1: if the spilled substance gets down to the circuit sheet, it's toast. Easiest way to tell this is if some keys do not work. 2: Cleaning a keyboard with stuck keys takes too long. An hour of my billable time is worth more than a (...) (22 years ago, 25-Aug-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Globalization, H1-B Visas, Unemployment, ITAA Job Growth Estimates, Etc.
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Hmmm, I WAS trying to get the opinions of geeks mainly, but perhaps this post belongs in "debate" instead. I am trying illicate opinions about the economic/political issues raised by this stuff. -- Hop-Frog ~~~...~~~ (...) (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Globalization, H1-B Visas, Unemployment, ITAA Job Growth Estimates, Etc.
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Richard Marchetti writes: [snipped] This belongs in off-topic.debate, not o-t.geek. Steve (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hey Y'all: I gather that many people here work in the "tech" industry one way or another. Given that, I wondered if any of you have opinions about the sorts of things one finds at sites like "f-----company" or "netslaves." How many people think that (...) (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Moonbase Module Started
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(...) Bionicle!!! Ahhhh!!!!! Say it ain't so. ;) (...) I was thinking it would make really decorative wall prints, done in the diamond shape that you show as the sample. Sort of like tiled hieroglyphics. It also reminded me somewhat of the way in (...) (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Neat-o! In gaming I was never a big fan of psionics, but as a general concept I like it just fine. Thanks for the clarification and the link! Dave! (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"David Martineau" wrote in message <snip> (...) Oops. Dangit. Umm... I'll fix it next update. Whenever that will be, I'm not sure. (...) -- Thanx~ Nicole; "Now with Masters in Psychology Analytical Action!" (URL) Account: drumm-family Geekshelf (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Dave Schuler" wrote in message <snip> (...) Yes it is but with an updated twist. Athas history page is here: (URL) near the end of the page are the ages of Destruction, Renewal, and Gold that updates the world. Note its an unofficial update. If (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) By the way--is that the same "Athas" as the planet of TSR's "Dark Sun" campaign setting on which psionics played a considerable role? I couldn't find a clear reference to that product on the site, other than the name... Dave! (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) One small quirk, though. The listed days only number nine, out of a ten day week... Of course, I've always thought we should have 100 second minutes and 100 minute hours. But, then, how fast/far would light travel? --Electro-- (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Allan Bedford" wrote in message .. (...) Its basically taken from the written Bionicle language, but instead of circles I used diamonds, and came up with the writing style. The spoken language sounds a lot like English. Strange... :) -- Thanx~ (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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In lugnet.space, Nicole Drumm writes: (Snipped for the purpose of taking the thread on a complete tangent) Nicole, I followed this link in your message: (...) (URL) I found truly interesting was the alphabet you describe there. This is a rather (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) <experiments a bit> I think I may simply have done something wrong. Now that I consiously try to reintroduce the problem I can not figure out how to do it. But it may simply have been that I have edited a sub-file and expected the rendering of (...) (22 years ago, 16-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Wait a minute! How does having a FILE meta-command at the start of the file break the polling feature? That still sounds like a bug. Tell me more. Don (22 years ago, 16-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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--- Dan Boger <dan@peeron.com> wrote: [snip] (...) Um, actually, I released a Vim syntax file a few weeks ago on vim.org; I've just been a little delinquent in its advertising. I was inspired to create one when Jacob posted to .cad asking about (...) (22 years ago, 16-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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It seem that u all want to have ldraw, l3p, and pov-ray in linux and not in dos and win 31 or up but with low requirememts now if u are all ready going to do a linux distro ready for user of ldraw that don't want to fight with linux then I whould (...) (22 years ago, 16-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) or just write a syntax file for vim? I was a hard core emacs fan, but after years and years, I did switch to vi (well vim)... While it might not do *everything* emacs does, it does most everything else, and a lot faster :) Dan (22 years ago, 16-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Exactly. (...) Great. > but they won't be included without a final library (...) Yes. We better get around to decide on the license for the library. What was the last version we discussed? And why didn't we just use it? Maybe we should simply (...) (22 years ago, 16-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Just getting LDGLite to react to changes to the file it is showing would be a good start. <careful testing while looking at the LDGLite log> Uhmmm... It seems that it is my habit of having a "FILE" meta-command at the start of all of my files (...) (22 years ago, 16-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Okay, this is a quick and dirty list, just what I've observed or confirmed today: Menu - The right-click menu is very confusing. Why not put this in the menu bar and standard dialog boxes? File browser is confusing, as is file filter. Menu - (...) (22 years ago, 16-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Sure, go ahead and elaborate. I can't fix it if I don't know about it. I did actually try to fix the text update speed at one point. That's a well known problem with the glut library I use. I can't remember why I stopped working on a fix for (...) (22 years ago, 16-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Sure thing, but could you perhaps elaborate just a bit on the meaning of "work properly"? Are you looking for multiple levels of polling like l3lab? Don And by the way, since we're in o-t.geek: vi? blech! At least emacs has the ldraw-mode (...) (22 years ago, 16-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I tried to get LeoCAD into Debian last year with the help of a Debian devel but they were too scared of adding the library without a license (there's a long discussion on the Debian-Jr mailing list archives). I even have .deb packages ready (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I tried it recently, but I am afraid I am too used to writing my models in `vi` to apprecate the interface. Speed-wise it seemed okay. I would rather prefer that you spent some time getting the "polling" feature to work properly. Play well, (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) And considering that I just got a single bootable CD Linux system, which runs both KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice.org and a bunch of other stuff, it would probably not be difficult to modify this with some LDraw tools added. The big problem - as I see (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It finally dawned on me (after a less than subtle yet very helpful IM from someone who shall remain nameless :-) that you're the LDGLite author. :-, I've tried the LEdit mode, and gave up in frustration due to the slow redraw (particularly (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) So it all boils down to speed? Has anyone actually tried the LEdit mode (besides the Mac folks who currently have no other option)? I'm just wondering how much of a speedup is required. I've used it for small things on my 486 laptop, but that (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I just tested a POV-RAY scene with my syster's pc the P-75 and it took 35seconds with the dos version of POV-RAY In my P-3 pc takes 2 - 3 seconds with windows XP runing using a command line dos window. About making a boot disk with povray.exe "dos" (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Sorry, didn't mean to be insulting there. :-, What Linux (and to some extent, Windows too) really needs is a semi-fast LEdit clone. I understand that one of the newer tools (LDGlite?) has an LEdit mode, but is kinda slow without hardware (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ouch! That really stings! All kidding aside, what exactly would comprise "a handful of decent LDraw tools". Besides a linux l3p executable, what's missing? I'd like some ideas to add to my "to do" list. (...) That's an interesting thought. Is (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Eduardo, I really like this idea. I have no experience whatsoever with making bootable CDs, but I'm sure someone else here does. Some questions... I assume that all file saving would happen to hard disk or floppy, unless a rewritable medium such as (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Anti Grav (was Say it ain't so...)
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Isn't this a topic more tuned for lugnet.off-topic.geek? Just ask'n. (X-posted it there anyhow) Adrian "Luke Ma" <Luke_Ma@brown.edu> wrote in message news:H0rqG5.n1v@lugnet.com... (...) these (...) level. (...) would (...) this (...) Gravity (...) (...) (22 years ago, 13-Aug-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I did some more investigating and figured out some useful stuff... (...) Excel has a useful function NORMDIST, you can generate the above table using: =NORMDIST(A1,0,1,TRUE) Excel generates slightly different values: -3 .0013 -2 .0228 -1 .1587 (...) (22 years ago, 13-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Prime Numbers (was: Big Quantum computer designed at UW Madison)
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(...) :-) It seems it would make more sense for 51 to be called a first order composite rather than a second order prime since it is, in fact, a composite number and *not* a prime. Then again, any positive whole number is a product of primes and the (...) (22 years ago, 8-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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