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No problem with either cookies or the file extension issues over here. I regularly use Opera to post via the web interface on lugnet and also to shop at Bricklink. I think both use cookies to identify me when I browse around. I'm running Opera 6.01. (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) My boss uses Opera (he loves it), but he's found a couple issues with it-- most notably with its apparent inability to maintain cookies. I've never played with it myself, but it will periodically just drop his cookies... Also, IIRC, it had (...) (22 years ago, 6-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Check this out: (URL) In short, Mozilla has three modes: quirks, almost standards, and full standards. If you tell it that you're using strict real HTML, it'll believe you. Otherwise, it'll try to be forgiving. (...) Yeah, but the UI is *so* (...) (22 years ago, 6-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Dr. Seuss Explains Why Computers Sometimes Crash
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(...) Yeah, ha ha. True though. HLDITY your friend to make it up? : ) Hasta La Vista, Sean (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Felis catis, is your taxinomic nomenclature An endothermic quadriped, carnivorous by nature? Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses. I find myself intrigued by your subvocal (...) (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) You know the Model Data General song right? (URL) Better Model by Steven Levine at Apollo Computer Submitted by "Spam" Sung to the tune of "A Modern Major-General" by Gilbert and Sullivan I've built a better model than the one at Data General (...) (22 years ago, 4-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Very cool, although it also sounds very much like the original auther is filking Gilbert & Sulivan, not Dr. Seuss. :) (try it to the tune of Modern Major General and you'll see what I mean) thanks, James (Whose favorite Dr. Seuss tune is still (...) (22 years ago, 3-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) ROFL!!!! -Tim (22 years ago, 3-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi Sean - Can't say I made it up... a friend sent it to me. I had to share :-) -Tim (...) (22 years ago, 3-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ya, pretty funny indeed, especially when read out loud. And of course, if you DID make it up, Tim, I am sure Sean's not the only one who wants to know.... (wait for it!) HLDITY? (GD&R) ++Lar (22 years ago, 3-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) (snipped) (...) remindes me of some lines in a computer manual ...when you computer gives an error, it's because: the stack can dip into the heap for just a few cycles and not be caught by the stack sniffer and this is real :-( Very funny Tim! (...) (22 years ago, 3-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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LOL. The first and third parts are the best. Did you make that up Tim, or did you find it somewhere? Hasta La Vista, Sean (...) (22 years ago, 3-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Dr. Seuss Explains Why Computers Sometimes Crash (Read this aloud, if you can!) If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is interrupted at a very last resort, and the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, then the (...) (22 years ago, 3-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, someone sent this information to me as a private email. And while I do think Mozilla is a great product, esp. for free and with skins and so forth, it seems to have sketchy support for valign in TD tags (esp. in nested tables perhaps, (...) (22 years ago, 3-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Netscape Communicator refers to the 4.7x and earlier browser suite, which does not share code with Mozilla. The new product is now just called "Netscape" (as in "Netscape 7.0") and *is* based on Mozilla code. Basically, they take the Mozilla (...) (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, I agree it's better -- it was just that I thought Netscape's Communicator was based on the Mozilla code. I guess I was wrong... The latest version of Mozilla appears to support PNG, so that's a good thing. And as you said of Galeon, it's (...) (22 years ago, 1-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Quoting richard marchetti <blueofnoon@aol.com>: (...) Never used it, can't tell you. Personally Galeon is my favorite browser, and it does have one big advantage over opera - it's free :) (...) you must be high! Mozilla has absolutly NOTHING in (...) (22 years ago, 1-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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1) IE is pretty good on MAC, a little worse on PC. They are developed independently of one another. 2) (A layman's explanation of PNG) PNG is the extension of an image format that is intended to replace the GIF image format without the legal (...) (22 years ago, 1-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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No clue what you just said dude. And I considered myself a geek. e. ha ha ha (...) (22 years ago, 1-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) i'll back dan up on this one... IE grinds my XP system to a near halt when i start it up to check for site development compatability. Speaking of IE problems, this is bugging the heck outta me right now: (URL) (22 years ago, 1-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It's good and bad at the same time. What I am looking forward to is full support of the PNG image format. Why it hasn't been implemented is anyone's guess. GIF transparency doesn't hold a candle to that of PNG. Of course, I use Opera -- which (...) (22 years ago, 31-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Erick" <erick_jensen@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:H4tys0.1xs@lugnet.com... (...) The problem seems to be that a bigger causes problems managing all of those small files, creating a large overhead. (...) Things like flash, quicktime, etc (...) (22 years ago, 31-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Thanks for the ideas, I thought of it the opposite way. I figured bigger temp files the less it would have to download. I had cranked up pretty high, 60+mb. Out of curiosity, are there any third party extentions I would ever want? Is 'flash' (...) (22 years ago, 31-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Erick" <erick_jensen@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:H4s2FF.HDx@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) (in (...) Firstly reduce the size of your temporary files cache, the more files there are the slower it appears to get. Then set IE to clear the cache (...) (22 years ago, 30-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) perhaps try using mozilla? lightning fast for me :) fwiw, I get the same problems with IE at work - the whole system hangs when I close a window, for a few seconds... when a complex page loads, etc. (URL) Dan Boger dan@peeron.com (22 years ago, 30-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Why does IE suck so much now? It constantly sucks my cpu down so much so that the mouse stalls out. This happens when loading pages, or even just sitting there. I think the idle stalls are caused by Messenger running in the background. But it's (...) (22 years ago, 30-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) for a Java applet apparently simulating the waterwheel: (URL) it looks like he's revamping his site... the revamp: (URL) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi I thought this group might be a good place to ask this question. I'm interested in building a Lorenzian waterwheel and plotting the phase space. I've done some research into this on the net, but the most technical description I've found so far (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: how large would the ISD be compared to the Enterprise-D?
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hi! Some time ago I built myself a little tool to calculate one's weight on other planets. The formula I use might simplify the problem a little but the output usually comes close enough to what I find in books for me. The input I use is the size (...) (22 years ago, 24-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) There's a set of two "Eugenics Wars" books out now, and while the Trek "EU" isn't canon, it's an interesting take on those wars. It takes *both* established Trek Eugenices War history and real life history into account, which is no easy feat. (...) (22 years ago, 24-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Brickshelf question, folder pics
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So you can't choose your own, well you could rename it so it falls first in alpha, like aaaaaapic.jpg Ah well, thanks! (...) (22 years ago, 24-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I don't think it's a setting per se, it's that you have to have a picture in the folder. Folders that contain just other folders will get the manila folder icon. If there is one or more pics in the folder, the first pic, alpha by name, is used (...) (22 years ago, 24-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Can somebody tell me how to make a thumbnail/picture the icon for a folder instead of the manilla folder looking icon. Is there some setting that I'm missing? e. (22 years ago, 24-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) You raise an interesting point, Bill. But what may be more important is if given the atmospheric conditions on Endor, if one bends over do monkeys fly out of one's butt? -- Hop-Frog (22 years ago, 23-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I think that the point is that if Endor has a very low density but the same gravity at the surface as Earth, then the mass and diameter are both much greater than Earth, because gravity goes by the distance between the center of mass of the (...) (22 years ago, 22-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I believe the new fan is more efficent (it's a high-quality Papst fan). The specs say it moves the same amount of air as the old one. Thanks for your advice! -chris (22 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Sure. The voltage would have to match (which it does) so no worries there. the current ought to be less to not cause any problems. The old fan is 120mA (there's 1000 milliamps (mA) in an amp), so the new one draws half as much power. It may (...) (22 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I'm not an electrical engineer... I'm trying to replace a noisy fan in a computer power supply. The fan in there is rated at 12v dc, 0.12(or something like that) amps. The replacement fan is 12v but 60mA. Would the replacement fan work without any (...) (22 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Chris Lindsey to the Rescue! (was Re: Update on new CW Site)
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(...) Hey, I finally found what I think is a tolerably solid windows tool that does the same thing. It's called HTTrack Website Copier, find it at: (URL) achieve good results I found that one has to get into the options, and in particular one *must* (...) (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.castle.org.cw, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Warcraft map makers? Anyone try to make a pic from a map?
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I got photoshop instead, but that doesn't solve the whole problem. I wanted the entire map. Like one huge .jpg If I take a screen shot it will give me only what I see in the window. Hmm, well I could do that multiple times. Then put them all (...) (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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