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Hi guys! Someone sent me here to see if anyone could help me with a problem I am having with my pictures on my eBay auctions. The problem is that I can see them just fine, but three people have told me they can not see them at all. I don't know what (...) (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Cyrillic
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this incoming email from elsewhence was munged by a free email account, do you think that would shift them back? And what would you suggest a good value for x-charset to be? Thanks. (mail.com's message to my poor 18 year old college student/ersatz (...) (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Cyrillic
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote (...) Yeah, edit the headers in your news spool to have the correct x-charset line. Moz (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: OID generation (was: Re: wishing upon a star)
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote (...) Come on Larry, even *I* had to check hotbot to find that out. And I thought it was only 27 times on Alta Vista. Moz (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Regex for mutations of "unsubscribe" (was: Re: unsusbscribe lego-robotics)
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, thou, Todd Lehman (lehman@javanet.com), hast wrytted... (...) Mmmmm gotta love trying to outsmart the idiots. Here's something that might help (this is a Perl5 regex): unsu(s|[pb]|[pb]s|s[...i\w*?[pb]e It also catches (...) (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Cyrillic
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Sent via email. Thanks. Sproat quotes Sproat saying: (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Cyrillic
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(...) Um, with headers please. I suspect full headers would make the job easier. And I'll try to not be slow. ;-) Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Cyrillic
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(...) Not well-formed, but it is valid. (XML joke :-) (...) Can you post the message, or a safe snippet of it, for download? I'll be able to take it to our Localization department at work and get their view. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Cyrillic
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <37C68BD8.838393B1@v...er.net>... (...) I think there is no valid formulation for free e-mail services (we, Turks, have the same problem with our native language), at least (more probably) I don't know anyone. Using (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Cyrillic
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OK, here's a question for you geeks. On a windows 95 box, is there an easy way to shift characters to and from the cyrillic character set? My exchange student from 2 years ago is back, she's gotten a student visa, and is going to college at Grand (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Indexing on Keywords and Summary headers (was: Re: reverse indexes)
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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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