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(...) Oooho. Yessss...! Across all the articles posted so far, I only see one instance* of the Keywords header, but I still agree that it seems worth keeping and indexing on -- I'd even argue that it's a bug not to index on it. Alrighty then, I (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Mozilla & LUGnet
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So, the lugnet web site seems to work well with the latest devel build of mozilla. Very cool. I'm pretty impressed with the progress -- last time I played with it, it was barely useable. And that was just a few months ago. This is going to be one (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: OID generation (was: Re: wishing upon a star)
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(...) If you didn't already know that.... you have to ask yourself... do you feel lucky? huh, do ya? ... <slap> whoops. wrong thread. you have to ask yourself, are you geeky enough to be on this group? <grins, ducks and runs> (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: OID generation (was: Re: wishing upon a star)
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(...) Just to save others the effort -- "wolog" occurs 3 times on Hotbot and 28 times in Alta Vista. The best interpretation in this context appears to be an abbreviation for "without loss of generality". - Robert Munafo (URL) LEGO: TC+++(8480) SW++ (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: reverse indexes (was Re: Text::Query)
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(...) What about "Keywords"? I'm not sure if anyone actually uses that, but seems worth keeping... (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: OID generation (was: Re: wishing upon a star)
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(...) Quick answer: yes. Long answer: Almost certainly. There are some tradeoffs that you've made. A big one is around the human readability of the key. Ask yourself, how often do humans inspect these, and how fast can you convert back to 40bit (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | OID generation (was: Re: wishing upon a star)
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(...) Lar, I've been experimenting with a method for OID construction which takes a pseudorandom 32-bit integer, converts it to a 40-bit integer by adding 8 bits of CRC, then converts that an to 8-byte base-32 ASCII representation using the 32 (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: wishing upon a star
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(...) Whoops. Talking in shorthand tripped me up. In system-architect-speak "business" logic is the actual desired work effort of the program (contrasted with non business logic which is the infrastructure or other code that you have to do in order (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: reverse indexes (was Re: Text::Query)
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(...) There is a lot of overhead, yes, but it's cancelled out by: 1) NNTP headers are ignored during indexing (except the Subject and From values). 2) In the NNTP article body, the following are ignored during indexing: - Canonically quoted content (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Regex for mutations of "unsubscribe" (was: Re: unsusbscribe lego-robotics)
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(...) At first glance, I thought there was a bug in the news<->mail gateway which allowed this article through. But the word "unsubscribe" is actually misspelled. =:*p Anyone know of a good regex to catch mutations/misspellings of this word? (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | reverse indexes (was Re: Text::Query)
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(...) I'm having trouble figuring out how that's even possible. For example, the first sample line in the 'jeremy' file above appears to say that 'jeremy' occurs as the 19th, 590th, 595th 600th and 605th words of (URL) (which looks more or less (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | X-Mimeole header??? (was: Re: Legofest? Call for more info)
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In lugnet.loc.uk, Huw Millington wrotes: (...) Hey, I don't get it. This wasn't a MIME message according to the headers, so that's why the newsserver didn't reject it. But it says it's a MIME- encapsulated message, and the headers have something (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: 22/7 & infinities (was: Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil?)
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(...) The "much better" one I heard was 355/113: 355/113 = 3.141592920353... which comes within ~0.000008 percent... (...) It's interesting to note, however, that there are important sets of numbers that include these irrational numbers and are (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Text::Query
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(...) Not very magical, no. It breaks text apart by anything non-alphanumeric, where the "alpha" part includes ISO-8859-1 international letters like ã, ñ, ß, and ø, etc. It converts everything to lowercase for indexing and collapses apostrophes. (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Conversion between LDU, inches and millimeters
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(...) 25.4 (...) Yes. Here is a table provided by Lycos: (URL) down and notice that the value for inch->millimeter is given as "25.4000" The story I heard is that, at some point around 100 years ago it was decided to redefine the English weights and (...) (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Text::Query
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(...) Yah. I actually was getting excited over the similarity in syntax; I hadn't even thought of the need for indexing such a huge database as LUGNET. BTW, what kind of scanner are you using for the index builder? Does it just break apart words (...) (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: 22/7 & infinities (was: Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil?)
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Do put your oar in Simon, I think you're making some good points (...) Knowing deep in your inner being what something means, and being able to use it to make predictions, are two different things. I won't pretend to understand quanta, or (...) (25 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: 22/7 & infinities (was: Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil?)
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(...) Well, since transcendentals are a subset of the irrationals, so there's no way that transcendentals can constitute a bigger infinity than the irrationals. All transcendentals are irrational (but the converse isn't true). pi is transcendental (...) (25 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: 22/7 & infinities (was: Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil?)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Todd Lehman writes: <Massive snip> (...) You mean the transcendental numbers, presumably? I seem to recall reading that practically every number along the real number line is transcendental, with just odd blips where you (...) (25 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil? (Was Re: POV-RAY orange color (0)
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(...) I know; I shamelessly took advantage of selective snipping. :) (25 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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